Columbia Business School

Leading Strategic Growth and Change

Columbia Business School

Leadership Skills

About Programme

The demands on today’s senior leaders are changing—fast. Staying competitive means identifying opportunities early, adapting strategies in real-time, and guiding teams through complex transformations. But leading growth and change in today’s environment requires more than a fixed playbook.

Leading Strategic Growth and Change is a dynamic program that was built from the ground up to evolve alongside the business landscape. Each offering includes a consistent foundation of core strategy and leadership sessions, alongside rotating specialty topics that reflect current market realities, faculty expertise, and participant goals. Executives prepare a personal case – a significant business challenge – then, each day, work in a peer-to-peer setting to challenge assumptions, obtain insights, and support one another, gaining the insight and confidence needed to lead transformational growth—no matter how conditions shift.

Hear from our faculty director, Rita McGrath, about the three biggest benefits of this program:

Programme Content

Day 1
Why innovation and transformation are not optional in a transient advantage context
Day 1
The new strategy playbook
Day 1
How to use the real options model for investment to support innovative programs
Day 1
Creating an opportunity portfolio for growth
Day 1
Personal case sessions for application
Day 1
Customers should not be a mystery – 3 techniques for creating customer insight
Day 1
Opening night reception
Day 2
Introduction to design thinking – a disciplined approach to coming up with creative solutions
Day 2
Personal case groups for application
Day 2
Overview of discovery driven planning, a concept Clayton Christensen said was one of the most important management ideas ever introduced and the basis for the Lean Startup movement
Day 2
Fireside chat with Joyce Roche, Executive in Residence at Columbia, author and former President and CEO, Girl’s Inc
Day 3
The Inside Baseball of Organizational Transformation with Ron Boire, former public company CEO and advisor to senior executives
Day 3
Healthy disengagement and stopping doomed projects: The case of the Sony Minidisc player
Day 3
The power of positive politics because managing the mothership is not optional
Day 3
Personal case group reflections
Day 4
Strategy in network contexts
Day 4
Why complementors are essential to creating value for customers
Day 4
Two sided markets
Day 4
The power of platforms – a new business model
Day 4
Network effects – and their limitations
Day 4
Personal case groups wrap up
Day 4
Seeing Around Corners, “snow melts from the edges”
Day 5
Case group closing conversations – how will we implement the ideas we want to move forward with?
Day 5
Nominated topics – a time to talk about anything you wished to learn but wasn’t on the formal agenda

Programme Audience

Senior business unit leaders, division heads, and general managers with 10+ years of experience who are setting strategic direction and leading growth
Executives driving innovation, transformation, or large-scale change across their organizations
Functional leaders in finance, operations, HR, technology, or marketing looking to broaden their enterprise influence
Recently promoted senior professionals preparing for cross-functional or enterprise-wide leadership roles
Founders, entrepreneurs, and executives from scaling or mission-driven organizations navigating periods of disruption or transition

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Prashansa Uttam

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+91 9403890085[email protected]Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm IST

Columbia Business School

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https://academics.gsb.columbia.edu
New York, USA

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