"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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"Maura did a great job bringing in a good mix of Academic experts as well as Industry professionals for all the topics. The course content was top notch."
"The program met my (highest) expectations...The Berkeley Haas faculty and guest Speakers were of a high standard and the program had an appropriate balance between the 'practical' skills and 'theoretical' knowledge."
"This program is a thought-and action-provoking program focused on multiple facets of leadership and organizational best practices, grounded in contemporary research, and delivered through interactive exercises, simulations, case-studies, peer-to-peer consultation, as well as lectures. Top-notch faculty and industry leaders led the way...The environment was conducive to honest self-reflection and inspiration, and the structure of the program emphasized practical planning to implement best practices."
"The program exceeded my expectations. The balance of theory, real-world best practices, and time to develop practical personal leadership strategies for implementation was perfect."
"It's a must. Not only do you learn from faculty, but you get to learn from participants that are in senior positions and you can also see from them how they see leadership in their industries. It was learning both from participants, guest speakers and faculty members."
"The highlight for me were the breathing exercises and getting me comfortable one, in my body, and two, being in front of large groups of people. If you are an individual who has struggled with speaking in front of large groups of people, small groups of people, struggle with somewhat of the nervousness and anxiety and want a program that just will help you move through some of those things, this is the actual program that'll do that for you. It'll give you techniques to continue to take them outside of the classroom and equip you for the rest of your professional and personal career."
"This program absolutely exceeded my expectation. This so far is the only program that I've researched that covers the holistic communication skills from your content structure, from focusing on you as the media to deliver the message, to make sure that your audience gives you that, "Yes, I agree to your pitch." It moves you out of your comfort zone and it broadens the zone that you're used to. That will give you some profound thinking about how you're going to go about your leadership development."
"I have taken other communication presentation-style courses. The aspect that I think made this course different is first of all, the peer group. There were a lot of helpful insights from my peers and secondly, an area that I need to work on, is in developing my presence and controlling-my-breath techniques prior to a presentation. In that area, this course really helped me to think about those aspects beyond just the content of my presentation."
"I must admit that I was expecting dry business skill types, so when I arrived and Penny started off doing some of her exercises, I was surprised initially but actually for me, it really resonated, the techniques that she was teaching us that she has used on the stage. The fact that the faculty team running the course are actually coming with this wealth of real world experience really resonated for me. They're not just coming with a dry, academic mindset, but they've actually put this stuff to work in their professional lives."
"I've done a fair amount of public speaking over the years but I felt as though it's something that you always need to work at to improve, so for me, the content of this course and the focusing on storytelling resonated. The content of the course goes beyond the basics of public speaking or using PowerPoint and really into how to captivate your audience, how to enchant them, and that's something we all want to achieve. One of the highlights is the breathing exercises and really understanding that when you are in front of an audience, you can benefit from techniques to collect your thoughts, remain calm, and have your whole body helping you rather than hindering you."
"Opened up new doors for me that I didn’t know existed."
"The Women's Executive Leadership Program was the best and most comprehensive training I have ever attended. It covered a wide range of topics and included many behavioral tips that I applied when I returned to work. My only regret is that I did not attend this earlier in my career!"