Executive Education
Lubar Executive Education partners with corporate clients and individuals on strategies to develop the business skills of high-potential leaders.
All Programs:
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.
Upcoming Sessions
Tuesday, March 12, 2024: 8:00am -12:00pm (CST)
Wednesday, March 13, 2024: 8:00am -12:00pm (CST)
Format: Online
Fee: $1,395.00 per person
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.
Upcoming Sessions
Tuesday, August 6, 2024: 8:00am -12:00pm (CST)
Wednesday, August 7, 2024: 8:00am -12:00pm (CST)
Format: Online
Fee: $1,395.00 per person
Burn Bright: The Resilience Advantage
Overview: Being a leader in our complex, ambiguous, and fast-paced world can be draining. The lack of an “off switch” leads us to feel exhausted and burnt out. This not only impacts individual performance and judgement, but also team effectiveness and business outcomes. The Resilience Advantage will help you develop an individualized blueprint of researched, regular, reasonable, replicable routines and rituals to recharge and burn bright instead of burning out.
This program spans five weeks, with twelve hours of self-paced virtual leadership development, online discussions with other peers in your cohort, and five facilitated discussions with the other members of your cohort to help you maximize and apply your learning.
Participation in all five sessions is required.
Upcoming Sessions
Thursday, January 25, 2024:12:00pm – 1:00pm (CDT)
Thursday, February 1, 2024: 12:00pm – 1:00pm (CDT)
Thursday, February 8, 2024: 12:00pm – 1:00pm (CDT)
Thursday, February 15, 2024: 12:00pm – 1:00pm (CDT)
Thursday, February 22, 2024: 12:00pm – 1:00pm (CDT)
Format: Online
Fee: $825.00 per person
Overview: Leaders are tasked with executing their organization’s vision and mission. To do this, they need to motivate their teams, optimize their processes, and implement change. Innovation is not just about developing new products and services; it’s also about continuously improving existing processes and generating ideas to help overcome challenges and move initiatives forward.
Join us for this interactive workshop that will help you become a more innovative leader and foster an environment that generates the best ideas to advance your organization’s goals.
Session Objectives
- Discuss what innovation is, and the benefits of being an innovative organization.
- Understand the role of the leader when it comes to innovation and fostering an innovative environment.
- Review and practice techniques to generate, filter, select, and refine ideas so they can be applied to drive the most impact in your organization.
Upcoming Session
Tuesday, April 23, 2024: 8:00am -12:00pm (CST)
Format: In-person – Lubar Hall, S322
Fee: $415.00 per person
Overview: The Strategic Leadership Series (SLS) is the comprehensive Leadership Development program hosted by the Lubar College of Business- Executive Programs. This outstanding program is designed to help upper-level managers and directors develop and sharpen their strategic leadership skills. The experience provides interactive hands-on case challenges, simulations, and networking with facilitators and fellow cohort participants. The “flipped classroom” model has participants in charge of their own learning and reinforces the application of new skills to specific situations provided by the participating executives.
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.
Your development will be accelerated through our strong emphasis on applied learning – acquiring knowledge, practicing its application in a neutral environment, and receiving constructive feedback. In addition to robust classroom discussion, you will learn through business simulations, case studies, and an individualized job-related project that you will work on over the duration of the series. In your project, you will identify a specific challenge from your workplace, create a strategy to address that challenge, and take steps to implement your strategy to make an immediate impact in your organization, increasing your return on investment in the program.
The program is delivered in a mix of in-person and online learning over a four-month period, beginning in person on January 16th, 2024, at the Lubar College of Business on the UWM campus, and culminating March 19th, 2024, online.
Session 1:
Location – UWM – Lubar College of Business
Tuesday, January 16, 2024 – 8:00am – 4:00pm
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 – 8:00am – 4:30pm
Thursday, January 18, 2024 – 8:00pm – 4:00pm
Session 2:
Online – Zoom
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 – 8:00 am- 12:00pm
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 – 8:00am – 12:00pm
Session 3:
Location – UWM – Lubar College of Business
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 – 8:00am – 4:00pm
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 – 8:00am- 5:00pm
Thursday, March 7, 2024 – 8:00am- 4:00pm
Session 4:
Online – Zoom
Wednesday, March 19, 2024 – 8:00am – 11:00am
Thursday, March 20, 2024 – 8:00am – 11:30am
Fee: $5,150.00 per person
Emotional Intelligence • Personal Leadership Brand • 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
Overview: The Strategic Leadership Series (SLS) is the comprehensive Leadership Development program hosted by the Lubar College of Business- Executive Programs. This outstanding program is designed to help upper-level managers and directors develop and sharpen their strategic leadership skills. The experience provides interactive hands-on case challenges, simulations, and networking with facilitators and fellow cohort participants. The “flipped classroom” model has participants in charge of their own learning and reinforces the application of new skills to specific situations provided by the participating executives.
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.
Your development will be accelerated through our strong emphasis on applied learning – acquiring knowledge, practicing its application in a neutral environment, and receiving constructive feedback. In addition to robust classroom discussion, you will learn through business simulations, case studies, and an individualized job-related project that you will work on over the duration of the series. In your project, you will identify a specific challenge from your workplace, create a strategy to address that challenge, and take steps to implement your strategy to make an immediate impact in your organization, increasing your return on investment in the program.
The program is delivered in a mix of in-person and online learning over a four-month period, beginning in person on October 22, 2024 at the Lubar College of Business on the UWM campus, and culminating January 15, 2025 online.
Session 1:
Location – UWM – Lubar College of Business
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 – 8:00am – 4:00pm
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 – 8:00am – 4:30pm
Thursday, October 24, 2024 – 8:00pm – 4:00pm
Session 2:
Online – Zoom
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 – 8:00 am- 12:00pm
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 – 8:00am – 12:00pm
Session 3:
Location – UWM – Lubar College of Business
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 – 8:00am – 4:00pm
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 – 8:00am- 5:00pm
Thursday, December 5, 2024 – 8:00am- 4:00pm
Session 4:
Online – Zoom
Wednesday, January 14, 2025 – 8:00am – 11:00am
Thursday, January 15, 2025 – 8:00am – 11:30am
Fee: $5,150.00 per person
Emotional Intelligence • Personal Leadership Brand • 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.
Upcoming Sessions:
Thursday, February 15, 2024: 8:30am – 10:00am (CST)
Thursday, February 22, 2024: 8:30am – 10:00am (CST)
Thursday, February 29, 2024: 8:30am – 10:00am (CST)
Format: Online
Fee: $315.00 per person
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.
Upcoming Sessions:
Wednesday, June 12, 2024: 8:30am – 10:00am (CST)
Wednesday, June 19, 2024: 8:30am – 10:00am (CST)
Wednesday, June 26, 2024: 8:30am – 10:00am (CST)
Format: Online
Fee: $315.00 per person