Cornell CXO Leadership Program

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Program Overview

Leadership in the new world requires a fresh set of skills that empower leaders and managers to face disruption head-on and lead in a world of increasing volatility and complexity. Cornell CXO Leadership Program (CXO) is designed to empower senior leaders to lead through these complex and uncertain times. You get access to the best of Ivy League education facilitated by award-winning faculty from Cornell University.

STARTS ON

2 November 2024

DURATION

6 MONTHS

PROGRAM FEE

US$4,800

Program Benefits

6 Months, LIVE interactive sessions

Learn from Cornell faculty

Regular assessments and leaderboard

Access to 2000+ Courses

Certificate from Cornell University

Small cohort for impactful learning

Peer coaching and feedback

Industry Immersion in Dubai: Enhancing Decision-Making Skills

Simplifying the decision-making process: Insights from a NASA case study

Over a 2-day industry immersion program, we will focus on improving your decision-making and leadership abilities. During this immersive experience, you will explore how the brain learns, discover techniques to accelerate your learning, understand common pitfalls in judgment, and learn from both successes and failures. Our aim is to equip you with the skills to make more informed and deliberate decisions while enhancing your capacity to learn.

Key learning objectives:  

  • Develop critical thinking skills and accurate mental models, which are essential for effective learning and navigating complexity.
  • Learn to map your mental processes to facilitate informed decision-making on a regular basis.
  • Enhance your ability to manage the decision-making process itself, adding value to your organization.
  • Gain insights into the human learning process to optimize your own learning potential and leverage the power of your brain.
  • Recognize the strong connection between learning and improved decision-making, serving as a motivator for positive change.
  • This module incorporates real-life examples and practical exercises to equip you with the tools needed to make better decisions in various professional contexts.

Curriculum

Live Online Modules

Module 1: Think - Developing a strategic mindset

The session helps in building strategies for competitive advantage and generating superior value for customers.

Takeaways:

  • Understanding the components of an effective strategy

  • Evaluate how an organization can respond successfully to change and devise appropriate strategies to do so

  • Understanding the core ideas underlying strategic planning processes

  • Tesla case study to understand Tesla’s success strategy

This session focuses on the best practices that will be applicable to a number of product and service designs; business model transformation, and sales transformation templates to devise ideas for new products and services.

Takeaways:

  • Gain insights into blockchain
  • Tools to identify the best ideas for digital transformation.
  • Understand processes to create platform business models
  • Understand metaverse, virtual reality and the future of tomorrow

The session provides an understanding of the ways in which digital changes the world. The session will review the business process innovations enabled by emerging technologies and study how to realize gains from those opportunities.

Takeaways:

  • Identify areas of risk and uncertainty
  • Use of pilots and prototypes
  • How to conduct a digitization audit in organizations to assess the adoption of digital
    tools in various business phases

The session helps in formulating business models and developing processes to maximize entrepreneurial abilities. It also helps you to adopt design thinking and innovation as a strategy in your organization and helps you apply design thinking frameworks and strategies to develop innovative solutions for complex business problems.

Takeaways:

  • Introduction to five stages of the design process.
  • Connect design and entrepreneurial thinking to innovation.
  • Understand how to generate customer needs into product prototypes.
  • Use creativity and innovation to develop solutions.

This session is designed around a set of levers interleaved into a larger framework for ‘Getting Things Done.’ The framework will drive your performance by making your implicit skills explicit, and help you implement ideas back into your work world.

Takeaways:

  • A framework of simple but effective levers that have been shown to improve
    performance considerably
  • This session has three goals: to make you more effective, to equip you to teach others to
    be more effective, and to give you a framework that will help you implement tools and
    concepts to get things done

In this session, you will learn to integrate systems thinking concepts, principles, and practices to improve existing processes, operations, and thinking patterns, ultimately developing a more three-dimensional mindset toward problem-solving.

Takeaways:

  • Learn about the DSRP model
  • Understand mental models – for eg, What you think vs what is real
  • Engage the eco-system around you to generate new innovation possibilities
  • Understand the relationships and systems that create new possibilities

To make informed business decisions, modern organizations need data to be effectively integrated, manipulated, and analysed. The degree to which business decisions are informed is dependent on the accuracy of related analytics reports, which requires you to assess performance critically using the latest data.

