ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the considerations essential to the success of large-scale leadership team coaching processes that are designed to support the emergence of adaptive leadership cultures in complex, global organizations. It offers guidance to experienced coaches who wish to design leadership team coaching “at scale” which dynamically interweaves capacity building and transformation at multiple scales within a system—individual, team, culture—while continually evolving to remain at the leading edge of those transformations. A ubiquitous acronym, volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous (VUCA), foregrounds the features of the landscape that leadership teams must navigate on a daily basis. Leaders and teams who develop and consistently exercise the most expansive action-logics—post-conventional action-logics—are best equipped to carry out the kinds of adaptive leadership needed to promote thriving in VUCA environment. A leadership team at scale in a complex, global organization is an intact team on the edge of abstraction.
