Leadership & Strategy
Leadership & Strategy
Overview
Courses
Strategic Leadership
Prepare to lead transformational change in your organization. Develop the perspective to lead strategically by assessing your opportunities in the competitive environment, developing and implementing strategy with a focus on a constantly changing future, and aligning your organization around the fundamental pillars of strategy, leadership, and culture. These live sessions will be held 8:30-11:45am Eastern.
Leading With Analytics
Data analytics is key to long-term viability but requires more than technological investments alone. It demands leaders who can confidently build organizations that embrace and communicate through data. This course helps you emerge from the information overload and help your organization claim ownership of its data. Through in-depth case studies and interactive discussions, you'll learn tools and techniques that strategically capture, analyze, and apply data to decision-making.
Implementing Strategy for Success
Develop an integrated approach to strategy implementation and change management. Build strategic thinking abilities, decision-making acumen, change management awareness, and influencing skills. Maximize your skills to drive organizational performance and growth.
Communication Strategy for Leaders
Today’s workplace offers a complex variety of modes through which leaders communicate critical concepts, ideas, and strategic messages. This program offers a unique design that brings together multiple faculty experts who will help you explore effective strategies for communicating strategic vision up, down, and across the organization, with particular focus on channel selection, message authenticity, and communicating across generations.
Leading for Results
It is critical for leaders to understand how business decisions impact financial results and how constraints shape business decisions. All too often, operational leaders and strategic decision-makers are siloed from their counterparts in finance. This program focuses on connecting business decisions with their financial consequences and views finance as an operational element of a successful organization. As you gain familiarity with the tools and techniques of managerial accounting, you will begin to deploy finance to empower your business decisions.
The faculty balance institutional knowledge and real world experience. Tying this all together is incredibly important. This made all of the difference.Seth Doman, Director, New Holland Parts & Service Sales, New Holland Corporate of North America
Our Faculty Directors
This portfolio is designed by faculty directors from the Penn State Smeal College of Business. They are executive faculty whose world-class research and industry involvement has created significant change within the private and public sectors. They have applied their expertise to design Executive Programs that balance visionary strategies and actionable results.