Takeaways:

  • Help you gain familiarity with different types of increasingly powerful and detailed data that firms can harness in their businesses today
  • Study how to successfully combine critical thinking with data analytics
  • Thinking Strategically
  • Digital Transformation 1
  • Digital Transformation 2
  • Entrepreneurial Mindset, Innovation, and Design Thinking
  • Getting Things Done
  • Systems Thinking
  • Managing Complexity
  • Leading with Disruptive Innovation

Thinking Strategically

The session helps in building strategies for competitive advantage and generating superior value for customers. Takeaways:  
  • Understanding the components of an effective strategy
  • Evaluate how an organization can respond successfully to change and devise appropriate strategies to do so
  • Understanding the core ideas underlying strategic planning processes
  • Tesla case study to understand Tesla’s success strategy

Digital Transformation 1

This session focuses on the best practices that will be applicable to a number of product and service designs; business model transformation, and sales transformation templates to devise ideas for new products and services. Takeaways: 
  • Gain insights into blockchain
  • Tools to identify the best ideas for digital transformation.
  • Understand processes to create platform business models
  • Understand metaverse, virtual reality and the future of tomorrow

Digital Transformation 2

New technologies, global connectivity and changing business dynamics have changed the way we work and live. This implies a new approach to strategic thinking, leadership and operational and strategic management. In this connected world, it is no longer sufficient to learn from the past. We must learn from the future. Takeaways: 
  • Decode digital transformation from a futuristic lens
  • Debate about the many forces, technologies and market dynamics driving future business success.

Entrepreneurial Mindset, Innovation, and Design Thinking

The session helps in formulating business models and developing processes to maximize entrepreneurial abilities. It also helps you to adopt design thinking and innovation as a strategy in your organization and helps you apply design thinking frameworks and strategies to develop innovative solutions for complex business problems. Takeaways: 
  • Introduction to five stages of the design process.
  • Connect design and entrepreneurial thinking to innovation.
  • Understand how to generate customer needs into product prototypes.
  • Use creativity and innovation to develop solutions.

Getting Things Done

This session is designed around a set of levers interleaved into a larger framework for ‘Getting Things Done.’ The framework will drive your performance by making your implicit skills explicit, and help you implement ideas back into your work world. Takeaways: 
  • A framework of simple but effective levers that have been shown to improve performance considerably
  • This session has three goals: to make you more effective, to equip you to teach others to be more effective, and to give you a framework that will help you implement tools and concepts to get things done

Systems Thinking

In this session, you will learn to integrate systems thinking concepts, principles, and practices to improve existing processes, operations, and thinking patterns, ultimately developing a more three-dimensional mindset toward problem-solving. Takeaways: 
  • Learn about the DSRP model
  • Understand mental models – for eg, What you think vs what is real
  • Engage the eco-system around you to generate new innovation possibilities
  • Understand the relationships and systems that create new possibilities

Managing Complexity

The session helps gain insights into how the brain learns, how to learn more quickly, why we frequently make terrible judgments, and how to learn from both successes and failures. Learn to make more deliberate and informed decisions while potentially doubling your learning capacity. Takeaways: 
  • Learn how to systematically think back on your experiences and draw lessons from them.
  • Learn to manage the decision process rather than just the decision to add more value.

Leading with Disruptive Innovation

This session takes you through an in-depth understanding of disruption, innovation, and disruptive innovation’s impact on business. Learn more about various methodologies and approaches in innovation and real-world use cases that provide deeper insights into the state of innovation and disruption today. Explore best practices in innovation, human-centric design, lean methodologies, and a multi-horizon portfolio approach to innovation. Takeaways: 
  • Key factors driving disruption
  • Innovation engineering: Key principles
  • Multi-Horizon portfolio approach to innovation strategy
  • Looking forward: Industry 4.0 disruption – The next wave

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Module 2: Feel - Being purposeful and resilient

The session helps to understand the importance of credibility. Learn through shared examples of leaders who created a better organizational culture by demonstrating credibility. Learn why we need to consider integrity as a personal discipline and why we should be integrity nut.

