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I Might Be Wrong – And That’s Really Ok? Intellectual Humility And Psychological Flexibility In Leadership

March 04, 2025
04:00pm to 05:00pm ET
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The strong leader… decisive, inspirational and right. Opening up to the idea that ‘I might be wrong here’ can be difficult for both aspiring and more experienced leaders to accept. Leaders don’t do that.

Leaders who open the door to intellectual humility, on the other hand, acknowledge their own fallibility. They recognize they don’t know everything and value the opinions of others. This facilitates their own adaptive growth, while also enabling wider organizational benefits and psychological safety for the people who work with them. And while many leaders will cognitively grasp the potential benefits of intellectual humility, and may even apply it usefully in some situations, it will lie dormant and unseen as an option in others. In this session, Tom Loncar expands on his recent article in The Psychologist: ‘Helping Leaders Harness Humility’. Five scenarios are explored that highlight the costs of more palpable absences of intellectual humility in leadership development, followed by an examination of psychological flexibility processes that can help surface and nurture it.

Key takeaways:

  • Understand how intellectual humility has been viewed historically, and its more recent conceptualizations across subfields of psychology, leadership and organizational behavior.
  • Explore scenarios where a lack of intellectually humility can occur in executive coaching and leadership development contexts and the nature of associated costs, along with contexts where intellectual humility may not be beneficial.
  • Appreciate the role of psychological flexibility processes in fostering intellectual humility.

Continuing Education Credits:

This webinar is approved for 1 CEU from The International Coaching Federation (ICF) (1 Core Competency), the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC course # CEA-000563-5), EMCC Global, Association for Coaching and Wellcoaches.

In order to receive credit you must attend live and complete a survey after the webinar (emailed the day after the webinar).

Watching a recording will not qualify you for CEUs.

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Meet Our Speaker

Tom Loncar

Tom Loncar is an executive coach, writer and founder of GrowGRAVITAS® – a consultancy fostering psychological flexibility in leadership development. Based in Sydney Australia, he works with senior executives, leadership teams and high potentials across the Asia-Pacific. Tom has expanded on his experiences in leadership development over the last decade as a regular contributor to leading business and professional magazines that have included The Psychologist (magazine of The British Psychological Society), the Australian Financial Review, Boss Magazine and Governance Directions. He was first introduced to Acceptance and Commitment Training and psychological flexibility through peer coaching eight years ago, and has examined its application in organizational contexts in-depth through his MSc dissertation with King’s College London.