Personal Leadership and Success

Leadership is often approached in terms of one's ability to understand and direct our external environment including people, organizations, and events.

Personal Leadership and Success takes the view that to succeed professionally one needs to develop another dimension of leadership consisting of the ability to understand and direct one's internal environment — goals, motivations, mindsets, and emotions.

This three-day program offers a distinctive approach that integrates recent findings in psychology, neuroscience, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness with explorations of the inner lives of great achievers such as Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, and Nelson Mandela.

Participants are invited on a journey of self-discovery, investigating inner thoughts, emotions, and mindsets, to discover how they affect our everyday interactions and personal leadership style.

Until recently, the only way to explore this mastery of the inner environment has been through the teachings of philosophers, prophets, or self-help "gurus." These historical and modern sources of wisdom essentially rely on faith while Personal Leadership and Success replaces this approach with scientifically validated, practical insights and techniques for understanding and mastering one's inner environment.

Other Formats

This program is also being offered in an asynchronous online format. Learn more about Personal Leadership and Success (Online). To compare program formats, click here.

Please contact our Learning Solutions Specialists at +1 212-854-3395 for a personal conversation to learn more.

Personal Leadership and Success provides powerful insights and practical techniques to gain greater success in your professional and personal lives through an enhanced understanding and mastery over your inner environment. Lectures are supplemented by exercises involving introspection, self-evaluation, and the application of specific techniques.

Program participants will:

• Learn what impact your internal environment has on your success
• Understand your current level of mastery over different aspects of your inner environment and how it compares with top performers
• Discover practical techniques to cultivate a winner's mindset that will allow you to perform at your optimum
• Implement techniques that further develop your personal leadership skills
• Personal reflections, group discussions and applications of personal leadership techniques
• Gain a deeper understanding of your core values and how to align your day-to-day behavior and priorities with these values
• Find ways to turn personal and organizational adversities into unique value-creating opportunities

Hear about the business need for personal leadership from the faculty director:
 

Upon completion of this program, you will earn three days towards a Certificate with select alumni and tuition benefits. Learn more.

Personal Leadership and Success introduces you to a powerful set of frameworks, tools and insights for mastering your inner environment – your values, goals, beliefs, thoughts, emotions, mindsets, and habits. It is grounded in rigorous scientific evidence and case studies from the lives of great leaders.

Sample session titles include:

• Forging Purpose in Life and Work
• Understanding the Optimal State for Emotions
• From Success to Significance
• Shifting Mindsets to Boost Performance

The program also features a mindfulness exercise as well as industry guest speakers that share their personal leadership stories.

For a complete program schedule and curriculum, download the executive summary and sample agenda.

Personal Leadership and Success is designed for all levels of executives who seek to gain greater success in their professional and personal lives through an enhanced understanding and mastery over their inner environment.

Columbia Business School alumni and up to four of their colleagues are eligible for a 25 percent tuition benefit for this program. More on the Alumni Tuition Benefit.