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University of Houston · Leadership · Organizational Learning

Developing leaders who can navigate complexity.

University of Houston courses, leadership development resources, research, and learning experiences designed to help professionals lead, learn, and adapt in an increasingly complex world.

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Dr. Robert Hausmann

This hub is the digital front door for Dr. Hausmann’s University of Houston courses, leadership resources, research, and emerging Open Sky work.

Dr. Robert Hausmann

Clinical Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in Health Sciences Education and Leadership

College of Education, University of Houston

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 Interaction Impact, 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.

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Graduate courses in leadership and learning

Graduate courses in leadership, organizational learning, change, and health sciences education designed as practical learning laboratories.

Research

Scholarship that connects education and practice

Scholarship focused on leadership, organizational learning, healthcare education, educational innovation, and the development of future health professions leaders.

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The Open Sky Leadership Institute

A growing body of work connecting leadership, place, reflection, travel, dialogue, and lifelong learning.

Open Sky Leadership Institute

Leadership is not learned only in classrooms. It is learned through experience, reflection, dialogue, and the places that shape us.

The Open Sky Vision

The Open Sky Leadership Institute represents an evolving vision that 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.

Place matters

The environment is part of the pedagogy.

Whether the setting is a classroom, retreat site, simulation, or online portal, the learning space should shape attention and invite deeper work.

Both/And Leadership

Hold tension long enough to learn.

Students and leaders practice moving beyond either/or reactions toward disciplined experiments that make progress amid competing demands.

Practice

Convert insight into action.

Reflection, dialogue, field notes, and portfolio work help learners turn concepts into tools they can use in organizations and communities.

Current Course Portals

Available now

Each course portal gathers the syllabus, weekly flight path, assignments, readings, logbook prompts, and portfolio tools in one stable location.

HRD 6355 · Summer 2026

Designing Organizational Learning Interventions

Open Sky Leadership Lab: navigating tensions, designing safe-to-fail experiments, and building a leadership navigation portfolio that connects course concepts to organizational practice.

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Future courses

More class portals will live here.

Future UH courses can be added at paths like /classes/COURSECODE/ while preserving this hub as the landing page for Dr. Hausmann’s teaching content.

Resources & Research

A home base for the work

This page should function less like a directory and more like a studio: a place students return to as their thinking develops.

Learning maps

Flight paths for each course

Students can see where the course is headed, where they are now, and how each module contributes to the final portfolio or culminating product.

Reflection tools

Logbooks, prompts, and field notes

Course content becomes evidence of learning through reflection questions, applied observations, safe-to-fail experiments, and leadership artifacts.

Portfolio work

From assignments to usable products

Assignments should accumulate into something students can present, revisit, and use beyond the final class meeting.