Become the Leader You Want to Be
Become the Leader You Want to Be
Discover our focused leadership programs where the return on learning sways standard thinking. Programs in this category focus on specific leadership topics — from crisis leadership to team leadership, from persuasion to negotiation skills — providing you with actionable insights into what makes a leader exceptional. You will explore complex issues such as self-awareness and learn skills to build a coalition of the willing, attract talent, and lead others to greatness.
Explore programs in this category below — and find yourself at the very center of business.
Behavioral Science in Business: Understanding People to Drive Results
In this hands-on program, discover how you can effectively, efficiently, and ethically influence people's behavior to meet your business objectives and learn how to scale those behavioral science capabilities across your organization.
Corporate Governance Program: Developing Exceptional Board Leaders
The Corporate Governance Program equips current and aspiring board member and directors with the knowledge required to excel as stewards of shareholders that promote long-term and sustainable value creation.
Developing and Leading High-Performance Teams
Empowering executives to maximize the impact of their teams, this program examines how to develop team solidarity, “followership,” and broad support for change throughout your organization and how to harness the power of teams through better decision making and leadership.
Driving Performance and Change (Online)
In this online program, learn how to maximize your impact as a leader during times of change.
Leadership Essentials
In just two days, mid-level executives looking to improve their effectiveness in working with individuals and teams can develop their essential leadership abilities, including team leadership, emotional intelligence, conflict management, and leading change.
Leadership Essentials (Online)
Executives looking to improve their effectiveness in working with individuals and teams can develop their essential leadership abilities, including team leadership, emotional intelligence, conflict management, and leading change.
Leadership in Transformative Times
Drawing on two of our most prominent leadership faculty’s research, this program teaches participants to approach the present times with authenticity and agility and to draw out the best in themselves and their teams in making the right strategic moves.
Leading the Agile Organization
Learn key skills and mindsets vital to leading an agile and adaptive organization. You will improve your ability to confidently make hard-to-reverse choices, maneuver through uncertainty, and inspire others to join you in taking risks to grow, innovate and improve the value delivered to your customers and stakeholders.
Negotiation Strategies: Creating and Maximizing Value
Through a hands-on approach and a series of negotiation exercises, learn how to negotiate more effectively with various parties – from external clients to internal constituencies.
Personal Leadership and Success
Breakthrough research in psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive behavior therapy informs techniques for tangible personal improvements and greater leadership skills.
Personal Leadership and Success (Online)
In this online program, learn how to master leadership by understanding how to inspire yourself, direct yourself, change yourself, influence yourself, and turn your own self around at times of adversity.
Persuasion: Influencing Without Authority
At a time when leadership requires less emphasis on giving orders and more on building consensus, learn highly effective persuasion skills to master business-critical situations like one-on-one negotiations and driving change in your organization’s culture.
Strategy and Leadership in the Future of Work
Get equipped with the knowledge, skills, and tools to think about the strategic and leadership implications of decisions you will be making in the coming months and years.
The Strategic Leader Program: How to Excel as Your Responsibility Increases
Designed for leaders transitioning to senior executive roles, this program broadens your knowledge, perspective, and understanding of strategic leadership, equipping you to deal with the demands of the more complex and disruptive environment of tomorrow.
Women in Leadership: Expanding Influence and Leading Change
Designed to help elevate the impact of women leaders, this program teaches participants to better navigate the business landscape, leverage their talents, and step into roles of greater influence.
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