Chicago Booth School of Business

Mindful Leadership—Online

Chicago Booth School of Business

Leadership Programs

About Programme

Increase your emotional intelligence to maximize your leadership potential.

Mindful Leadership is a six-week online program that blends self-paced learning with live online sessions to help leaders cultivate greater resilience, mental clarity, and authentic leadership. Grounded in evidence-based neuroscience, the program equips participants with practical tools to reduce burnout, strengthen emotional intelligence, foster innovation, and build high-performing teams.

Exceptional leadership starts from within. By strengthening resilience, self-awareness, and emotional intelligence, leaders build the personal foundation needed to navigate complexity, inspire trust, and help their teams thrive.

This program is solely owned and managed by Chicago Booth (no external partners).

Programme Content

Module 1: Expanding Whole-Brain Capacity to Optimize Leadership

Emotional intelligence of great leaders
Our holistic approach: whole-brain leadership
The power of mindfulness of neuroscience
Upgrading leadership with self-awareness for increased clarity

Module 2: Rewiring and Adapting Your Brain

Adaptive resilience Understanding and shifting energy
Amplifying self-awareness with saboteurs
Self-management: building mastery with whole brain

Module 3: Discover Your Authentic Leadership Presence

Flourishing holistically as a leader starts with you
Alignment with your motivation and values
Excavating your authentic essence
Bringing it all together: creating purpose and driving greater leadership impact

Module 4: Embrace Disruption to Innovate

How disrupting your brain fosters creativity and progress
The path to creativity: models and tools for big-picture and creative thinking
Visualizing the future you want to create
Applications for leaders and teams with the F.A.S.T. framework

Module 5: Deepen Connections

Increasing self-awareness builds empathy and thriving
Stretching: Increasing connection for greater benefits
Cultivating compassionate leadership
Communicating with insight: difficult conversations at an emotional level

Module 6: Integrate and Lead Teams of Trust

How to earn trust: build, maintain, restore
Communicating with impact: IDEA Model—Feedback
Embracing conflict—inherent to diversity—increase trust, communication, innovation
Leadership commitment

Programme Objective

By attending this program, you will explore key themes in:

Resilient and Authentic Leadership

Lead change with confidence and authenticity by aligning your leadership with your purpose and values to foster higher employee engagement.

Lead change with confidence and authenticity by aligning your leadership with your purpose and values to foster higher employee engagement.

Develop the resilience and emotional intelligence needed to navigate uncertainty and inspire others through change.

Develop the resilience and emotional intelligence needed to navigate uncertainty and inspire others through change.

Well-Being and Peak Performance

Discover practical strategies to reduce burnout, manage stress effectively, and mitigate employee turnover.

Discover practical strategies to reduce burnout, manage stress effectively, and mitigate employee turnover.

Develop the ability to shift into effortless flow, driving greater productivity, performance, and fulfillment.

Develop the ability to shift into effortless flow, driving greater productivity, performance, and fulfillment.

Connection and Human-Centered Leadership

Communicate with compassion to foster mutual understanding, deeper connections, and well-being.

Communicate with compassion to foster mutual understanding, deeper connections, and well-being.

Strengthen relationships that build trust, collaboration, and high-performing teams.

Strengthen relationships that build trust, collaboration, and high-performing teams.

Neuroscience and Lasting Behavior Change

Apply evidence-based neuroscience and the principles of neuroplasticity to reshape habits and strengthen leadership behaviors.

Apply evidence-based neuroscience and the principles of neuroplasticity to reshape habits and strengthen leadership behaviors.

Gain practical tools to amplify big-picture thinking and disruptive innovation.

Gain practical tools to amplify big-picture thinking and disruptive innovation.

Programme Audience

Managers with at least five years of experience who seek to improve their leadership skills by enhancing their ability to connect, empathize, and embrace change. Download the program brochure for in-depth insights into who should attend, participant profiles, and the ideal candidate. Download brochure

Testimonials

"Overall, the program was superb, well organized, and structured. Both the instructor and mentor delivered their sessions with enthusiasm. I learned new frameworks that I can apply in my day-to-day activities. Additionally, I gained knowledge and skills to deal with difficult situations—whether professional or personal—and this will undoubtedly prepare me to be a more effective leader in any capacity. I recommend taking part in the program. You will learn many new ways to become more effective as a leader at work and in your personal life."

Hinna Malik

Sales Manager, Adobe

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