"This is an intense and inspiring week and a well-structured program that covers the long journey from idea generation to market success, embedding the many facets of innovation and entrepreneurship into a bigger picture. It provides insights into both worlds: the small startup and the large organization. A world-class faculty, supported from excellent guest speakers from the Silicon Valley scene and beyond. This course will definitely support and improve my future work."
"This program is an opportunity to share and learn from experience of senior managers from all around the globe. The program combines experienced tutors and practitioners from the Silicon Valley providing a unique mix that boosts your creativity and thinking about the implementation of the knowledge you have just learned."
"I had a wonderful, enriching experience at the Boot Camp for Experienced Managers. The training was a nice blend of theory and practical examples. It was very rewarding to connect with like-minded folks and discuss my organizational issues, and to listen to their ideas. I have already highly recommended this training to my colleagues."
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"This course provides the exposure and practice needed to be effective in both external negotiations on behalf of your business and for internal negotiations within your company. Robust well-prepared cases to practice using role play. Develops the practical skills needed."
"The world of work is changing: the future of work is now hybrid, so it is very important to improve your communication skills in person and virtually. This Communication's Excellence training will guide you to communicate your ideas, projects, goals or any topic with your clients, suppliers, managers or even with the people you love in a better way. I started using the things I learned the same week and I know that I will continue to use them because I am seeing how my communication has improved."
"It was a life-changing experience for me and, coming from an engineering background, I now have a much broader knowledge about products and their full lifecycle. The program far exceeded my expectations! And it will only improve, as I'm now part of a large PM networking group that will continue to share experiences and exchange ideas. So, it's not just about the program itself, it's also about the life after the program."
"It’s not just the interactions in the classrooms where you break out into projects or certain assignments, but also the interaction outside of the coaching sessions of the programs. We’ve had networking sessions, we have social media groups that we are a part of, we talk often outside the class as well. We share ideas, we share feedback and day-to-day challenges. It has been a pretty good way to connect to classmates."
"I was a little hesitant since I thought it was going to be fast-paced and not very interactive. I’ve had previous experiences and the in-person experiences always connected people and were interactive. Initially, I thought I wouldn’t be able to experience this with an online platform. But the UC Berkeley online platform is so real that you don’t feel like you’re in a virtual setup. There are online discussions going on while the professor is teaching, the students are asking questions and answering themselves, and that has been a great learning experience. I have taken away much more from the online program than I expected."
"The benefit of this online program is that you get attendees from all over the world. People are attending from Asia and Europe, you do not have the constraint of location anymore. What that does is that it makes the program global. I’m able to interact with people from Asia and how they’re finding a solution for a particular problem and compare it to the USA. The diversity is certainly there - not all the people are from the same background. You get different perspectives, different cultural perspectives, different professional experiences. This has been tremendous and the return on investment has been wonderful."
"As I’ve mentioned, I lead the finance operations for Rahi Systems, and my accounting and finance team comprises 11 employees, 10 of which are women. My team has the most women of any function within the organization. It’s no secret that our industry is male-dominated. I was drawn to a course focused on women in leadership not only for my own development, but also to help the women on my team develop as professionals. The Women’s Executive Leadership program gave me tangible tools and skills that have resulted in noticeable improvements in confidence and performance for me and my team. I could see a noticeable improvement in a recent presentation I gave, and the best part was noticing how confident I appeared being on stage in front of all of those people. That was not how I felt in the past! I have nothing but praises for UC Berkeley and this amazing class.”
“This program was amazing – it was unlike any other for its ability to help me grow as a person. It was less academic and more about learning to be authentic.I am still deeply connected with the women I met. We stay in touch via LinkedIn, and those of us who are local regularly meet for lunch, dinner, and coffee. We’ve stayed in close contact – especially now during the pandemic – often daily, through texting, direct messaging and video get-togethers."
"The program's roots in science and research made the experience memorable and trustworthy. The presenters, mostly professors, were able to present their research in engaging, narrative, and experiential ways, so the takeaways really stuck. If you are ready to feel more comfortable taking and holding power responsibly, this program will enable you with the tactics and science behind how to do so effectively."
"We all think communications is so simple and straightforward. And it can be, if we have the right tools (as taught in this class) and achieve the right outcomes. And this is exactly what this class does. The program empowered me with the right tools to communicate effectively to different audience levels across my organization. The value out of this program will be felt instantly and having these skills will equip anyone for any type of communication with any type of audience."
"This course provides the exposure and practice needed to be effective in both external negotiations on behalf of your business and for internal negotiations within your company. Robust well prepared cases to practice using role play. Develops the practical skills needed."
"I learned a lot about the latest techniques associated with the product management role. I realized that many of the things I was following as good practices are now obsolete due to the digital transformation."