Sarah Soule, Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior

LGBT Executive Leadership Program

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LGBT Executive Leadership Program

Build your career with the only program from a leading business school to address lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender leadership in the C-suite.

Lead with strength. Lead with impact. The LGBT Executive Leadership Program teaches you how to do both — authentically, effectively, and confidently. This highly specialized one-week program combines personal leadership assessments and insights with design thinking innovation.

It starts with a pre-program leadership assessment and on-campus debriefing to guide your personal development. Next, your week is filled with interactive classroom sessions, hands-on experiential workshops, small group discussions, roundtable forums, and visits from guest speakers. All in a stimulating environment on the Stanford campus, led by Stanford GSB faculty.

Best of all, you’ll share this experience with other LGBT executives and build a powerful and personal network to support you and your career for a lifetime, wherever in the world your career takes you.

Key Benefits

Strengthen your influence, build a valuable network, and develop new models and mindsets for innovation using design thinking.
  • Learn how your LGBT identity influences and strengthens your personal leadership style.
  • Assess and refine your interpersonal skills to become a more authentic leader.
  • Strengthen nonverbal and verbal communication skills.
  • Identify best practices for building LGBT employee networks and career paths within your organization.
  • Build a strong network of LGBT peers with whom you can share ideas and experiences.

Who Should Attend

  • Mid- to senior-level LGBT executives with a minimum of 10 years of professional experience and five years of management experience
  • Executives with significant levels of managerial responsibility — from any size company, any industry, and any country

30 Jul 2017 – 04 Aug 2017

Format

In-person|Stanford GSB
Full-time

Deadline

23 Jun 2017

Program Fee

US $12,000

The program fee includes tuition, private accommodations, all meals, and course materials.

Awarded

Certificate of completion

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Curriculum

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Application Requirements

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Participant Profile

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Faculty Leadership

Sarah A. Soule
The Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
  • Director, Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship
  • Co-Director, The Innovative Health Care Leader: From Design Thinking to Personal Leadership
  • Co-Director, LGBT Executive Leadership Program
Thomas Stephen Wurster
Lecturer in Management
  • Co-Director, LGBT Executive Leadership Program

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