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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

Interactive expert-led sessions grounded in workplace examples

Case studies and practical exercises drawn from the region

Group workshops with peer review of decisions and deliverables

Formative feedback against clear performance criteria

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.

University Certificate & International Accreditation

Professional Certificate accredited by Alzette University in Disruptive Leadership

International accreditation: Global Leadership Organization (GLO)