Executive Leadership

Development
Program Dates and Application Deadline: See website for details
PROGRAM DETAILS
In-Person Program: $14,500
Live Online Program: $9,800

Program tuition includes private accommodations, all meals, and course materials. “Simply put, Stanford
OVERVIEW University’s Executive
Executive Leadership Development prepares you to take the helm — to analyze critically, Leadership Development
lead confidently, and articulate strategically. Learn to lead with confidence in this rigorous
general managment program for executives on the verge of achieving even greater things.
program, is a game
This comprehensive, experiential program encompasses analysis to action — with an
changer. The course will
emphasis on the action. It’s a unique blend of intensive learning, immersive lectures, on- teach you things about
the-job challenges, and personal leadership development. Hone your leadership style and
effectiveness with 360º assessments and one-on-one coaching. Learn design thinking with
yourself that you were
real, hands-on challenges. Study the art of negotiation by actually negotiating. Manage a never cognizant of prior
hypothetical crisis with team role-playing sessions. Then, return to work with a 100-day
action plan that focuses on implementation and impact. to the sessions, while
TWO WAYS TO EXPERIENCE ELD
simultaneously challenging
Executive Leadership Development is now being offered in two formats to meet you where you to think outside the
you are and help you fit your chosen learning experience. Both formats deliver ELD’s
box as to your approach
renowned curriculum, while offering flexibility.
as a leader. You’ll share a
ELD IN PERSON ELD LIVE ONLINE
Six consecutive days on campus immersing Two and a half weeks of live online classroom with some of
you in a unique learning experience. sessions, all optimized for a virtual the brightest minds from
learning environment.
myriad industries, blending
Whether in person or online, you will work closely with Stanford GSB faculty, collaborate in
small groups with highly motivated global peers to share business challenges, gain relevant best practices and
insights, and develop a valuable network that extends far beyond the classroom. developing skills that you’ll
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS take with you for the rest
The program’s multi-disciplinary curriculum follows Stanford’s MBA program structure — of your career.”
maximizing linkages across three key themes: Analysis, Design, and Leadership.
E.M. `Kiki’ VanDeWeghe
DESIGN THINKING
Executive Vice President,
Learn design thinking tools and techniques and put them into action to tackle design
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and business challenges. This experiential learning process draws on methods from
NBA
engineering and design, and combines them with ideas from the arts, tools from the social
sciences, and insights from the business world. You’ll explore mindsets of empathy, rapid
prototyping, collaboration, iteration, and feedback.

LEADERSHIP COACHING
Personal leadership development is a key focus of the program. To enhance your
awareness of your leadership style and how it’s perceived by others, we combine
classroom learning with Stanford’s proprietary 360º in-depth leadership assessment tool
called LEAP 360 (Leadership Evaluation and Action Planning).

LEAP 360 is designed to help you strengthen your leadership skills so you can improve
your performance, energize your workplace, and advance your career. It also helps you
gain unique insight into your leadership skills, set priorities, and develop a 100-day action
plan with one-on-one leadership coaching.

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KEY BENEFITS
Executive Leadership Development will help you:
• Improve core analytical skills required for approaching business challenges holistically and making better executive decisions.
• Develop greater awareness of your leadership style and how it’s perceived by others.
• Enhance your understanding of the critical interface between execution issues, and internal and external strategic challenges to the
organization.
• Apply design thinking principles to solve business problems — learn effective ways of designing teams, business operations, change
management initiatives, and organizational structures and culture.
• Understand relevant psychological principles needed to create high-performance teams and increase employee motivation.
• Hone interpersonal skills to increase your impact within and outside of your organization.

HIGHLIGHTED SESSIONS
STRATEGY: CREATING AND CAPTURING VALUE
The core responsibility of a strategic leader is to ensure the organization’s economic prosperity while pursuing its mission. Despite the
prevalence and widespread use of strategic frameworks, many managers struggle to understand how their actions do (or do not) reinforce
the firm’s logic of success. Greater clarity is achieved by having a clear understanding of the sources of the organization’s economic
prosperity, or how it creates and captures economic value. In this session we will discuss the role of the leader in the strategy process, and
the core concepts of value creation and value capture.

VISION AND DISCOVERY

We are surrounded by stories of great strategic leaders who articulated a clear vision for the future, crafted a clear plan for achieving it,
and made it happen. At the same time, we hear stories of companies who seemingly stumbled over their fortune, first doing one thing until
pivoting to another, much more successful alternative. Both kinds of stories can create uncertainty and anxiety for aspiring leaders: If great
strategic leadership is something you are born with, what do I do if I am not born with it? What if it is all about luck, and being in the right
place at the right time?

