Leading Strategy Execution through Culture Program
Advance Your Organization's Strategic Success with a Cultural Transformation
Overview
Designed to bridge the gap between leadership and organizational culture in strategic management, our Leading Strategy Execution Through Culture program provides executive business leaders with research-based tools to encourage a positive company culture and drive successful strategic outcomes.
In this powerful leadership and organizational culture course centered on visionary leadership, you’ll learn to successfully leverage organizational culture change to set and reach your most ambitious goals. This includes identifying critical gaps between your organization’s current and ideal culture and understanding how to overcome common barriers to change. You’ll also hone your unique leadership style, develop your strategic vision, and discover how to accelerate your team’s performance to achieve your vision and maximize impact.
Key Takeaways
Become a Transformational Leader
Elevate your expertise and ability to drive organizational transformation with new skills and frameworks designed to help you capture and communicate your transformational vision, masterfully orchestrate complex change, make more informed decisions, and align and mobilize your team.
Build a High-Performance Culture
Successfully set and achieve strategic organizational objectives by diagnosing your current work culture, addressing the three key criteria necessary for a strategic culture, and employing this new culture strategy as an accomplishment tool—inspiring accountability, commitment, higher performance, and excellence at all levels.
Fluidly Navigate Cultural Shifts
Capitalize on culture change opportunities and manage complex culture shifts by skillfully maneuvering across the organizational landscape and its intricacies, identifying and overcoming hurdles unique to culture change in the workplace, and aligning your team with changes in your organization’s strategic direction.
More about the Leading Strategy Execution through Culture program
High-functioning and strategic business cultures enable greater productivity, sustainability, and, most importantly, company success. Alternatively, a mismanaged and low-functioning culture can undermine the best efforts of well-intentioned leaders and teams.
The high-level ability to create and foster a supercharged culture takes visionary leadership that inspires, motivates, and guides employees to align company values and norms with their work. Changing or developing company culture is no small feat. Still, with the right tools and specialized training provided through the Leading Strategy Executive Through Culture program, it is achievable and well worth the effort.
Enjoy An Engaging Program Experience
In this two-day intensive program, Dr. Jenny Chatman, an award-winning Professor of Management at the Haas School of Business and a leading international expert with clients across top Fortune 500 companies and global medium-sized firms, will guide you through an immersive blend of:
- dynamic lectures
- hands-on training
- a capstone project designed to provide you with practical insights for immediate application
Prework: Hit the Ground Running
Pre-program engagement includes illuminating assessments to help you uncover key insights about your leadership style and your organization or department’s current and desired cultures. These assessments include:
- The Leadership Style Questionnaire
- The Organizational Culture Profile
Ideally, please allow 5 weeks from the program start date to coordinate and complete the pre-work required for this program. It is best to engage your colleagues several weeks before the program begins to give them time to complete their part(s). All assessment work must be done prior to the program start as reports based on the assessment data will be distributed during the first session.
Emerge As a More Strategic, Influential, and Culture-Focused Leader
You’ll come away from the program possessing new and valuable insights, and knowing precisely how best to leverage your leadership style and position yourself to lead and drive your organization’s transformation toward a high-performing strategic culture.
Using culture-focused techniques and actionable tools and strategies, you’ll develop a roadmap to execute your vision, motivate and enhance your team’s performance, overcome execution challenges, align decision-making processes with your priorities and company values, and skillfully drive strategic goals and company success.
Who's it for
- Any senior executives interested in understanding and developing organizational culture to accelerate their strategic vision
- Anyone who has decided on a strategic shift in their organization and is now faced with executing their plan
- A group of colleagues or team who would like to advance their company culture building and strategic skills together
- Anyone undertaking a strategic shift in culture—whether building a culture or changing a culture
Want to approach your employer about professional development classes and request employer support? Read the Employer Payment Assistance Guide.
