The Leadership Edge: Strategies for the New Leader

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Wharton Executive Education
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- The Leadership Edge: Strategies for the New Leader
San Francisco
$8,500

New levels of leadership demand new skills. To excel as you transition into management, you will need a clear vision of your strengths, and how to build on them; your team, and how to lead them to high performance; and your competitive landscape, and how to address the opportunities and challenges facing your organization and your industry. It is this broad-based vision that will drive superior decision making and execution.

The Leadership Edge: Strategies for the New Leader will give you the tools and mindset you need in your new position. It will help you grow the personal leadership skills that will make a positive impact throughout your career.

Tuition includes meals, but not lodging. Prices are subject to change. Program Consultants are available to provide more information on course specifics and discuss how this program might meet your needs. Please contact them by e-mail or by telephone at +1 215.898.1776. Plan your stay in Philadelphia or San Francisco.


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The Leadership Edge uses a range of approaches to help you advance your leadership capabilities. A combination of lectures, group discussion, assessments, networking, and an out-of-classroom experience will ensure greater learning and application.

Selected leadership edge Session Topics:

  • Identifying your preferred leadership style
  • Understanding and managing conflict
  • Building organizational culture
  • Coaching teams for high performance results

As a participant, you will become part of a diverse learning community. The program is designed to leverage the extensive experience and knowledge from participants, and to create a new peer network that can provide guidance and support after you complete The Leadership Edge.

The Leadership Edge: Strategies for the New Leader is designed for individuals who have recently transitioned into the broader responsibilities of a leadership role, and for those who anticipate such a transition. This includes executives with a technical or scientific background and entrepreneurs leading their organizations into new phases of growth. Participants represent a wide range of organizations, from multi-nationals to startups, and include for-profit, governmental and non-profit organizations. Their areas of expertise are diverse, and they come from a variety of industries, regions, and cultures.

We encourage companies to send cross-functional teams of executives to leverage the application and value of the program. Additional group benefits are available when four or more participants attend a program.

The Leadership Edge will strengthen your leadership capabilities by deepening your knowledge of yourself, your team, and your work environment. You will develop a wider context in which to make decisions, and be better equipped to navigate critical leadership challenges ahead.

Nancy_Rothbard NANCY ROTHBARD
Faculty Director
Associate Professor of Management
The Wharton School

Nancy Rothbard's research focuses on the interplay between emotions and engagement in multiple roles. Specifically, she explores how people’s emotional responses to one role or task affect their subsequent engagement in another role or task. She has examined these questions in the context of work and family roles and in the context of multiple tasks that people perform within the work role. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. In addition to her academic articles, Professor Rothbard has authored several Harvard Business School case studies. Her teaching cases touch on the topics of leadership, corporate culture, and organizational change. Professor Rothbard received the 2000 Likert Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan. She is also the recipient of the Gerald and Lillian Dykstra Award for Teaching Excellence.
Jeff Klein JEFF KLEIN
Learning Director
Director, Graduate Leadership Program
Director, Wharton Leadership Ventures
The Wharton School

Jeff Klein is the Director of the Wharton Leadership Program and a Lecturer at the Wharton School and the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. As Director, Jeff is responsible for the portfolio of curricular and co-curricular leadership development programs available to Wharton MBA students and for directing the School's efforts to create the Wharton Global Leadership Institute. He teaches an interdisciplinary graduate level course at the University of Pennsylvania that focuses on cross-sector collaboration, and serves as a strategic advisor to the Global Partnerships Forum. In addition, Jeff designs and delivers leadership workshops and courses for executive clients through Wharton Executive Education. As a Learning Director, Jeff leads two weeklong executive courses, Creating and Leading High Performing Teams and The Leadership Edge. He also instructs in many open-enrollment and corporate custom programs, including Wharton's Executive Development Program.

Jeff is an honors graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (MBA) and Penn State University (BA, BS), and is currently a doctoral student studying educational leadership. Prior to his current career as a scholar and practitioner, Jeff held a variety of roles at AT&T and its cable unit, AT&T Broadband, including as a product CFO and Executive Director of Financial Planning and Analysis.