Much of the anxiety that executives feel about strategy rests on misconceptions about the strategy process. In this session, we will discuss
the reality of how strategies evolve and emerge in organizations, and the role of the leader in this process.

STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS EXCLUSIVE: PERSONAL LEADERSHIP COACHING

Executive Leadership Development includes a robust coaching component using a proprietary 360-degree evaluation based on
a tool designed and developed by the Stanford GSB Center for Leadership Development and Research. It’s designed to help
you identify and address your unique strengths and weaknesses, hone your leadership skills, and apply the learning directly to
your job.

• You’ll complete a 360-degree feedback assessment which • Three individual coaching sessions will help assess
gives an in-depth look at how you are perceived by peers, improvements already implemented
managers, and subordinates
• Continuing post-program, you’ll have access to a personal
• A leadership coach helps you interpret the feedback and dashboard to journal your progress and view clips of
develop an action plan to apply these insights senior leaders discussing how they overcame their own
business challenges

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WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE
High-potential leaders on the fast track who are poised and motivated to take on significant managerial responsibility in their organizations

• Mid-level executives with at least 10 years of work experience and a minimum of three to five years of management experience — from any
size company, any industry, and any country

• Individuals who are eager, engaged, and inspired to make a positive impact in this program and in their organizations

HIGHLIGHTED SESSIONS (CONT’D)

MAKING SOUND DECISIONS
Some managerial decisions involve a great deal of attention and effort while others are made on instinct. In this session, we’ll consider
the upsides and downsides of intuition in decision making and discuss models for effective decision making in organizations. To make our
lessons clear, we will draw on a case study, based on an actual organization that highlights the pitfalls of rash judgment and the benefits of
sound decision-making principles. Participants will engage in a live interaction and debate their preferred course of action.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS

As a leader, you spend the majority of your time communicating with others — team members, subordinates, and clients. You probably
don’t spend much time thinking about the way you communicate, nor are you likely, in the corporate setting, to get honest feedback on
the way you communicate. Yet the quality of communication largely determines your effectiveness. This session will provide guidelines for
improving your own communication style. In particular, we will focus on your persuasive skills — how to convince others to accept your
ideas or support your position, even if they are skeptical at first.

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 “Very well done. The quality of this program, across
all dimensions, was consistent with the reputation of
the university.”
Peter Kasper | Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing
MiddleOak | ELD 2015

FACULTY DIRECTOR

Francis J. Flynn, the Paul E. Holden Professor of Organizational

Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business, specializes in
interpersonal relations in organizations. His work bridges the fields
of management and social psychology, leading to scholarly as well as
TYPICAL PARTICIPANT MIX practical insights on organizational life.
Management Function
13% Corporate Development
3% Finance/Accounting
47% General Management OTHER STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY
5% Information Technology Nir Halevy Adina Sterling
10% Operations/Production Associate Professor of Organizational Associate Professor of Organizational
5% Research/Development Behavior Behavior
17% Sales/Marketing
Brian Lowery S. Christian Wheeler
Industry The Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of The StrataCom Professor of Management and
3% Aerospace/Defense Organizational Behavior Professor of Marketing
3% Biotechnology
8% Construction/Engineering/Materials Benoît Monin Stefanos Zenios
6% Consulting The Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy The Investment Group of Santa Barbara
3% Education Professor of Leadership Values Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of
11% Electronics/Software Jesper B. Sørensen Operations, Information and Technology
28% Financial Services/Insurance/ The Robert A. and Elizabeth R. Jeffe Professor
Real Estate and Professor of Organizational Behavior
3% Health Care Services
6% Internet Services
6% Manufacturing EXPERIENCE THE STANFORD DIFFERENCE
3% Mining/Metal Processing
3% Nonprofit Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Education programs offer executives from
6% Retail/Wholesale around the globe an extraordinary opportunity to immerse themselves in an intensive,
3% Telecommunications/Information collaborative learning environment where the focus is continually on the future. Taught
Services by Stanford’s world-renowned faculty and supplemented by guest speakers, participants
8% Transportation acquire the knowledge, vision, and skill to bring innovative leadership to their organizations
Region while advancing their personal and professional growth.
5% Africa
28% Asia
13% Australia/New Zealand
5% Europe
44% North America
5% South America STANFORD GSB LIVE ONLINE PROGRAM
Our faculty and staff are excited to offer this live online program where the
schedule is highly interactive and structured for maximum insights and impact.
Through live sessions, group-based work, and application exercises, participants
TAKE THE NEXT STEP will have the unique opportunity to engage with faculty virtually in real-time.

For more information, or to apply to

Executive Leadership Development, visit
gsb.stanford.edu/exec-ed/eld.

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