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Adaptive Leadership: Getting the Best Out of People at Work

Discover how diversity drives performance

Why do we, as leaders, connect so easily with some people at work and not with others? How can we create stronger bonds with everyone to make our teams more successful? After all, each individual—employee, colleague or leader—is unique, based on upbringing, education, and personal and professional experiences.

Adaptive leadership allows you to effectively translate your team's cultural differences into collective strength. This webinar is of particular interest to leaders and team members wanting to foster respect, growth and success within their diverse customer, employee or partner bases.

Participants learn:

  • How cultural traits might be affecting engagement and performance at work 

  • How to adapt to enhance performance of diverse teams 

  • A practical tool to better engage with anyone from anywhere, with a focus on how we interact in the workplace

  • Benefits of growing workplace diversity


This webinar was recorded live on Thursday, May 20 at 1:00 p.m. EDT.

Session Participants

Christina Benzing

Founder, Consonance Consulting
Christina is a human resources professional with more than 15 years of experience in both the private and public sectors, as well as a certified executive coach. In various roles, she has helped organizations capitalize on higher levels of individual and team performance and engagement. She has helped leaders and teams to adapt HR processes to support and engage cross-cultural talent. Christina teaches cross-cultural management for Queen's University’s Faculty of Law, as well as Queen's Executive Education. She holds an undergraduate degree in commerce, and two graduate degrees in international business, focused on leadership and organizational strategy. 

Shai Dubey

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Shai Dubey teaches courses in negotiations, cross-cultural management, ethics, domestic and international business law and entrepreneurship at Smith School of Business. He is the academic director for project courses in various Smith MBA programs, as well as the Master of International Business. Before his academic career, he was a commercial pilot, founding and running both an executive aircraft charter company and flight training school. After selling this company, Shai became a lawyer who practised law on Bay Street. He was also the COO of a company with international operations.