Meeting the Leadership Challenge

This program is for senior managers, directors and Vice Presidents with approximately five to seven years of managerial experience, or others identified by their organizations as high-potential leaders.

• Define your personal values as a leader, and create harmony between your vision, goals and actions
• Develop the self-confidence and calm, compassionate mind that characterize great leaders
• Manage stress and emotional toxicity to sustain your energies for the long haul
• Improve essential skills in coaching, communication, creativity and leadership influence
• Radiate leadership from yourself outward
• Support your people’s emotional wellbeing, and inspire them to strive for excellence
• Become a key driver of organizational change and transformation 

Benefits for your organization

• Develop your internal leadership pipeline and strengthen company succession planning
• Enrich the organization’s collective leadership vision, for superior decision making
• Promote peak performance and lasting change through inspirational leadership
• Grow company-specific leadership capabilities, as participants work on applied projects chosen from their own organizations
• Fill critical knowledge and performance gaps
• Build an organizational culture of leadership, development and mentorship

Applied real-world project: you will identify a specific leadership challenge you are currently experiencing, and develop strategies and skills to meet that challenge effectively. 

Faculty engagement: program faculty will stimulate your learning by offering “state of the science” concepts and by asking questions that will challenge you to stretch beyond your current horizons. 

Small group work: you will have rich opportunities to reflect, share and work with your fellow participants in projects, experiential exercises and case studies.

Individual coaching: you will meet with your coach before, during and after the program to deepen your learning and ensure long-term application and impact.

Reflective practice: finding the time to reflect is often a challenge for busy leaders. In this program, you will be given space and time to think deeply about your own development and how you can support the development of others. 

Peer support: you will join peer networks to share experiences, engage in creative conversations, and give and receive coaching support. Experience has shown that these networks are often the most impactful aspect of the journey, and that participants frequently develop relationships that last long after the program has ended.

Leadership embodiment: as self-awareness encompasses the physical as well as the cognitive, you will practice methods for relaxation, breathing and physical movement. 

One-on-one faculty accessibility: MTLC thought leaders will be present throughout the program to engage in one-to-one conversations, answer your questions and offer support. 

While exact topics evolve based on participant needs and interests, sample topics might include:
 
What is leadership and how is it different in times of uncertainty?

• 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 values, creating a personal vision
• Sources of interference that are limiting your performance, diagnosing what you need to change to be a more successful leader
• Enhancing clarity and presence to build self-confidence and trustworthiness

Creating balance

• Linking balance to core values and decisions for action
• Mobilizing courage and resilience in a chaotic environment

Leadership presence and embodiment

• Reawakening the body and quieting the mind to open pathways to wisdom and resilience
• The role of vulnerability and storytelling in inspirational leadership

Leading others

• Key team leadership skills: coaching, communication, presentation, creativity
• Collaborating in a crisis: how emotions interfere with effective decision making
• Inspiring your people and working together to deliver top performance
• Enhancing and sustaining positive leadership practices

Transformational leadership: elements of successful organizational change

• Exercising power, politics and influence wisely
• Leading superior strategy execution and sustainable change
• Equipping yourself to lead for the future

This scholarship was established to recognize Peter Frost, an internationally renowned leadership educator at the UBC Sauder School of Business, and the founder of Meeting the Leadership Challenge. It is designed to enable not-for-profit sector leaders to attend this one of a kind program. For more information, visit Peter Frost Scholarship. 

For financial assistance opportunities, please refer to Financial Assistance, Scholarships and Team Rates .