VUCA in Mauritius

Together with our local partner, Kesho Gooriah – Managing Director of “Soft Skills Mauritius“,
we managed to bring VUCA to Mauritius.

VUCA in Beachcomber Mauritius
VUCA in Beachcomber Mauritius

Soft Skills Consultants (Mauritius) Ltd is a company based in Mauritius that offers corporate training , consultancy services, career development services, and recruitment services.

2022 – Waltraud Glaeser held a half day workshop on the topic “Luckily it’s only VUCA” with HR and service executives of a large hotel chain from Mauritius.
2023 and 2024 – Together with Softskills Mauritius we offered several live workshops on leadership and VUCA.

The Government of Mauritius has been proactive in promoting leadership training programs and Artificial Intelligence (AI) through strategic initiatives .
These efforts demonstrate Mauritius’s commitment to advancing AI through education, strategic planning, and leadership development.

VUCA in Greece

Waltraud Glaeser and Spyros Kollas, founder of  Sea Breaze Greece, hosted a podcast in January to raise awareness about VUCA and its benefits for leaders, managers, project teams, companies and organizations:

Podcast VUCA Leadership

Spyros and Seabreaze combine modern soft skills training with the thrill of diving in exotic locations: VUCASIM

  • 6 Nights stay 5* Hotel or motor yacht
  • Scuba Diving and Soft Skills material
  • VUKA Facilitator® Certification (online, as a bonus program)
VUCASIM: VUCA and Diving

The second event of Afera European Tape Week 2025 is the 68th Annual Conference and 11th Afera Technical Seminar held in Thessaloniki, Greece:

“Navigating the Future of Adhesive Tapes: Transforming Challenges into Opportunities”

One item on the agenda is a presentation by Waltraud Glaeser:

“Change management in a VUCA world: Building scenarios and utilising other decision-making tools for successfully leading necessary transition from a human point of view.”

Riga – Latvia

Waltraud Glaeser conducted a one-day online workshop on the topic “Navigating in a VUCA World” with a major governmental organization from Riga, Latvia.

After an introductory lecture, the following questions were addressed in three break out sessions:

– WHY: Create awareness! Why should you be aware of the VUCA impacts in context of your Leadership?

– HOW: How did you handle VUCA impacts on your Leadership so far?

– WHAT: What changes are required and how to approach them?

Golden Circle

Navigating in a VUCA World – Finland

Waltraud Glaeser conducted one-day online workshops in 2023 and 2025 on the topic “Navigating in a VUCA World” with an internationally active company from Finland.

After an introductory lecture, the following questions were addressed in three break out sessions:

– WHY: Create awareness! Why should you be aware of the VUCA impacts in context of your Leadership?

– HOW: How did you handle VUCA impacts on your Leadership so far?

– WHAT: What changes are required and how to approach them?

Golden Circle graphic

The Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies

The Journal is a peer-reviewed journal that aims to bridge the gap between media and communication research and actors with a say in media production.
It covers various topics related to media and journalism, including data journalism, refugee crisis, media framing, and poverty and inequality. The VUCA-nature of modern protest communication has also been explored in this journal. It includes an article of Waltraud Glaeser, founder of VUCA-World.org and the VUKA Facilitator®️ Methodology.

Journal

VUCA as a practical model: A commentary

“VUCA discourses often get stuck in describing VUCA phenomena and their effects. The experience of a nonlinear world characterized by unpredictability, uncertainty and unplanability is commonly foregrounded at the expense of contemplating VUCA as an opportunity for systemic change. Too little attention is paid to concrete action strategies that help to move from situational analysis to deep understanding and proactive change planning. In this context, especially in the management of companies but also in political as well as civil society organizations, there is a constant challenge of remaining capable of acting under maximum uncertainty…”

It’s VUCA the film – USA

We live in an age of crushing change and uncertainty that bombards us with volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, fear, anxiety – and distrust. There is a name for this: IT’S VUCA. VUCA isn’t just the problem…it’s also the solution.
The future is moving faster than we think, and as we learned in 2020, 2021 and 2022, the world is not prepared for it. The goal is to transform the world from negative VUCA to positive VUCA.