Takeaways:

  • Learn through real-life scenarios where our credibility will be tested
  • Learn to manage your credibility to be more effective
  • Understand the importance of leader integrity and its relation to organizational success

The session teaches you, new skills in reading others and framing your interactions more effectively. It also helps in becoming more adept at speaking to the mood around you

Takeaways:

  • Measures to assess your emotional intelligence
  • Learn techniques for managing and using emotions as a leadership tool

The session will help you effectively navigate interactions with others, build trust, and engage in differences, to enable outcomes with greater impact than you could achieve alone

Takeaways:

  • Learn about the key drivers and elements of social Intelligence
  • Understand and deepen awareness of how others respond to you, how others see you responding to them and how you respond in moments of difference
  • Through breakout sessions understand the viewpoint of others when it comes to barriers to motivation
  • Building and Managing Leader Credibility
  • Emotional Intelligence

Building and Managing Leader Credibility

The session helps to understand the importance of credibility. Learn through shared examples of leaders who created a better organizational culture by demonstrating credibility. Learn why we need to consider integrity as a personal discipline and why we should be integrity nut.

Takeaways: 

  • Learn through real-life scenarios where our credibility will be tested
  • Learn to manage your credibility to be more effective
  • Understand the importance of leader integrity and its relation to organizational success

Emotional Intelligence

The session teaches you, new skills in reading others and framing your interactions more effectively. It also helps in becoming more adept at speaking to the mood around you

Takeaways: 

  • Measures to assess your emotional intelligence
  • Learn techniques for managing and using emotions as a leadership tool

Read more

Module 3: Do - Execution excellence for self and teams

The session helps in assessing social capital and enhancing it to achieve goals. It also teaches you the art and science of power and influence in organizations.

Takeaways:

  • Understand network density and how networks must be Broad, Connective and Dynamic
  • Understand the characteristics of influential leaders
  • Importance of networking and how to leverage networks and influence authority

The session attempts to help you project confidence and competence when communicating at the workplace, by helping you gain better awareness of your communication behaviors that build or hinder leadership presence.

Takeaways:

  • 3 components of executive presence- Gravitas, Communication, and Appearance
  • 5Cs framework to project executive presence from the book ‘Composure’
  • Understand the common narrative arc and tools for effective storytelling
  • Translate key messages through sticky stories and communication

The session improves the negotiation abilities with the help of relevant tools, terminology, and practical negotiation tactics.

Takeaways:

  • Learn about negotiation vocabularies like BATNA, Reservation Price, Trip Wire, Bargaining Zone, and Target
  • Learn about the two dimensions of negotiation – the distribution and integration side (how to divide and expand the pie)
  • Understand the concept of logrolling
  • Create more situations where win-win is a possibility
  • Manage your emotions more effectively in negotiation situations

The session helps in harnessing key financial strategies for success. It also helps in utilizing financial frameworks to improve investment decisions.

Takeaways:

  • Margin vs turnover, Operating Leverage & Financial Leverage
  • Understand how to evaluate capital investments; key cash flow concepts; decision making tools, payback period and its cut off rule
  • Fundamentals of understanding the income statement & balance sheet, return on assets, sales revenue and net income
  • Application of financial ratios, understanding the company’s financial position, performance, and prospects

The session demonstrates how you as leaders must understand and counteract the impacts of the VUCA world to lead more effectively.

Takeaways:

  • Leading in a VUCA world
  • How to continually evaluate, adjust and build an offensive mindset in the modern
    environment
  • Demonstrating clear strategy and guidance to the organization
  • Keep an eye on the future by Assessing; Adapting and Sustaining Momentum
  • How to align systems processes and build the ability to communicate

The session focuses on why and how crisis drives you to your most learned behaviors, and why those behaviors are the antithesis of innovation.

Takeaways:

  • Understand and eliminate barriers to innovation.
  • How to drive innovation in your organization.
  • Power and Influence
  • Communication and Story Telling
  • Advanced Negotiation Strategies
  • Financial Acumen
  • Leading in Crisis
  • Leading Innovation

Power and Influence

The session helps in assessing social capital and enhancing it to achieve goals. It also teaches you the art and science of power and influence in organizations.

