Free Webinar | 60 Minutes | Live Q&A with Krista Sheets and Drew Bird
Imagine three leadership teams facing the same challenge: a major market shift that demands rapid strategic pivoting. One team freezes, debates endlessly, and loses critical ground they’ll never recover. The second struggles through by brute force, making costly mistakes along the way. The third adapts decisively, recalibrates their approach, and emerges stronger.
What separates these outcomes isn’t resources, market position, or even strategic brilliance. It’s Adaptability Intelligence—the measurable capacity to think, decide, and act effectively when conditions shift.
The Operating Environment Has Changed
Uncertainty is no longer an occasional disruption to manage between periods of stability. It is the operating environment. Organizations are being asked to move faster, respond smarter, and make decisions with less time or clarity than ever before. AI is reshaping entire industries. Markets shift overnight. Mergers demand cultural integration at unprecedented speed. Regulatory landscapes transform faster than compliance teams can track.
Yet many teams are still trying to manage change with tools and practices designed for a more stable world. The gap between the pace of change and organizational adaptive capacity is widening, and it’s costing companies dearly—in lost opportunities, stalled initiatives, employee burnout, and competitive advantage handed to more agile competitors.
Why Adaptability Intelligence Matters Now
Every organizational capability depends on Adaptability. You can’t innovate if your team freezes under ambiguity. You can’t execute strategy if decision-making stalls when clarity drops. You can’t retain talent if your organizational culture punishes experimentation or penalizes course correction.
But here’s what most organizations get wrong: they treat Adaptability as a personality trait you either have or don’t have. They look for “adaptable people” in hiring and hope those individuals will somehow make the entire organization more nimble.
That’s not how it works.
Adaptability Intelligence is a set of measurable, developable capabilities that can be strengthened across three dimensions: Ability, Character, and Environment. When leaders understand what these dimensions are and how they interact, they can intentionally build adaptive capacity across their entire organization.
What You’ll Learn in This Session
On April 8th, join Krista Sheets and Drew Bird for Building Organizational Capacity to Navigate Uncertain Times, a 60-minute session that moves beyond theory to give you practical frameworks for strengthening Adaptability Intelligence in your organization.
You’ll learn:
Why Adaptability has become one of the most researched workplace capabilities—and why traditional approaches to “change management” no longer work in environments where change is constant rather than episodic.
The abilities, character traits, and environmental conditions that determine adaptive performance—including the neurological and behavioral factors that explain why some leaders pivot effectively under pressure while others become paralyzed by it.
How to diagnose your organization’s Adaptability Intelligence—using a framework that measures adaptive capacity across three critical dimensions, revealing where your team has genuine strength and where gaps exist.
The organizational conditions that either cultivate or sabotage adaptive behavior—because individual Adaptability Intelligence means nothing if your environment punishes experimentation, stigmatizes failure, or rewards rigidity.
Why Adaptability training without measurement creates false confidence—and how to build development programs that actually strengthen the specific capabilities your organization needs most.
Who Should Attend
This session is designed for leaders navigating:
- AI disruption and workforce transformation
- Mergers, acquisitions, or major organizational restructuring
- Rapidly shifting market conditions with no clear endpoint
- Persistent uncertainty that demands new decision-making frameworks
- Teams that struggle to pivot even when the need is obvious
If your organization is still using change management playbooks written for a more stable era, this conversation will give you a lens for building real adaptive capacity rather than simply reacting to each new disruption as it arrives.
The Competitive Advantage You Can Build
Here’s what most organizations don’t realize: Adaptability Intelligence is one of the few competitive advantages you can develop that competitors can’t easily copy. They can reverse-engineer your product. They can poach your talent. They can match your technology investments. But they can’t replicate an organizational culture where adaptive behavior is understood, measured, valued, and systematically strengthened.
That capability takes intentional design, leadership commitment, and the right frameworks—all of which you’ll gain insight into during this session. When you strengthen Adaptability Intelligence across your organization, disruption stops being something that happens to you and becomes something you’re equipped to navigate, leverage, and turn into opportunity.
Join Us
Building Organizational Capacity to Navigate Uncertain Times
Date: April 8, 2026
Duration: 60 minutes
Format: Live virtual session with Q&A
About the Speakers
Krista Sheets
For nearly 30 years, Krista Sheets has helped organizations answer a deceptively simple question: Why do some teams thrive under pressure while others stall? As President of Competitive Edge, Inc., she’s worked with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and Wall Street firms to build what she calls Return on People™—the competitive advantage that comes from understanding the behavioral and emotional drivers behind performance. Her expertise in Adaptability Intelligence, DISC, Motivators, and Emotional Intelligence has made her a trusted partner for leaders navigating transformation, uncertainty, and rapid change.
Drew Bird
Drew Bird helps leaders turn soft skills into hard results. As author of The Leader’s Guide To Emotional Intelligence, lecturer at the Alberta School of Business, and Leadership Specialist with The EQ Development Group, Drew’s work sits at the intersection of research and real-world application. He specializes in Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and Adaptability Intelligence (AQ), translating complex behavioral science into actionable strategies that strengthen leadership effectiveness, improve team performance, and build organizational resilience. His approach is practical, evidence-based, and designed for leaders who need tools that work under real conditions.