IMPACT

Through 360-degree feedback, intensive one-on-one coaching, self-assessment tools, and small group work, you develop a realistic path to more effective leadership. You learn how to establish and communicate direction and inspiration that aligns people and objectives.

• Gain greater awareness of your leadership styles, strengths, and weaknesses
• Improve your style of leading and managing
• Strengthen your ability to lead and manage organizational innovation and change
• Develop more effective decision making skills
• Achieve better synergy in groups
• Build your understanding of national culture, organizational culture, and leadership implications
• Learn the art of giving and receiving feedback

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

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

Over six days, High Impact Leadership provides an opportunity for participants to explore and understand their leadership capabilities: strengths, weaknesses, and concrete ways to improve.

The curriculum includes readings, lectures, and discussions on a wide range of topics, including the makings of a great leader, emotional intelligence, organizational effectiveness and group dynamics, the value of self awareness and self management, and successful change management.

The program also includes Columbia Business School's 360 Assessment Tool that collects feedback from the participant, their peers, direct reports and supervisors.

Hear more about the tool from the faculty director and a recent past participant:

Participants emerge from the program with a clear sense of their own leadership style and a concrete direction for becoming a more inspirational, influential leader.

Sample Session Titles:

• Designing Organizations for High Performance and Stakeholder Trust
• Managerial Decision Making
• Managing Change: Exploring Underlying Assumptions
• Understanding Your Change Management Practices
• Leadership Styles
• Dimensions of Culture and Leader/Manager Behavior
• Self-Management and Leadership

For a complete program schedule download the agenda.

PARTICIPANT PROFILE & TESTIMONIALS

High Impact Leadership is designed for upper-level executives with at least 10 years of experience who seek to enhance their leadership skills and management effectiveness within the context of their organization.

Alumni and up to four of their colleagues are eligible for a 25 percent tuition benefit for programs lasting up to seven days. More on the Alumni Tuition Benefit.

Typical Participant Mix

Hear from Past Participants:

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Patrick Farrell

Head of Group Communications at the Bank of Ireland

"I developed a much higher sense of self awareness. Also, I was able to get insights from peers and from members of my organization about my leadership style which helped me realized how I can deliver more effective leadership. Back at the work, we then reorganized the company around a much smaller leadership team. We also started to focus much more on the business itself, while we had been more focused on the technical problems before. All of these insights were valuable takeaways from the program."

High-Impact Leadership: Participant Testimonial "Becoming a Good Listener"

Alex Dodoo

Director of the Public Sector at Fidelity Bank

Alex Dodoo talks about how Columbia Business School's High Impact Leadership program has helped him learn how to get buy-in of his team members and become a better listener.

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Jennifer Pikowski

Director of Project Management at EnvestnetSVP

“The amount of perspective I gained from this program was excellent. The level of support, engagement, camaraderie, and vulnerability shown within my sub-group was superb.”

High Impact Leadership: Participant Testimonial “Immersive Learning”

Durga Revankar

Senior Director of Product & Technology at Viacom

Durga Revankar, speaks to the immersiveness of attending a five-day program.

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Faisal AlSager

General Manager at Etisal International Company

"The High Impact Leadership program has become a very important turning point in my life. It has changed the way I look at leadership. I'll remember this program and the group I worked with every time I make an achievement in my leadership career."

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Deppie Tzimea

Director, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A

"It is a well balanced program in terms of presentations and small group work. It is brief and to the point and very relevant to a CXO's life. It really provides clarity to things that we know (more or less) in an extremely effective way."

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John Evbodaghe

Director, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN)

"The HIL program was an eye opener to me of how I understand myself when measured against the expectations of those I lead and who I report to. All that has changed as I am now how I am – a high impact leader."

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Patrick Farrell

Head of Group Communications at the Bank of Ireland

High-Impact Leadership: Participant Testimonial "Becoming a Good Listener"

Alex Dodoo

Director of the Public Sector at Fidelity Bank

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Jennifer Pikowski

Director of Project Management at EnvestnetSVP

High Impact Leadership: Participant Testimonial “Immersive Learning”

Durga Revankar

Senior Director of Product & Technology at Viacom

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Faisal AlSager

General Manager at Etisal International Company

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Deppie Tzimea

Director, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A

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John Evbodaghe

Director, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN)

FACULTY

Joel Brockner, Faculty Director
Phillip Hettleman Professor of Business

Joel Brockner is a leading authority on a variety of psychological issues in the workplace, including change management, leadership, decision-making, the role of the self, and cross-cultural differences in work behavior. He has consulted about the planning and implementation of significant organizational change, leadership development, and decision making with such organizations as the Association of Art Museum Curators, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, Citigroup, ConocoPhillips, Eastman Kodak, IXIS Capital Markets, MBNA, Pfizer, State Farm Insurance, Southern New England Telephone, and Stratus Technologies.

Brockner’s book publications cover decision making in "sunk cost" situations, causes and consequences of employees’ self esteem, and the role of justice in the workplace. He has published more than 100 articles and book chapters in a variety of prestigious outlets, including Harvard Business Review and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He has served on the editorial board of numerous management and psychology journals including the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Brockner is a fellow of the Academy of Management and of the American Psychological Association (Division of Industrial and Organizational Psychology). He served as the chairman of the management division from 2005 to 2011 at Columbia Business School.

Along with Professor Brockner, additional Columbia Business School faculty contribute to and teach in the program.