Participants in this organizational strategy program will learn what it takes to build game-changing companies that make their teams and areas of responsibility world-class talent factories. They will also discuss the importance of building an innovative company culture and learn from the successes and challenges of various companies that have been on similar journeys of transformation.
Building Game-Changing Organizations: Aligning Purpose, Performance, and People
Certificate Track:
Strategy and Innovation
Location:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Tuition:
$4,300 (excluding accommodations)
Program Days (for ACE Credit) 2
Game-changing organizations rewrite traditional playbooks. They stand out. They often create disproportionate value relative to their size and resources. They have big dreams but know how to get things done. These organizations have a palpable "buzz" to them. They have a breakaway business model, but they also have a breakaway spirit and organizational culture.
Leaders of these game-changing organizations understand the power and importance of telling their companies' compelling stories. They are hard-edged business leaders but they also embrace what others might consider to be the "soft side" of leading: purpose, vision, and climate. They know how to integrate the hard and soft sides of leadership into a powerful formula that makes them game-changers. These leaders and their organizations are purpose-driven, performance-oriented, and principles-led. The weaving together of these three capabilities simultaneously is what helps them get and stay out in front.
“The course is a well-balanced combination of theory and
practice, with topics that are very relevant to the challenges that
organizations face in terms of the disruptive march of technology and the
massive generational and geographic switches currently emerging in both the
customer and workforce.”
—Biju
K., Past Participant
Participants in this program will:
Sample Schedule—Subject to Change
| DAY 1 SAMPLE | |
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 09:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Building Game-Changing Organizations―Aligning Purpose, Performance and Principles; Practitioners’ Corner: Aligning Purpose, Performance and Principles |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Networking Lunch |
| 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM | Building New Capabilities for a New Economy – Talent & Culture at Work – The BlackRock Story |
| 3:40 PM - 4:50 PM | Crafting Your Story – The Power of Collective Ambition |
| 4:50 PM - 5:00 PM | Reflections on Day I |
| 5:00PM - 6:00PM | Networking Reception |
| DAY 2 SAMPLE | |
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy – cont. |
| 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Leading Multi-Generational Teams |
| 11:20 AM - 1:45 PM | Group Discussion: Your Company’s Talent Challenges |
| 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM | Networking Lunch |
| 1:45 PM - 1:55 PM | Certificate Presentations |
| 1:55 PM - 3:30 PM | Developing a Game-Changing Leader’s Mindset |
| 03:40 PM - 04:00 PM | Reflection and Action Planning: Leadership Challenges for Game-Changing Organizations |
| 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Adjourn |
This program is geared to upper to senior level managers who are responsible for or make strong contributions to their companies' strategy, vision, and operational priorities. In larger companies that would usually mean being among the top 500 enterprise leaders: division, business unit, functional or geographic leadership team members. In smaller firms, it might mean the team that is propelling the company forward. The program will also be extremely valuable for HR professionals who are in senior roles and responsible for contributing to enterprise-wide change or capability building efforts.
Doug Ready is Senior Lecturer in Organization Effectiveness at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
His research into aligning purpose, performance, and principles has led to the popular concept of implementing a company's Collective Ambition. Ready's research and writing also focuses on strategic talent management and enterprise-wide change. He has authored numerous highly popular Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review articles on these topics, including “The Power of Collective Ambition", “Make Your Company a Talent Factory", and “Leading at the Enterprise Level,” among others.
Ready is also the founder and president of the International Consortium for Executive Development Research (ICEDR), an internationally renowned collaborative in talent management and leadership development comprised of many of the world's leading companies and business schools. Ready works with top management teams, helping them to mobilize their leaders to bring about large-scale change. He has led major change and leadership development initiatives for companies including: Continental AG, Ford Motor Company, Four Seasons, Hess Oil, HSBC, LG Group, PwC, Royal Bank of Canada, Samsung Group, and United Technologies Corporation.
Robert "Bobby" Grupert
Co-Head of Global Equities
RBC
Bobby Grubert is Co-Head of Global Equities. In this role, Mr. Grubert has global accountability for all equity related product capabilities including sales and trading, origination, new issue distribution, risk management, electronic trading and research. He is a member of the firm's operating committee as well as its U.S. operating committee.
Mr. Grubert began his career as an energy trader with Rauscher Pierce Refsnes, based in Dallas in 1996. Following the merger with Dain Rauscher, Mr. Grubert moved to Minneapolis to grow the NYSE Listed business. After RBC acquired Dain Rauscher Wessels 2001, Mr. Grubert transferred to New York, and was appointed Head of U.S. trading in 2007. He became Head of U.S. Equities in 2008, adding responsibility for global electronic trading in 2009 and he assumed responsibility of Cash Equities in Europe in 2014. In 2018 he was appointed Co-Head of Global Equities.
Mr. Grubert is an Executive Member on the Board of Directors of the Ronald McDonald House of New York, Inc., a member of the Boarealis AI Advisory Council and is a founding member of the RBC U.S. Capital Markets Diversity Leadership Council.
Ahmed Kachenoura
Co-Head of Global Equities
PBC
Ahmed Kachenoura is Co-Head of Global Equities at RBC Capital Markets. In this role, Ahmed has global oversight of all aspects of client coverage for traditional cash equities and equity derivatives including sales and trading, origination, new issue distribution, risk management and research, as well as electronic trading. He is a member of both the firm's operating committee and the U.S. Operating Committee.
