Executive Education
Lubar Executive Education partners with organizations and individuals on strategies to develop the business skills of high-potential leaders.
Available Sessions
Better Conversations Everyday
The culture of your organization is more powerful than your strategy and more persistent than your vision. It’s the environment that enables performance or undermines it. Better Conversations Every Day (TM) starts with a simple – yet transformative premise: that better culture starts with better conversations. No matter the size of your organization, Better Conversations Every Day (BCE) helps drive business outcomes and create lasting change.
Change Management
Managers are focused on producing orderly results while leaders are focused on producing change. Without change, organizations would find it difficult to achieve their long-term objectives, delight their customers, and compete in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.
Great Leaders Make Great Decisions
Did you know people make over 35,000 decisions each day? Luckily, most of these are done automatically or with little effort, but that still leaves about 100-150 decisions each day that require our thought and attention. The quality of these decisions over time will determine how successful you are as a leader and while we are all human and make mistakes, it is possible to grow our ability to make better decisions.
Strategic Leadership Series – Fall 2026
The Strategic Leadership Series (SLS) from the Lubar College of Business Executive Programs is where high-performing leaders come to sharpen their edge. Designed for upper-level managers and directors, this immersive experience pushes participants beyond day-to-day leadership and into the strategic thinking required to lead organizations through growth, change, and complexity.
Through dynamic discussions, executive-level insights, and practical leadership application, participants leave with the tools, perspective, and confidence to create lasting impact within their organizations.
Seats are intentionally limited to preserve the depth of discussion, peer collaboration, and personalized learning experience—and each cohort fills quickly. If you’ve been considering SLS, now is the time to secure your place before registration closes.
Transitioning from Managing to Leading
The qualities that made you an effective manager may not completely align with the expectations of a new leadership role. Understanding the key differences between management and leadership, and then reflecting on your skills, knowledge, and style will help you identify the gaps and outline a strategy for developing your leadership skills, and your team.
Better Conversations Everyday
Overview: The culture of your organization is more powerful than your strategy and more persistent than your vision. It’s the environment that enables performance or undermines it. Better Conversations Every Day (TM) starts with a simple – yet transformative premise: that better culture starts with better conversations. No matter the size of your organization, Better Conversations Every Day (BCE) helps drive business outcomes and create lasting change.
BCE provides the framework for organizations to realize a culture of growth and engagement by focusing on the key components of coaching and feedback that drive changes in behavior to improve performance. In this workshop, you will learn and practice the four core behaviors needed for engaging in better conversations: listen to understand, ask powerful questions, challenge & support, and establish next steps and accountability.
This interactive, eight-hour program is live and virtual, delivered over two half -day sessions via Zoom. Attendance at both is required.
Organizations can utilize this program with 10+ participants, which includes customization to your business goals. Please contact Shawn Vollmer, Outreach Program Manager, at 414-251-7732 for more information.
Change Management
Overview: Managers are focused on producing orderly results while leaders are focused on producing change. Without change, organizations would find it difficult to achieve their long-term objectives, delight their customers, and compete in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.
This session is designed to help participants identify the, learn the key components of change management models, identify the key challenges associated with change management, and ways to overcome those challenges.
Session Objectives
- Understanding the elements/themes of common change management models (the why, what, how, and who of change).
- Building awareness and helping people understand the magnitude of the problem.
- Adaptive leadership – leading change when there isn’t an obvious compelling reason to change.
- Getting the right people and skills in place.
- Gaining support for change.
- Overcoming roadblocks – identifying barriers, understanding them, and minimizing them.
Organizations can utilize this program with 10+ participants, which includes customization to your business goals. Please contact Shawn Vollmer, Outreach Program Manager, at 414-251-7732 for more information.
Great Leaders Make Great Decisions
Overview: Did you know people make over 35,000 decisions each day? Luckily, most of these are done automatically or with little effort, but that still leaves about 100-150 decisions each day that require our thought and attention. The quality of these decisions over time will determine how successful you are as a leader and while we are all human and make mistakes, it is possible to grow our ability to make better decisions.
