Black Executive Leadership Accelerator
Overview
The Black Executive Leadership Accelerator is designed for professionals from African American and underrepresented communities to develop critical leadership skills, navigate accelerating change in the business ecosystem, and strengthen their impact. Throughout the blended program, participants will reflect upon and share insight regarding the experiences, opportunities, and challenges that they have faced as Black leaders. Combining both UC Berkeley’s world-renowned faculty, Urban League of Greater San Francisco Bay Area's commitment to connect and advance African American and other underrepresented communities, and the real-world expertise of business practitioners sharing their own personal journeys - the program culminates with a curriculum focused on accelerating career growth, business impact, economic development, and network expansion among emerging Black leaders and those interested in their advancement.
Learning Journey
The Black Executive Leadership Accelerator learning journey includes three main immersions: Leading Self, Leading Teams, and Leading the Business. Within these three immersions, the learning journey is segmented further into the below components.
Pre-Program Orientation
Begin your journey with a session designed to engage and connect leaders through sharing of personal goals, while gaining insight into the overall learning journey and desired outcomes.
Live Virtual Faculty Sessions
Strengthen your skills as an agile, authentic leader, able to lead through others, navigate ambiguity and complexity, set and achieve priorities with confidence. Led by Berkeley Haas faculty through an immersive virtual learning experience.
In-Person Practitioners Workshops
Through its vast network, Urban League of Greater San Francisco Bay Area has gathered incredible leaders and mentors of color, to share their own personal leadership journeys and lessons, to help accelerate yours.
Peer Collaboration & Networking
One of the most important components of this learning journey is you. Among the most powerful and lasting learnings will be from the sharing of experiences and insight among peers. Engage fully, share openly, and the group will form strong bonds that extend long beyond the program.
Who's it for
Format & Structure
Blended
- Virtual sessions held Tuesdays from 5-7 pm PST
- In-person practitioner workshops
- An immersive learning experience, combining experiential learning activities and collaboration with faculty and practitioners to provide immediately actionable tools and strategies to apply in your own work
- Participatory, active program design, with an emphasis on small group exercises and conversations, and peer coaching with classmates
- Networking and community elements, designed to build and sustain connections and impact, well beyond the program
Apply for the Program
The application deadline is February 21, 2025
Dates & Costs
Blended
Other Ways to Participate
Attend this program with a group of your colleagues.
Attend this program with colleagues to gain greater organizational impact. Groups of five or more receive special rates.
Customize this program for your organization.
Use this program's curriculum as the foundation of a program based on your company's unique objectives.
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Faculty
Benjamin Mertz
Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute
Laura Kray
Professor | The Ned and Carol Spieker Chair in Leadership | Chair of Management of Organizations Group | Faculty Director of Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership, Haas School of Business