Specialization:听Resilience Engineering and Leadership in Crisis聽
Instructor: John Thomas
Prior knowledge needed: No prior background knowledge or experience is required.

Course Description:听

This course is part 3 of 3 that comprise the specialization 鈥楻esilience Engineering and Leadership in Crisis鈥�. The course emphasizes the importance of practices like organizational learning and adaptive change management amid uncertainty. Resilience engineering principles and strategies are combined with critical leadership knowledge and skills essential to navigating unanticipated catastrophic disruptions. Learners will integrate selective assignments from Parts 1, 2, & 3 to construct a comprehensive resilience report of a complex project scenario.

What You'll Learn:

  • Describe how organizational learning can influence crisis management strategy
  • Apply the concepts of Adaptive Change to complex socio-technical systems
  • Explain how Adaptive Management principles and practices support resilience
  • Appraise the relationship between sustainable development and leadership in crisis
  • Create a comprehensive resilience assessment report and crisis management plan with recommendations for improvements.

Topics Outline:

  • Organizational learning聽聽 聽
  • Individual and organizational resilience
  • Adaptive change and adaptive management聽聽 聽
  • Integrating resilience engineering principles
  • Trends in crisis management聽聽 聽
  • Crisis leadership skills & practices
  • COVID-19 and climate change聽聽 聽