Leading and Sustaining a Culture of Innovation

• Executives who initiate, drive and lead innovation strategies in their organizations
• Senior executives, division presidents, vice presidents and directors who are ready to challenge traditional approaches to innovation
• Multiple participants from the same organization who share innovation responsibilities

• Past Participant Profile

• Create your own innovation strategy and culture plan
• Learn to lead the creation of an innovative culture within your organization and empower your employees to sustain it
• Become skilled at identifying, prioritizing, resourcing and commercializing innovation opportunities
• Create the behaviors and incentives that foster innovation in your organization
• Acquire tools and techniques for effectively leading and motivating innovators

Understanding Innovation Best Practices

• Seek the balance between strategy, process and culture
• Apply them to your own organization

Creating an Innovative Culture

• Identify key examples of leadership styles that foster innovation
• Secure management commitment to create an innovative culture
• Know when, how and why to reward risk and failure as well as success

Discovering the Leader Within

• Become a "Peopleship" leader
• Define your current values framework and leadership approach
• Develop your leadership profile and uncover your hidden challenges
• Create your own personal leadership-vision statement

Activating Values-based Leadership

• Discover the values and norms of effective organizations
• Learn to rejuvenate your workplace

Leading the Growth Process

• Identify innovation and growth opportunities
• Grow entrepreneurship inside the organization
• Lead disruptive innovation

Leveraging Intellectual Capital and Technology

• Make informed investments in technology innovation
• Understand and manage your intellectual-asset portfolio

Implementing Innovation

• Build and manage strategic alliances for innovation
• Create an agile organization to accelerate decisions

Explore a Commercialization Process

• Learn to manage risk and uncertainty in commercializing innovation
• Understand the need for different metrics, processes and skills along the innovation journey
• Define a complete standard operating procedure for innovation

Thomas D. Kuczmarski - Academic Director; Adjunct Lecturer of Executive Education with the Center for Research in Technology & Innovation (CRTI)

James Gerard Conley - Clinical Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Robert A. Cooper - Adjunct Lecturer of Executive Education

Harry M. Kraemer - Clinical Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management

Susan Smith Kuczmarski - Leadership Expert and Social Scientist

Andrew Razeghi - Lecturer, Kellogg School of Management; Founder and Managing Director, StrategyLab Inc.

Mohanbir Sawhney - McCormick Foundation Chair of Technology; Clinical Professor of Marketing; Director of the Center for Research in Technology & Innovation

Mary Ellen Weber - Former Astronaut and Managing Director Stellar Strategies, LLC.

Edward Zajac - James F. Bere Professor of Management & Organizations

“Within two months of having attended the program, our organization has adopted a creative and forward-looking strategy for our digital platforms. This program is a must for all senior leaders.”
COO/CFO, Capital Public Radio, Sacramento, CA Area

“Overall, an excellent and high standard experience.... This was my second course at Kellogg and I plan to do another course in the near future.”
Auditor / Consultant, Navin Kukadia

“I have attended executive education programs at [multiple top-tier institutions] and I can honestly say that my Kellogg course was the most relevant and applicable course that I have taken. I am confident that I will use the tools and resources from the course in my daily work.”
Strategy Management, Grupo CHRISTUS MUGUERZA