Designing Organizational Learning Interventions
A live Open Sky learning lab for navigating tensions, designing safe-to-fail experiments, and connecting organizational learning to practice.
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A collaboration between the Open Sky Leadership Institute and the University of Houston — spanning the Colleges of Education, Medicine, and Engineering — where graduate education, organizational learning, research, and leadership practice come together.
Learning labs, not lectures.Where Open Sky ideas become live University of Houston learning experiences.
The Open Sky Leadership Institute partners with the University of Houston across graduate education, healthcare leadership, and applied organizational learning. Courses, research, and executive development move across college boundaries — because the complexity leaders face does too.
About
The educator and practitioner behind the collaboration connecting University of Houston learning with the emerging Open Sky Leadership Institute.
Clinical Professor, Colleges of Education and Medicine
Director, Graduate Programs in Health Sciences Education and Leadership
Clinical Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in Health Science Education
Dr. Robert Hausmann is a Clinical Professor in the University of Houston’s Colleges of Education and Medicine and serves as Director of Graduate Programs in Health Science Education. His work sits at the intersection of leadership, organizational learning, healthcare education, and organizational change.
For more than two decades, Dr. Hausmann has helped leaders navigate complexity, build resilient organizations, and create meaningful change. As a faculty member for Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning and founder of the Open Sky Leadership Institute, he has facilitated leadership development experiences for executives across healthcare systems, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and global organizations.
His teaching and consulting focus on leadership development, organizational learning, strategy execution, decision-making, psychological safety, adaptive leadership, and the management of paradox. His current academic work explores innovation in healthcare education and the development of future health professions leaders.
This site serves as the central hub for Dr. Hausmann’s University of Houston courses, leadership development resources, research, and emerging work through the Open Sky Leadership Institute—an initiative dedicated to helping leaders learn through reflection, experience, travel, dialogue, and purposeful practice.
Ed.D., Human and Organizational Learning, George Washington UniversityM.A., Social and Organizational Psychology, Columbia UniversityB.A., Psychology, University of Houston Honors CollegeFaculty, Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning · Founder, Open Sky Leadership Institute"The flight plan, the weather, the crew, the destination, and the pause all teach leadership, if we are willing to learn."Robert Hausmann
Three connected pathways
The collaboration moves across classrooms, scholarship, and the emerging institute — each strand feeding the others.
Graduate courses in leadership, organizational learning, change, and health sciences education designed around reflection, experimentation, and applied practice.
Scholarship focused on leadership, organizational learning, healthcare education, educational innovation, and the development of future health professions leaders.
A growing institute connecting leadership, place, reflection, travel, dialogue, and lifelong learning — extending the work beyond the classroom.
University of Houston Courses
Two University of Houston College of Engineering courses designed in collaboration with the Open Sky Leadership Institute.
A live Open Sky learning lab for navigating tensions, designing safe-to-fail experiments, and connecting organizational learning to practice.
Open HRD 6355 →An Open Sky learning lab for making sense of uncertainty, holding competing demands, and helping people and systems learn their way forward through reflection, dialogue, and purposeful action.
Course site coming soon
The Open Sky vision
The Open Sky Leadership Institute connects leadership development, organizational learning, travel, storytelling, and purposeful practice. The same ideas explored in these University of Houston courses continue beyond the classroom through executive education, facilitation, research, and experiential learning.
"Leadership is not learned only in classrooms. It is learned through experience, reflection, dialogue, and the places that shape us."
Whether the setting is a classroom, retreat site, simulation, or online portal, the learning space should shape attention and invite deeper work.
Students and leaders practice moving beyond either/or reactions toward disciplined experiments that make progress amid competing demands.
Reflection, dialogue, field notes, and portfolio work help learners turn concepts into tools they can use in organizations and communities.