Executive Leadership Course 1: Strategy & Stakeholders

Course 1: Strategy and Stakeholders

This course is the 1st course of a 3 course series for obtaining an Executive Leadership Certificate. In this 1st course you will learn about leadership strategy and stakeholder alignment. This is the organizational capacity to understand what is really happening and what is needed, to craft high-leverage strategies, establish crucial goals and a smart, dynamic plan, and to enroll key stakeholders in the vision and plan. This course teaches you exactly what you need to do to accelerate leadership and elevate performance in your team/organization through better strategy, more effective planning and greater stakeholder commitment.

1. Strategy & Stakeholders
   • Sensemaking
   • Dynamic Steering
   • Stakeholder Alignment

Learning Objectives:

• Students will increase their ability to understand what is really happening and what is needed

• Students will learn the best ways to evaluate challenges and opportunities in the current environment

• Students will level-up their strategic thinking skills for themselves and also with their team

• Students will learn the best ways to prioritize opportunities and strategic objectives for their specific organization

• Students will level up their team’s skill to set goals, design strategies, and build out strategic plans

• Students will learn best practices for enrolling key stakeholders into their plan for maximum cooperation and commitment

Course Details:

• Over 30 hours of content including reading, lectures, activities, and workbook assignments
• 6 Self-paced modules
• 1-2 unit course (through accredited partner)

Instructor: Brett Thomas

Brett Thomas is a veteran management consultant/leadership coach with two decades of experience advising and guiding CEOs and senior executives in companies of all sizes. He played a key role in pioneering the now-popular fields of “conscious business” and “conscious leadership” and he has helped hundreds of founders and senior executive teams scale their businesses into the tens of millions and hundreds of millions. Brett is best known for his groundbreaking work applying developmental psychology, human potential psychology, and integral theory as one of the early pioneers of “conscious business” (aka Conscious Capitalism). As the director of Integral Institute’s Business and Leadership Center, he worked closely with Ken Wilber and senior faculty to create a unifying theory of leadership and the now-famous “Integral Leadership Model.” He co-founded the Stagen Leadership Academy in 1999 (with Rand Stagen) to help business become a “force for good” and to popularize “conscious leadership.” Some believe that Brett’s leadership development program (both at Stagen and since he rebuilt it in recent years) may be the best leadership development program in the world.