Stanford Executive Briefings

Strong leadership is critical to the success of any enterprise. Effective leaders inspire and unify their workforce, set challenging but attainable goals, and provide a solid image to the outside world. They use everyday actions to model behaviors and set expectations for their employees. Developing these leadership skills helps you improve employee engagement and retention, increase customer satisfaction, and raise bottom-line profitability.

In this ten-program series from Stanford University, you will learn invaluable skills and leadership techniques from some of the brightest thought leaders in modern business sharing their insights on important issues such as:

• How to motivate and inspire individuals to do their very best
• The importance of consistency and integrity
• Why you should embrace failure as a learning tool
• The value of pushing out decision making across your organization
• How you benefit when you enhance the personal growth of others
• The need to open channels of communication and encourage bad news to rise to the top quickly
• How to develop your leadership team based on your own values

This specially priced 10-program set shares the skills and techniques effective leaders use to inspire and unify their workforce.

The Executive Leadership Collection includes:

1. The Art of Leadership 55 Minutes
   - Doug Conant ConantLeadership.com
2. Leadership for Innovation 54 Minutes
   - Linda Hill Harvard Business School
3. Mastery of Speaking as a Leader 51 Minutes
   - Terry Pearce President, Leadership Communication
4. Leadership Lessons from the Gridiron 49 Minutes
   - Steve Young Managing Director & Cofounder, Huntsman Gay Global Capital
5. Strategy for Transformational Change 49 Minutes
   - Brad Smith President and CEO, Intuit Inc.
6. The Inspiring Leader 55 Minutes
   - Jack Zenger, PhD Cofounder and CEO, Zenger Folkman
7. The Values-Based Leader 57 Minutes
   - Harry Kraemer Professor, Northwestern University
8. A Leader's Legacy 49 Minutes
   - Jim Kouzes Santa Clara University
9. Collective Leadership 63 Minutes
   - Jim Quigley Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.
10. Seven Principles for Building Successful Businesses 48 Minutes
    - David DeWalt President and CEO, McAfee, Inc.

Stanford Executive Briefings Filmed monthly at the Stanford University Faculty Club, these lively presentations give you access to high-level speakers who share their insights and “best practices” with the business community.