Intensives

Advanced Leadership Development Intensive

Do you need to build leadership capacity on your team or in your organization? Do you want new methods to help people practice leadership skills in real time? Looking for ways to make learning experiential? Learn and practice an experiential method that turns real-time interactions with a team or class into a case study for building leadership. Expand your skills with KLC’s advanced course in group dynamics and the Case-in-Point teaching method.

With KLC’s Advanced Leadership Development Intensive you develop capacity to:

• Engage people in experiential learning about leadership using Case-in-Point.
• Foster productive group dynamics within teams, organizations and coalitions.
• Identify patterns and roles within a system for improved outcomes.
• Leverage tension and navigate conflict in a group.
• Use coaching skills to encourage people to disrupt patterns and create change.
• Manage self when emotions run high.

When you add Case-in-Point to your toolkit, the people you teach, consult or manage will:

• Recognize their own behavior patterns and the roles they typically play in systems.
• Understand how they can influence group dynamics.
• Exercise more leadership.
• Make more progress and solve problems faster.

What is Case-in-Point?

Case-in-Point is an experiential method in which facilitators use a group as a case study to learn about and practice leadership in real time. It is a pillar of Adaptive Leadership, developed at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. In classrooms and boardrooms, the Case-in-Point methods helps you co-create learning experiences with your participants.

Resources for consideration

Intrigued, but need more information? Click the links below for additional resources to help you understand how Case-in-Point can generate such powerful, even life-changing experiential learning. KLC teacher Jill Hufnagel’s explainer outlines “Six Anchors for Turning Classrooms into Living Leadership Labs” and her podcast interview for 10,000 Swamp Leaders with host Rick Torseth includes a discussion on Case-in-Point. KLC Teacher Tim Steffensmeier co-authored an article in New Directions for Student Leadership for educators on emergent-based teaching pedagogies that provides a literature review and describes the history and use of Case-in-Point in various contexts around the world.

What is the Advanced Leadership Development Intensive?

Our four-day program offers a rare opportunity to learn and practice incorporating this transformative technique in your teaching, training or consulting. You’ll connect with leadership development professionals from around the world and find a strong support system of Harvard-trained master-practitioners Tim Steffensmeier and Jill Hufnagel. Our Advanced Leadership Development Intensive gives you the training and assistance you need to make full use of this singular tool for leadership education and practice.

Who Should Attend?

• Anyone who seeks to enhance the impact of experiential learning about leadership.
• Professionals in leadership, organizational and human resource development.
• Executives and managers seeking new tools to analyze and address leadership issues, including change management.
• Internal and independent consultants.
• Professionals familiar with the Adaptive Leadership framework or the KLC Leadership framework.

Through this immersive experience, you will:

• Prepare to use Case-in-Point virtually and in-person.
• Practice using Case-in-Point in your teaching, training or consulting.
• Get real time feedback from peers and KLC’s master practitioners.
• Experiment with what works, and what doesn’t, in a supportive group environment.
• Connect with other accomplished leadership development professionals.

Using Case-in-Point helps participants:

• Recognize their own behaviors, the roles they play within a system, and why
• Understand how they can influence group dynamics to make progress

Through the 4-day intensive, you will:

• Practice using Case-in-Point in your teaching, training or consulting
• Get real time feedback from peers and KLC’s master practitioners
• Receive personalized mentoring
• Experiment with what works, and what doesn’t, in a supportive group environment
• Connect with other accomplished leadership development professionals

Program Details

Program Dates: March 30 – April 2, 2026

Program Days: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. (CDT/GMT-5)​

Location: All sessions with be held at the Kansas Leadership Center, 325 E. Douglas Ave, Wichita, Kansas, 67202.

Deadline to register: Registration closes two weeks prior to each program or once maximum capacity is reached.

Tuition fee: $2,995 + $5 non-refundable cost for Advanced Leadership Development Intensive Workbook provided day of program. Purchase of KLC’s Teaching Leadership book is also required.

Required Text: KLC’s Teaching Leadership book is required for purchase in the KLC Store.

Pre-Work: Familiarity with the Case-in-Point methodology and KLC’s Leadership Framework will be required prior to attending this program. Reflection and pre-reading details will be sent 3 weeks prior to the start of your program.

Have questions or want more information? Contact KLC Programs at programs@kansasleadershipcenter.org or 316.712.4950.

Leadership Coach Intensive – All 60 hours offered virtually

The Leadership Coach Intensive pairs the Kansas Leadership Center’s proven framework with the International Coaching Federation’s Core Competencies in a one-of-a-kind program designed to develop your coaching mindset. Multiply your impact by helping others unlock their own potential and make greater progress for the organization.

Imagine making an even greater impact in the lives of others; an impact that leads to transformation.

With excellent coaching skills, you’ll develop the ability to ask just the right question at the right time to help unlock potential in others. You’ll enable your participants, clients, or employees to find greater purpose, enhance performance, and make more progress toward their goals.

The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as partnering with clients (or employees) in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.

Our own Leadership Coach Intensive supports all ICF updated credentials and standards of the Level 1 accreditation. The program is designed to help build professional coaching skills through a 60-hour coach training that will qualify for ICF’s Associate Certified Coach credential (ACC), a Level 1 Accreditation program.

Learn and understand the mastery of coaching techniques, ethics, and core coaching competencies from experienced leadership coaches Tim Link, MCC, Teresa Schwab, MCC, Joyce McEwen Crane, MCC and Seth Bate, PCC. All courses are offered in English.

Requirements for KLC’s Leadership Coach Intensive:

• 25-hour week-long course
• Written knowledge assessment
• 30 hours of virtual training including Coaching to Make Progress on Adaptive Challenges, Practice Skills and Mentor Coaching
• Practice with feedback from ICF certified mentor coaches

Program Details

Week-long course: June 8-12, 2026, from 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Central Time

Coaching to Make Progress on Adaptive Challenges course: Six 90-minute online classes – Tuesdays, June 23, 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2026; 8:30-10 a.m. CST

Foundations for Professional Coaching Practice Course: Three 3.5 hour online classes – Thursday, July 16, August 13, September 10, 2026; 8:30 a.m.-noon CST

Group Mentor Coaching: Five 90-minute online classes – multiple cohorts. Dates available upon registration.

Location: All hours delivered virtually via Zoom Conference Software

Deadline to register: May 25, 2026

Tuition fee: $4,495* + $5 non-refundable cost for Leadership Coach Intensive Workbook provided one week before program as well as up to $20 for coach session transcription service. Purchase of KLC’s Teaching Leadership and Your Leadership Edge books is also required.

*Scholarships available. Learn more and apply.

Required Text: KLC’s Teaching Leadership book is required for purchase in the KLC Store as well as Your Leadership Edge which you may purchase from your favorite retailer or from our bookstore. You will need both books in the program.

Pre-Work: Reflection and prompts to prepare for coaching, policy acknowledgment, mentor sign-up and pre-reading will be required prior to attending this program. Details will be sent 3 weeks prior to the start of your program.

Have questions or want more information? Contact KLC Programs at programs@kansasleadershipcenter.org or 316.712.4950.