Organizational Leadership

Organizational Leadership

Topics included: The nature of leadership Power and influence Managerial traits and skills Ethical and charismatic leadership Development of leadership skills Organizational change Total cost: $ 35,000 MXP + taxes Schedule: 35 hours Fridays from 18:00 to 21:00 h. Saturdays from 09:00 to 13:00 h. Maximum 24 participants Dates: April 19, 20, 26 y 27 May 3, 4, 17, 18 y 31 Investing in leadership development is critical to achieving competitive advantage and long term growth. Few leaders stand out among the executive crowd. Leadership abilities can be learned. A good leader should be able to set priorities, communicate ideas and deliver results. To do this he must influence and inspire others around his vision of the future. Organizations and individuals respond well to articulated visions that are strategic, persuasive and measurable. This program will address the crucial elements of organizational leadership: the nature of leadership, power and influence, managerial traits and skills, ethical and charismatic leadership, the development of leadership skills and organizational change. Grounded in the latest organizational leadership research the course trains participants using group dynamics and case discussions. By the end of the program each participant will develop a personalized change plan based on individual results from the Birkman test. This change plan should be able to improve leadership effectiveness within the participants organization. This course is suitable for: Executives and enterpreneurs with more than 10 years of work experience. The course will be taught mostly in Spanish although a significant portion of the reading materials will be in English. Key takeaways: Organizational Leadership Strategies to increase your influence in the workplace Skills to look for in potential organizational leaders How to lead change in an organization Practical tools you can apply immediately based on the Birkman test and the individualized change plan 1

ITAM Faculty José Luis Rivas Jose Luis is a full time professor and researcher at ITAM where he teaches leadership, managerial capabilities and global strategy. He is also in charge of the international business curricula at the MBA level. He is visiting professor at Tulane University and Associate Professor at IE business school in Spain. With 17 years of full time work experience he held different executive positions at Inverlat securities and Grupo ADO where he was a board member for 8 years. While at ADO he also lived in Chiapas and Oaxaca. Professor Rivas holds a PhD in management from IE Business School in Spain, an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago and a Bachelors in Business Administration from Anahuac University in Mexico City. He is a certified Birkman consultant and a graduate from the International Teachers program at Bocconi University in Milan. He is also a member of the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business. His research interests focus on boards of directors and top management teams (TMTs). He specifically studies the individual attributes that lead firms to faster international expansions. His work Board Composition and Firm Internationalization was recognized as one of the best articles at the Academy of Management conference in Chicago 2009. He has also presented different articles at the Academy of International Business and at the European Group of Organizational Studies. His work has been accepted for publication in international scientific academic journals such as the International Journal of Human Resource Management and International Business Review. Luis Arciniega Dr. Luis M. Arciniega is professor of OB & HRM at ITAM in Mexico City. He received his PhD. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Salamanca in Spain. His research focuses on the influence of personal and work values on job attitudes and team processes. He is coauthor of the Work Values Scale (EVAT). Dr. Arciniega has been visiting researcher at the University of Western Ontario and visiting professor at the University of Salamanca. His scientific production has been published in leading academic journals such as Personality and Individual Differences, Educational and Psychological Measurement, and the Journal of Applied Psychology, and presented in several international conferences. He worked as a practitioner in HR for more than ten years at Televisa Group, one of the largest media corporations in the world, and as a consultant to some multi-national organizations. Dr. Arciniega is Vicepresident of Development at the International Society for the Study of Work and Organizational Values (ISSWOV), and member of the EAWOP and SIOP. 2

Columbia Faculty Adam D. Galinsky Adam Galinsky is full time Professor at Columbia University in the City of New York. Before joining Columbia he was the Morris and Alice Kaplan Professor of Ethics and Decision in Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in Social Psychology and his B.A from Harvard University. Professor Galinsky has published more than 110 scientific articles, chapters, and teaching cases in the fields of management and social psychology. He has carried out research and teaching focused on leadership, power, negotiations, decision-making, diversity, and ethics. His research has received national and international recognition from the scientific community. His dissertation received the Most Outstanding Dissertation from the International Association for Conflict Management. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the American Psychology Association. In 2006, he was the sole expert witness for a plaintiff who was awarded $37 million in damages in a defamation trial. His work on auctions was featured in the 2006 Ideas of the Year by the New York Times Magazine. In 2011, Professor Galinsky received the Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellowship at Northwestern University, which is awarded to one faculty member each year across the university. It supports the research of a Northwestern faculty member whose research and scholarship is so outstanding as to enhance the reputation of Northwestern both nationally and internationally. Professor Galinsky has twice won the Chair s Core Course teaching award at Kellogg for academic excellence on the topic of leadership. He teaches courses on Leadership in Organizations, Values-Based Leadership, Negotiations, Leading High-Performing Teams, and Research Methodology to MBA, executive, and doctoral audiences. He has consulted with and conducted executive workshops at Unilever, Abbott, the FBI, Hearst Publishing Company, Land O Lakes, Manpower, the Young President s Organization, The Ministry of Finance of Thailand, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Hilco Resources Merchant, Alliant Credit Union, Oil Dri, the City of Chapel Hill, NC, and the London Symphony Orchestra. 3

Senior Executive Programs Phone: (5255) 5628 4183 and 5490 4688, Toll free number from Mexico 01 800 398 4826 Av. Camino a Sta. Teresa 930. Col. Héroes de Padierna, 10700, México, D.F. e-mail: execed@itam.mx www.desarrolloejecutivo.itam.mx 7