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McGill Executive Leadership Experience

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people. - Henry Mintzberg

A truly unique, world-class program

In a post-COVID workforce, all eyes are on the leader to showcase for their team stability when faced with uncertainty, strength at the sign of challenge, and innovation when the path to growth is not so clear.

The McGill Executive Leadership Experience (MELE) is a program that advances the competitiveness of seasoned managers and executives by challenging them with new insights, high energy learning exercises, best practices, practical tools, and coaching techniques.

Following Henry Mintzberg's 5 Managerial Mindsets, the McGill Executive Leadership Experience invites you to embrace new perspectives and apply them to a leadership challenge. Broaden and challenge your beliefs with a network of top caliber participants and faculty, connecting virtually from across the world.

For any leadership learning experience to be effective it should provide a blended mix of structures and tools as well as enough open space and time to allow participants to reflect and introspect, both on their journey as leaders today and what their future leadership destination will be. Through a unique blend of learning and coaching, the McGill Executive Leadership Experience welcomes participants to hone their senior level leadership skills to develop the ability to mobilize talent and commitment.

This program is designed for professionals with 5-10 years of progressive leadership experience. This includes participants from the public sector as well as for-profit changemakers leading growth in their organizations. It is a fantastic opportunity for those nominated for advancement to senior leadership roles to hone their skills and tackle problems they face in their day-to-day role with the counsel of expert professionals and peers.

The registration fee includes facilitation by our highly rated faculty members and seasoned HR experts, course materials, results-oriented exercises, meal service (continental breakfast, lunch and breaks) *, and a certificate of completion from the McGill Executive Institute.

*Meal service is included for in-person programs only.

Key Takeaways

  • The reflective mindset
  • Explore your personal leadership attributes
  • System leadership in your organization 
  • The collaborative mindset
  • Organizational and self empathy
  • Align purpose and mission with company culture
  • The analytic mindset
  • Identification and execution of a growth strategy
  • Aligning goal, scope, and competitive advantage together
  • The worldly mindset
  • Tackling obstacles to innovation
  • Innovation through technology and creativity
  • Master the principles of design thinking 
  • The action mindset
  • Align change management strategy to organizational strategy and readiness
  • Identify a vision for change
  • Assess and address resistance 
  • The leadership challenge
  • Sustain long-term impact through follow-up mechanisms to track learning application and actions

Course Leaders

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Anita Nowak

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Anita Nowak

Anita is an empathy expert and certified coach, who helps purpose-driven leaders and organizations create cultures of empathy. She is a multiple TEDx speaker and author of Purposeful Empathy: Tapping Our Hidden Superpower for Personal, Organizational, and Social Change (Broadleaf, 2023).

 

Anita teaches Leadership, Ethics in Management, and Social Entrepreneurshp & Innovation at McGill, and was named Professor of the Year in 2014 and 2019 by the Management Undergraduate Society and received the David Johnston Faculty and Staff Award in 2021, awarded by the McGill Alumni Association. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce (McGill), a Master’s of Media & Communication Studies (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) and PhD in Education (McGill).

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Roman Galperin

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Roman Galperin

Roman Galperin is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior. He studies how signals and perceptions of competence and expertise influence markets for professional services, facilitate knowledge exchange and learning in organizations, and shape the careers of knowledge workers. He earned his Ph.D. in management at MIT Sloan School of Management and previously taught at Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, where he received a Discovery Award for joint work with the Department of Neuroscience studying efficient expert search in the context of patent examination. Before joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins, Professor Galperin was an NSF-ASA Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University and an Edward J. Safra Network Fellow at Harvard University. Galperin also served as a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 2013 to 2016.

 

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Jared Lee

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Jared Lee

Jared Lee is a senior consultant who provides training to executives of various organizations as well as professional and graduate students. He has led workshops, seminars, and guest lectures at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management, Max Bell School of Public Policy, Queen's University's Smith School of Business, and Concordia University's John Molson Executive Centre. Topics have included strategic thinking, problem-solving, design thinking, innovation, structured communication, business presentations, data analysis, data visualization, and change leadership.

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Sheri Phillips

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Sheri Phillips

Sheri Philips is a certified senior learning leader, consultant, and faculty member of the McGill Executive Institute, focused on transforming corporate strategy and organizational business needs into measurable results. She is also a Certified Change Management Professional with over 15 years of change management experience, from assessing change and implementing change activities to successful culture transformations and system implementations. In addition to her academic work, she brings a wealth of industry practitioner experience with positions such as Senior Director - Industrial Performance at Sanofi-Pasteur and Continuous Improvement Deployment Lead at Teva Canada. Sheri is a Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP), Prosci-Certified Change Practitioner, Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt (MBB), Certified Training & Development Professional (CTDP), and Certified Agile and SCRUM Master (Agile SMC).

 

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Mario Bottone

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Mario Bottone

Mario has over 20 years of experience in technology companies. Some of the most notables were Monster.com, Workopolis, 2020 Technologies and Logibec Healthcare. He is currently the CRO of Thinking Capital, a fintech solutions provider targeting SMBs in North America. Mario has held senior executive roles in the areas of operations, marketing, product management and sales on an international level. He has been a CEO-COO, led business units, M&A, managed sell-side processes and organizational design projects. Mario also has extensive board management experience with private equity shareholders. Mario holds an MBA degree from McGill University.

 

Online Information Session

May 1, 2024 ⁠–⁠ 12:00 pm ET

Join us online to delve into the McGill Executive Leadership Experience. This session will introduce you to the program's comprehensive curriculum designed to enhance your leadership skills and strategic vision. Our advisors will be on hand to answer any questions you have about the program's approach to transforming today's professionals into tomorrow's leaders.

 

Applications

The McGill Executive Institute seeks to build strong positive-learning environments within which participants can flourish. Eligibility for acceptance into the program requires the following qualifications:

  1. Participants have upper- to senior-level management responsibilities;
  2. Show high interest in engaging positively with peers in a unique executive learning environment.

Candidates are encouraged to register online and supply a current resume that shows both your academic and professional experience. Email to:

Catherine Marcotte
catherine.marcotte@mcgill.ca