Driving Strategic Impact: The Strategy of Science…with Institute for Personal Leadership and Columbia Business School

Overview

Organized around the core skill of structured problem-solving, this executive education course takes leaders through four phases of a strategy project: defining the scope, structuring the problem, gathering and analyzing data, and developing recommendations. These core skills are supplemented with additional sessions on communication, managing strategy projects, and influencing skills.

Participants will learn to tackle complex, strategic problems in a structured, fact-based manner, learning how to derive insight from data and to go from insights to high impact, actionable recommendations.  The program combines real world case studies with scientifically-backed research to provide participants with a practical, proven toolkit they can apply Monday morning. Download printable course overview (pdf)

September 28-29, 2017 | 1.5 Days ($1,750)

  • “Driving Strategic Impact is the best course I have taken in years. It has become like the Bible for me. ”
     – Jero Anthony Omare-Ogah, Chief Operating Officer – Fortis Micro Finance Bank PLC

  • “A very complete, logical, and entertaining tour of a toolbox that can be leveraged by any business person. I would highly recommend this course to anyone wanting to improve their strategic problem-solving skills. I wish I had taken this course many years ago.”
     – Augusto Elias, Marketing Director – The Coca Cola Company

  • “The Role-plays in Driving Strategic Impact greatly strengthened what we learned during the program because this is a very personalized learning experience. Since the role-plays are a very low-risk exercise compared with the work environment we are in, we also tend to demonstrate our true behavior in a natural manner.”
     – Richard Sun, Sr. Technical Fellow – Chrysler Group

Who It’s For

Designed for senior leaders and emerging executives with significant management responsibility

Learning Outcomes

  • Rapidly identify core business issues and focus your problem-solving effort in the right direction
  • Efficiently gather the information to build a relevant fact base, extract information from internal and external source, and synthesize it to drive conclusions
  • Develop recommendations that provide the highest value to the organization
  • Create a compelling story line to organize and communicate your findings and recommendations

 

About the Facilitator

Angela Lee is an educator & entrepreneur.  As Associate Dean & Chief Innovation Officer at Columbia Business School, Angela teaches highly rated courses in strategy, leadership, and innovation.  Her corporate training clients include Pfizer, Microsoft, Bristol Myers Squibb, Amazon, Verizon, and Unilever.

Angela brings 20 years of business experience into the classroom.  She started her career in product management, and then moved onto consulting for Fortune 500 clients at McKinsey and a boutique innovation consulting firm.  Angela is a serial entrepreneur and has started 4 startups.  She is also the founder of 37 Angels, an angel network that invests in early stage startups and activates new angels through a month-long investing bootcamp.

Angela is a sought-after expert on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and Fox Business and is regularly featured in media outlets such as Forbes, Huffington Post, and Fast Company. Entrepreneur Magazine recognized Angela as one of Six Innovative Women to Watch in 2015 and Inc.com listed her as one of 17 Inspiring Women to Watch in 2017.

Agenda

  • Problem Definition: Establish a clear understanding of the problem you are solving and identify pitfalls you are likely to face at the start of a project
  • Problem Structuring: Rapidly penetrate to the core of a strategic issue so that you focus on the most critical areas
  • High-Impact Recommendations: Understand the difference between data analysis and insight and develop high-impact recommendations and how to address the tough questions that key stakeholders will ask
  • Synthesis and Storytelling: How to organize your ideas into a compelling story for any kind of communication – a casual conversation to a formal presentation.  Learn what matters in vocal and visual communication
  • Influence: How to bring your audience through the 4 stages of engagement and how to influence a team without direct authority
  • Enable Sustainable Change: Understand why do most personal, team and organizational change programs fail and how leaders should design a successful change program for their organization

Continuing Education Units (CEU)

At the conclusion of Green Room courses, the Leadership Louisville Center will provide the following documentation for CEU credit purposes: Date, record of individual attendance, course title and description, course/event agenda, facilitator bios, course hours, and educator signature.

The use of this seal confirms that the activities have met HR Certification Institute’s® (HRCI®) criteria for recertification credit pre-approval. This course has been approved by HRCI for 10 PDCs.

Approval is at the discretion of specific licensing boards or agencies. Leadership Louisville Center is a Human Resources Certification Institute (HRCI) and Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) approved provider.