Mindful Leadership & Influence

About the Program

Good leaders are flexible and adaptable. They can actively exert their influence on their environments, and respond in appropriate ways to both threats and opportunities. Their insights can breed innovative ideas for a company, but to implement such ideas, takes a leader who can effectively influence and manage change. This course will teach you to do both.

Focus

Mindful Leadership & Influence will focus on mindsets, skills and behaviors critical for leaders in today's complex business environment. Using a highly interactive lecture and discussion format, participants will gain new insights into trust-based leadership and emotional intelligence, as well as influence and persuasion.

Details

Sep 18, 2009

$250

Course runs from 7:45am–12pm. Registration fee includes course materials, campus parking and continental breakfast.

Impact

Procure an actionable framework for building trusting relationships
Learn to adapt your leadership style to the needs of others
Experience overtly what it feels like to influence and be influenced

Related Courses

Change Management
Difficult Conversations
Communicating Across Corporate Cultures

Buzz

“Great! He did not have to rely on boring PowerPoint. Seemed to adapt the class to our comments.”

“Excellent instructor; great job at adjusting topic and relating to students using relevant examples.”

Quotes from participants following the December 2007 offering of Mindful Leadership & Influence.

Participants

This course is intended to mold participants from any level of leadership into a more effective leader. Anyone who would like to improve their leadership skills, be more effective at implementing their ideas and lead their company to success is appropriate for this course.

Instructor

Alexander Zak, Ph.D. is an award winning faculty member at UC San Diego, who teaches a broad range of graduate courses at the Rady School of Management, the Jacobs School of Engineering and the School of Theater and Dance. He is a thought leader, a trusted advisor and an educator, with a broad range of global experience in building leadership capacity to solve complex business problems, develop insight, execute and drive change. His expertise is in creating business value by orchestrating experiential learning, consulting and coaching engagements focused on visionary outcomes.

Zak is a charismatic speaker who consistently receives outstanding evaluations from audiences around the world on a diverse range of topics: personal and team leadership, client relationships and business development, strategy and execution, engineering management, as well as numerous others.

Zak has taught, coached and served clients, within some of the world's leading multinational corporations and professional service firms for over a decade, including: McKinsey & Co., Booz Allen Hamilton, Egon Zehender, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Warburg Pincus, Permira, Cisco, EMC, Avaya, ViaSat, Ericsson, Infosys, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Ford Motor Co., Caterpillar, Ingersoll Rand, Disney, Genentech, CB&I, Skanska and Cargill.

Zak holds a doctorate in engineering and masters in management. His work and research is in strategic problem solving methodologies, management of complexity in enterprise systems and development of executive leadership capacity. Zak is fluent in English and Russian and is certified in MBTI ®.