Strategic Doing Practitioner Training
Designing Adaptive Organizations and Ecosystems Through Agile Leadership
Organizations today operate within ecosystems that are as complex as they are interconnected. Whether working within your organization or across multi-organization partnerships, thriving in this environment requires a different kind of leadership—one that aligns with the natural ways people interact, collaborate, and create shared value.
Enter Strategic Doing. This innovative discipline is grounded in the biology of behavior, drawing from the principles that govern natural ecosystems. Just as ecosystems form, adapt, and transform by leveraging diversity, interdependence, and feedback loops, Strategic Doing equips leaders with tools to foster similar dynamics in human networks. It offers a framework for designing agile strategies, building trust, and achieving measurable outcomes in even the most complex environments.
With Strategic Doing Practitioner Training, you’ll gain the skills to lead transformation within and across organizations, empowering your teams and partnerships to work smarter, faster, and with greater impact.
What You’ll Learn
This training prepares you to:
- Apply the biology of behavior to leadership, leveraging principles of natural ecosystems to design strategies that are flexible, adaptive, and action-oriented.
- Use the 10 Rules of Strategic Doing to align diverse stakeholders, foster trust, and create agile ecosystems that evolve with your organization’s needs.
- Transform intra-organizational and inter-organizational ecosystems, unlocking shared value by connecting and aligning teams and partners around measurable outcomes.
- Develop actionable roadmaps that move beyond planning to immediate implementation, ensuring progress and continuous adaptation in dynamic environments.
Whether you’re leading internal teams or navigating complex partnerships, this training equips you with the tools to create ecosystems that thrive.
Features of the Training
The Strategic Doing Practitioner Training integrates evidence-based insights with hands-on learning experiences to prepare you for real-world application.
Immersive Learning Experiences
Explore the principles of Strategic Doing through interactive workshops that emphasize practical application. You’ll work with real-world case studies, collaborative exercises, and problem-solving scenarios designed to address the unique challenges of both intra-organizational teams and cross-organizational networks.
Frameworks for Navigating Complexity
Rooted in the dynamics of natural ecosystems, Strategic Doing helps you map assets, foster shared leadership, and align diverse contributors. You’ll learn how to design strategies that adapt to changing circumstances, balancing structure and flexibility to achieve measurable outcomes.
Ongoing Support and Resources
Participants gain access to an extensive library of tools, templates, and guides to support continued practice. Optional quarterly check-ins and follow-up workshops provide opportunities to measure progress, address challenges, and sustain long-term success.
About the Practitioner Training
The Strategic Doing Practitioner Training consists of 20 hours of instruction, offered in two formats:
- Face-to-Face Training: A 2.5-day intensive program conducted onsite.
- Virtual Training: Five half-day sessions delivered via Zoom over two to three weeks.
Both formats include engaging, interactive instruction tailored to your specific context.
Participants will receive:
- A copy of Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership (Wiley, 2019), a foundational guide to the discipline.
- The Strategic Doing Field Guide and Trail Map to support ongoing application.
- Access to the Strategic Doing Practitioner Online Resource Library, with tools, templates, and additional resources.
- A digital credential to display on LinkedIn and social media.
This training equips you to implement Strategic Doing immediately, empowering you to lead transformation within your organization and across your ecosystem.
About Your Instructor
Dr. Scott Hutcheson, co-developer of Strategic Doing, leads this training. A professor of engineering and technology leadership at Purdue University, Scott brings decades of experience in teaching, research, and applied strategy. The content of this course is the same content he teaches at Purdue in graduate courses on plans of study in engineering, technology, business, liberal arts.
Scott’s expertise bridges the biology of behavior with practical leadership strategies, making him uniquely qualified to guide you in designing adaptive ecosystems. He is co-author of Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership and the Strategic Doing Field Guide, and his TED Talk, Prospection: Reminiscing Forward, has been viewed over 1 million times.
Scott draws on his extensive experience working with teams and organizations in over 140 countries, bringing real-world applications and insights to every session.
What Others Say About Strategic Doing
- “Strategic Doing equips leaders with tools to transform organizations into adaptive ecosystems.” – Amy C. Edmondson, Harvard Business School
- “The best framework I’ve seen for navigating complexity and fostering collaboration in today’s fast-changing environment.” – Jay Conger, Claremont McKenna College
- “Provides a practical roadmap for unlocking shared value across teams and organizations.” – Greg Satell, author of Mapping Innovation
Ready to Transform Your Organization or Design an Ecosystem?
The Strategic Doing Practitioner Training provides the tools, frameworks, and support to design adaptive organizations and ecosystems and lead agile transformations. Whether your focus is on intra-organizational teams or inter-organizational partnerships, this training positions you and your team to drive meaningful change and measurable impact.
Want to Bring the Strategic Doing Practitioner Training to Your Organization?
We would love to talk with you about offering the Strategic Doing Practitioner training to your team. We can do it onsite or virtually. Use our contact form to get started. You can find it here.
