Leadership & Communication

In today’s competitive workforce, there is an increasing demand for authentic leadership and leaders with a trusted executive presence. This landscape calls for visionary leaders with memorable leadership styles and effective interpersonal skills to make a lasting impact within organizations and teams.

The Advanced Executive Presence program equips you with must-have skills to become an inspirational and confident speaker who stands out as a successful leader. Through personalized coaching and the art of storytelling, you will gain effective communication skills to become a personable communicator that quickly builds professional relationships and understands the value of personal expression and the communication process.

Key Takeaways:

Master the All Hands Meeting: Deliver an effective all-hands team meeting by developing a strategy to inform and inspire your audience. Learn what it takes to speak to your stakeholders in a way that affects your audience’s minds and hearts.

Cultivate Your Executive Presence: Elevate your leadership abilities by understanding and developing your unique leadership presence. Master different communication styles to become a charismatic and mindful leader who makes an impact.

Share Your Passion Through Inspirational Storytelling: Employ storytelling to allow your words to take on new life. Recognize yourself as a visionary leader who speaks with confidence and uses personal expression to effectively share your objectives.

Throughout these volatile times, the world needs changemakers to go beyond themselves and collectively work to create a positive impact. To do so, understanding change management is crucial for leaders to successfully adapt, grow, and succeed. But how do you maneuver and create change? Effectively driving change is rarely taught, leaving professionals and their organizations lost and overwhelmed amidst growing change challenges.

The Berkeley Changemaker® is an inclusive leadership training founded on UC Berkeley's core values, like questioning the status quo and serving others, and its longstanding union with innovation. Throughout the three-day in-person program, you will acquire the hard skills needed to be a changemaker for a positive impact, regardless of your industry, as well as lead with purpose. Faculty Director, Alex Budak, will guide you through the importance of visionary leadership, how to find new sources of purpose, and how each impact your ability to effectively lead change. The Changemaker program employs a combination of lectures, cases, guest speakers, hands-on learning, and guided reflection to maximize the participant's learning retention. From inspiring change to stimulating action, the Berkeley Changemaker program will explore the best practices for applying critical thinking to your change management processes, discovering new sources of purpose, and leveraging your vision to spark action in others.

Key Takeaways

Master the 3 C's of a Changemaker: Grasp the essential concepts that a Changemaker must embrace and exemplify: critical thinking, collaboration, and communication. Learn the importance of each and how to properly employ them in your change-making efforts.

Harness Your Vision for Bigger Impact: Learn to use the power of your vision to craft a great story, be a better communicator, and employ an inclusive leadership approach to engage and inspire others to be part of your change efforts.

Navigate, Shape, and Lead Change Effectively: Learn real-world, time-tested strategies for galvanizing change efforts of all types, resolving conflicts, and overcoming other common obstacles so you can work smarter, not harder.

The Communications Excellence training program offers a comprehensive curriculum designed to help you perfect your communication skills, interact with clear intent, establish your confidence and leadership presence, craft and deliver a truly memorable pitch, and master advanced presentation skills.

Through this intensive leadership communication training, participants will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to overcome public speaking anxiety and develop persuasive presentation abilities that inspire and engage their audience. This program not only boosts individual confidence in both business and interpersonal communication but also develops your personal communication style while establishing your influence.


Key Takeaways

Interact with Clear Intent: Understand why effective communication is essential in business and learn how to tailor your communications, whether verbal or nonverbal —from presentations to PowerPoints—to connect with any audience and get the precise results you want and need.

Develop Your Confidence and Leadership Presence: Acquire and practice effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills by leveraging your breath, body, and voice to maximize your impact and presence during public speaking. Through intentional practice, master how to seamlessly integrate each element of effective communication into your daily habits.

Perfect Your Personal Communication Style: Define, develop, and refine personal strategies uniquely suited to you and your business to create memorable pitches, maximize your presence in the Zoom universe, recognize when something isn’t working, and make masterful adjustments.

The Equity Fluent Leadership (EFL) Academy is an unparalleled diversity, equity, and inclusion training designed for visionary business leaders who aspire to advance equity and inclusion at work and drive lasting change for the benefit of others, their organizations, and the broader community.

Led by the Center for Equity, Gender & Leadership (EGAL) at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, this pioneering inclusive leadership training will help you embody what it means to be an Equity Fluent Leader™ and understand—and clearly communicate to others—why diversity and inclusion matter. You’ll also build self-awareness by reflecting on your lived experience and better recognizing your power and possible privilege while gaining the mindset and strategies that empower you as an equity-fluent leader.

Key Takeaways

Gain the Mindset, Strategies & Tools of an EFL: Learn valuable tools and inclusion strategies to advance more equitable workplace norms, practices, and cultures within your organization.

Master Inclusive Communication with an Equitable Lens: Acquire pragmatic and equitable communication strategies and practices to help promote equitable language in your daily exchanges and throughout your team.

