360 Perspectives
A multi-rater assessment and feedback platform that turns many perspectives into practical developmental insight.
- Multi-rater feedback
- Developmental insight
- Action planning
Leadership development · applied research · learning technology
Leadership technology for complex human systems.
AI-enabled learning software, serious games, assessments, and applied research that help leaders practice judgment, navigate complexity, and strengthen teams.
Selected work
Flagship projects
Research translated into tools that create opportunities to practice, reflect, and improve.
Resolver
An AI-enabled environment for practicing negotiation, mediation, conflict resolution, and leader-as-mediator judgment.
- Scenario practice
- AI coaching
- Reflective learning
Inside the work
Practice, feedback, and reflection made visible.
Each environment turns leadership concepts into a deliberate developmental sequence. Learners encounter a real decision, practice their response, receive feedback, and convert experience into action.
Development pathway
From feedback to intentional growth
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Assessment created
- 2
Raters invited
- 3
Feedback collected
- 4
Report generated
- 5
Insights delivered
Multi-rater perspectiveConfidential feedbackActionable development plan
Scenario brief
Negotiate scope, timeline, and concessions with a counterpart who has authority but limited flexibility.Counterpart
Before we talk price, I need to understand why your proposal requires more time than the other option.
Your response
I can compare the tradeoffs directly. The shorter timeline creates two risks we should account for before we lock scope.
Strategy readyTactic feedback activeReflection follows
See the whole system, not just the score.
A leader receives confidential perspectives from managers, peers, direct reports, and self-assessment. Reports organize patterns into coaching conversations and an individual learning plan.
Explore the assessment platformRehearse the conversation before the stakes are real.
Learners choose a scenario, prepare strategy with an AI coach, negotiate with an adaptive counterpart, examine tactic-level feedback, and track improvement across repeated practice.
Enter the practice environmentExpanding portfolio
Tools for the spaces between knowing and doing.
Cortex
An AI-supported sensemaking and reflection environment that helps people connect questions, decisions, aspirations, weak signals, and emerging themes over time.
- Sensemaking
- Reflection
- Human-AI collaboration
Leadership Simulations
AI-enabled simulations and serious games for negotiation, coaching, crisis communication, stakeholder engagement, team dynamics, and complex decisions.
- Serious games
- Adaptive feedback
- Reflective debriefing
Design philosophy
Learning should change what leaders can do.
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Sense
Make patterns, perspectives, tensions, and weak signals visible.
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Practice
Create a psychologically safe environment for consequential choices.
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Reflect
Translate feedback and experience into meaning rather than compliance.
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Act
Turn insight into experiments, commitments, and sustained capability.
Selected scholarship
Research that informs the practice.
Scholarship focuses on complexity leadership, toxic leadership, stakeholder engagement, organizational change, leadership education, ethics, and AI in research and learning.
View the complete ORCID record2026Peer-reviewed article
AI in Doctoral Education Research: A Survey of Students’ Practices and Perspectives
Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program Development, 35, 9–27
2026Peer-reviewed article
Complexity Leadership: The Fourth Decade
Longitudinal review of complexity leadership scholarship
2026Research article
The Use of Generative AI in Research: A Production Management Case Study from the Aviation Industry
Applied research on human-AI collaboration
2024Peer-reviewed article
Complexity Leadership: The Third Decade
Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics
2023Co-authored book
Toxic Leadership: Research and Cases
Routledge
About
Scholar, builder, coach, and former Navy F/A-18 pilot.
Dr. Daryl Watkins is a tenured Professor of Organizational Leadership at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, CEO and co-founder of LDRC, an ICF Professional Certified Coach, author, researcher, and combat veteran.
His work combines systems thinking, complexity leadership, evidence-based coaching, instructional innovation, and applied AI to help leaders and organizations strengthen judgment, collaboration, and adaptive capacity.
23Peer-reviewed journal articles
3Book chapters
2Refereed proceedings
1Co-authored book
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