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Strategy, leadership & change

Strategy and
Adaptive Leadership

Set a direction.
Lead as conditions change.

Turn bold vision into choices you can act on. Explore how to build strategic direction, work with power and tension, and adapt your approach as the context shifts.

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Four connected themes · 20 modules

What the course brings together

  • Clear direction
  • Strategic choices
  • Leadership with integrity
  • Learning & adaptation
What you’ll take into your work

Make your vision
usable.

Develop the judgement to set a direction, make considered choices and keep your strategy alive in the work.

Give your ambition a direction.

Define the change you want to work towards. Make your priorities, boundaries and trade-offs clear enough to guide the decisions you face.

Lead through disagreement.

Explore what resistance and tension may reveal. Consider how power, trust and different perspectives shape your choices, and how to use authority with integrity.

Build learning into your strategy.

Use foresight and scenarios to explore options. Revisit assumptions, notice emerging signals and adapt your approach while keeping your purpose in view.

Is this course for you?

You want your vision
to shape what happens.

You care about where your work is heading and want to make choices people can act on—even when pressure builds and the way ahead changes.

You’re ready to make the difficult choices.

You want to move beyond a long list of ambitions and decide what deserves attention, what needs protecting and what you may need to stop.

You want to lead with courage and integrity.

You care about how decisions are made and the effects they have on others. You want to work with tension, listen across difference and take responsibility for your influence.

You believe adaptation should have a purpose.

You’re open to changing course when the context demands it. You want a clearer basis for judging what should flex and what still matters.

Hold a clear purpose. Stay open to a different route.

Course outline

What you’ll
explore.

Four connected themes, with 20 modules.

Open each theme to explore the modules within it.

Seeing Strategy Differently5 modules

Turn a broad ambition into a direction you can use, with clear priorities, boundaries and choices.

  1. Strategy Beyond the Plan
  2. What Are You Really Trying to Shift?
  3. Strategic Choices and Trade-Offs
  4. From Vision to Strategic Direction
  5. What Strategy Needs to Hold
Power and Adaptive Leadership5 modules

Explore what leadership asks of you when answers are uncertain, interests differ and authority carries responsibility.

  1. Leading in Complexity
  2. How Power Shapes Leadership
  3. Working with Resistance and Tension
  4. Holding Authority with Integrity
  5. Leading Change Across Difference
Tools for Strategic Thinking5 modules

Read your context, map influence and explore possible futures so you can choose methods and options with purpose.

  1. Diagnosing the Strategic Environment
  2. Mapping Stakeholders, Influence, and Power
  3. Strategic Foresight in Practice
  4. Scenario Thinking and Strategic Options
  5. Choosing the Right Strategic Method
Turning Strategy into Action5 modules

Build shared direction, put decisions into motion and recognise when your strategy needs to adapt.

  1. From Strategic Direction to Action
  2. Mobilising Around Strategy
  3. Adapting Without Losing Direction
  4. Recognising When Strategy Needs to Shift
  5. Strategy as an Ongoing Leadership Practice
From reflection to practice

Work on a choice
that matters.

Choose a priority from your work. Use it to test assumptions, weigh options and decide what needs attention next.

  • Name a trade-off
  • Explore a different scenario
  • Choose what you’ll watch and review
Try a reflection prompt

Start with one decision.

Choose a reflection prompt

Think of one priority in your work. What will you pursue, protect, pause or stop—and what trade-off does that involve?

Dr. Teia Rogers

Dr. Teia Rogers

Founder & Executive Director of JRNY Consulting

Meet the founder

Learning rooted in practice.

Teia brings nearly 18 years of experience in humanitarian and development work, combining senior programme leadership with research, evaluation, and organisational learning. She holds a PhD in Development Studies.

Her doctoral research focused on displacement and social strain, using comparative analysis to examine how different social conditions combine to shape people’s experiences and responses.

Her project leadership spans humanitarian response, peacebuilding, mine action, gender equality, and community mental health. Her work includes evaluations across several countries, evidence synthesis, and frameworks that help teams learn and adapt.

For you, this brings together:

  • Research rigour to help you assess evidence and make sound choices about your methods.
  • Programme experience that recognises the pressures, constraints and complexity of your work.
  • Reflective challenge to help you test assumptions, consider alternatives and develop your own judgement.
Explore Teia’s work
Choose your access

How would you
like to learn?

Focus on strategy and leadership, explore the JRNY 360 library or learn with a facilitated group.

Single course

£65one-off

Self-paced access to Strategy and Adaptive Leadership.

  • Four connected themes and 20 modules
  • Workbooks and tools to support your practice
  • Lifetime access to this course
  • 12 months of practitioner community access
  • Certificate of completion

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JRNY 360 membership

£29/ month

Explore the JRNY 360 course library and wider learning community.

£174 with annual access

  • Access to every JRNY 360 course as released
  • A 30-minute coaching call
  • Live online learning events
  • Practitioner community and resource library

Confirm your payment option and available courses at checkout.

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Facilitated cohort

£1754 weeks

Work through questions, decisions and next steps with others.

  • Weekly live sessions and guided practice
  • Dedicated cohort community
  • A toolkit for reflection and action planning
  • Session recordings
  • Lifetime access to the course

Ask about future facilitated cohorts.

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Learning with a team? Talk to us about tailored access

A few questions before you start

Before you
begin.

Do I need a background in strategy?

The opening theme starts with what strategy looks like in practice, before moving into strategic choices, leadership and methods. Bring a situation you know well and use it to connect the ideas with your experience.

Do I need a formal leadership title?

You can bring a decision, project or team challenge you influence. The course explores formal authority and informal power, including how people lead across different perspectives and positions.

Can I work through it at my own pace?

The single-course option is self-paced and includes lifetime access, so you can return to the material as you put ideas into practice. Ask us about availability.

How is membership different from a single course?

A single-course purchase focuses on this course. Membership covers the JRNY 360 library as courses are released, alongside coaching, live learning events and the practitioner community. Confirm the available courses and payment option at checkout.

Can I try JRNY 360 first?

Inside the Shift is a free mini-course with selected lessons from across JRNY 360. Explore the free mini-course.

Can you shape the learning around my team?

JRNY offers tailored learning pathways for teams and organisations. Tell us about your context and what you want the learning to support.

Give your vision a direction.

Make choices you can explain. Build momentum you can learn from. Start shaping how you lead through change.

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