Global Strategic Leadership

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Wharton Executive Education
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- Global Strategic Leadership
Philadelphia
$7,500

Vigilant leaders scan the periphery to identify threats and pursue opportunities in advance of their rivals. The Global Strategic Leadership program will provide you with the tools to see around the corner to reveal the economic forces shaping the global market. You will explore new frameworks for leading across boundaries, making complex decisions with ambiguous data, and discovering new strategies for volatile and uncertain times. The program will provide you with an opportunity for guided practice in transforming your current strategy and vision into a compelling story that inspires your organization to deliver noteworthy results.

The Wharton School developed this senior management experience to strengthen your global leadership skills, build your visionary capacity, and advance your strategic thinking. You will have an opportunity to test your ideas and examine the latest business models and concepts with an amazing network of global peers, distinguished speakers, and Wharton faculty on the main campus of the University of Pennsylvania. Make it your next executive decision to join us.

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This program is designed for highly accomplished senior executives with 20 years' experience, from a variety of vertical industry groups, business disciplines, regions, and cultures. In addition to presidents, chief executive officers, and other senior executives, participants include entrepreneurs, media executives, and leaders of nonprofit organizations.

International travelers: Please review travel advisory information to avoid delays.

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.

Global Strategic Leadership will ignite the visionary inside of you. It will catapult you ahead in your profession. It will expand your ability to survey the business landscape, spot opportunities, build alliances, and execute a multinational business strategy.

In this program, you will:

  • Increase your capacity to formulate global strategy and to execute strategy with agility.
  • Build capabilities for leading and serving customers across national and international boundaries.
  • Learn how to inspire respect and command authority among peers and subordinates in your organization.
  • Generate counter intuitive ideas around changing geopolitical realities.
  • Engage in best case / worst case scenario planning to map out future situations that could affect your industry or organization.
  • Construct and communicate your own vision in a way that will be both authentic and engaging.

And, last, but not least, you will BUILD a GLOBAL NETWORK of peers and experts.

Harbir Singh HARBIR SINGH, PhD
Faculty Director
The Mack Professor
Professor of Management
Vice Dean for Global Initiatives
Co-Director, Mack Center for Technological Innovation
The Wharton School

Harbir Singh is a leading researcher on strategic alliances and strategies for corporate renewal, including path-breaking projects on managing acquisitions and alliances and post-acquisition management. He has consulted for companies such as Bell Atlantic, IBM, Merck, and AT&T. His current research includes strategies for corporate alliances and acquisitions, corporate governance, joint ventures, management buyouts, and corporate restructuring. He serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious publications and has extensive experience in working with senior executive audiences in the United States and India.
Ram Charan RAM CHARAN
Wharton Senior Fellow, renowned speaker, and acclaimed author

Charan is a leading expert on business strategy, profitable growth, and leadership excellence, as well as a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. He is a consultant to companies such as GE, Bank of America, DuPont, Novartis, EMC, Home Depot, and Verizon, and has coached some of the world's most successful CEOs. Among the many popular business books Charan has authored are Leaders at All Levels, What the CEO Wants You to Know, Every Business Is a Growth Business (with Noel Tichy), and the best-seller Execution (with Larry Bossidy and Charles Burck).
Rob-Jan de Jong ROB-JAN DE JONG
Founder, Vongolo Consulting

Rob-Jan de Jong is an engaging and inspiring speaker and facilitator with 15 years of experience in designing and running company off-sites, strategy sessions, and leadership development programs at a senior level. He is a visiting faculty member at several renowned business schools on topics of leadership, visioning, strategy, decision-making, and innovation.
Mario Moussa, PhD MARIO MOUSSA, PhD
President, Moussa Consulting
Senior Fellow, Wharton Executive Education
University of Pennsylvania

Co-author of The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas, Mario Moussa directs and teaches programs for hospital leaders and physicians, corporate security managers, and energy and banking executives. He teaches negotiation, influence, strategy, change, and corporate culture and is co-director of Wharton's Strategic Persuasion Workshop: The Art and Science of Selling Ideas. Previously, he was a principal at CFAR, Inc., a management consulting firm that began as a Wharton research center. A specialist in large-scale organizational change initiatives, he has consulted to many of the world's leading corporations, universities, and foundations, including United Health Group, PNC Bank, the Georgetown University Medical Center, and State Farm Insurance. He has published widely in the field of organizational dynamics, power, and influence.
Mike Useem, PhD MIKE USEEM, PhD
The William and Jacalyn Egan Professor
Professor of Management
The Wharton School

Mike Useem offers courses on management, leadership, and corporate governance to MBA and senior executive audiences in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He has worked extensively on leadership development and governance with many organizations in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. He is the author of The Leader's Checklist: 15 Mission-Critical Principles; The Go Point: When It's Time to Decide; Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win; The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All; Investor Capitalism: How Money Managers Are Changing the Face of Corporate America; and Executive Defense: Shareholder Power and Corporate Reorganization. From the slopes of Mount Everest to the battlefields of Gettysburg, Dr. Useem has gone to great lengths to present leadership lessons to executives.

Mike works with the World Economic Forum on several initiatives to identify ways of preventing, mitigating, and responding to significant enterprise risks. He serves with the WEF Global Council on Catastrophic Risks.

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