By some estimates, up to 80% of all strategies — however brilliant — never generate their intended results. Rather than describing these disappointments as ‘failures of execution,’ leaders can mold both themselves and their organizations to successfully address the gap between strategy and results.

To achieve this agility, organizations require leaders who are perceptive, comfortable with their various roles, and clear about their path to value.

In this program, you will learn more about these key skills and acquire the 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.

For a complete program schedule download the agenda.

Please Contact Us

Please contact our Learning Solutions Specialists at +1 212-854-3395 for a personal conversation to learn more.

IMPACT

This program will help you become a strategic leader who inspires and motivates others to take risky, time-sensitive actions in pursuit of valuable goals. Program participants will walk away knowing how to:

• Foster agility at the leadership, resource, organizational, and strategic levels
• Build confidence and competence to drive results and accountability
• Link strategy directly to action, using both dominant and ambidextrous capabilities
• Leverage culture and data to be adaptive; making timely adjustments in key behaviors
• Test power dynamics and learn effective communications techniques

Upon completion of this program, you will earn three credits towards a Certificate with select alumni and tuition benefits. Learn more.

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

PLEASE NOTE: The upcoming iterations of this program will take place in a live, virtual setting. See the agenda. You may also view the in-person program schedule for when our in-person programming resumes.

The three-part program is structured around three key capabilities demonstrated by leaders of agile organizations.

Part 1: Agile Leadership Mindset

• Become aware of changes in situations, circumstances, and relationships and be unbiased and clear-sighted about personal and organizational feedback.

Part 2: Agile Leadership Skills

• Find, recognize, and use incoming information to update assumptions and adjust behaviors.
• Communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders in text, symbols, actions, and other means and paint a clear picture of what is happening and what needs to be done — in a language the target audience can understand.

Part 3: Agile Leadership Potential

• Set targets with clear consequences for gaps between desired and actual performance.
• Develop strength in areas other than your dominant processes and have the ability to support multiple different processes when appropriate.

For a complete program schedule download the agenda.

PARTICIPANT PROFILE & TESTIMONIAL

Typical Participant Mix

This program is designed for:

• Leaders of departments and divisions
• Senior decision makers in growth-focused firms
• Aspiring leaders for whom uncertainty and complexity pose obstacles to advancement
• Managers seeking to support their teams to outperform rivals and delight customers
• Team leaders and individuals tasked with ambitious performance goals



Columbia Business School alumni and up to four of their colleagues are eligible for a 25 percent tuition benefit for this program. More on the Alumni Tuition Benefit.

 

Hear from Past Participants:

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Diego MacKee

Digital General Manager at DXC.Technology

"Every leader aiming at becoming successful in an agile environment should equip themselves with the right tools and mindset. This is exactly what you get at Columbia University."

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Atchara Juicharern

Managing Director at AcComm & Image International Co., Ltd.

"A well-structured program with great and clear examples from the instructors. The course is built with various group activities that allow participants to also learn from each other. The diverse participants in the group generated valuable and constructive strategic and operational discussions"

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Scott Garwood

Senior Manager at Lockheed Martin

"The powerful combination of Trish Gorman and Rita McGrath provides participants of this program the key tools to improving their leadership. The program structure and the action-oriented break-out sessions with industry-leading peers helps me refine my personal action plan."

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Teresa Reyes

Vice President of Operations at Tigo Colombia - Millicom

"This program has been extremely useful. It has provided me with a set of tools that I will be able to leverage in my organization and that will increase the probabilities of success in our business transformation."

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Diego MacKee

Digital General Manager at DXC.Technology

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Atchara Juicharern

Managing Director at AcComm & Image International Co., Ltd.

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Scott Garwood

Senior Manager at Lockheed Martin

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Teresa Reyes

Vice President of Operations at Tigo Colombia - Millicom

FACULTY

Trish Gorman, Faculty Director
Founder and Chief Executive at KEA Skills
Managing Director at Goff Strategic Leadership Center

Trish Gorman is a strategy expert and consultant and the founder of the online assessment firm, KEA Skills. She serves as an advisor to various corporate and institutional educational programs and is a subject matter expert for selected early-stage investors and entrepreneurs. At Columbia Business School Executive Education, Gorman is also the co-faculty director of the Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship (Online) program as well as program and faculty director of custom client programs.

In her teaching, Gorman connects cutting-edge research with management priorities and decisions to build individual and organizational strategy skills, taking executives on a journey from the classroom to the team room to the board room. She has a long history of working with organizations like McKinsey & Company and Deloitte and has written for publications like Harvard Business Review and Forbes.

Rita McGrath
Faculty at Executive Education , Columbia Business School Executive Education

Rita McGrath is a globally recognized expert on strategy, innovation, and growth. Her work and ideas help CEO's and senior executives succeed in rapidly changing and volatile environments, and she is valued for her rare ability to connect research to business problems. Recognized as one of the top 10 management thinkers by global management award Thinkers50 and winning the award for outstanding achievement in the strategy category, McGrath speaks regularly at corporate events, such as the Microsoft CEO Summit and the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. She appears regularly on television and radio and is often cited in the press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, and Businessweek and has published several articles in the Harvard Business Review. McGrath is the co-author of three books in addition to her latest book, The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast As Your Business (Harvard Business Review Press). She has also been named one of the top ten business school professors to follow on Twitter, and was named one of the 25 smartest women to follow on Twitter by Fast Company magazine.

Shiva Rajgopal
Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing
Columbia Business School

Shiva Rajgopal is the Kester and Byrnes Professor at Columbia Business School. A highly regarded academic, Shiva is one of the world’s leading experts on measuring how well managers serve as responsible stewards of the corporation’s resources. He is perhaps best known for his finding that around 40 percent of Chief Financial Officers would sacrifice a positive net present value project to meet quarterly analyst consensus earnings estimate. Apart from conducting pioneering research on short-termism, Shiva's extensive body of academic and practitioner focused work covers a wide range of contemporary issues in financial reporting and governance such as accounting restatements, frauds, SEC enforcement actions, efficacy of board and executive compensation schemes in delivering shareholder value, whistle blowing, and the paramount importance of corporate culture as an under-appreciated economic asset of the firm. He has wide-ranging experience in solving applied business problems with global private equity funds, leading insurance companies, financial services firms, hedge funds, and cyber security ratings agencies. His work has been featured extensively in the Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Barrons, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes and The Economist.

Along with Trish Gorman, Rita McGrath, and Shiva Rajgopal, additional Columbia Business School faculty may contribute to and teach in the program.

FAQ

 
Do you have questions about our live online programs? Please review our commonly asked questions on our live online programs FAQs page.