The October session will take place on original dates but in a virtual format (live online). Scheduled class times to be announced soon. Please view the "October 2020 Offering" tab for additional information on this virtual session.
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:
The October course will be presented entirely online in a collaborative digital format.
Our faculty, lecturers, guest speakers and staff are busy preparing for an engaging and interactive learning experience designed for our new live online format in Zoom. Our faculty will be sharing presentation slides and utilizing platform tools such as breakouts and polls. We know you value time to connect with your peers, so we plan to facilitate participant introductions, encourage small group work, and give you the opportunity to ask questions throughout your time with us. You will also notice an increased number of breaks to allow for stretching and time away from your screen.
To prepare for your course in Zoom, we recommend a strong internet connection and a web camera. Please make sure to test your system using https://zoom.us/test prior to your program. For the best experience, we suggest connecting via laptop/desktop and only dialing in via phone as a back-up. This will ensure that you are able to fully view the materials and participate in group activities.
As you attend your live online sessions with faculty and other learners, we want you to get as much as possible from the experience. By turning on your webcam when you’re listening to the lesson, participating in breakout rooms, or working together on exercises and activities, you’ll help make the experience more engaging for yourself, your co-learners, and the faculty team. With your help we can make teaching and learning together online an engaging and immersive experience. We look forward to ‘seeing’ and ‘hearing’ from each of you in the course.
Attendance throughout the course is required in order to complete the course and earn any certificate(s).
Please note that this live online course will be credited as an “in-person” program for purposes of an Executive Certificate and the Advanced Certificate for Executives.
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.
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.
Lori Messer
Managing Director and Global Head
RBC Capital Markets
Lori Messer is Managing Director and Global Head of RBC Capital Markets Operations. In this role, Lori is responsible for leading a global team that focuses on driving operational fluency across all businesses, in addition to the overall client transaction experience.
Most recently, Lori was the Chief Operating Officer, Global Equities where she was accountable for leading the business management, client strategy and technology strategy functions for the Global Equities and Research franchise. Throughout her tenor at RBC, Lori has held several other senior positions across offices in Toronto, London (UK) and New York. Prior to joining RBC, Lori lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina while working as a Client Relationship Manager for a Canadian pharmaceutical software development firm. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from Saint Mary’s University and an International Masters of Business Administration from the University of Ottawa.
Lori is passionate about and active in partnering with many community organizations. Within RBC CM, she is a member of the US Diversity Leadership Council, co-founder of the Canadian Corporate Citizenship Forum, Advisor for the RBC Academy and Employee Chair of the Canadian Employee Giving Campaign. Externally, she is Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Board Quality Committee of Youthdale Treatment Services, which focuses on youth mental health and involved as a supporter of several other community agencies, public schools and programs.
Tom L: I've watched management styles evolve throughout my career and I've noticed how much of an impact the various approaches have had on entire organizations. This program helped to provide an understanding of how those connections work and what makes certain organizations successful. I got a lot of great takeaways from this program that I can use not only internally at my own company but also with the customers that I advise going forward.
Tommy D: Great teachers, interesting topics and motivated peers!
Egon Bajc H: Great online course
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.
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"As a leader, being one person, in the middle of a huge company, thinking about changing the whole game sounds impossible. When you realize that other people in other companies have the same challenge, it becomes clear that it is, in fact, an opportunity. In this program, I've learned a lot about how to seize the opportunity, with good examples, techniques and interactions with other peers." ~ Fausto Neri V.
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