Ahmed joined RBC Capital Markets in August 2012 as Head of EMEA Trading based in London. In August 2013, he moved to New York to become Head of Trading for GELP Americas and Local Head of the U.S. business before being promoted to Head of Global Equity-Linked Products. In 2018, he was appointed Co-Head of Global Equities. Ahmed has a proven track record in building and managing businesses and has held various senior roles over the past two decades within Equity Derivatives in trading, sales, research and risk management.
Ahmed is actively engaged in promoting culture and diversity and in giving back to the community. He is a member of the RBC U.S. Diversity Leadership Committee. Ahmed is actively involved in supporting RBC’s charities and has participated in RBC events for the Ronald McDonald House New York, including Skate with the Greats. He has also been a huge supporter of RBC Race for the Kids, where he has served as a team co-captain the past two consecutive years.
Ahmed holds an engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (ENSAE), and a Masters from Paris IX-Dauphine University in Cognitive Science. Prior to joining RBC, he spent 17 years at Credit Agricole CIB where he started his career as a Quant and held several Front Office leadership positions in Equity Derivatives. Ahmed and his wife with their two daughters live in New York City.
Matt Kapszukiewicz
Human Capital Director
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Matt Kapszukiewicz is the Human Capital Director in PricewaterhouseCoopers' Midwest market where he is responsible for providing leadership and driving human capital strategy. Matt also provides leadership and expertise on national teams focused on onboarding, organizational design, talent management, mobility and talent development for the Firm.
Matt’s PwC career began in Washington, D.C. where, in addition to HR generalist responsibilities, he focused on talent acquisition and staffing, while gaining exposure to International HR matters.
While based in Houston, TX, Matt led talent acquisition at some of the firm's largest sources.
Following Houston, Matt led the Human Capital function for PwC's Global Capital Markets Group across 25 countries in Europe and Asia during a four-and-a-half year assignment based London.
Matt was based at PwC's headquarters in New York leading Human Capital for the U.S. Transaction Services practice prior to his current assignment in the Midwest.
He earned B.A. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts and a Master's Degree in Human Resources from the University of Cincinnati. He holds the SPHR designation from the Human Resource Certification Institute, SHRM-SCP from the Society of Human Resources and is a member of SHRM. He's an avid runner, little league coach and scuba diver.
He lives with his family in Ohio.
Christopher O’Donnell
SVP, Product
Hubspot
Christopher O'Donnell is a technology products strategist, designer, and evangelist. Christopher joined HubSpot as a part of the Performable acquisition in June of 2011. Prior to joining Performable in Fall of 2010, Christopher managed a team of designers and product managers serving the largest customers in the world: our nation's various military and intelligence organizations. Simultaneously, Christopher started and drove a content-driven social media marketing effort that today boasts over a million readers. Prior to working in online marketing and product development, Christopher operated a music production business, where he put his B.A. in Music from Brown University to good use.
Susan Uchida
Head of Human Resources
RBC Capital Markets and RBC Investor & Treasury Services
Susan Uchida is the Head of Human Resources for RBC Capital Markets and RBC Investor & Treasury Services. She leads the HR function by working with a talented global team to deliver a range of HR services and programs that enable business strategies. Ms. Uchida partners with the business to place, develop, reward, and retain top talent to drive the organization's success.
Since joining RBC Financial Group in 2002, Susan has served in a variety of business and HR leadership roles in Canadian and American retail banking divisions, insurance, and capital markets. She has more than 16 years of experience in the financial services industry.
RBC employs over 81,000 professionals supporting more than16 million personal, businesses, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 56 other countries. As measured by market capitalization, RBC is the largest bank in Canada and one of the largest banks in the world.
Claudio C: It really added a lot of value for my career - very powerful inputs about Collective Ambition and how it can help our organizations to "connect the dots"
Floyd W: Information presented of use immediately in my organization and industry presentations were very insightful.
Chandrasekar V: This program, both strong in content and practical applicability, is well administered. As the name suggests, this catalytic course helps well-minded executives to understand and implement strategies and tactics that, when properly executed, maintained and monitored, will help the organization become truly game-changing resulting in enhanced value proposition for its several stakeholders. The well-learned, experienced, and kind professor brings to the fore up to date knowledge and motivates the class to contribute and enrich the overall learning and assimilating experience. Wonderful program from arguably one of the foremost global institutions! Chandra Chandrasekar Venkataraman
Carla H: Day 1 was excellent Day 2 was good
Almerinda M: Highly relevant for today's dynamic business world
Maher A: A very helpful insight on how all aspects of strategy work together. A very well designed and articulated topics to illustration the key success factors of a game-changing organization should have.
Patricia G: Doug did an amazing job on this course. Case studies were pretty consistent with the message he passed. He also is pretty successful in leveraging class discussions and debates.
Krzysztof R: This program gives to me big knowledge and big expirience.
Emmanuelle K: It was an interesting course. I expected to spend more time on some concepts such as the compass, but it was very enriching.
David R: Doug Ready is the master storyteller. He provides rich strategic direction grounded in real-world case studies; presented in detail by the corporations themselves. At the same time, we get to test out our own organizational challenges. Best course I took at MIT Sloan.
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