This workshop is designed to specifically bring out your potential to lead – yourself and your personal projects – through the muddy waters of an uncertain future. Focusing on increasing and accelerating your self-knowledge and self-leadership skillset, you will develop strategies to navigate a context full of change and unpack how you lead yourself in challenging conditions.

Fun, engagement, leveraging diversity, and working together are at the heart of this workshop, combining theoretical insights with practical application. Collaborative scrum sessions, presentations, and constructive opposition will furthermore allow you to lift your gaze and see your vision, increasing your self-knowledge and self-leadership capabilities through diverse perspectives and collective wisdom.

We will be working with VUCA = volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

First used in the military to describe a suddenly different and radically unfamiliar state of the world, the VUCA acronym now seems more or less accurate all the time. Where there was once stability, there is now volatility. The things that were once familiar are now completely new, and in this ever-changing, unpredictable world, the ability to adapt and thrive despite the VUCA of it all is truly invaluable. We will explore the leadership philosophy and use the framework of VUCA to advance your individual projects together.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

• Deeper understanding of yourself and others in challenging contexts
• Training of key self-leadership skills such as courage, passion, flexibility, and collaboration, tailored to your specific ambitions or projects
• A framework for leading yourself and advancing towards a visionary goal
• How to learn from failure and be ahead of developments, even surprising ones

ELIGIBILITY & SELECTION

All students and alumni of SSES member universities are eligible to apply to this weekend workshop. We get many applications and unfortunately cannot accept everyone. The selection process is outlined below.

For this specific workshop, you as an attendee will be requested to present yourself and what motivates you to learn about frugal innovation by uploading a short personal video. We also ask that you share in what area you would like to identify opportunities for frugal innovation and why.

SELECTION PROCESS

1. Application is reviewed
2. Selection is made and a confirmation email is sent out
3. Participants must confirm their seat in order to secure the spot
4. If spots are not confirmed in time, the waitlist will be reviewed and new participants selected

About the teacher

Ebba Laurin is passionate about advancing yourself, your projects and having fun together. She has developed entrepreneurs, leadership teams and whole organisations in the skills of leading oneself and others in very challenging and paradoxical conditions since the early 2000s. She combines research insights and real practices in her workshops, always making them highly immersive and co-creative. Ebba has a Ph.D from Stockholm School of Economics in business model innovation and co-creation, and she is an engaged scholar as well as a former course director of Business Model Innovation here at SSES.