Navigating volatility & uncertainty – entrepreneurial leadership & innovation
About This Course
Entrepreneurial Leadership in Uncertain Times is Crucial
Current events—from a global health outbreak to stock market fluctuations—underscore just how rapidly the world can change. We are in a volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous, and hyper-connected (VUCAH) environment, where leaders must make decisions without all of the data and answers. This new VUCAH world demands entrepreneurial leadership skills. This entrepreneurial leadership professional development program will teach you to guide your team more adeptly, and create corporate culture by building creative and entrepreneurial skills.
Session topics include:
- How to Develop Entrepreneurial Leaders Within Your Team
- Entrepreneurial Leadership: Think & Act like a CEO
- Innovation Culture: Building an Innovation Sandbox
Learning Objectives
This entrepreneurial leadership professional development course provides an introduction to corporate culture building that will take your team to the next level.
During this team building program, explore how to develop an innovation culture and team of entrepreneurial leaders within your organization.
Discover the characteristics and actions that make successful entrepreneurial leaders stand out from the pack.
Target Audience
- This entrepreneurial leadership team building program is well suited for both leaders with direct reports and those who are individual contributors. Participants from any function and company stage or type (startup to large enterprise, private and public sector) will benefit from this entrepreneurial leadership team building course.
Your Instructors
Jay Rao
Dr. Rao teaches extensively in the Babson Executive Education programs. His executive teaching and consulting are in the areas of innovation, implementation of innovation initiatives within firms, corporate entrepreneurship, and customer experience innovation. Dr. Rao also teaches 2 elective courses in the Babson MBA programs (1) Leading Innovation: Gorillas, Chimps & Monkeys and (2) #CX #UX #DX Innovation. His research has appeared in The Sloan Management Review, the Journal of Innovative Management, The European Business Review, The European Financial Review, Cornell Hotel, and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, and others. He is the author of the book The Discipline and Culture of Innovation. He has written several business cases on a range of topics.
He was a member of the Innovation Advisory Board at Ocean Spray (USA) from 2010 to 2015. He currently sits on the Innovation Advisory Board of Bancolombia (Colombia), and on the Flavor Advisory Board of Firmenich (Switzerland). He also has a family-business background and sits on the board of Hymamshu (Bangalore, India).
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