Coaching Leaders in a Polarized World:
Applying the Six Domains of Leadership Model
November 3, 2025
11:30am - 1:00pm ET
CCEUs - CC 1.0, RD 0.5
Speaker: Sim Sitkin
In today’s deeply divided and rapidly changing world, leaders face unprecedented challenges. Polarization within organizations, communities, and even teams can create barriers to trust, collaboration, and progress. Coaches are uniquely positioned to help leaders navigate these tensions—but only when equipped with the right framework.
This webinar explores how the Six Domains of Leadership Model, developed by Duke University professors Sim Sitkin and Allan Lind, provides coaches with a powerful, evidence-based approach to guiding leaders through complex, polarized environments.
Participants will:
- Understand the dynamics of polarization and its impact on leadership effectiveness.
- Explore how the Six Domains of Leadership Model help leaders build trust, inspire others, and foster collaboration despite differences.
- Learn practical coaching strategies to help leaders reduce friction, bridge divides, and create alignment.
- Gain insights into using the Six Domains of Leadership Survey (SDLSTM) to surface hidden tensions and identify opportunities for growth.
Whether you’re coaching executives, teams, or emerging leaders, this session will equip you with actionable tools to help clients lead with clarity, responsibility, and vision in an increasingly divided world.
Bio:
Sim, a founding partner of Delta Leadership, Inc., also serves as professor of management, director of the Behavioral Science and Policy Center, and founding faculty director of the Center on Leadership and Ethics at Duke University.
He has extensive consulting and executive education experience with many large and small corporations, nonprofit and government organizations worldwide, including: ABB, Alcoa, American Airlines, Areva, Baker Tilly, bioMerieux, Carolina Power & Light, Cisco Systems, Compaq Computer, Corning, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutschebank, Duke Medical Center, Ericsson, GlaxoSmithKline, Hart Graphics, IBM, La Quinta, Lenovo, Maxcor, Omgeo, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Red Hat Software.
Sim’s research focuses on leadership and control systems and their influence on how organizations and their members become more or less capable of change and innovation. He is widely known for his research on the effect of formal and informal organizational control systems and leadership on risk taking, accountability, trust, learning from failure and innovation.
Sim received his BA in psychology from Clark University, his Ed.M in education from Harvard University, and his PhD in business from Stanford University.
