Leadership4Faculty: Leadership culture during uncertain times

• 29.10.2025, 12:15 - 13:45: Leadership culture during uncertain times

• Dorthe,?Peter Andr¨¦  ()

• Kursadministration,?Development & Leadership, ETH Z¨¹rich  ()

University employees and scientists face career paths marked by uncertainty, ranging from shifts in the academic landscape and changing research priorities to the constant challenge of keeping pace with emerging opportunities. In this session, Prof. Dr. Deborah Helsing (Harvard University) discusses how professors, as leaders, can reframe uncertainty as a source of growth, cultivate reflective habits, and create developmental group cultures. This program offers a space for ETH professors to exchange practices that instill resilience through continuous learning and skill growth, complementing the already existent focus on research expertise, in order to help team members better navigate future challenges.

Specifically for ETH professors (assistant, associate, full)

English

Deborah Helsing is an executive coach and lecturer on education, teaching courses on adult development and Immunity to Change. In addition to her faculty appointment at Harvard's Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Helsing is the director of Minds at Work, an organization assisting individuals, teams, and organizations to make personal and collective change. Helsing's publications include co-authoring, An Everyone Culture (2016), Right Weight/Right Mind (2016), and Change Leadership (2006). She holds a B.A. in English from Grinnell College, a master's degree in Education from the University of Michigan, and a doctorate from HGSE.