The Adaptive Practice is a specialist ‘for purpose’ practice led by founder and director Liz Skelton.
Liz Skelton is renowned globally for her work and expertise in Australia and the UK as a leader, thought-leader, capacity builder, consultant, author and facilitator of leadership for social and adaptive system change. She is also Cofounder and ex Chair and Director of Collaboration for Impact, Australia’s leading network for building capacity in collaboration for systemic change. Previously, Liz was Principal Consultant with Social Leadership Australia (SLA) in The Benevolent Society where she worked with CEO's and leaders of some of Australia's largest corporate institutions, government departments and community organisations, helping them build their leadership capacity to develop creative solutions to their most complex leadership challenges.
“Large organisations too often find change complex and difficult to progress. Liz Skelton is a highly skilled and experienced practitioner who draws on adaptive leadership concepts to help leaders explore their role and power to drive change. Her gift in finding the patterns, diagnosing the system and drawing out interpretations opens up new thinking and possibility leading to change.”
In Scotland , Liz began her career working with marginalised communities and issues. She now has over 25 years' experience in leading social-purpose organisations in Australia and the UK, and has worked towards achieving systemic change across a range of complex issues including homelessness, Indigenous leadership and disadvantage, and business/community engagement. Liz has consulted, published and presented on the complexity of social change and the complex social issues experienced by marginalised groups in Australia and internationally. She has co-authored 2 books: The Australian Leadership Paradox: What it takes to lead in the Lucky Country published by Allen & Unwin and Lost Conversations: Finding new ways for black and white Australians to lead together.
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