Course Title: The Intuitive Leadership Series: Redefine How You Lead and Live Change
Instructor: Paul Jan Zdunek, Peab '91
Brought to you by Odyssey
Virtual via Zoom
Join Paul Jan Zdunek—TEDx Speaker, award-winning author, and Prosci® Certified Change Management Professional—for two interactive 90-minute workshops that invite you to rethink success and lead transformation from the inside out. Across these sessions, you’ll learn how to align your purpose, passion, and people skills to thrive through uncertainty—whether navigating organizational change or charting your next career chapter. Each workshop stands on its own yet builds toward a larger understanding of how to lead intuitively and live authentically.
Ideal for mid-career professionals, alumni, and emerging leaders ready to embrace change—whether guiding others through it or navigating it themselves—this program offers two 90-minute sessions that can be taken individually or together. Each session blends interactive presentation, reflection, and live coaching.
Required Text: Cowboys & Conductors: Conversations on Horseman-Humanship by Dustin Davis & Paul Jan Zdunek. The book can be purchased through Amazon or other retailers.
Discover how to lead with empathy, awareness, and data-driven insight using Paul’s pioneering GREY LEADERSHIP® model. Learn to influence change by connecting human motivation with strategic outcomes—and turn resistance into momentum.
Explore the power of reinvention. Through guided reflection and the (Im)Possible Platform framework, identify your defining-driver and superest-power to translate your nonlinear journey into your competitive advantage.
Paul Jan Zdunek is the Chief Operating Officer at Miller Kaplan, a top-100 U.S. accounting and business advisory firm, and a Partner at Tipping Point Strategists, guiding organizations through transformative change rooted in Purpose, People, and Place. A former orchestra conductor turned C-suite leader, Paul brings 20+ years of executive experience helping companies and nonprofits navigate financial turnarounds, leadership crises, and strategic reinvention.
A PROSCI® Certified Change Management Professional, Paul is a trusted advisor on organizational development, conflict resolution, and stakeholder alignment. He serves as a mentor at The Johns Hopkins University and has taught leadership courses at USC, UCLA, and Goucher College in Maryland. A TEDx speaker and an award-winning co-author of Cowboys & Conductors: Conversations in Horseman-Humanship, Paul is currently an instructor in the Odyssey Program at The Johns Hopkins University.
He holds an Executive MBA from Claremont Graduate University’s Drucker School of Management and degrees in Music Composition and Orchestral Conducting from The Johns Hopkins University Peabody Institute and The Cleveland Institute of Music.
Event DateStarts: Thursday, February 5, 20267:00pm ESTEnds: Thursday, March 5, 20268:30pm EST
ContactOdysseyAlumni Relations Lifelong Learning800-JHU-JHU1 (548-5481)odyssey@jhu.edu
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Bundle & Save! Take both sessions at a discounted price and gain a powerful, complementary toolkit for leadership and career growth
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