Takeaways: 

  • Understand network density and how networks must be Broad, Connective and Dynamic
  • Understand the characteristics of influential leaders
  • Importance of networking and how to leverage networks and influence authority

Communication and Story Telling

The session attempts to help you project confidence and competence when communicating at the workplace, by helping you gain better awareness of your communication behaviors that build or hinder leadership presence.

Takeaways: 

  • 3 components of executive presence- Gravitas, Communication, and Appearance
  • 5Cs framework to project executive presence from the book ‘Composure’
  • Understand the common narrative arc and tools for effective storytelling
  • Translate key messages through sticky stories and communication

Advanced Negotiation Strategies

The session improves the negotiation abilities with the help of relevant tools, terminology, and practical negotiation tactics.

Takeaways: 

  • Learn about negotiation vocabularies like BATNA, Reservation Price, Trip Wire, Bargaining Zone, and Target
  • Learn about the two dimensions of negotiation – the distribution and integration side (how to divide and expand the pie)
  • Understand the concept of logrolling
  • Create more situations where win-win is a possibility
  • Manage your emotions more effectively in negotiation situations

Financial Acumen

The session helps in harnessing key financial strategies for success. It also helps in utilizing financial frameworks to improve investment decisions.

Takeaways: 

  • Margin vs turnover, Operating Leverage & Financial Leverage
  • Understand how to evaluate capital investments; key cash flow concepts; decision making tools, payback period and its cut off rule
  • Fundamentals of understanding the income statement & balance sheet, return on assets, sales revenue and net income
  • Application of financial ratios, understanding the company’s financial position, performance, and prospects

Leading in Crisis

The session demonstrates how you as leaders must understand and counteract the impacts of the VUCA world to lead more effectively.

Takeaways: 

  • Leading in a VUCA world
  • How to continually evaluate, adjust and build an offensive mindset in the modern environment
  • Demonstrating clear strategy and guidance to the organization
  • Keep an eye on the future by Assessing; Adapting and Sustaining Momentum
  • How to align systems processes and build the ability to communicate

Leading Innovation

The session focuses on why and how crisis drives you to your most learned behaviors, and why those behaviors are the antithesis of innovation.

Takeaways: 

  • Understand and eliminate barriers to innovation.
  • How to drive innovation in your organization.

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Year long access to 2000+ Courses

Choose from over 2000+ courses that will enhance your knowledge and skills across business functions. With unlimited access to Cornell’s resource library, you will have the opportunity to learn something new, every day.

Regular assessments and leaderboard

Post-work assignments/tasks will be given after each session to enhance your skills on each topic taught during the LIVE session. The leaderboard scores you against your peers in the learning journey.

Peer coaching and feedback

Learn from high-achieving peers from around the globe and build your network. The cohort will be divided into triads. You will get a chance to interact, share and exchange ideas with your peers.

Cohort Statistics

Module 2: Feel - Being purposeful and resilient

Cohort Statistics

Faculty from Cornell

Indicative faculty, subject to change based on availability and university guidelines

Faculty from Cornell

Indicative faculty, subject to change based on availability and university guidelines

Certificate

Upon successful completion of the program, participants will be awarded a digitally verifiable certificate by Cornell University

Note: Certificate image is for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of Cornell University

Learner Testimonials

Learner Testimonials

Dr. Abey John

It was enlightening and knowledgeable. Professor Allan is a delight.

Dr. Abey John
Group Manager
Evalueserve

Eduardo Aspillaga

World-class program. No doubt about it.

Eduardo Aspillaga
Digital Transformation Strategy Lead
IBM

Dr. Anu Jacob

Succinct yet in-depth enjoyable sessions delivered 100% LIVE by Cornell faculty

Dr. Anu Jacob
Director, Multiple Sclerosis
Cleaveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Tareq Alzagha

All sessions were very beneficial. Great interaction and learning.

Tareq Alzagha
Implementation Manager
Yas Holdings

Ibrahim Hijazi

It was a very exciting and high-value experience for me. A very professional team with established Cornell faculty directly interacting and engaging during the LIVE sessions.

Ibrahim Hijazi
Project Manager
YAS Holding UAE

Karim Bennis

Great program, one of the best experiences. Great experts in their field and very genuine faculty delivered sessions, all LIVE and interactive.

Karim Bennis
Group CFO
Etisalat Group

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