About

In today’s interconnected world, how can we lead and manage most effectively in the face of global challenges, crisis and disasters, funding constraints, and political and cultural tensions?  Navigating such crises can become a defining moment for public officials, private sector executives, community organizers, and others in leadership positions.

World-Renowned Instructors

The program is taught by world-renowned academics, researchers, and practitioners from Columbia University and Harvard University, including William Eimicke, Joseph Pfeifer, Joann Baney, Steven Cohen and Jeh Johnson, Mihir Mysore, and Daniel L. Shapiro. Leading with Impact also offers an exceptional opportunity for participants to expand their professional networks working with rising and accomplished executives from leading positions at corporations, government institutions, foundations, and international agencies from around the city and state of New York, and globally.

Objectives

This seven session intensive course offers a unique opportunity for mid- and senior-level managers from government, as well as from the private and non-profit sectors, to gain an in-depth understanding of core leadership skills needed to manage a crisis.  The course is specially designed into two-hour sessions for busy officials, executives and emergent leaders by having generally two live online sessions per week with other activities that can be completed at the participant's own pace.

The program will enhance participants’ ability to appreciate the complexity of managing large-scale organizations and events, not only from an operational viewpoint, but also from a policy and strategic perspective.

Areas Of Concentration:

Cross-Sector Collaboration - Develop effective multi-organization partnerships across sectors through interactive exercises to evaluate collaborative impact.

Crisis Leadership - Examine human performance in a crisis and how leaders get others to adapt to extreme events in a connected world.

Effective Negotiations - Improve negotiation skills by learning and practicing a five-point negotiation framework that turns emotional obstacles into assets.

Strategic Communications - Identify core messages to communicate to various audiences and practice delivering them in challenging circumstances.

Policy Influencing - Learn how to influence policy discussions and decision makers in complex conditions.

Managing Risk -  Discussion on how organization deal with risk, preparedness and resilience.

Enrollment

Schedule

Columbia University Online Executive Education