John Philbin
Adjunct Associate Professor, Executive Education Programs
John Philbin
Performance-Driven Leadership: Empower People for Lasting Impact—Online
Gain a holistic view of effective talent management and team leadership to give your organization a competitive edge.
Next Session
October 6-November 16, 2026
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Location/Format
Online
Investment Fee (in USD)
$2,800 USD
Questions? Connect with our enrollment advisors.
Next Session
October 6-November 16, 2026
View All Dates
Location/Format
Online
Investment Fee (in USD)
$2,800 USD
Questions? Connect with our enrollment advisors.
Master key talent leadership principles to turn your people into a competitive advantage. Learn to align business and employee needs, steward team talent, and achieve organizational goals while fostering a thriving workforce.
This program features assessment tools to help you develop tailored action plans for addressing your organization's unique talent challenges.
By attending, you will:
- Develop leadership skills to align business strategy with people strategy, ensuring sustainable organizational success.
- Master the fundamentals of talent management and leverage behavioral insights to attract, retain, and cultivate a high-performance culture.
- Apply frameworks to enhance team dynamics, improve performance, and foster psychological safety.
- Strengthen team alignment and navigate cross-cultural dynamics.
- Gain personal leadership strategies, including personalized action planning, for continuous growth.
Format
Online with live-online sessions
Program duration
Six weeks, 5–6 hours per week
Frequency
Offered three times per year
A High-Impact Learning Format
This program incorporates three live-online sessions with program faculty and mentors, in addition to self-paced learning. You’ll experience a blend of classroom sessions, group discussions, a case study, and assessments. Each module builds on the last, ensuring an impactful learning experience that makes you confident in your new skills and ready to drive change.
Participants will gain access to Spectacular Team Assessment, a proprietary survey designed by John Philbin, as an integral part of this program. This assessment provides leaders with anonymized and aggregated insights into team dynamics across the cohort.
You'll also gain personalized insights and plans through:
- A proprietary People Literacy® framework that offers crucial insight into common business challenges.
- Talent assessment that will yield clear snapshots of where your company is currently, and provide a detailed roadmap for future actions.
- Talent risk assessment that will assess the state of your succession planning and identify potential risks to your company’s performance due to talent gaps.
- Personality assessment to understand your core behavioral tendencies and build better teams.
- Tools to help you learn rapidly from your own experiences.
Who Should Attend
Mid- to senior-level leaders from any functional area who are key in managing talent and aligning their teams with the organization’s broader vision.
Download the program brochure for in-depth insights into who should attend, participant profiles, and the ideal candidate.
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Faculty Teaching This Program
At Booth, our distinguished faculty exemplify dedication and expertise, bringing deep passion to their teaching. Their steadfast commitment extends beyond traditional instruction, focusing on empowering every Executive Education participant, across all programs and global campuses, to achieve their professional and leadership goals.
Program Outline
- Defining talent management: key deliverables for leaders
- '9 Box' and the alternative talent review
- Assess the state of your succession planning
- Identify risks to your company’s performance due to talent gaps
- Building people development plans using principles of People Literacy
- Team/department talent action planning
- Integrating your talent strategy with business and people strategy
- Ensuring top performers are developing on the right track
- Evaluating workforce tradeoffs when organizations change and innovate
- How style and temperament affect team dynamics, cohesiveness, and performance
- The importance of psychological safety
- Building trust and avoiding derailers
- Getting your team aligned, performing, and agile
- Cross-cultural considerations
- Courage, Conflict, and Challenge
- Balancing self-empathy and high standards
- Strategies for continuous growth as a leader
- Personal action planning
Advance Registration Benefit
Fall 2026 offerings of this program include an advance registration benefit when you register by the specified date. Discount is applied during the registration process.
Upcoming Sessions
Program dates are subject to change.
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Download the program brochure for in-depth insights on who should attend, a schedule preview, past participant profiles, location highlights, networking opportunities, and what to expect. When doing so, you’ll also receive an editable justification letter to help you make the case to your employer for your attendance.
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