Course Highlights

• This course is delivered in our Live Online format which enables real-time interaction with faculty and global peers
• This course will help you shape and articulate a powerful narrative about what great digital leadership looks like in your organization as well as how to engage your teams in this dialogue
• Course content will include in-depth discussions on business model transformation, performance and people analytics, essentials of platform leadership and network effects, role modeling digital behaviors, and the leader’s role in culture change
• You will leave with a playbook that opens the gates for a whole new and diverse generation of leaders in your organization
• You will hear from guest speakers who are leaders in their fields
• You will earn a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management

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Why attend Reimagining Leadership?

We are all very familiar with the megatrends, such as digitalization and the changing nature of work, that are making this world a more complex place. Indeed, leaders of digital enterprises have a unique opportunity to not only transform their businesses, but to help transform their customers as well. What will define great leadership in the new digital economy? What new leadership behaviors are needed, and how can organizations make the behaviors the norm throughout an organization?

Digital media and methods are transforming businesses around the world. However, a global study of thousands of companies and C-suite leaders show a startling gap in readiness to compete, let alone win, in this new environment. This new course is designed to help participants define and achieve great leadership for their organizations in the new digital economy.

Course Experience

Through self-assessments, lectures, breakout sessions, and examples of leading companies like Amazon, Google, Alibaba, Netflix, Booking.com, this course will help you shape and articulate a powerful narrative about what great digital leadership looks like in your organization as well as how to engage your teams in this dialogue. You will also explore how to bake this narrative into your talent management systems and processes.

Course content will include in-depth discussions on business model transformation, performance and people analytics, essentials of platform leadership and network effects, role modeling digital behaviors, and the leader’s role in culture change.

Leave this digital leadership course with a playbook that opens the gates for a whole new and diverse generation of leaders in your organization.

Learn more about the live online experience. 

Guest Speakers

Dan Shapero is the Chief Operating Officer at LinkedIn. He is responsible for helping companies around the world grow their business and build winning teams through the value LinkedIn delivers. In this role, he oversees global sales, operations, as well as member and customer success. Since joining LinkedIn in 2008, Dan has held various leadership roles managing global teams across sales and product management, most recently as Chief Business Officer. Prior to LinkedIn, Dan was a management consultant at Bain & Company and a startup entrepreneur. Dan holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BS in Applied Mathematics from Johns Hopkins.

Helena Gottschling is RBC's CHRO with global responsibility for Human Resources and, as part of RBC’s Group Executive, for setting the overall strategic direction of RBC - extending to over 80,000 employees in 37 countries. Helena joined RBC in 1985, holding progressively senior roles in Retail Banking, Human Resources and National Office, which included positions in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto, before being appointed CHRO in 2017. Prior to her current role, Helena was responsible for executive and high potential talent management, including leadership development and succession planning. She was also accountable for RBC’s enterprise learning function and organizational effectiveness centre of expertise for change management and organizational design. Helena is married with one son and lives in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

Applying to the Course

We accept enrollments until the offering reaches capacity at which point we will maintain a waitlist. Many of the courses fill up several weeks in advance, so we advise that you enroll as early as possible to secure your seat.

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