Your organization needs to transform. It needs leaders to deliver impact. You’re ready to level up—rise to the challenge with Booth's High-Impact Transformation program.
This program is held in a 6-month modular format that blends online, live-online, and in-person learning—giving you flexibility while also providing a world-class networking and on-campus learning experience.
According to a study by Innosight, the average tenure of companies on the S&P 500 in 1965 was 33 years. Two years from now, that lifespan is forecast to shrink to 14 years. In a business era marked by turbulence, uncertainty, novelty, and ambiguity, business leaders are asked more than ever before to have the mental agility and foundational skill sets to lead with transformative impact. Elevate your impact as a manager and leader in this new era with Chicago Booth's High-Impact Transformation program.
Participants will discover the theory and best practices that affect meaningful change in highly uncertain environments, learn how to make decisions faster with less error, and innovate before the competition disrupts their business. They'll emerge with an action plan to bring transformation to their business unit.
This program is held in a unique modular format that blends online, live-online, and in-person learning—giving you flexibility while also providing a world-class networking and on-campus learning experience. It’s a formula for fast-tracking your professional development in the kind of challenging, rigorous environment that has made Booth one of the top-ranked business schools in the world.
The interdisciplinary curriculum draws upon Chicago Booth's world-renowned expertise in innovation, leadership, finance, and behavioral economics to empower leaders when making strategic, consequential decisions.
Mentorship and Networking
The program is designed to combine flexibility with a cohort experience where you'll grow your network with other top global executives. You'll engage in an opening live-online networking session, mentorship, and an in-person graduation ceremony at the end of the three-day module.
Throughout the program, you’ll be accompanied by an expert mentor. Their support ensures a seamless learning experience through personalized feedback and maximizes your engagement by facilitating peer networking opportunities.
This program benefits business executives who are preparing for an increased role in management and seek to increase their ability to make impactful decisions with intent and purpose.
Those from a wide range of industries and geographies will find this program beneficial. Titles such as Manager, Director, Associate, and especially those in functions such as operations, business development, client relations, marketing, sales, and strategy will gain new skills.
The schedule for the upcoming cohort is available here.
In the program's core sessions, you'll improve your decision-making processes for better stakeholder, customer, and organizational outcomes. During these sessions you'll engage world-renowned faculty and a global set of peers in an interactive environment.
The program kicks off with a live-online session led by Faculty Director, James Janega. Participants will have the opportunity to meet James and your program mentor, receive an overview, and network with peers.
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In today’s fast-paced, high stakes environment, opportunities and deals present themselves quickly—and every executive must be ready to negotiate. Your negotiating decisions may make the difference between a favorable and detrimental outcome for your initiatives. Through the lenses of negotiation and social capital, you’ll learn how to achieve more value while maximizing the benefits for your organization and yourself.
You’ll gain effective negotiation techniques, harnessing the power of social capital, to make impactful decisions during the deal-making process. Participants will discover their unique negotiation style, explore how different strategic choices impact outcomes, and explore cross-cultural negotiation practices. Moreover, you'll gain confidence at the bargaining table that can only be achieved through practice by participating in live, gamified negotiation exercises with peers—making this an engaging, interactive learning experience.
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Conceiving innovative ideas is only a first step; turning these ideas into reality requires a structured process. During this dynamic session, participants will explore the transformative power of human-centered design as a universal problem-solving tool. Delve into the intricacies of understanding how process outcomes serve as the foundation for revolutionary solutions, navigating the journey from conception to execution.
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Improve your chances of creating successful products and services with a customer-centric approach. In this session, you'll gain the tools to create value for customers by using marketing-applied principles of behavioral economics to understand how customers make purchasing decisions. You'll delve deeper into customers’ product pricing valuation decisions by exploring customer inattention in pricing and price considerations and learn how to create an ideal purchasing environment.
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During this three-day interactive session, participants gain targeted skills to improve your odds of transforming your innovative ideas into successful, transformative solutions. You will learn how to use decision-making frameworks to de-risk initiatives, identify personal blind spots, preemptively validate and gather evidence, and build momentum and stakeholder support. In addition, you will practice and refine presenting your high-impact action plan, so you can be confident when you return to your office.
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Note: program curriculum, faculty, dates, and price are subject to change.