Format & Structure
Online
- Three-day virtual Culture Clinic in the Forum, our virtual classroom platform
- Pre-program assessments to help inform how you as a leader are best positioned to enhance and drive culture change: The “Organizational Culture Profile” and the “Leadership Style Questionnaire” - due 3 weeks prior to start of program
- Dynamic Capstone Project to bring back to your organization
- World-renowned Berkeley Haas and Executive Education faculty
- Exclusive networking opportunities
- Access to the program alumni community
- Leading Strategy Execution through Culture Program Certificate of Completion
Online Orientation for 2024 Program: 11/7/24 at 1:00-2:00 pm
*These programs are run as live sessions and require active participation in breakouts with peer discussions. Your engagement in these sessions are critical to the program experience for you and your fellow classmates
We recommend registering at least 3 weeks before the program start date due to pre-work assignments. Program experience may be affected if you enroll after the recommended date. Please note: seating is limited and capacity may be reached prior to recommended reg date.
In-Person
- Two-day in-person Culture Clinic at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business campus
- Pre-program assessments to help inform how you as a leader are best positioned to enhance and drive culture change: The “Organizational Culture Profile” and the “Leadership Style Questionnaire” - due 3 weeks prior to start of program
- Dynamic Capstone Project to bring back to your organization
- World-renowned Berkeley Haas and Executive Education faculty
- Exclusive networking reception with faculty and peers
- Access to the program alumni community
- Leading Strategy Execution through Culture Program Certificate of Completion
Dates & Costs
Online
In-Person
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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How do I enroll in the Leading Strategy Execution through Culture program?
Enrolling in any one of our programs is simple:
- Click on the "enroll" button on the program page
- Create an account or log in to our customer portal
- Complete the online reservation form (should take less than 2 minutes)
- Pay by credit card to complete your enrollment, or select your preferred payment type to reserve your seat and connect with the finance team
How much time can I expect to spend on coursework each day?
We know that time away from the office is precious, so we work hard to make our program experiences as productive and valuable as possible. Our programs span full business days starting between 8:30-9:00 a.m. and running through 5 p.m. with lunch served in the classroom and short breaks throughout the day.
Approximately 1-2 hours of evening activities and preparation for the next day are required for some programs. Please download the program guide for more detail.
Do your programs provide credits towards a degree, grades, transcripts, or Continuing Education Units (CEUs)?
Our programs are non-degree programs and do not hold any credit unit equivalency, letter grades, pass/fail designation, Continuing Education Units (CEUs), or transcripts. Rather, we provide a certificate of completion at the conclusion of the program.
To qualify for a certificate of completion, a participant must meet the minimum requirements as noted for each program and maintaining at least 80% attendance/engagement.
Our programs are non-degree programs and do not hold any credit unit equivalency, letter grades, pass/fail designation, Continuing Education Units (CEUs), or transcripts. Rather, we provide a certificate of completion at the conclusion of the program.
To qualify for a certificate of completion, a participant must meet the minimum requirements as noted for each program and maintaining at least 80% attendance/engagement.
Can I enroll in a program if I live outside of the U.S.?
Yes. Enrollment is available to global leaders, but visa requirements may apply. Proficiency in written and spoken English at a level that allows full engagement and participation in a program is recommended.
For most international participants, a B1/B2 visa—for participation in scientific, educational, professional, or business conventions, conferences, or seminars—is required for entry into the United States to attend a program with us.
Requesting and receiving a visa takes time and we recommend beginning the process three or four months in advance of the start date of a program.
You can ask your Program Manager to prepare an invitation letter to help with your visa application. It is important to emphasize that the visit is for business purposes.
The Visa Waiver Program is available to citizens or nationals from select countries. Check the Department of State website to determine your eligibility and learn about the waiver process.
The list of countries sanctioned by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control currently includes: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and the Ukraine-Crimea Region, plus the addition of Russia for Berkeley Executive Education at this time.
Faculty
Jennifer Chatman
Interim Dean | Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management | Co-Director of Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation, Haas School of Business
Certificates
Certificate of Completion
Signal your professional achievement to your network and get recognized for your completion! Upon successful completion of the program, UC Berkeley Executive Education grants a verified digital certificate of completion to participants that you are encouraged to add to your profiles.
Note: This program results in a digital certificate of completion and is not eligible for degree credit/CEUs. After successful completion of the program, your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you directly. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of UC Berkeley Executive Education.
Certificate of Business Excellence
Participants in the Certificate of Business Excellence (COBE) program will earn a mark of distinction from a world-class university, gain access to a powerful global network, and enjoy the flexibility of completing the program in up to three years. A UC Berkeley Certificate of Business Excellence allows individuals to create a personal learning journey structured by our four academic pillars to gain management essentials in Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Finance to drive both personal and organizational development.
