Certifications & Workshops

Essential Skills for Navigating Polarities

On-demand interactive experience designed to help individuals, teams, and organizations


Stop choosing sides. Start getting better outcomes. 

Most challenges don’t have a single right answer.

Should you push for change—or protect what’s working? Focus on your goals—or stay attuned to others? Move fast—or slow down and reflect?

These aren’t problems to solve. They’re tensions to navigate. And with the right skills, you can hold both sides—without compromise.

Essential Skills for Navigating Polarities® teaches you how—in under 4 hours.

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The tensions that matter most don’t go away

Whether you’re leading a team, navigating a difficult relationship, or managing change in your organization, you’ve felt it: the pull in two directions at once.

The pull to act quickly and reflect carefully. To lead change and provide stability. To focus on your own priorities and stay attentive to others.

These recurring tensions are polarities that every leader, team, and organization must learn to navigate over time. When these tensions go unnamed or misunderstood, progress stalls, results decline, and relationships suffer.

This course gives you a clear framework and practical tools to name the tensions, understand what’s really happening, and move forward — with confidence and clarity.

Everything you need.

  • Fully Virtual & On-Demand: Designed to fit all schedules, allowing you to move through the experience at a pace that works for you.
  • Self-Paced Learning Modules: Comprised of eight interactive micro-learning modules.
  • Flexible Instruction: Combines learning, application, and reflection — and takes less than four hours to complete.
  • Expanded Access: Access the course anytime, anywhere, for 90 days.
  • Real-Time Application: Practice directly on a polarity challenge you’re facing right now.
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Learning about polarities while working on one.

The course is built for how people actually learn—combining multiple approaches to support real understanding and lasting change:

  • Audio and video content to introduce key concepts and bring ideas to life
  • Case studies that illustrate how polarities show up in real situations
  • Readings to deepen insight and reinforce core ideas
  • Interactive tools that help learners apply concepts to their own challenges
  • Knowledge checks that make learning stick

This blended approach ensures you don’t just understand polarities — you know how to work with them, starting immediately.

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Built for everyone navigating complexity. 

Essential Skills for Navigating Polarities® is designed for learners at all levels, across roles and industries. It is especially valuable if you are looking to:

  • Navigate complexity and uncertainty more effectively
  • Engage productively with differing or competing perspectives
  • Adapt to change without losing what matters most
  • Build essential thinking skills that support resilience, performance, and long-term success

When individuals, teams, or whole organizations complete this course, something shifts. Decisions get clearer. Conversations get more productive. And people become more resilient — no matter what’s changing around them.

Ready to think differently–and lead more effectively? 

Join other learners who have built the skills to navigate complexity, reduce friction, and move forward with clarity–in their work and in their lives.  

Polarity Navigator Certification (5)

Virtual Course

On Demand

Price:  $279

Meet Your Faculty 

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Dionne Galloway, Both/And Faculty 

Dionne Galloway specializes in Both/And Leadership, helping leaders navigate polarities and achieve top results. With over 15 years of leadership development, she is dedicated to enhancing the capabilities of individuals and teams. 

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Brian Emerson, Author of Navigating Polarities and Co-Creator of the Polarity Navigator  

Brian Emerson, Ph.D., is the principal and founder of Andiron and author of Navigating Polarities: Using Both/And Thinking to Lead Transformation . Clients value his skill in balancing human dynamics with business needs. 

As co-creator of the Polarity Navigator, Brian guides the PNC Cohort in mastering Both/And principles. 

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Rachael Clarke, Ph.D., KPI Faculty 

Rachael Clarke, Ph.D., a former Neuroscientist with global leadership experience, will guide you in mastering the KPI.

Passionate about empowering others with our sensemaking tools, she integrates the KPI and Polarity Navigator into organizations, helping individuals and teams navigate polarity tensions for enhanced success.


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