Workshop

Future Skill: Resilience

Overview

Keeping organizations capable of acting in times of ongoing crisis, disruption, and pressure

The COVID-19 pandemic was just a taste of what organizations can expect: energy crises, technological leaps, social change, regulatory upheavals. Leadership in this context means dealing with uncertainty without letting it paralyze you.

Prof. Dr. Lothar H. Wieler, former president of the Robert Koch Institute, and Dr. Esther-Maria Antão, former advisor during the pandemic, bring first-hand experience from the center of a global crisis. They show how leadership responsibility, communication, decision-making pressure, and organizational learning interact, and how you can develop resilience that lasts.

Key Facts

Target group

For executives, decision-makers, strategists, and transformation drivers from companies, government agencies, and NGOs who want to make their organizations fit for the future. And for people who don't want to wait for the next shock, but want to actively build resilience.

Offer includes

  • Certificate from the renowned Hasso Plattner Institute
  • Working materials
  • Catering: full board

Language

German

Customized for organizations

We will be happy to prepare an individual offer for you and your organization on request.
Interested? Send us an e-mail to info-pdt@hpi.de

Book your place

Future Skill: Resilience

Date
On request
Date
On request
Duration
2 days
Languages
German
Format
In Person
Place
Hasso Plattner Institute
Campus II
August-Bebel-Straße 88
14482 Potsdam
Link to Location
Costs

2,500.00 €
plus VAT

  • Three people smiling in front of a presentation slide titled “Creativity and Resilience” in the innovation space of the HPI D-School. Colorful creative materials are visible in the background shelves.

Objectives

Specifically, you will learn:

  • Risk competence under uncertainty: How to make informed decisions despite data gaps and complexity.
  • Individual resilience: How to strengthen your creative adaptability and turn pressure into energy for action.
  • Organizational resilience: How to build flexibility AND robustness in your company—it's not an either/or question.
  • Re-framing and resource reallocation: How to view challenges in a new light and overcome them creatively.
  • As a manager, how can I provide guidance in complex situations – without offering premature solutions?
  • How does an organization prepare for the unknown?

About the workshop

Organizations are under constant pressure to adapt. Global crises, technological upheavals, and social tensions demand new responses – not only from systems, but also from people. The key skill? Resilience.
Individual resilience is a skill. Resilience by design is what organizations need to survive.

According to Gartner Research (2021), over 70% of CEOs plan to embed resilience as a strategic core by 2025. Many are still in the early stages.

Resilience can be trained: as an attitude and as an ability to think clearly under pressure, lead with empathy, and dare to break new ground.

In our creative resilience format, we learn from highly reliable organizations, combine resilience with agility and creativity, and incorporate foresight methods to help our brains deal with uncertainty.

In our intensive 2-day program, you will develop new leadership skills for times of uncertainty together with renowned experts Prof. Dr. Lothar H. Wieler, Dr. Esther-Maria Antāo, and Flavia Bleuel.

Agenda

At the Hasso Plattner Institute, I learned that resilience is not a fixed talent, but something that can be developed and trained. The two days full of eye-opening moments and interdisciplinary exchange were enormously valuable for me personally and for my team.

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Thorsten Merk Diehl Defence & Co. KG, Project Manager

Your experts

All dates

  1. On request

    Future Skill: Resilience

    In Person

    Duration

    2 days

    Languages

    German
    2,500.00 €

Contact

Do you have any questions? We will be happy to help you.

Elisabeth Höpner
Program Manager
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