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Advanced Leadership Program

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Leadership

Advanced Leadership Program

Leadership that makes a lasting impact

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You’ve led teams, driven results, and build expertise in your field. But leadership today demands more. 

The Advanced Leadership Program challenges experienced leaders to redefine approaches, expand influence, and see organizational strategy in a new light. This immersive 5-day program takes your leadership beyond experience, helping you shape culture, inspire teams, and make decisions that leave a lasting impact. 

This program is ideal for: 
  • Senior managers, directors, and C-suite executives with 5-7+ years of leadership experience
  • Leaders looking to enhance strategic thinking and organizational impact
  • Professionals seeking to align leadership approach with personal values and purpose
  • Redefine leadership: Move beyond traditional approaches and explore what it means to lead in today’s complex, rapidly changing organizations
  • For experienced leaders: Tailored for those with extensive management experience, this program refines your skills and expands your impact
  • Action-oriented learning: Engage in real-world case studies, simulations, and peer discussions to translate insight into immediate action
  • Expert faculty & peer cohort: Learn from UBC Sauder’s world-class faculty while collaborating with an accomplished cohort of senior leaders
  • Compact & immersive: Only 5-days in person in beautiful downtown Vancouver means intensive learning without long absences from your role

 

Impact to your organization, team or business:
  • Create a stronger leadership bench by equipping senior leaders to drive alignment, collaboration, and high performance

  • Foster leaders who think strategically and make informed decisions
  • Inspire teams, build trust and strengthen organizational culture
  • Translate individual leadership development into measurable outcomes for the whole organization
Leadership in an increasingly complex world 
  • Expanding your understanding of effective leadership 

  • The four frames of leadership 
Leading yourself: who am I as a leader and what do I stand for? 
  • Analyzing your leadership orientation and working with your core values to create a personal vision 

  • Identifying areas for realignment 
Communication and leadership presence 
  • The impact of presence on perceptions of leadership: how do you appear to others? 

  • Enhancing clarity and presence to inspire, build confidence and create trust 
  • Requirements of strategic communications in a virtual world 
Re-energizing your leadership 
  • Sources of interference that are limiting your performance, and overcoming obstacles to personal change 

  • Reawakening the body and quieting the mind to open pathways to wisdom and resilience 
  • Mobilizing courage and resilience in a chaotic environment 
  • Defining your leadership identity and contribution 

  • Assessing your personal leadership contribution based on your strengths, values, passions and purpose 

Leader and team as coach 
  • Targeted skill development: coaching, communication, presentation, creativity, influence 

  • Inspiring your people and working together to deliver top performance 
  • Sustaining a culture of trust, respect and motivation 
Transformational leadership 
  • Enhancing your influence to leverage organizational interactions 

  • Exercising power and politics wisely 
  • Leading superior strategy execution and sustainable change 
The future of leadership 
  • Igniting your potential and equipping yourself to lead for the future 

Profile

Daniel Skarlicki

Dr. Daniel Skarlicki

Program Director

Daniel is a Professor at the UBC Sauder School of Business. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He has taught executive programs in organizations across North and South America, as well as in Europe and Asia. His clients have included Cathay Pacific, the Government of Canada, VanCity, YMCA, Rocky Mountaineer, ICBC, Ledcor, and Glaxo. An active educator, he has won numerous teaching and international research awards. His research interests focus on mindfulness in the workplace and how people respond to justice and injustice in organizations.
Dr. Alex Trisoglio

Alex Trisoglio

Senior Associate

Alex is an executive coach specializing in leadership development, performance improvement and organizational change. His passion for helping to unlock human potential and building high-performing teams spans more than 25 years of advising CEOs, senior executives and boards in the private, public and non-profit sectors across 60 countries. His clients include McKinsey, KPMG, JP Morgan, IFC/The World Bank, the World Trade Organization and Greenpeace.
Joanna Piros

Joanna Piros

Associate

Joanna is a senior consultant with Counterpoint Communications, where she conducts communications and media relations consulting. For 25+ years she has trained thousands of people how to become better communicators and how to project themselves in the media spotlight and on the podium. Her clients have included Ballard Power Systems, VanCity, TransLink and Indigenous & Northern Affairs Canada.
Julie Jones

Julie Jones

Associate

Julie is a Master Certified Coach who has worked extensively as an executive and leadership coach and consultant for over two decades. Her focus is on the people side of business, helping leaders and their teams develop their resourcefulness and take a systems thinking perspective towards leadership during times of uncertainty. Her experience includes working with senior, mid-level and emerging leaders from a broad sector of private and public sector industries.

Tianne Allan

Associate

Tianne has been studying and teaching mindfulness and somatic movement for over two decades. As a former national-level athlete, coupled with a successful career in sales and marketing, she understands the critical synergy of training both mind and body for peak performance. She is dedicated to helping people use mindfulness, breath and movement to attain an optimal state of being.

What other professionals think

This was the most significant, transformative experience I have ever gone through. It encouraged me to become a responsible leader who wants to create and maintain a value-driven culture of happy and successful people.

This program really resonated. We get so caught up in the daily operations of our work, we forget the most important role as a leader: to inspire, motivate and develop new leaders.

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