Cornell to conduct strategic leadership program in Colombo

The Johnson School of Management at Cornell University is offering experiential learning program intended for senior managers and leaders in Colombo from 16-18 September to a limited number of participants. 

The program ‘Strategic Leadership’ focuses on enhancing a leader’s capability to think strategically about their business and deliver additional value to the organisation through new strategic thinking. The three-day program would be the first Ivy League leadership/strategy program to be offered in Sri Lanka. 

Program Lead will be Professor Michael Hostetler, who is a lecturer in management and organizations at the Samuel Curtis Johnson School of Management at Cornell University. Professor Hostetler’s main research and teaching interests are in strategy, decision making, leadership, high performance teams and change management. 

He has taught classes in MBA program, Executive MBA program and the Cornell/Queen’s Boardroom MBA program as well as many Executive Education programs. Hostetler is also responsible for the development of custom Executive Programs at Johnson and has designed programs for a variety of international companies including Citi Group, Sara Lee, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Hyundai, etc.

Professor Hostetler is active in the development of the Global Executive Education through the University Consortium for the Executive Education (UNICON) and the International Consortium for Executive Development Research (ICEDR). He is an emeritus trustee of UNICON.

On 18 Friday evening, Prof Hostetler will conduct a short thought provoking session on ‘Innovation: How to thrive in a

Turbulent World’. During this session Prof Hostetler will discuss the evolution of the global economy and how companies are using innovation to stay competitive. He will introduce the five sources of corporate innovation and ask the audience to assess their company’s current and potential ability to use one of more of these sources.

Founded in 1865, and once called “the first American university” by educational historian Frederick Rudolph, Cornell University represents a distinctive mix of eminent scholarship and democratic ideals. Today’s Cornell reflects this heritage of egalitarian excellence. With nearly 20,000 students in Ithaca campus alone representing every state and 120 countries choose from among 4,000 courses in 11 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools. Cornell University is the most educationally diverse member of the Ivy League. 

Johnson at Cornell has worked with organisations and executives since 1953 to help them further their strategic business objectives through education. Johnson has designed and delivered learning solutions in the core topics of innovation and entrepreneurship, business acumen, global leadership, technology trends, strategic mindset and execution, personal and team leadership.

Ranked #2 in Executive Education Globally Cornell has demonstrated that organisations who participated in executive education program generates 26% higher revenue per employee, 40% lower turnover among high potential employees, and 29% higher employee engagement than their peers. 

Executive education delivered by the expert faculty will leverage the CEO agenda to align and move organisations and individuals forward; drive strategic change across the business; utilise diverse technologies, spaces and methodologies to improve performance; provide direction for an ongoing learning journey for the person and the organisation; a social and engaging experience; expand networks and collaboration. It is also the most effective with multiple sources – business, academic and personal coaching using work processes as learning tools to deliver results on strategic initiatives.

For further information please contact the Cornell Executive Education Application Centre on 4656600 or 0773720320.