Who is this for?
This program is for senior managers, directors and vice presidents with at least five years of experience.
Benefits for you
- Increase your awareness of today’s most pressing issues and how they are affecting your community, your customers and your organization
- Understand how stakeholders perceive your company and its stance on the social and environmental issues that matter to them
- Begin the responsible leadership journey by defining your personal values
- Clarify your organization’s vision of what it wants to stand for, and prioritize steps for getting there
- Shape the cultural change needed for organizational transformation
- Join hands with others to magnify your impact
Benefits for your organization
- Enrich the organization’s collective vision for the future
- Develop a company plan of action for responding to today’s thorniest challenges
- Grow a culture that supports and promotes progressive change
- Drive organizational sustainability through responsible leadership
The learning journey
Individual reflection: take a deep dive into your values. Think about the culture and biases of your company, and get a wider perspective on how stakeholders view it.
Meaningful dialogue: engage in creative conversation to drill down on today’s big challenges, what they mean for your organization, and the burning platform for change. Build a network of learning peers.
Action learning: determine the priorities for your organization and develop skills for influencing cultural change.
Faculty guidance: Sauder faculty will guide you as you develop a plan to move yourself and your organization forward.
Executive coaching: an executive coach will provide you with an extra dimension of peer learning, feedback and support.
Program content
Module One: what is responsible leadership and how it is different from other approaches?
Day One: The Big Picture
- What is responsible leadership?
- Preparing yourself for responsible leadership by exploring yourself and your values
- Delving into the big issues (climate change, indigenous communities, equity, diversity and inclusion). How do they affect your organization’s success?
Day Two: Critical Issues for Responsible Leadership
- Ethics in leadership; organizational culture and bias
- Discovering how stakeholders view your company
- Identifying an action-learning project for your organization
- Clarifying causes of challenges
- Metrics that drive change
Between-module assignment and coaching: gathering data, gaining more information, stakeholder analysis
Module Two: how to affect positive change
Day One: Leading the Future
- Aligning activities with organizational vision and strategy
- Tackling blocks to change - systems and processes
- Shifting mindsets and culture
- Leading in complex conditions
- Goals and metrics for success
Day Two: Mobilizing the Organization
- The art and science of constructive influence
- Engaging stakeholders
- Creating urgency for change
- Building alliances to multiply impact
Between-module assignment and coaching: executing a plan to implement your strategy
Module Three:
Presenting your progress and preparing next steps
Program leaders

Dr. Daniel Skarlicki

Dr. Justin Bull

Dr. Elizabeth Newton
Dr. Rebecca Paluch

Dr. James Tansey
Upcoming sessions
Sep 19 - Nov 15, 2022 (Online Real Time)
This program takes place on
non-consecutive days
(all times are Pacific Time zone)
Module One
Sep 19 & 20, 2022
8.30am – 2.20pm both days
Module Two
Oct 17 & 18, 2022
8.30am – 2.20pm both days
Module Three
Nov 15, 2022
8:30am - 12:30pm
*times subject to change

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604.822.8400 or 1.800.618.3932
exec.ed@sauder.ubc.caVisit our contact page for more information.
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