HUMAN VENTURE LEADERSHIP

CALGARY, Alberta, T3B5P8 Canada

Mission Statement

While capacities such as strategy, innovation, systems thinking, resilience and ethical capacity are highly valued in our society, they are in limited supply. Leadership Edmonton (operating as Human Venture Leadership) helps participants develop these capacities, providing the maps, tools and ongoing support for a lifelong learning journey. By strengthening the capacity of leaders to learn, think care and act in systemic adaptive ways, we strengthen the capacity of organizations and communities to meet the most significant challenges and opportunities facing them.

About This Cause

Exploring the Leading Edge of Human and Social Development We are facing enormous global challenges: climate change, resource depletion, population growth, cultural clashes, human rights abuses, global inequities, and more. The path that we’re on is highly destructive and course-correction is vital. But how do we extricate ourselves from the progress traps we’ve created? Changing the path we’re on requires more robust ways of: Understanding human progress – what it is and what it is not Understanding human development – how our thinking, caring, priorities and behaviours are shaped Identifying and preventing developmental paths that lead to catastrophic breakdown and collapse Strengthening our collective capacity for wisdom None of this is possible without looking at the bigger story in which we’re all embedded. By studying common patterns in human striving, failure and achievement throughout our species’ development, we can understand ourselves and our predicament more deeply. And by situating that within the larger story of life processes, we can begin to develop the capacity required to help us innovate, problem-solve, and pursue adaptive lines of development for generations to come. We use the term ‘Human Venture’ to indicate the importance of drawing on the larger developmental patterns associated with our species’ development. It’s only when we join the instances of life into some kind of coherent pattern that we can understand the vector – discern what life progress is and what it is not – and actively begin to shape our development so that it’s moving in the direction of wisdom. This is how humanity corrects its line of development. For almost two decades, Human Venture Leadership has been equipping leaders to navigate on the frontiers of human and social development. As individuals, leaders, organizations and societies, and even as humanity, we are all works in progress, not finished products. To progress well we need a deep understanding of what progress is, what it is not, and how easy it is to be mistaken. To get there requires a deep caring and commitment to humanity’s future as well as one’s own. Participants of our programs, workshops and events include members of the not-for-profit, corporate, government, academic and other sectors. We have more than 800 alumni in Calgary and Edmonton. Supporting our organization helps us run our program and events, and extend our community outreach. For more information, please visit humanventure.com.

HUMAN VENTURE LEADERSHIP
270 Valley Springs Terr Nw
CALGARY, Alberta T3B5P8
Canada
Phone 587-439-7501
Unique Identifier 819990342RR0001