In this workshop you will, identify your default decision making style and tendencies, learn about common psychological traps that lead to poor decision making and how to avoid them, discuss ways to overcome decision fatigue, and apply constructive conflict, openness to others’ ideas, and closure to help identify better solutions, stimulate creative thinking, and make higher-quality decisions.
Organizations can utilize this program with 10+ participants, which includes customization to your business goals. Please contact Shawn Vollmer, Outreach Program Manager, at 414-251-7732 for more information.
Strategic Leadership Series – Fall 2026
Overview: Take Your Leadership to the Next Level. The Strategic Leadership Series (SLS), hosted by the Lubar College of Business Executive Programs, is a premier leadership development experience designed for upper-level managers and directors. This comprehensive program will challenge you to think strategically, strengthen your leadership approach, and equip you with the tools to drive lasting organizational success.
Facilitators
The facilitators are executive industry experts with years of experience, practical application, and nuanced understanding management and leadership. All facilitators are skilled in virtual instructional modes and best practices to facilitate robust dialogue.
Format
This is not leadership theory that stays in the classroom. The Strategic Leadership Series is built around applied learning that accelerates real-world growth—giving you the opportunity to immediately put new strategies, frameworks, and leadership approaches into practice.
Through executive-level discussions, business simulations, case studies, and hands-on application, participants are challenged to think differently, lead more strategically, and solve complex organizational problems with confidence. Throughout the experience, you will also develop an individualized leadership project centered on a real challenge within your organization—allowing you to create actionable solutions that can deliver measurable impact long before the program concludes.
Delivered through a blend of in-person and online learning across four months, SLS is designed for busy leaders who want meaningful development without stepping away from their professional responsibilities. The experience begins in person on September 28, 2026, at the Lubar College of Business on the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee campus and concludes online on December 9, 2026.
Because of the highly interactive nature of the program and the personalized learning experience, enrollment is limited—and cohorts consistently reach capacity quickly.
Session 1:
Location – UWM – Lubar College of Business
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 — 8:00am – 4:00pm
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 — 8:00am – 4:30pm
Thursday, October 1, 2026 — 8:00pm – 4:00pm
Session 2: Online – Zoom
Tuesday, October 13, 2026 – 8:00am- 12:00pm
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 – 8:00am – 12:00pm
Session 3:
Location – UWM – Lubar College of Business
Tuesday, November 17, 2026 — 8:00am – 4:00pm
Wednesday, November 18, 2026 — 8:00am- 5:00pm
Thursday, November 19, 2026 — 8:00am- 4:00pm
Session 4:
Online – Zoom
Wednesday, December 8, 2026 — 8:00am – 11:00am
Thursday, December 9, 2026 — 8:00am – 11:30am
During the in-person sessions, parking, breakfast, and lunch will be provided.
Fee: $5,150.00 per person
Topics
Emotional Intelligence • Strategy Formulation and Execution • Leading Change • Financial Decision-Making Simulation • Coaching and Communicating • Leading High-Performance Teams • Developing People • Effective Business Presentations • Innovation • Leading and Managing Across Cultures • International Business Case Challenge Simulation • Leading at the C-level
Transitioning from Managing to Leading
The qualities that made you an effective manager may not completely align with the expectations of a new leadership role. Understanding the key differences between management and leadership, and then reflecting on your skills, knowledge, and style will help you identify the gaps and outline a strategy for developing your leadership skills, and your team.
Includes one-on-one executive coaching to support your ability to personalize the information to make the biggest impact back in your business.
This is a three-part workshop, and attendance at all three sessions is required.
Organizations can utilize this program with 10+ participants, which includes customization to your business goals. Please contact Shawn Vollmer, Outreach Program Manager, at 414-251-7732 for more information.