Resilient Leadership for High-Performing Organizations
PROGRAM FORMAT: LIVE-ONLINE
"Leadership is not for the faint of heart—brave leaders face challenges head-on."
—Susan Lucia Annunzio, President and CEO of The Center for High Performance
Rising to meet challenges and adversity tend to be watershed moments in a leader's career. Whether navigating the complex turbulent landscape of a global pandemic, managing technological change, or responding to economic setbacks, the highest-performing leaders are those who are brave, resilient, and embolden others in their organization to action.
By attending, you will:
- Build respect by learning to lead with courage and confidence by representing your most authentic self
- Explore and encourage the characteristics of a high-performance environment
- Acquire effective communication tools to have courageous conversations, tackle tough issues and deliver bad news
- Discover how to manage change agents and build agility within your organization
Format
Our live-online programs are delivered in a synchronous format where you'll engage with faculty, industry leaders, and a global set of peers in an interactive, high-impact virtual environment. Often, these programs blend live sessions with activities or projects, and readings to deepen one's understanding of the materials. The benefit to this format is that you'll receive Booth's rigorous content in short, digestible sessions held multiple times weekly and span over a few weeks.
Participants should expect to commit a total of 4-6 hours per week to this program.
Schedule
View a sample program schedule here.
Networking Forum
This program includes a live-virtual networking session, where participants will have an opportunity to introduce themselves to the cohort and share their work experience, as well as their most significant business challenge they are currently facing. Booth team members will host these forums, and will help continue post live-forum discussions onto the program's online discussion boards.
Leaders from a wide range of industries and organizations, including corporations, associations, nonprofits, startups, and public sector organizations, will find this program beneficial.
Executives from most job titles and functions will also benefit from attending this program, including entrepreneurs and consultants; and those in finance, operations, business development, human resources, sales, marketing, general management, donor relations, and operations.
Susan Lucia Annunzio
Susan Lucia Annunzio (Lucia) is the President and CEO of the Center for High Performance and Associate Adjunct Professor of Management, Executive Education, Chicago Booth.
Acclaimed leadership coach, author, and president and CEO of the Center for High Performance (cfHP), Lucia Annunzio is known by her clients as the “CEO-Whisperer.” She has spent more than 25 years observing, analyzing, and influencing C-Suite and board dynamics, experience that she applies in coaching CEOs and C-suite executives. She is the mastermind of “Elite High-Performance Coaching” – CfHP’s proprietary approach to propel leaders to greatness. She works exclusively with CEO’s, senior executives and rising stars.
Lucia’s work is based on CfHP’s proprietary global research on the factors that accelerate or inhibit profitable growth. It achieved critical acclaim and was presented at such prestigious venues as the World Economic Forum, The International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change at the University of Greenwich, and Avature’s “Talent Economy” launch event in Belgium.
Lucia is the author of Contagious Success (Portfolio, 2004), a dynamic, award-winning management book that revealed the global standard for high performance. Contagious Success was voted Fast Company's Readers' Choice. Lucia also authored two additional prominent business books: Communicoding (Fine, 1990; Penguin USA, 1991) and Evolutionary Leadership (Simon & Schuster, 2001; Fireside, 2002). She is frequently quoted in the business press such as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and CNBC. She is currently a Wall Street Journal Contributor.
Lucia is an Associate Adjunct Professor of Management at the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business, where she teaches the most popular program, High Performance Leadership. She has been a guest lecturer at INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau, France, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and Instituto De Empresa in Madrid. She also taught at General Electric’s Crotonville Corporate Training Center.
She is a long-standing member of the Economic Club of Chicago as well as the Chicago Club. She has sat on various not-for-profit boards including the Joffrey Ballet and the Museum of Contemporary Art. She also sits on the Advisory Board of KindWorks AI and Harvard Business Review. Lucia is currently focusing her philanthropy on the National MS Society.
- Driving high performance in uncertain economic times
- Increasing ROI through ROB (brainpower)
- Leading with the heart, not fear
- Learn the three drivers of high-performance
- Foster the flow: oxytocin not adrenaline
- The correlation between high-performance attributes and trust
Courageous Leadership in Challenging Times - Part 2
- How leadership behavior effects results
- Have the courage “to be the last to speak”
- Leading with your values
- Leadership Moments of Truth
Managing Change with Resilience
- The 20/60/20 rule, moving the middle, identifying and enabling top performers
- Unspeakable subjects and highly visible statements of change
- Destroying “Sacred Ducks”
- Mobilizing the Grapevine
Courageous Communication to Encourage Positive Thinking, Agility, and Change
- Key concepts of communication that allow thinking to thrive
- The anatomy of a miscommunication
- The importance of empathy
- Diffusing negative emotions and challenging assumptions
- Tackling tough questions
- Delivering bad news
“Lucia is a wealth of knowledge and experience and my faith in the teaching style of Chicago Booth faculties only got reinforced. I will come back for more and will explore an on-campus experience someday. The concoction of time-tested principles taught by the faculty, the harmonious learning appetite of the class and the real-life examples amplified the experience.”
- Anirban De, Procurement, Adobe Systems India
“Excellent series. I learned so much and am excited to put what I've learned into action.”
- Jessica Siron, Environmental, Health & Safety Director, Rivian Automotive
“This class did a great job of bringing together key elements on effective resilient leadership, with action plans for continuing development moving forward.”
- Lawrence Berry, Director of Physical Plant, Lee University
“Very powerful class. Low time commitment that is packed with valuable stories, information and discussion!”
- Nate Evans, Cybersecurity Program Lead, Argonne National Laboratory