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Leaders of organisations today are facing a paradoxical environment, where they must navigate competing demands and contradictory pressures.Effective responses to these paradoxical tensions can be influenced by a multitude of factors, including a leader’s paradox mindset. A paradox mindset involves experiencing the paradoxical tensions and reframing those tensions from ‘either-or’ to ‘both-and’. Developing a paradox mindset is not a simple exercise as it requires a shift in how leaders think about and approach paradoxical tensions. Challenging and then changing existing assumptions can be a difficult and long-term process and may imply a learning journey, that requires time, effort and reflection. The current research project aims to propose and measure the impact of a novel pedagogical approach aimed to achieve paradox mindset development. Positioned in the context of executive education, the research project is well placed to help meet the need for emerging leaders to be future-ready through a holistic approach towards developing a paradox mindset. Outputs from the research project will include a novel, empirically-validated pedagogical approach, specifically developed for building a paradox mindset that will add both to paradox research and to the learning and development field. In addition, our ready-to-use intervention will help bridge the research-practice gap. Project Lead: Dr Anne Marie Halton | anne.halton@qut.edu.au |