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    Ascending the Peak: Finding the Leader Within—Virtual

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    Ascending the Peak: Finding the Leader Within—Virtual
    • Dates: TBD
    • Format: Virtual
    • Fee: TBD

      • The program fee covers tuition, e-books, and online case materials.

      This program includes live online classes, self-paced work, and discussion groups. Download brochure for detailed schedule.
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    Summary

    Today's organizations need men and women who can lead with courage and conviction through challenging times and toward worthy, positive change. Each session of this live online program will explore the tools, behaviors, insights, and self-awareness of iconic leaders, how they used these assets toward powerful ends, and how they brought those they led along in pursuit of their respective missions. You will leave the program with an array of actionable learning outcomes, including the development of your own personal leadership plan.

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    Summary

    Today's organizations need men and women who can lead with courage and conviction through challenging times and toward worthy, positive change. Each session of this live online program will explore the tools, behaviors, insights, and self-awareness of iconic leaders, how they used these assets toward powerful ends, and how they brought those they led along in pursuit of their respective missions. You will leave the program with an array of actionable learning outcomes, including the development of your own personal leadership plan.

    Key Benefits
    Ascending the Peak: Finding the Leader Within—Virtual is for mid-career professionals ready to advance their organization—and career—with greater purpose and focus. By concentrating on eight leaders throughout history and how each of these women and men made themselves better, you will gain inspiration to be your best self as you build a tool box of specific action-oriented behaviors and perspectives to help you get there. Through live engagement with renowned Harvard Business School faculty and feedback from a global community of fellow leaders, you'll acquire the insights and skills to enhance your leadership capabilities while making a real, positive difference in the world.

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    Discover your leadership styleDiscover your leadership style
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    • Build upon your self-awareness and enhance your own resilience, courage, and self-discipline
    • Learn to lead with conviction through challenging times
    • Develop a personal leadership plan that will enrich and strengthen the way in which you lead long after the course ends
    Lead organizational changeLead organizational change
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    • Increase your ability to work effectively with others in pursuit of your organization's mission
    • Obtain the tools to continue growing your leadership capabilities
    Expand your personal and professional networkExpand your personal and professional network
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    • Extend your network by connecting and working with accomplished directors from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe
    • Build relationships with a diverse group of peers, who can provide wide-ranging insights into your personal leadership possibilities as well as the business challenges and career decisions you face

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    Ascending the Peak: Finding the Leader Within—Virtual is for mid-career professionals ready to advance their organization—and career—with greater purpose and focus. By concentrating on eight leaders throughout history and how each of these women and men made themselves better, you will gain inspiration to be your best self as you build a tool box of specific action-oriented behaviors and perspectives to help you get there. Through live engagement with renowned Harvard Business School faculty and feedback from a global community of fellow leaders, you'll acquire the insights and skills to enhance your leadership capabilities while making a real, positive difference in the world.
    Details

    Discover your leadership style

    • Build upon your self-awareness and enhance your own resilience, courage, and self-discipline
    • Learn to lead with conviction through challenging times
    • Develop a personal leadership plan that will enrich and strengthen the way in which you lead long after the course ends

    Lead organizational change

    • Increase your ability to work effectively with others in pursuit of your organization's mission
    • Obtain the tools to continue growing your leadership capabilities

    Expand your personal and professional network

    • Extend your network by connecting and working with accomplished directors from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe
    • Build relationships with a diverse group of peers, who can provide wide-ranging insights into your personal leadership possibilities as well as the business challenges and career decisions you face

    Who Should Attend

    • Mid-career professionals who are looking to identify and hone their leadership style while accessing the tools and techniques to turn organizational challenges into opportunities for positive change.
    • Emerging senior leaders who are searching to enhance their capabilities and capacity to work effectively with others.

    Attendance by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the program's impact on your organization.

    Program for Leadership Development participants earn 2 PLDA Points on completion of this program.