“IT’S VUCA” is a movement. Waltraud Glaeser is part of this movement, internationally networked, with outstanding approaches to translate VUCA positively.

The film “It’s VUCA” is a journey to discover the answers to what you are going through – and help you overcome overwhelm and succeed under conditions of VUCA NOW and TOMORROW. You will learn that exponentially accelerating change can be mastered through vision, understanding, clarity, agility and adaptability (as defined by Bob Johansen). We use positive translation to ride the VUCA waves and navigate resiliently in this context.
This is our script for dealing with volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity and empowering humanity to dive deeper into “IT’S VUCA” with vision, understanding, clarity, agility and adaptability.

The filmmaker:

Chris Sean Nolan
Screenwriter and director, multiple Emmy award winner
Mike Schindler
Writer, Host & Co-Executive Producer, Award-winning author

Redefining VUCA – Podcast USA

We have a great conversation around helping leaders “return to curiosity” about themselves, the others around them, and their impact on their companies and the world. We come away with a positive substitution for the VUCA acronym: Vision, Understanding, Clarity, and Adaptability. And that is a worthy starting point for leader’s growth, personally, professionally, and within the context of their business.

We have been pursuing the guides that can help us be better leaders in this VUCA world, and we found another in Germany: Waltraud Glaeser.

Let’s face it, risks and opportunities abound in a VUCA world. The risks are hard to see because they are multi-layered and intersect in a “tangled mesh of reaction and counter-reaction”. And we find, much to our dismay that not everything is black and white. And change is the only constant. Just when you think you are there, there is a shift, and all your old mental models no longer apply. This causes uncertainty, doubt, and fear, often paralyzing us while the window of opportunity to address the risk and seize the opportunity closes.

Switzerland

Empowerment by Agile Teambuilding

An international company based in Switzerland is in the process of optimizing the current leadership style of their teams:

Empowerment through Agility & Self-Organization, because a learning behavior is needed that can deal with high speed of change, high uncertainty and high interdependencies in a complex environment!
VUCA requires a realignment of leadership and communication: the increase in volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity requires the company to align itself differently and to ensure good results with new leadership behavior under changed conditions.

Waltraud Glaeser facilitates this journey towards purpose, alignment and commitment by gaining self-organization, empowerment and role clarity. The managers of various teams have been prepared for this shift in mindset and paradigms digitally, but also in face-to-face workshops.
A facilitated and moderated process was set up together, following the taylorized principles in the idea of Scrum logic to create value (tackle complex adaptive problems, proceed iteratively and collaboratively, learn through experience, act self-organized, challenge each other, reflect on gains and losses, continuously improve).

International exchange of ideas

Digital exchange of ideas

Every month, participants from various countries meet under the leadership of Waltraud Glaeser for a digital exchange of ideas on problems faced by organizations and companies and possible solutions.
This exchange of ideas originally started as an extension of the VUCA Facilitator Program.

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KENZ Foundation & Rise Up

KENZ Foundation is a non profit organisation building better understanding around the world.
What is the RISE UP Leadership Program?
The RISE UP Leadership Program is a comprehensive initiative focused on developing youth leadership across 10 universities in Tanzania.

This project is the result of the collaboration between the KENZ Foundation and IEI, designed to empower university leaders through a multi-phase training program. The first phase provided a strong theoretical foundation, equipping students with essential leadership concepts.

Luckily it´s only VUCA! Interactive presentation by Waltraud Glaeser, part of the Leadership Program.
“How to navigate, manage and lead in times of increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity”

PDF “RISE UP” Program

The Art of Leadership

Autonomy and Diversity with  Waltraud Glaeser

International webinar with speaker from USA, France and Germany

Gain insights into how you can balance autonomy with organizational alignment in a VUCA world, leverage different perspectives for innovation, and develop a leadership style that promotes individuality while strengthening team cohesion.