KEY BENEFITS• Create your distinctive, authentic leadership

narrative

• Develop your own personal leadership action plan

• Leverage executive coaching to help you improve as a leader

• Identify development opportunities and gain perspective about your leadership utilizing a pre-program feedback assessment tool

• Master frameworks, tools, and practices to help you become an effective leader at the highest organizational levels

WHO SHOULD ATTEND• High-potential mid- to senior-level executives

• Executives preparing for general management, cross-functional, or enterprise leadership roles

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Today’s demanding global environment requires those in leadership roles to possess a sense of self-awareness and self-management. Executives growing into this kind of enterprise leadership role are best served by embracing a comprehensive leadership mindset, lived out in behaviors and practices that help them to be the most effective leaders possible.

This unique program provides an intensive leadership development experience designed to help you fully leverage your own “best leader” capabilities. Through an in-depth exploration of self-awareness, self-management, mindset, feedback, influence, judgment, character, resilience and executive presence, you will develop the proficiency needed to propel your organization and your career forward. In addition to refining your personal leadership practices, you will leave with your own personal action plan for maximizing your impact.

The Leader Within Maximizing Your Authentic Leadership Impact

May 17–22, 2020 // $10,350

September 13–18, 2020 // $10,350

Your program fee includes accommodations, meals, course materials and access to a fitness center. Dates and program fees are subject to change.

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION LEADERSHIP

Consult with an Executive Development Advisor

execed@kellogg.northwestern.edu

847.467.6018

Learn more and apply

kell.gg/kxlsphere

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THE FACULTY

LSPHERE2020R-SUM

Robert Hughes Academic Director; Clinical Assistant Professor of Executive Education; Senior Program Director of Executive Education

Gail BergerAssistant Professor of Instruction, School of Education and Social Policy

Jim CohenFounding Principal, Spark; Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer, HERE Life, LLC

Tim FeddersenWendell Hobbs Professor of Managerial Politics, Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences

Fred HarburgClinical Professor of Executive Education

Dan McAdamsHenry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology, School of Education and Social Policy

Loran NordgrenAssociate Professor of Management & Organizations

Brooke VuckovicAdjunct Lecturer of Leadership Coaching, Management & Organizations

Please note: Faculty is subject to change.

The Leader Within Maximizing Your Authentic Leadership Impact

PROGRAM CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS

For this intensive, highly

personalized learning

experience, Kellogg has

convened a faculty of academic

experts and experienced

practitioners who will equip

you with the tools, insights,

frameworks and inspiration to

reach your leadership potential

and grow your impact.

Consult with an Executive Development Advisor

execed@kellogg.northwestern.edu

847.467.6018

Learn more and apply

kell.gg/kxlsphere

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Maximizing Your Leadership Impact

• Assess your leadership landscape to identify individual and organizational leadership opportunities and needs

• Refine your own compelling, authentic leadership narrative and understand how to harness the power of narrative identity

• Explore executive judgment and its importance in effective leadership

Leading with Confidence and Impact

• Cultivate the leader’s mindset — how to increase awareness and focus for individual and organizational growth

• Deepen your understanding of executive judgment

• Integrate the dimensions of presence that typify strong, warm leaders at their best

• Learn techniques to assess and strengthen values-based character competencies

• Gain insights into emotional and intellectual toughness in demanding situations

• Understand how leaders use feedback as a powerful tool for individual and team growth

• Leverage the power of communication and executive presence

YOUR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

The program is held on the beautiful lakefront campus of Northwestern University at the James L. Allen Center, minutes from downtown Chicago.

“ [I discovered] lots of actionable ideas that will help me in my journey to become an even better leader. This course gave me many areas to self-reflect on how to take my leadership profile to the next level.” Executive Director, Merck & Co.

The Leader WithinMaximizing Your Authentic Leadership ImpactACADEMIC DIRECTOR: Bob Hughes

Consult with an Executive Development Advisor

execed@kellogg.northwestern.edu 847.467.6018

SAMPLE SCHEDULE

NEXT STEPS

Learn more and apply

kell.gg/kxlsphere

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION LEADERSHIP

Northwestern University reserves the right to change without notice any statement in this publication concerning, but not limited to, rules, policies, tuition, fees, curricula and courses. This includes the right to cancel a program at any time for any reason. In case of a cancellation, the university is not responsible for any travel or other related expenses accrued by the program registrant.

MORNING SESSIONS

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

EVENING SESSION

LUNCH

DINNER

DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 4 DAY 6DAY 3 DAY 5

Program Introduction

Hughes

Emotional Intelligence

Summers Feedback in 3D

Hughes

Individual Coaching/

Individual Class Preparation

Group Coaching: My Present Self

Strengthening Executive Judgment

Harburg

Free Evening

Group Coaching: My Future Self

Executive Coaches

Free Evening

Leading Under Pressure (Cont'd) Feddersen

Becoming an Author of Your LifeMcAdams

Integrated Session:

Feedback in 3D & Communication

with 3 C’s Berger & Hughes

The Necessary

Art of Persuasion

Nordgren

Executive PresenceVuckovic

Program Evaluations/

Share Individual Leadership Narratives

Free Evening Free Evening

Reflection Point #3: My Future

Self Preparation Hughes

Integrated Session (Cont'd) Berger & Hughes

Reflection Point #2Hughes

Reflection Point #1Hughes

Leading Under Pressure

Feddersen

Learning from FailureRaider