What You'll Learn
Senior leaders face an unprecedented number of challenges in today’s rapidly-changing business environment, from an evolving workforce to complex strategic issues. To succeed in this dynamic business environment, strategic leadership involves asking better questions, leveraging a diverse workforce, and addressing the complex problems our organizations face in new ways.
During this interactive 3-day program, you will build upon your proven leadership skills with new insights, frameworks and tools to inspire yourself and better lead your team and organization. Reflective exercises, a leadership assessment instrument, application activities, and case studies will help you work through modern-day dilemmas and solve problems using both critical and creative thinking. Small and large group discussions will focus on addressing the paradoxes of effective leadership at the executive level.
Program Benefits
- Examine what in organizational leadership is evolving — and what is remaining the same — and develop insight into how to address new and emerging senior leadership challenges
- Understand the multipliers and diminishers of effective leadership and how to evolve as senior leaders
- Build and sustain greater levels of motivation and trust through more strategic leadership
- Earn a Certificate of Completion from the Harvard Division of Continuing Education
Who Should Enroll
This program is intended for senior managers with at least 10 years of management experience and proven leadership skills who want to enhance their capabilities to lead at higher levels in the organization.
Topics Covered
- Leadership in today’s business world: what’s similar, what’s different, and why the stakes are higher
- Inspiring and motivating a diverse talent team
- Solving complex problems using both critical and creative thinking
- Managing modern-day dilemmas
- Addressing the tradeoffs, tensions, and dilemmas we face as senior leaders
- Future-proofing our organizations and ourselves
Considering this program?
December Schedule
Day 1
- Leading Through Turbulence and Change: The New Normal
- Strategic Self-Leadership
Day 2
- Strategic System Leadership: Becoming Future Ready
- Leading Through Relationships: Influence Beyond Authority
Day 3
- Forward-Facing Leadership: Envisioning the Future
- Strategic Decision Making: Realizing the Future
March Schedule
Day 1
- The New World of Work and Leading in the “New Normal”
- Strategic Self-Leadership — Part I
Day 2
- Strategic Self-Leadership — Part II
- Strategic People and Organizational Leadership
Day 3
- Strategic Problem-Solving
- Strategic Leadership for the Future — Ourselves, Others, Organizations
June Schedule
Day 1
- The New World of Work and Leading in the “New Normal”
- Strategic Self-Leadership — Part I
Day 2
- Strategic Self-Leadership — Part II
- Strategic People and Organizational Leadership
Day 3
- Strategic Problem-Solving
- Strategic Leadership for the Future — Ourselves, Others, Organizations
Instructor
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Eric J. McNulty
Eric J. McNulty is Associate Director and Program Faculty at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) at Harvard University. He is an instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where he teaches leadership, negotiation, and conflict resolution. Drawing on research in areas from applied neuroscience to psychology to organizational behavior, McNulty has helped leaders navigate transformational change, crisis, and the demands of everyday business.
Instructor
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Margaret Andrews
Margaret Andrews is a seasoned executive, academic leader, speaker, and instructor with over thirty years of professional experience. She has held a variety of senior management positions and has taught, spoken, and consulted across the globe. She creates and teaches a variety of courses and professional and executive programs at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education.
Instructor
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![Margaret Andrews]()
Margaret Andrews
Margaret Andrews is a seasoned executive, academic leader, speaker, and instructor with over thirty years of professional experience. She has held a variety of senior management positions and has taught, spoken, and consulted across the globe. She creates and teaches a variety of courses and professional and executive programs at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education.
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.
