Date: 28 July 2026, 15:00-16:00 CET
Format: Live online webinar (1 hour, including Q&A)
Speaker: Janka Krings-Klebe is a leading strategy expert, speaker and lecturer on digital transformation, agile management, innovation and business ecosystems. Drawing on her extensive hands-on experience, they challenge traditional implementations and demonstrate how embracing volatility can enable organizations to survive in an era of relentless change. She frequently contributes to podcasts and publications of Thinkers50, Project Management Institute, Duke CE’s Dialogue Review, and The Global Peter Drucker Forum. She is the co-authors of The Antifragile Organization: From Hierarchies to Ecosystems (2025). Together with Jörg Schreiner, she was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Strategy Award in 2025.
Description: Organizations across the public, private, and non-profit sectors are facing risks that are increasingly complex, interconnected, and difficult to anticipate. Formal risk management, compliance, and control mechanisms remain essential, yet many of today’s most significant challenges emerge faster than traditional management cycles can absorb.
This webinar explores how antifragile organizations approach risk under conditions of uncertainty. They build the capacity to sense early signals, run small experiments, learn from setbacks, build strategic optionality, and adapt before pressures accumulate into crisis. Drawing on the principles of antifragile organizations, the session will translate concepts such as autonomy, redundancy, diversity, supercompensation, and learning into practical implications for risk management across sectors. The focus is on how organizations can strengthen their ability to respond to emerging threats and opportunities while preserving accountability, coherence, and long-term value.
You will learn
- How antifragile organizations manage risk through exploration, learning, and adaptation.
- Why early signals matter, and how organizations can act on them before risks become fully visible.
- How autonomy and accountability can shorten learning cycles across different types of organizations.
- Why redundancy and slack are strategic resources in uncertain environments.
- How small experiments can reveal hidden risks, test assumptions, and create useful evidence.
- How setbacks can strengthen organizational capability when learning is captured and applied.
- What leaders can do to move from risk compliance toward adaptive capacity.
Registration: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/715b12d2-5861-47f5-ad1b-ee0a3c195366@812a3715-3a4e-40e5-b038-f7b3dc11c71c