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?
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?
Critical Issues for Responsible Leadership
- 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
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
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
Stay tuned for future offerings of this program! Please contact us to notify you when it will be offered again. You may also subscribe to our email list for Executive Education program updates and exclusive event invitations.

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