The Wharton School

High-Potential Leaders: Accelerating Your Impact

The Wharton School

Leadership and Management

About Programme

You have the potential to be among your organization’s greatest assets — but capitalizing on your abilities requires personal growth. High-Potential Leaders: Accelerating Your Impact will help you better understand who you are as a leader, appreciate your role on a team, and navigate the environment in which your team operates.

In this highly customized program, you will work closely with Wharton’s leadership experts and other high potentials from around the world in a dynamic, interactive, safe environment. Each day you will test new strategies and practical tools through hands-on experiences with instant feedback, gain deeper insights into your leadership through assessments and reflection, and participate in integration sessions that connect program content to your real-world issues. High-Potential Leaders will prepare you to return to your organization ready to make an immediate impact.

Programme Content

During this intensive five-day program, you will define your individual leadership style and develop the strengths needed to advance your career. You will put them to the test in a series of experiential learning sessions, including a simulation designed and led by one of the founders of Wharton Interactive. You will also have a unique opportunity to broaden your global perspective by learning with high-potential peers from various countries, vertical industries, business disciplines, and cultural backgrounds.

High-Potential Leaders is a highly personal experience that progresses from individual leadership to teams to your wider organization and network. Through assessments including the Wharton Personality Profile, Communications Style Questionnaire, and Network Mapping, you will develop a better understanding of your current strengths and challenges and create actionable plans that you can implement when you get back to work.

High-Potential Leaders will help you to:

Deliver sustainable results driven by strengthened leadership capabilities
Better navigate organizational politics and culture
Build more effective and productive relationships based on intelligent use of your emotions
Create an individual action plan that commits to immediate and long-term change and growth

High-Potential Leaders includes several sessions in which you will put new insights and tools into action. Research shows these experiential learning sessions help participants acquire and test new skills in a more compelling and immediate way than classroom-based learning alone. The first is a team-based exercise that requires high levels of collaboration and cooperation as you work to resolve a challenge. You will receive feedback on your individual and group leadership abilities from both faculty and the peers on your team.

Later in the week, you will participate in a simulation, designed by Wharton Interactive, which develops game-based learning solutions. The simulation puts you in a realistic environment that requires high levels of engagement and complex decision making while also providing continuous performance feedback. As with flight simulators used to train pilots, this experience tests and strengthens specific skills, focusing on crisis management, teamwork, and leadership.

Session topics include:

The Adaptable Leader
Building Your Network
Communication Styles and Emotional Intelligence
Leading Change
Leading Organizational Culture
Leader Identity
Leadership Navigation Challenge
Power and Persuasion

Programme Audience

High-Potential Leaders: Accelerating Your Impact is designed for those with at least 10 years of experience and whose fast-track career has involved consistently increasing levels of responsibility. Participants have an ultimate goal of reaching senior management.

Fluency in English, written and spoken, is required for participation in Wharton Executive Education programs unless otherwise indicated.

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This program is held at the Steinberg Conference Center located on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. Meals and accommodations are included in the program fees. Learn more about planning your stay at Wharton’s Philadelphia campus .

Programme Benefits

Gain deep, actionable insights into your personal leadership
Strengthen team leadership skills that accelerate both individual development and collaborative outcomes
Understand your unique communication style and how to leverage it for better leadership outcomes
Develop a senior leader’s holistic approach to organizational culture that recognizes and builds on the interrelatedness of teams across business functions

Testimonials

"This program has a superb blend of world-class faculty, an integrated curriculum, and a strongly interactive and diverse group of classmates from high-performing global companies. The material challenged our traditional views and learning, and stretched us immensely to expand our understanding on what leadership needs to be in the 21st century. I highly recommend this program to those interested in developing self-awareness and the skills needed to achieve business results in todays and tomorrows business climate."

Chuck Mollor

Managing Partner, MCG Partners

"The High-Potential Leaders program was excellent! The combination of diverse participants as well as first-rate faculty made for a great learning environment. The faculty delivered time and again on many practical tools and techniques that will help me accelerate my performance and better achieve my leadership potential. I would highly recommend this program to others."

David Greenfield

Chief Financial Officer, Financial Services Industry

"The program provided me with a deep knowledge of techniques that will fast track my career. Additionally, having an internationally represented group with different experiences was fundamental to setting personal goals and to developing and managing my team."

André Hirschheimer

Financial Manager, Suzano Holding

"This is a great leadership development program. Too often in todays business environment, many leaders are so focused on managing their business that they do not take the time to focus on their own career development. We are always making excuses regarding the lack of time we have to further our own development. This was the best use of my time at the perfect time in my career."

Rich Murphy

Senior National Director, US Specialty Care Sales, Schering-Plough Corporation

"I must say, Wharton was truly an experience that punctuated my values...and overarching imperatives. The class was insightful, enjoyable, and profound. There were times that it struck an emotional chord, bringing tears to my eyes. Most importantly, it drove home the values of integrity, authenticity, empathy, and transparency. I better appreciate the need to network externally, remain current, and position myself for change, while maintaining balanced physical, professional, and personal activities. Nearly half of the classmates were internationals…and their perspectives were so important to the success of the experience. All in all, it made me aware that modern management is a psychological discipline and an art form requiring oneself to take the high road regardless of the pressures and stress…. I am so pleased about the opportunity to experience this program, as it has enabled me to truly be a better leader."

John Crapo

Program Director, IT Account Management Services, Lockheed Martin Company

"This program exceeded my expectations! It was truly a transformational experience to help me become the leader I want to be. The instructors were fantastic and I made lasting friendships with some of my fellow classmates. I will definitely return for another Wharton Executive Education Program!"

Victoria Hughes

Director of Performance Excellence, Health Care Industry

"The Wharton High-Potential Leaders course is a must-attend course for business leaders. The curriculum was well thought out and provided an outstanding learning experience with world-class faculty and exercises. The diversity of attendees from multiple industries and countries created a truly diverse and engaging learning environment. The course really challenges you to truly assess where you are as a leader and how to become a stronger leader in the future. I look forward to applying the lessons learned from this course to assist me as I continue to grow in my career."

Mark Miller

Director, Strategic Initiatives, IS&GS CIO, Lockheed Martin

"This was an excellently delivered set of courses that every leader and future leader should experience. The content was relevant and enabled me to critically review my own capabilities and develop a plan of action to drive myself to a higher level. This experience allowed me to make changes that have positively impacted the way I approach my professional career. The most amazing element for me was the transformation I saw on the personal front after I reprioritized my activities. Thanks to the excellent team that pulled off a remarkable enlightening experience for a truly remarkable, class of high-potential people."

Prabdeep Bajwa

Vice President, Seed Applied Technologies Portfolio of Corteva Agriscience

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