Leading through Complexity – Lead boldly in a fast-changing world

Feeling overwhelmed by uncertainty and complexity?

We hear you. That’s why we’ve brought together two of our top facilitators – Katy Cooper and Angela Driver – for this new workshop, diving into complexity leadership and futures thinking to equip you with the tools and adaptability needed to navigate and thrive in an ever-changing world.

Join us in Launceston on 30 October or in Hobart on 4 December 2025.

Launceston
Hobart
About the workshop

This immersive workshop introduces leaders to practical tools for navigating complexity and developing an adaptive mindset.

In today’s fast-changing world, organisations face uncertainty and interconnected challenges requiring adaptive strategies and future-focused thinking. This session helps you navigate these dynamics and position your team or organisation for sustained success.

Through practical exercises and proven methodologies, you will explore tools to anticipate trends via signal scanning, understand polarities and build resilience. The workshop covers futures thinking and systems approaches, enabling you to identify opportunities, mitigate risks, and lead effectively in uncertainty.

This workshop provides participants with four essential tools to:

  • Identify emerging trends, plan for scenarios, and build resilience.
  • Better understand complexity with an easy to apply sense-making tool
  • Solve complex problems by understanding system interconnections.
  • Effectively balance competing priorities and tensions.

Ideal for professionals across industries, this workshop is for those ready to embrace challenges, transform uncertainty into opportunity, and build long-term success.


What you can expect to learn
  • Understand and manage complexity in interconnected systems.
  • Develop adaptive strategies and a mindset for navigating uncertainty and change.
  • Gain tools to anticipate trends and scan for opportunities.
  • Learn to build organisational resilience in evolving contexts.
  • Apply methodologies to envision and create desirable futures.
Who should attend?

This workshop is ideal for:

  • Professionals in business, public service or the community sector.
  • People driving strategic change in organisations or communities, including project managers.
  • Leaders seeking to enhance resilience and decision-making in complex environments.
  • Tasmanian Leaders graduates looking for a top up or missed recently added curriculum.
Key outcomes

By attending this workshop, you can:

  • Gain practical tools to navigate complexity, manage competing forces, and envision possible and preferred futures.
  • Access exclusive resources and materials to deepen your understanding of leadership in complex environments.
  • Time and space to develop adaptive strategies to address real-world organisational and community challenges.
  • Build connections with forward-thinking professionals driving innovation in their sectors.
  • Participate in a follow-up session to consolidate learning, explore advanced strategies, and receive ongoing support from your facilitators.
Investment – $920* incl GST.
Launceston
Hobart

Price includes attendance at this workshop, with all catering provided, plus a follow up webinar. *Concession rates are available for financial members of Tasmanian Leaders and for group bookings of three or more participants.

Meet your facilitators
Facilitator Katy Cooper photographed against a grey background. She wears a black top and smiles broadly with her long on top shaved at the sides haircut.

Katy Cooper is a visionary leader with a talent for blending futures foresight with a practical, hands-on approach to help organisations shape and implement strategies that turn potential into action. A proud Tasmanian, she has worked across industries to craft compelling future stories for the state. Passionate about collaboration and innovation, Katy is dedicated to helping leaders embrace challenges and seize opportunities to create a flourishing future for all through her company Disruptive Consulting (DISCO).

Tasmanian Leaders CEO Angela Driver is photographed against a white background with a multicoloured shirt. She has long brown hair with a fringe and smiles warmly.

Angela Driver has been a cornerstone of Tasmanian Leaders since 2011, stepping into the role of CEO in 2021. She plays a pivotal role in facilitating growth and transformation across Tasmanian Leaders’ programs, drawing on her extensive expertise and leadership training. Angela has completed the Art and Practice of Adaptive Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School of Executive Education in Boston and holds a Brain-Based Coaching certificate from the NeuroLeadership Institute. Endlessly curious, she is passionate about designing immersive leadership development experiences that challenge thinking, spark new ideas, and empower people to navigate complexity.

“I was fortunate to participate in a session on leading through complexity and change delivered by Angela Driver and Katy Cooper in 2024. I greatly appreciated their engaging manner and for sharing their considerable knowledge and experience. I took away many valuable insights to apply in my leadership role.” – Ian Dunbabin, TasWater CDO Alliance Program Manager, CPB Contractors

“Katy and Angela take a systemic approach to understanding the complexities of the world today. Through supporting us to understand the systems and structural issues underpinning observable phenomena, they gave me new tools to create strategic interventions. Additionally, these facilitators see the importance of transforming our own personal perspectives and approaches before we seek to undertake organisational and social change.” – Bronwyn Tilbury, Director, Community Services Development, Tasmanian Council of Social Service