What You'll Learn
Leadership at the executive level involves unique demands and requires a unique skillset. To succeed, you must master empowering your teams to envision, create, and deliver products and services that distinguish your organization from the competition. And in the face of rapid changes to both the workforce and the workplace, where stagnancy is not an option, you must be open to adjusting your vision as well as your approach.
This powerful, interactive program will help you hone and sharpen your leadership style, skills, and vision. You will learn how to harness diverse ideas for exceptional outcomes, co-create a unifying organizational vision, build your personal leadership brand, and improve your ability to effectively influence others. This 4-part program will feature case discussions, peer learning, interactive exercises, reflection, and action planning.
Program Benefits
- Identify your unique leadership vision that promotes positive change and accelerates innovation
- Develop a deeper understanding of leadership presence and the importance of building a personal leadership brand
- Improve your ability to communicate, motivate, and influence more effectively across your entire organization in today’s hybrid workplace
- Harness the power of diversity of thought to develop a marketplace of ideas that can create growth and drive your business strategy
- Create a customized action plan to formulate, implement, and sustain your personal leadership vision and brand to ensure post-program success
- Earn a Certificate of Completion from the Harvard Division of Continuing Education
Topics Covered
- Principles of building leadership presence
- The George Authentic Leadership model and the tenets of leadership brand theory
- Building trust in your executive team
- Communication in the hybrid workplace
- Explicit and implicit persuasion, and influencing through charisma
- Leveraging idea diversity to drive collaboration and create competitive advantage
- Preparing for the future — leading change in yourself and others
Who Should Enroll
This program is specifically designed for C-Suite and executive-level leaders (vice president, general manager, director, etc.) with at least 15-20 years of experience and who are responsible for setting the business direction of the organization or a business unit, generating revenue, driving innovation, and leading cross-functional teams.
Considering this program?
May Schedule
Day 1: Your Leadership Brand and Presence
- Improving your leadership style and presence
- Understanding and developing your personal leadership brand
Day 2: Influence and Communication
- Influence through storytelling
- Explicit and implicit persuasion, and influencing through charisma
Day 3: The Power of Diverse Perspectives
- Using diversity of thought as a competitive advantage
- Creating and using diversity of ideas for increased innovation
- Establishing a safe and respectful space for your team to share their diverse ideas and individual perspectives
Note: By design, this day is tailored to emphasize the significance of diversity of thought, rooted in individual perspectives, backgrounds, life experiences, and more, without delving into topics of systemic inequalities and injustices based on race, gender, sexual orientation, nationalism, age, etc. and the challenges with relationships stemming from those inequities.
Day 4: Vision, Change – and Action!
- Establishing and communicating your vision
- Leading effective change
- Developing your personal action plan
August Schedule
Day 1: Your Leadership Brand and Presence
- Improving your leadership style and presence
- Understanding and developing your personal leadership brand
Day 2: Influence and Communication
- Influence through storytelling
- Explicit and implicit persuasion, and influencing through charisma
Day 3: The Power of Diverse Perspectives
- Using diversity of thought as a competitive advantage
- Creating and using diversity of ideas for increased innovation
- Establishing a safe and respectful space for your team to share their diverse ideas and individual perspectives
Note: By design, this day is tailored to emphasize the significance of diversity of thought, rooted in individual perspectives, backgrounds, life experiences, and more, without delving into topics of systemic inequalities and injustices based on race, gender, sexual orientation, nationalism, age, etc. and the challenges with relationships stemming from those inequities.
Day 4: Vision, Change – and Action!
- Establishing and communicating your vision
- Leading effective change
- Developing your personal action plan
Instructors
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![Laurie Pascal]()
Laurie Pascal
Laurie Pascal is a Senior Lecturer in Health Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she brings more than 30 years of industry experience in organizational behavior, strategy, and leadership into masters, doctoral, and executive education programs for clinical and administrative leaders. Her consulting work focuses on leadership and team development, organizational effectiveness and change, and facilitating strategic planning and implementation. -
![PDP Instructor Nick Morgan]()
Nick Morgan
Nick has written hundreds of articles for local and national publications, and appears frequently on radio and TV. Nick is a former Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. -
![Stacey Blake-Beard.]()
Stacy Blake-Beard
Stacy Blake-Beard is a renowned scholar, consultant, speaker, mentor, and coach. She is a faculty member at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Dr. Blake-Beard’s area of expertise is working with organizational leaders to identify challenges and opportunities associated with integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).
Instructors
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![Laurie Pascal]()
Laurie Pascal
Laurie Pascal is a Senior Lecturer in Health Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she brings more than 30 years of industry experience in organizational behavior, strategy, and leadership into masters, doctoral, and executive education programs for clinical and administrative leaders. Her consulting work focuses on leadership and team development, organizational effectiveness and change, and facilitating strategic planning and implementation. -
![PDP Instructor Nick Morgan]()
Nick Morgan
Nick has written hundreds of articles for local and national publications, and appears frequently on radio and TV. Nick is a former Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. -
![Stacey Blake-Beard.]()
Stacy Blake-Beard
Stacy Blake-Beard is a renowned scholar, consultant, speaker, mentor, and coach. She is a faculty member at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Dr. Blake-Beard’s area of expertise is working with organizational leaders to identify challenges and opportunities associated with integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).
Certificates of Leadership Excellence
The Certificates of Leadership Excellence (CLE) are designed for leaders with the desire to enhance their business acumen, challenge current thinking, and expand their leadership skills.
This program is one of several CLE qualifying programs. Register today and get started earning your certificate.
