Adapt.
Embracing curiosity and collaboration to thrive in an increasingly uncertain world.
Dr. Phillip Ellis
Adaptive strategist, connector, leader-shaper, & chief catalyst
Leadership isn’t something you just learn—it’s something you do. Dr. Ellis skips the fluff and dives straight into empowering leaders to roll up their sleeves and tackle the big, messy, real-world problems that matter most. With world-class academic expertise and adaptive practices proven across 70+ industries over two decades, he helps you embrace curiosity and collaboration to thrive in an increasingly uncertain world.
Dr. Ellis’s work has caught the attention of heavy hitters like Brookings and New America for his bold, innovative takes on wicked problems and collaboration. At Penn, he’s the go-to for cultivating a thriving community of the world’s sharpest learning and development pros.
Dr. Ellis specializes in:
Adaptive leadership | Solving We-Don’t-Know-How Challenges | High-Performing Team Development | Strategic Collaboration
“In ancient texts, the path to enlightenment begins with the first yama: do no harm. This timeless wisdom serves as a guiding principle for serving others in the pursuit of a world free from harm.”
Specialities
Phillip specializes in designing performance-driven teams and purpose-driven networks to collaborate on society's most wicked problems.
Performance-Driven Change
Performance-Driven Change is a challenge-centric cohort model that guides leaders to drive the innovation, strategy, capacity-building, and growth needed to thrive in a world of wicked problems.
Strategic Doing
Strategic Doing is an evidence-based discipline for designing and guiding complex collaborations by following simple rules
Purpose-Driven Networks
The art and science of combining the Performance-Driven Change and Strategic Doing disciplines to create impactful actions around a shared purpose.