Disruptive Leadership
- Distinguish disruptive innovation from sustaining innovation using Christensen's framework and sector examples.
- Conduct a disruption scan of the participant's sector covering technology, regulation, competitors and customer behaviour.
- Identify legacy assumptions in the current business model and test them with structured challenge.
- Design a portfolio of experiments balancing core improvement and new growth options.
- Apply leadership practices that build psychological safety and intelligent risk-taking in teams.
- Develop a 12-month disruption response plan for a unit or service.
- Understanding Disruption
- Disruptive versus sustaining innovation
- Patterns of disruption in banking, energy, retail and government services
- Why successful organizations miss disruption
- The Disruptive Leader
- Mindsets and behaviours of disruptive leaders
- Challenging orthodoxies and legacy assumptions
- Balancing boldness with governance
- Sensing Change
- Horizon scanning and weak signals
- Technology trends: artificial intelligence, platforms and automation
- Customer and regulatory shifts in Gulf markets
- Ambidextrous Organizations
- Exploiting the core while exploring new options
- Structures for new ventures and innovation units
- Resource allocation across horizons
- Experimentation and Agile Execution
- Hypothesis-driven experiments and minimum viable products
- Agile teams and rapid decision cycles
- Killing, pivoting or scaling initiatives
- Leading People Through Disruption
- Psychological safety and intelligent failure
- Communicating a compelling case for change
- Reskilling teams for new business models
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Program Professional Framework
Disruptive Leadership
Program Overview
Digital platforms, new entrants and changing customer expectations can make established business models obsolete within a few years. This program examines how leaders anticipate disruption and lead their organizations through it, drawing on Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation, ambidexterity between exploiting the core and exploring new options, and agile ways of working. Participants scan for disruptive signals in their sector, challenge legacy assumptions, design experiments, and build teams that tolerate intelligent risk, with reference to transformation agendas such as Saudi Vision 2030 and UAE digital government strategies.
Learning Outcomes
- ✓Distinguish disruptive innovation from sustaining innovation using Christensen's framework and sector examples.
- ✓Conduct a disruption scan of the participant's sector covering technology, regulation, competitors and customer behaviour.
- ✓Identify legacy assumptions in the current business model and test them with structured challenge.
- ✓Design a portfolio of experiments balancing core improvement and new growth options.
- ✓Apply leadership practices that build psychological safety and intelligent risk-taking in teams.
- ✓Develop a 12-month disruption response plan for a unit or service.
Target Audience
- Senior and middle managers leading transformation
- Strategy, innovation and digital transformation leaders
- Business unit heads facing new competitors or technologies
- Entrepreneurs and leaders of new ventures in established organizations
Detailed Program Modules
01Understanding Disruption
- Disruptive versus sustaining innovation
- Patterns of disruption in banking, energy, retail and government services
- Why successful organizations miss disruption
02The Disruptive Leader
- Mindsets and behaviours of disruptive leaders
- Challenging orthodoxies and legacy assumptions
- Balancing boldness with governance
03Sensing Change
- Horizon scanning and weak signals
- Technology trends: artificial intelligence, platforms and automation
- Customer and regulatory shifts in Gulf markets
04Ambidextrous Organizations
- Exploiting the core while exploring new options
- Structures for new ventures and innovation units
- Resource allocation across horizons
05Experimentation and Agile Execution
- Hypothesis-driven experiments and minimum viable products
- Agile teams and rapid decision cycles
- Killing, pivoting or scaling initiatives
06Leading People Through Disruption
- Psychological safety and intelligent failure
- Communicating a compelling case for change
- Reskilling teams for new business models
Training Methodology
Applied Project & Assessment
Applied Project
Participants produce a disruption response plan for their unit: a sector disruption scan, three challenged assumptions, a portfolio of two or three experiments with success criteria, and the leadership actions needed to support them.
Assessment
Short diagnostic at the start, practical tasks linked to each learning outcome, and evaluation of the applied project against published criteria.
