High-Impact Leadership

Influential leadership begins with the power of storytelling and knowing how to connect with your audience. Having these strong leadership and communication skills is foundational to building lasting business relationships that drive your professional success.

The High Impact Leadership program is an opportunity to develop your personal expression and establish your authentic voice, presence, and talents as a leader who leaves a lasting impression. Through world-class theater techniques, role-playing, and individual coaching, you will sharpen and mold your charismatic and powerful leadership skills.

Improve Your Leadership Communication Delivery

Master storytelling techniques that equip you with the needed skills to deliver inspirational speeches and practice powerful theater techniques to actively communicate the voice, body, imagination, and energy.

Connect with Your Audience through Storytelling

Engage in storytelling that moves people, creates influence over an audience and leaves a lasting impression that impacts the energy and performance of your team, department, or organization.

Transform Your Communication Challenges into Strengths

Leave your comfort zone to identify your challenges and establish a strong leadership presence while building communication strengths such as ‘thinking on your feet’ and ‘spontaneity.’

Build Meaningful Business Relationships, Interpersonal Relationships, and Partnerships

Prioritize communication as a leader and employ leadership soft skills, including the art of giving and receiving constructive feedback, creating a community of excellence through active communication and engagement in productive interpersonal exchanges.

Have Greater and More Memorable Impact Through Your Leadership Presence

Find the right communication approach that reflects your own, authentic leadership style. Leverage your newfound style to achieve transformational leadership.

Features

ONLINE

• Three-day virtual communication intensive program utilizing the flexible, online ExecEd Digital Lab
• Program sessions held from 9:00 am-3:30 pm PST
• World-renowned Berkeley Haas and Executive Education Faculty
• Former professional actor Mark Rittenberg as Faculty Director
• Supportive participant community curated through practical group exercises and peer feedback
• Interactive and collaborative learning environment
• Extended post-program access to select course material
• Access to the program alumni community
• High-Impact Leadership Certificate of Completion

IN-PERSON

• Three-day communication intensive program at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business campus
• World-renowned Berkeley Haas and Executive Education Faculty
• Former professional actor Mark Rittenberg
• Practical application
• A highly interactive learning environment
• Exclusive networking reception with faculty
• Access to the program alumni community
• High-Impact Leadership Certificate of Completion

PROGRAM TOPICS

The High-Impact Leadership program curriculum covers the following topics:

TOPIC 1 | The Art of Leadership Presence

• The four universal communication principles
• The power of presence in effective leadership
• The ten active communication skills

TOPIC 2 | Motivating, Inspiring and Reaching Out to Others

• Active communicating using voice, body, imagination, and energy
• Theater as heightened communication
• Thinking on your feet: the skill of spontaneity

TOPIC 3 | The Leader as Communicator

• The power of dialogue
• Building meaningful relationships in the workplace
• Dialogue and courageous conversations
• The art of giving and receiving constructive feedback
• Creating a community of excellence through communication
• Leadership stories and exercises

TOPIC 4 | The Leader as Coach

• The primary skills of the coach
  
• Mastering the tools of the coach
• The three types of listening
• The art of curious questioning
• Listening skills and asking the right questions
• Playback and empathy and coaching tools