Personal Leadership and Success (Online)
Get tools for tangible personal improvements and greater leadership skills through a distinctive set of video-lectures, delivered with a flexible learning schedule and self-reflection exercises.
We typically approach leadership as an outward-focused discipline. As a leader, you need to know how to inspire others, direct others, change others, influence others, and turn others around at times of adversity. But what if you turn that lens inward? Do you know how to inspire your self, direct your self, change your self, influence your self, and turn your own self around at times of adversity? Isn’t it critical to master this inner game of leadership before you can master the outer game?
Inspired by Professor Hitendra Wadhwa's teachings on Personal Leadership in Columbia Business School's MBA Program and Executive Education courses, Personal Leadership and Success (Online) uses breakthrough research in psychology, neuroscience, and psychotherapy to provide powerful techniques for tangible personal improvements and greater leadership skills.
Personal Leadership and Success (Online) will take you on a learning journey through the Five Pillars of Personal Leadership: Purpose, Wisdom, Self-Realization, Love, and Growth. It is a unique leadership program grounded in rigorous scientific evidence from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and psychotherapy, and case studies from the lives of great leaders. The program provides powerful insights and tools to help you gain mastery over your goals, values, purpose, thoughts, emotions, beliefs, mindsets, and motivations, so you can operate at your best in all moments, become a more effective leader, build stronger relationships, and experience greater fulfillment at work and in life.
Other Formats
This program is also being offered in a live online format. Learn more about Personal Leadership and Success (Live Online). To compare program formats, click here.
Please contact our Learning Solutions Specialists at execedonline@gsb.columbia.edu for a personal conversation.
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In Personal Leadership and Success (Online), you will learn about:
- The impact your inner environment has on your success
- Your current level of mastery over different aspects of your inner environment and how it compares with top performers
- A deeper understanding of your core values and how to align your day-to-day behavior and priorities with these values
- Scientifically validated principles, tools, and techniques for how to approach your highest potential in life and leadership by developing your self along the five pillars.
- Personal reflections, group discussions, and applications of personal leadership techniques
Upon completion of this program, you will earn two credits towards a Certificate with select alumni and tuition benefits. Learn more.
This program allows you to build a broader personal leadership competency over a 12-week timeframe.
You will receive:
- 12 weeks duration
- 3 hours per week
- Self-paced, high-quality, bite-sized video lectures
- Online reflections and discussion
- Opportunity to interact with a global community of executive participants
- Learn anytime, anywhere with Mentora’s proprietary digital learning platform, available on both web and mobile
- Digitally-verified Certificate of Participation from Columbia Business School Executive Education and Mentora
- Access to the Mentora toolkit – tools, templates, and frameworks
Methodology
Personal Leadership and Success (Online) is based on Mentora’s scientific learning system, integrating breakthrough research in psychology, neuroscience, behavioral economics, sociology, medicine and psychotherapy, a rigorous study of great leaders and organizations, and a practical toolkit to drive tangible improvement in your personal leadership skills.
For a complete program schedule, please download the agenda.
The Personal Leadership and Success (Online) program is designed for executives at all levels, who are searching for practical techniques to gain greater success in their professional and personal lives through an enhanced understanding and mastery over their inner environment.
| Years of Management Experience | % |
|---|---|
| 20+ | 9 |
| 16-20 | 9 |
| 11-15 | 12 |
| 6-10 | 6 |
| 1-5 | 3 |
| Industry | % |
|---|---|
| Finance | 9 |
| IT / Technology | 5 |
| Non-Profit | 4 |
| Retail / Wholesale | 3 |
| Manufacturing | 3 |
| Healthcare / Pharma | 2 |
| Consulting | 2 |
| Other | 17 |
Upon completion of this program, you will earn credits towards a Certificate with select alumni and tuition benefits.
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This program is suitable for attendees at all executive levels.