Adaptive Capacity Coaching Labs

Strengthen Your Team’s Capacity to Navigate Change

Adaptive Capacity Coaching Labs combine course-based learning with live coaching—equipping leadership teams to apply adaptive leadership practices to real-time challenges with clarity, courage, and shared understanding.

Coaching That Meets You in Real Time

Adaptive Capacity Coaching Labs are designed for leadership teams navigating complexity, uncertainty, and change. This experience combines online learning with live coaching so your team can not only understand adaptive leadership—but actually practice it together.

Your team will engage course content independently, then come together in guided coaching sessions to apply those insights to real, current challenges. Because the goal isn’t just learning—it’s transformation.

Adaptive capacity is the ability to stay grounded in your identity while learning through disruption. It’s what allows teams to lead faithfully even when there are no clear answers.

How It Works

Learn. Reflect. Apply. Repeat.

Each Coaching Lab session is a 2-hour experience designed for both clarity and application:

30 minutes — Content Review
Clarify key ideas, insights, and questions from the course material.
90 minutes — Coaching & Balcony Work
Step back from day-to-day pressures to reflect on real challenges, patterns, and next steps

This rhythm helps your team move from information to integration—building shared language, deeper awareness, and practical next steps.

More Than Coaching. More Than a Course.

Most leadership development stops at insight. Coaching Labs are designed to go further.

Practice, not just theory — Apply concepts to your real context
Shared learning — Build alignment and trust as a team
Real-time reflection — Interpret what’s happening beneath the surface
Guided experimentation — Discern next faithful steps together

Adaptive challenges can’t be solved with quick fixes alone. They require reflection, learning, and the willingness to try new approaches over time.

What’s Included:

Everything You Need to Go Deeper

Access to one AE Sloan Leadership course (your team’s choice)
Up to 8 participants included
4 Coaching Lab sessions with an experienced coach
Space to apply learning to your real-time challenges
Guided reflection to help your team slow down and see clearly

This is where learning becomes lived leadership—helping your team move from insight to action with confidence and shared purpose.

Who’s It For:

Designed for Teams Looking to Grow Together

Coaching Labs are ideal for:
- Staff teams
- Executive teams
- Organizations navigating transition, complexity, or uncertainty
- Leaders wanting to explore with other leaders
If your team is asking questions like:
- “What’s really going on here?”
- “Why isn’t this working anymore?”
- “We want to grow, but where do we start?”

Simple, Transparent Pricing

How Long Does It Take:

A Pace That Supports Real Change

Complete the experience over 8–12 months (within 1 year):
- 1 lesson per week or
- 1 module every 6–8 weeks
- Each lesson takes 30–60 minutes
Real transformation takes time. This pace allows your team to learn, reflect, and apply without rushing the process.

*This is our recommended timeline; however, we know every team has different needs, and we’re happy to tailor the timing to what is best for you.

$5,000 for up to 8 participants: includes both course and balcony sessions for each participant.

Additional participants: $249 per person

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Reader Reviews:

"Explorers Lewis and Clark had to adapt. While they had prepared to find a waterway to the Pacific Ocean, instead they found themselves in the Rocky Mountains. You too may feel that you are leading in a cultural context you were not expecting. You may even feel that your training holds you back more often than it carries you along. Drawing from his extensive experience as a pastor and consultant, Tod Bolsinger brings decades of expertise in guiding churches and organizations through uncharted territory. He offers a combination of illuminating insights and practical tools to help you reimagine what effective leadership looks like in our rapidly changing world. If you're going to scale the mountains of ministry, you need to leave behind canoes and find new navigational tools.
-14th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year, Leadership
"Since the missional church discussion began to develop real momentum, the constant question has been how does this theological vision of the church after Christendom translate into the practice of real congregations struggling with enormous challenges? A great deal of excellent work has been done, and there are excellent resources for the community and leadership seriously committed to missional change. But Bolsinger's book is a major step forward. It is based on solid missional theology, rooted in concrete congregational experience, shaped by provocative research of many diverse voices and communicated energetically and creatively. Most importantly, it is shaped by theologically informed hope, not just optimism, and takes the risks that must be taken for the sake of faithful witness today. I strongly commend this book.”
-Darrell L. Guder, Henry Winters Luce Emeritus Professor of Missional and Ecumenical Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary
"As a thoughtful, innovative leader, Tod's acumen makes Tempered Resilience a critical read for every leader seeking to navigate an organization throughout an ever-changing environment".
-Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado: president and CEO of Compassion International
"Cuts to the core of why so many gifted leaders struggle in periods of transition and how leaders can position themselves to thrive amid the chaos of change."
-Linda A. Livingstone: president of Baylor University

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Bring your team together and begin building the capacity to lead what’s in front of you.