Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the Fellowship!

    • Welcome to the Acumen Fellowship!
    • The Acumen Academy Fellows Community
    • Free Resources for Acumen Fellows
    • Acumen Fellows Programme Policy
  • 2

    Seminar 1: Overview + Assignment 1

    • Get to Know Your Cohort (due 9am EAT, Wednesday 26th January 2023)
    • Complete your Baseline survey (due 4pm EAT, Friday 28th April 2023)
    • Pre-work: Assignment Schedule & Expectations
  • 3

    Seminar 1: Assignment 2 (due Tuesday 9th May 2023)

    • Good Society Readings (GSR) - Context
    • Reading 1 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    • Reading 2 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  • 4

    Seminar 1: Assignment 3 (due Friday 12th May 2023)

    • Individual Pre-reading: Adaptive Leadership - Context
    • Individual Assignment: Adaptive Leadership (due Friday 12th May 2023)
    • Individual: The Acumen Manifesto (due Friday 12th May 2023)
  • 5

    Ready for Seminar 1?

    • Good Society Readings
    • All set? See you on Monday!
  • 6

    Seminar 2: Assignment 1 - Life Maps (due Thur 8th June 2023)

    • Individual: Lifemaps - Context
    • Individual Submission: Upload your Life-Map (due Thursday 8th June 2023)
  • 7

    Seminar 2: Assignment 2 - Adaptive Leadership (due Thur 15th June 2023)

    • Individual Pre-Work: Adaptive Leadership - Revisiting Your Gap
    • Individual Pre-Work: Adaptive Leadership - Revisiting Your Factions
    • Individual Pre-Reading: Technical vs. Adaptive - Context
    • Individual Pre-Work: Technical vs. Adaptive
    • Individual Assignment: Reframing Your Challenge (due 9am EAT, Thursday 15th June 2023)
  • 8

    Are you ready for Seminar 2?

    • Individual: Good Society Reading (due 21 June 2023)
    • Are you ready for Seminar 2?
  • 9

    Seminar 3 : Assignment 1 - Adaptive Leadership (due Wed 26th July)

    • Individual Pre-Work: Writing the Story of Your Adaptive Challenge
    • Mini-Discussion Groups
    • Discussion Group Guide and Individual Reflection (26th July 2023 - 9am EAT)
    • Individual Submission: Revised Story of Adaptive Challenge (26th July 2023 at 9am EAT)
  • 10

    Seminar 3: Assignment 2 - Immunity to Change (due date: Wed 26th July)

    • Individual Pre-work: Immunity to Change Context
    • Individual: What is an Improvement Goal?
    • Individual Submission: Improvement Goal (due: 26th July 2023 - 9am EAT)
  • 11

    Seminar 3: Assignment 3 - Good Society Reading (due 9th August 2023)

    • Individual Pre-work: GSR - Shooting an Elephant
  • 12

    Seminar 3: Immunity to Change Follow-Up

    • Re-cap: Big Assumption
    • More on the Big Assumption
    • Individual: Write the Biography of Your Big Assumption
  • 13

    Seminar 4: Pre-work

    • Systems Thinking: Context
    • Systems Thinking: Continued
    • Read: GSR - The Grapes of Wrath - due Fri 15th Sept 2023
    • Read: Excerpt from Manifesto for a Moral Revolution (2020) - due Fri 15th Sept 2023
    • Holding Multiple Perspectives: Context