PSDS
5511

Global Leadership Lab: Leading Transformation

Parsons School of Design: School of Design Strategies

Non-Liberal Arts
Undergraduate Course
Graduate Course
Degree Students
Global Leadership Lab
Spring 2026
Taught By: Hala Abdel Malak
Section: A

CRN: 16993

Credits: 3

This one-week intensive invites students to reimagine leadership as a living, relational practice rather than a role to perform. In a world unraveling in visible and invisible ways, we will explore leadership as a process of unlearning and relearning by listening deeply, adapting with humility, and making meaning together. Through dialogue, movement, creative exercises, reflection, and collective inquiry, students will engage with perspectives too often marginalized in dominant leadership models. Drawing from adaptive leadership, Indigenous, Black, and feminist wisdoms, systems thinking, and embodied methods, each day unfolds as a provocation: to dismantle myths of control, hold space for complexity, and cultivate reciprocity and interdependence. This lab is for students ready to step into transformation with integrity and imagination, and to develop the relational and systemic capacities needed to navigate uncertainty and lead responsibly toward more just, regenerative futures.

Note: this course occurs over Spring Break. Open to: All university graduate degree students and upper level undergraduate degree students.
Prerequisites: No Prerequisites
Co-Requisites: No Co-requisites

College: Parsons School of Design (PS)

Department: School of Design Strategies (SDS)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Seminar (R)

Modality: Hybrid

Max Enrollment: 15

Repeat Limit: 2

Add/Drop Deadline: March 9, 2026 (Monday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: March 17, 2026 (Tuesday)

Seats Available: Yes

Status: Open*

* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 10:10am EDT 10/18/2025

Meeting Info:
Times: 12:00am - 12:00am
Building: Online Course
Room: 999
Date Range: 3/9/2026 - 3/13/2026
Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Times: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Building: TBD
Room: TBD
Date Range: 3/16/2026 - 3/21/2026