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Leading with Impact: Skills for Complex Challenges

In today’s interconnected world, leaders face global crises, disasters, and funding constraints. Leading with Impact equips participants with the tools to prepare for, adapt to, and manage such complex challenges, and to inspire others to act. This executive education program offers practical frameworks for dealing with a wide range of topics for operating in diverse environments, and how to integrate tools of strategic communication, crisis management, political strategy, conflict mitigation, and collaboration. This two-day program brings together these interdisciplinary topics and leaves participants with new expertise they can deploy immediately for increased organizational impact.

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 March 20-21, 2024 
Time: (EST)
8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Format:
Blended
Tuition:
$2,350
 - Discount tuition rate available for groups
Application deadline:
March 8
Location:
Columbia University and Virtual
Payment deadline: 
March 11
Certificate of Participation:
Leading with Impact

Who Should Attend

Leading with Impact is designed for public officials and private sector executives in leadership positions.

Leadership Management Skills

“Leading with Impact” equips you with the tools to prepare for, adapt to, and manage such complex challenges, and to inspire others to act. This executive education program offers practical frameworks for dealing with a wide range of topics for operating in diverse environments, and how to integrate tools of strategic communication, crisis management, political strategy, conflict mitigation, and collaboration.  The program brings together these interdisciplinary topics and leaves participants with new expertise they can deploy immediately for increased organizational impact.

Professional Benefits

  • Earn a Columbia University awarded Certification of Participation.
  • Participate in customized education designed by expert faculty and practitioners.
  • Understand the forces of a crisis that affects human performance.
  • Implement strategies for managing difficult challenges such as climate change and homeland security. 
  • Set conditions for cross-sector collaboration and coordination.
  • Refine professional and interpersonal management skills. 
  • Acquire better self-awareness and responsiveness to others through simulations.
  • Improve the ability to make critical decisions under stressful conditions. 
  • Observe and develop one’s communication and negotiation styles.
  • Develop a lasting network of leaders from around the country and the world.
  • Access a large collection of faculty-selected readings on key leadership development topics.

Curriculum

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Learning Objectives

This 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 for busy officials, executives and emergent leaders by having an intense two-day session on the campus of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. This program will also be made available online.

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.

Program Format

The 2024 Leading with Impact executive education program will be hybrid, and will have an option to join the program online for participants unable to attend in-person.

Key Topics/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 of climate change security.
  • Managing Risk - Discuss how government and businesses identify and manage critical cyber, geopolitical, and other emerging strategic risks.

Special Program Features

– Case Studies

– Executive coaching

– Access to faculty

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   Schedule

  March 20, 2024
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Cross-Sector Collaboration William Eimicke
10:45 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Communicating in a Crisis Joann Baney
3:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Crisis Leadership Joseph Pfeifer
   
  March 21, 2024
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Adapting to Climate Change Steven Cohen
10:45 a.m – 3:00 p.m. Effective Negotiation Daniel Shapiro
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Risk Management Reid Sawyer
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Reception  
   
  Self-Paced Activities  
Pre-Recorded Lectures | Digital Case Studies | Online Discussions

World-Renowned Instructors

The program is taught by world-renowned academics, researchers, and practitioners from Columbia University and Harvard University, including William EimickeJoseph PfeiferJoann BaneySteven CohenReid Sawyer, 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, across the country, and globally.

Joann Baney teaches in the Executive MPA program at SIPA and the Executive MBA program at Columbia’s Graduate School of Business.

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Steven Cohen, Ph.D., is the Senior Vice Dean of Columbia’s School of Professional Studies and a Professor in the Practice of Public Affairs, Director on Sustainability Policy & Management, in the Earth Institute.

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William Eimicke, Ph.D., is a Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs and the founding director of the Picker Center for Executive Education at Columbia University.

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Joseph Pfeifer is an Adjunct Associate Professor at SIPA and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Pfeifer is a former FDNY Assistant Chief who led the response to extreme events.

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Reid Sawyer leads the strategy and delivery of Marsh’s cybersecurity consulting. He spent 20 years in the army and taught at SIPA and the US Military Academy.

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Daniel L. Shapiro, Ph.D. is the founder of the Harvard International Negotiation Program, serves as Associate Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and on the faculty at Harvard Law School.

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Quotes from Leading With Impact

“The information from the program is vital to my work and my scope of practice within my organization. I was able to capitalize on and leverage content from each session and apply it immediately. The course has also helped me in my personal life as there are things that I need to improve on both professionally and personally.”

“What an incredible opportunity. I now have multiple post-it notes pinned on my desk with little gems I have learned in this class that I have implemented in my program multiple times since! This is one of those classes that opens your mind to a higher level of thinking, operating and leading. This was a phenomenal class, and I have strongly recommended it for my teammates.”

“The session on Crisis Leadership with Joseph Pfeifer highlighted how, in a moment of crisis, you need to have the thought patterns for dealing with emergencies established going into it. It also highlighted how lessons from each crisis can move an agency or business into the future by forecasting similar events. The deeply personal insights, the constant interweaving of experience and theory, and the narrative structure of the course, were incredibly valuable. I will use the lessons learned and apply the insights we received from the Chief as I move forward in my emergency management - operations career.”

“Chief Pfeifer presented an unvarnished and personal look into his life as one of the top leaders in generations, through various high-profile and historic crises. His incredible candor was extremely moving and thought provoking and brought us to the center of the decision-making process. His ability to take a personal, professional, and national tragedy and extract tangible lessons for leaders to follow in future crises is really remarkable. The lessons he imprinted on us will stick with me for my entire career. “

“I really appreciated the discussion and specific examples around the value of cross-sector partnerships and social value investing. To tackle the major problems the world faces today, we must strategically combine and implement the best of all sectors. It was particularly interesting to hear how these principles can be applied and how both the public and private sector can bring something different to the table that can accelerate the path to innovative solutions. Discussion in the course offered insights into how my current work in the government could use PPPs to strengthen private involvement in our activities and plans.”

“The class on Effective Negotiations with Daniel Shapiro couldn't have come to me personally at a better time. As a new director of a program that coordinates two major entities (the FDNY and NYPD) - negotiations are KEY. I used the tactics that Dr. Shapiro detailed in a meeting the next day to make a key player feel heard in order to work through the issue based on our long-standing relationship. Later we were able to come to an agreement and plan to implement a time sensitive federal requirement.”

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Laura McCreedy

Manager of Executive Education

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