The Leadership Edge: Strategies for the New Leader

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- The Leadership Edge: Strategies for the New Leader
San Francisco
$8,500

New levels of leadership demand new skills. To excel as you transition into management, you will need a clear vision of your strengths, and how to build on them; your team, and how to lead them to high performance; and your competitive landscape, and how to address the opportunities and challenges facing your organization and your industry. It is this broad-based vision that will drive superior decision making and execution.

The Leadership Edge: Strategies for the New Leader will give you the tools you need in your new position. Taught by faculty who teach the core content in Wharton's MBA program and experts who work with high-performing teams such as NASA astronauts and US Naval Academy officers, the program will help you develop the personal leadership skills that will make a positive impact now and throughout your career.

Tuition includes meals, but not lodging. Prices are subject to change. Program Consultants are available to provide more information on course specifics and discuss how this program might meet your needs. Please contact them by e-mail or by telephone at +1 215.898.1776. Plan your stay in Philadelphia or San Francisco.


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The Leadership Edge uses a range of approaches to help you advance your leadership capabilities. A combination of lectures, group discussions and projects, assessments, networking, and experiential learning will ensure that you acquire and are able to test key concepts and skills.

Selected Leadership Edge Session Topics:

  • Identifying your preferred leadership style
  • Understanding and managing conflict
  • Leading with emotional intelligence
  • Building organizational culture
  • Conducting After-Action Reviews
  • Managing growth

Coaching teams for high-performance results

As a participant, you will become part of a diverse learning community. The program is designed to leverage the extensive experience and knowledge from participants, and to create a new peer network that can provide guidance and support after you complete The Leadership Edge.

The Leadership Edge: Strategies for the New Leader is designed for those who have recently transitioned into the broader responsibilities of a leadership role, and for those who anticipate such a transition. This includes executives with a technical or scientific background and entrepreneurs leading their organizations into new phases of growth. Participants represent a wide range of organizations, from multi-nationals to startups, and include for-profit, governmental, and non-profit organizations. Their areas of expertise are diverse, and they come from a variety of industries, regions, and cultures.

We encourage companies to send cross-functional teams of executives to leverage the application and value of the program. Additional group benefits are available when four or more participants attend a program.

The Leadership Edge will strengthen your leadership capabilities by deepening your knowledge of yourself, your team, and your work environment. You will develop a wider context in which to make decisions, and be better equipped to navigate critical leadership challenges ahead.

Nancy_Rothbard NANCY ROTHBARD, PhD
Faculty Director
David Pottruck Associate Professor of Management
The Wharton School

Nancy Rothbard is an award-winning expert in work motivation, teamwork, work-life balance and leadership, Dr. Rothbard was previously on the faculty of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University and holds degrees from Brown University and the University of Michigan. She has published her research in top academic research journals in her field and her work has been discussed in the general media in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Business Week, CNN, Forbes, National Public Radio, US News & World Report, and The Washington Post.

Dr. Rothbard has helped some of the world’s premier companies change their approaches to teamwork, leadership, and work motivation. Among other projects, she has worked with a Fortune 100 company to understand the factors that improve call center performance and customer service, a leading hotel chain to transform sales and hiring, financial service organizations to optimize their leadership and approach to sales.
Jeff Klein JEFF KLEIN
Learning Director
Director, Graduate Leadership Program
Director, Wharton Leadership Ventures
The Wharton School

Jeff Klein is the Director of the Wharton Leadership Program and a Lecturer at the Wharton School and the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. As Director, Jeff is responsible for the portfolio of curricular and co-curricular leadership development programs available to Wharton MBA students and for directing the School's efforts to create the Wharton Global Leadership Institute. He teaches an interdisciplinary graduate level course at the University of Pennsylvania that focuses on cross-sector collaboration, and serves as a strategic advisor to the Global Partnerships Forum. In addition, Jeff designs and delivers leadership workshops and courses for executive clients through Wharton Executive Education. As a Learning Director, Jeff leads two weeklong executive courses, Creating and Leading High Performing Teams and The Leadership Edge. He also instructs in many open-enrollment and corporate custom programs, including Wharton's Executive Development Program.

Jeff is an honors graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (MBA) and Penn State University (BA, BS), and is currently a doctoral student studying educational leadership. Prior to his current career as a scholar and practitioner, Jeff held a variety of roles at AT&T and its cable unit, AT&T Broadband, including as a product CFO and Executive Director of Financial Planning and Analysis.
Sigal_Barsade SIGAL G. BARSADE, PhD
Joseph Frank Bernstein Professor of Management
The Wharton School

Dr. Barsade is an award winning researcher and teacher whose academic expertise enables her to integrate cutting edge research tools and knowledge into her consulting practice. She has published in the top academic research journals in her field, and is often interviewed by, and had her research referenced in, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Week, Time Magazine, US News & World Report, International Herald Tribune, Forbes, LA Times, Oprah Magazine, Fast Company, Slate, ABC News, and other news outlets.

Dr. Barsade has consulted to many large corporations such as Del Monte, GlaxoSmithKline, Levi Strauss, Merrill Lynch, the NBA, Oxford Health Plans, State Farm Insurance, and Wyndham Worldwide, public and not for profit corporations such as Philadelphia Gas Works, as well as to small entrepreneurial organizations. The focus of her consulting practice and research has been on organizational culture, emotional intelligence, organizational change, teamwork, leadership and top management, and group dynamics.
todd henshaw TODD HENSHAW, PhD
Director, Wharton Executive Leadership Programs

Todd Henshaw currently serves as Director of Executive Leadership Programs at Wharton. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Field Artillery at the US Military Academy at West Point in May of 1985 and has since served in a variety of command and leadership positions. He earned his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995, concentrating on strategy, organizational culture, and executive leadership. He went on to complete a PhD in business at the University of Kansas in 2003, which examined the impact of organizational culture on leader development and behavior. And in 2005, Todd received a degree in Columbia University's Advanced Organization Development and Human Resources Management Program.

Returning to West Point in 2003, he designed and directed the new Eisenhower Leader Development Program, a graduate program offered in conjunction with Teacher's College, Columbia University. He also directed West Point's leadership and management programs, growing enrollment five-fold the first year and initiating the program's progress toward AACSB accreditation. He has served as Academy Professor and Director of Military Leadership at West Point and as director for its core course in leadership.
Ethan Mollick ETHAN MOLLICK, PhD
Edward B. and Shirley R. Shils Assistant Professor of Management
The Wharton School

Ethan Mollick studies entrepreneurship and management in innovative industries, and the innovation process itself.  He is the co-author of Changing the Game: How Videogames are Transforming the Future of Business, and his research includes papers on the role of founding team members in the success of start ups; the way in which communities of users come together to innovate; and the factors that drive the performance of entrepreneurial companies.

Dr. Mollick cofounded a company and has worked as a management consultant with organizations ranging from DARPA to General Mills on topics of innovation and entrepreneurship. He currently teaches the Introduction to Entrepreneurship class at Wharton, Management 801.