ILiUT

The Innovative Leadership in Uncertain Times (ILiUT) course is a three-day accelerated course—open to graduate students from across Hopkins—designed to hone critical leadership skills within diverse teams while solving complex problems in a simulated, fast-paced environment.

ILiUT is an intensive, experiential-learning opportunity focused on honing students’ leadership and decision-making in the kinds of uncertain, dynamic, and complex environments facing modern organizations. Centered around a multi-day “leadership challenge” simulation, students will be thrust into a developing crisis scenario and work in multidisciplinary teams to deliver an innovative solution while experiencing first-hand the challenges of adapting leadership to a dynamic, evolving environment where little is certain.

This high-impact experience allows students to focus on developing their empathy, competence, and agility as they are asked to meet the needs of different stakeholders and address tensions and trade-offs that arise during the challenge. Focused debriefs, guest lectures, and class sessions allow students to reflect on the lessons of this experience and walk away with strategies for their own leadership in uncertain times.

The course takes place in-person at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., over three days, with a required zoom session before and after the in-person experience.