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    • Mid-career professionals who are looking to identify and hone their leadership style while accessing the tools and techniques to turn organizational challenges into opportunities for positive change.
    • Emerging senior leaders who are searching to enhance their capabilities and capacity to work effectively with others.

    Attendance by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the program's impact on your organization.

    Program for Leadership Development participants earn 2 PLDA Points on completion of this program.

    Leaders in Virtual Learning

    This program features sessions in the HBS Live Online Classroom.

    Just as HBS pioneered the case study method, we also built the first live online classroom in 2014 and have been refining and optimizing our virtual program experience ever since. In a world that is now centered around virtual connection, our programs reflect the input and experience of tens of thousands of participants.

    When you participate in a virtual HBS Executive Education program, you benefit from a powerful learning experience carefully designed with a virtual setting in mind. Through live, synchronous program sessions you'll engage directly with our renowned faculty to learn from their latest research, gain actionable takeaways, and facilitate your growth. In addition, virtual discussion groups will connect you to a global group of peers and build your network.

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    Virtual Programs for Agile Organizations
    Help your organization understand why there is no better time to prioritize learning & development.
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    The Harvard Business School Live Online Classroom
    This program brings the case method to life virtually in our real-time, interactive online classr...
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    Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs
    Four participants of our live online programs share their experiences.
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    Leaders in Virtual Learning

    This program features sessions in the HBS Live Online Classroom.

    Just as HBS pioneered the case study method, we also built the first live online classroom in 2014 and have been refining and optimizing our virtual program experience ever since. In a world that is now centered around virtual connection, our programs reflect the input and experience of tens of thousands of participants.

    When you participate in a virtual HBS Executive Education program, you benefit from a powerful learning experience carefully designed with a virtual setting in mind. Through live, synchronous program sessions you'll engage directly with our renowned faculty to learn from their latest research, gain actionable takeaways, and facilitate your growth. In addition, virtual discussion groups will connect you to a global group of peers and build your network.

    Dive Deeper into the Experience
    head and shoulder images of people in polygon shapes connected to a laptop with the HBS shield in the center
    Virtual Programs for Agile Organizations
    Help your organization understand why there is no better time to prioritize learning & development.
    Learn More
    hbx live studio
    The Harvard Business School Live Online Classroom
    This program brings the case method to life virtually in our real-time, interactive online classr...
    Learn More
    Youngme Moon teaching in the HBSonline studio
    Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs
    Four participants of our live online programs share their experiences.
    Read Their Stories

    Admissions Criteria and Process

    We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities.
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    Answering Your Questions

    Our Program Advising team can help you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning and development goals. Contact a program advisor via email or call 1.800.427.5577 (outside the U.S., call +1.617.495.6555).

    Application Submission

    We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. HBS maintains all application information in strict confidentiality. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email us at exed_admissions@hbs.edu or call us at +1.617.495.6226.

    Application Review

    To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review applications monthly and will contact you via email with the Admissions Committee's decision.

    Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

    The program fee covers tuition, e-books, and online case materials. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. Payment is required prior to the program start date. If you need to cancel or defer participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment.

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    Admissions Criteria and Process Dropdown down

    We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities.

    Answering Your Questions

    Our Program Advising team can help you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning and development goals. Contact a program advisor via email or call 1.800.427.5577 (outside the U.S., call +1.617.495.6555).

    Application Submission

    We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. HBS maintains all application information in strict confidentiality. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email us at exed_admissions@hbs.edu or call us at +1.617.495.6226.

    Application Review

    To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review applications monthly and will contact you via email with the Admissions Committee's decision.

    Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

    The program fee covers tuition, e-books, and online case materials. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. Payment is required prior to the program start date. If you need to cancel or defer participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment.
    Program content, dates, schedule, fees, technology platforms, and faculty are subject to change. In accordance with Harvard University policy, Harvard Business School does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex or sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, veteran status, or disability in admission to, access to, treatment in, or employment in its programs and activities.
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    Program Advising team
    Email: executive_education@hbs.edu
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    Email: executive_education@hbs.edu
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