Winning Strategies

• CEOs, Executive Directors, and Key Board Leaders of nonprofit and non- governmental organizations
• Managers and Department Chairs
• Consultants and Nonprofit Advisors

• Understand how well developed, smart strategic decisions can improve your sustainability
• Identify and build sustainable competitive advantage
• Identify and assess your organization’s competitors to determine potential opportunities, risks, and allies
• Design a leadership communication process that facilitates organizational changes
• Learn how to balance/rebalance for sustainability

The Roadside MBA

• Real life applications of business strategy

Understanding Strategic Contexts

• Defining strategy and why/how organizations of various sizes need strategies
• Understand your organization’s objectives and economic environment
• Assess the organization’s assets, capabilities and constraints

Competitive Advantage and Its Implications

• Understand the sources of competitive advantage
• Determine your competitive advantage
• Apply tools to strategic/long-range planning
• Prepare a competitive assessment for your organization

Case Study: An Example

MidTown Educational Foundation 2015 shows how competitive market analysis supports integrates builds off strategic plan.

Communicating for Change

As leaders we are faced with constant pressure to improve, innovate, and adapt – in short, to lead change. Yet change efforts in organizations frequently fail. While often we can identify the right strategy and craft a solid plan, we struggle to bring the organization along. In this session we’ll focus on the critical role leadership communication plays in the change process and identify communication strategies for getting the engagement and support needed to enact change.

Workshop

Participants utilize the frameworks provided to assess the competitive strategy of their own organization. Materials may be used to tee up further discussion with their team.

The Art & Science of Collaboration

Participants engage in systems-level, collective impact thinking about the social problems their organizations hope to remedy. Applying this thinking, the organizational leaders are encouraged to identify potential partners, develop their own collaboration capacity, and engage in processes that lead to collaboration success. The four collaboration goals that lead collaborations and coalitions to make systemic change are introduced.

Naini Serohi - Academic Director; Program Administrator Senior, Center for Nonprofit Management, Kellogg School of Management

Michael Mazzeo - Associate Professor of Strategy

Location

Nonprofit Management Programs are held at Northwestern University's Chicago Campus.

Wieboldt Hall
340 East Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60611
Directions

Chicago Campus Parking Map - Please Note: the Huron Superior Parking A lot and the Erie Ontario Parking C & D lots are available to the public and should be used when attending programs at Wieboldt Hall.

Application Deadline

The deadline for registration is 10:00 am one business day prior to the program start date.

Up to 50% scholarships are available for all of our nonprofit executive education programs for those working in nonprofit organizations. All applications are initially submitted at the full list price. Each is reviewed by our registrar and any scholarships granted will be reflected in the amount applied to your invoice or charged to your credit card.

Accommodations

Participants are responsible for booking their hotel accommodations during their stay in Chicago.

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Cancellation Policy:

Participants must notify the Program Manager five business days in advance of the program start date if they are unable to attend. Otherwise, participants will be charged 20% of the stated program fees.

When canceling a program registration, participants may choose to rollover their payment to a future program or receive a refund. Participants are allowed three rollovers, after the third rollover, participants forfeit the money paid to the Center for Nonprofit Management.

*Refund or rollover must be requested at the time of the program cancellation. Once a program payment has been rolled over, a monetary refund is no longer an option. The participant must continue with the rollover process.