Responsible Leadership for a Changing World

This program is for senior managers, directors and vice presidents with at least five years of experience. 

• 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

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.

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