Leadership Programs
To create and sustain business success, leaders must establish a vision for the future, inspire colleagues—and drive both incremental and radical change. Focusing on a leader's role in a specific context, each program below offers insights and tools that enable you to become a stronger leader, able to build an organization that can overcome significant challenges and achieve business goals through change.
High Potentials Leadership Program
Join other emerging leaders as you prepare to expand your responsibilities and tackle formidable business challenges. This offering is designed to help you to take charge, embrace wider responsibility, and succeed in increasingly complex roles. You will discover how successful executives lead change under pressure, build effective teams, and develop talent throughout the organization.
PROGRAM FACULTY: Julie Battilana, Linda A. Hill (faculty chair), John P. Kotter, Joshua D. Margolis, Anthony J. Mayo
Leadership Best Practices
Examining the leadership best practices that differentiate world-class companies, this program helps you become a stronger, more impactful leader. Join senior executives to discuss the latest thinking on leadership, while exploring topics ranging from organizational transformation and corporate change to authentic leadership and personal leadership development. You will be prompted to examine your approach and consider new leadership strategies.
PROGRAM FACULTY: Niall Ferguson, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, John P. Kotter, Nitin Nohria, W. Earl Sasser (faculty chair), Guhan Subramanian, Eric J. Van den Steen
Leadership for Senior Executives
Exploring the many ways personal leadership style can affect a business, this program empowers you to lead with vision and confidence. You will improve your capacity to manage, drive employee and customer satisfaction, and accelerate profits as you examine the role leadership plays in the performance of your team and in your own development. You emerge with strategies and insights that help you unleash a leadership culture across your organization.
PROGRAM FACULTY: Linda A. Hill, Anthony J. Mayo, W. Earl Sasser (faculty chair)
Leadership Reflections and Insights
Emphasizing introspection and personal discovery, this program enables you to fulfill and expand your emerging leadership potential. Through self-assessment tools and experiential learning, you examine your strengths and weaknesses while exploring best practices of extraordinary leaders. Delivering proven techniques and greater confidence, the program helps you manage your team more effectively and lead in the midst of adversity and change.
PROGRAM FACULTY: Linda A. Hill (faculty chair), Joshua D. Margolis, Anthony J. Mayo
The Women's Leadership Forum
Bringing together an elite group of successful women executives, this premier forum focuses on the link between innovation and leadership. As you explore leadership best practices and exchange ideas with HBS faculty and peers from around the world, you acquire new strategies for creating environments that foster and sustain innovation. You will return to work prepared to inspire your colleagues, act with confidence, and lead with lasting impact.
PROGRAM FACULTY: Julie Battilana, Anita Elberse, Robin J. Ely, Janice H. Hammond (faculty chair), Myra M. Hart, Nancy F. Koehn, Karim R. Lakhani, Ilene H. Lang, Kathleen L. McGinn
The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
Programs, dates, fees, and faculty are subject to change.
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