Navigate Difficult DEI Conversations: Boost your confidence in navigating difficult DEI conversations in the workplace by role-playing real-world examples and acquiring effective research-backed tools.

Influential leadership begins with powerful storytelling and forming deep connections with your audience. Soft and interpersonal leadership skills development are foundational to building the lasting business relationships that drive your professional success.

Our High-Impact Leadership program is the best leadership training course providing a profoundly personalized, human-centric framework for managing people and teams so you can achieve your goals with empathy and confidence. This leadership course is specially designed to develop your personal expression and establish your authentic voice, presence, abilities, and talents as a communicator and high impact leader who leaves a lasting impression. Through powerful world-class theater techniques, role-playing, and individual coaching, you will sharpen and mold your leadership skills to become a more charismatic, collaborative, and influential team leader.


Key Takeaways

Improve Your Communication Delivery: Master powerful storytelling techniques to equip yourself with the necessary skills to deliver inspirational speeches and engage your audience. Practice world-class theater techniques to actively communicate the voice, body, imagination, and energy to elevate your articulation and expression.

Connect with Your Audience through Storytelling: Connect with your audience and engage in data-driven storytelling that moves people, creates influence over an audience, and leaves a lasting impression that impacts the energy and performance of your team, department, or organization.

Transform Your Communication Challenges into Strengths: Venture outside your comfort zone to identify and understand your communication challenges. You’ll push yourself into your stretch zone to develop your strengths, such as thinking on your feet and spontaneity, and establish a strong leadership presence.

Designed to bridge the gap between leadership and organizational culture in strategic management, ourLeading Strategy Execution Through Culture program provides executive business leaders with research-based tools to encourage a positive company culture and drive successful strategic outcomes.

In this powerful leadership and organizational culture course centered on visionary leadership, you’ll learn to successfully leverage organizational culture change to set and reach your most ambitious goals. This includes identifying critical gaps between your organization’s current and ideal culture and understanding how to overcome common barriers to change. You’ll also hone your unique leadership style, develop your strategic vision, and discover how to accelerate your team’s performance to achieve your vision and maximize impact.


Key Takeaways

Become a Transformational Leader: Elevate your expertise and ability to drive organizational transformation with new skills and frameworks designed to help you capture and communicate your transformational vision, masterfully orchestrate complex change, make more informed decisions, and align and mobilize your team.

Build a High-Performance Culture: Successfully set and achieve strategic organizational objectives by diagnosing your current work culture, addressing the three key criteria necessary for a strategic culture, and employing this new culture strategy as an accomplishment tool—inspiring accountability, commitment, higher performance, and excellence at all levels.

Fluidly Navigate Cultural Shifts: Capitalize on culture change opportunities and manage complex culture shifts by skillfully maneuvering across the organizational landscape and its intricacies, identifying and overcoming hurdles unique to culture change in the workplace, and aligning your team with changes in your organization’s strategic direction.

Taking on a new or expanded role as a manager brings great rewards, but it also introduces new challenges. To be impactful in your management position requires new management training that develops your ability to lead a productive team and grows your management skills, such as adaptive leadership and productive team conflict resolution.

The New Manager Boot Camp program addresses your unique needs in your management role and empowers you to master your personal leadership style. Become a more confident manager with management skills training designed to uncover your management strengths. Effective leadership is grounded in your understanding of powerful interpersonal skills that inspire performance, communication, employee retention, and motivation to achieve goals.


Key Takeaways

Understand Your Challenges as a Manager: Develop management skills to recognize current and potential challenges, find effective solutions, and take full advantage of new opportunities. Learn how to navigate and thrive as you discover how to become a better leader and manager.

Develop Your Leadership Style: Learn how your leadership style, motivation, and engagement can evolve. Tailor your leadership and management approach to match you and your team's needs. Master how to always lead through rapport to proactively inspire and engage your team.

Create Dynamic Teams: Understand the intricacies of structuring and managing teams for best results. From managing geo-distributed or virtual remote teams effectively to mitigating conflicts among team members, you’ll master essential skills for new managers to unleash a team’s full potential.

The Berkeley Executive Leadership Program is our flagship executive training program exclusively tailored for business leaders and executives ready to expand their capabilities to address their unique leadership challenges and drive growth in every corner of their organization.

This distinctive, globally-recognized executive training curriculum covers an unparalleled breadth and depth of topics such as personal leadership styles and strengths, advanced communication and decision-making, high-performance teams and culture, and disruptive innovation practices. As a participant, you will acquire—and master—a complete toolset of the most modern and practical leadership tools, skills, and frameworks to enable you to not only skillfully lead innovation and growth in your company but also to expand your leadership potential and even begin to reimagine what’s possible.


Key Takeaways

Increase your Influence and Persuasion: Capture your vision, communicate it throughout the organization, and stay on point by identifying your blind spots, building trust, and finding common ground—at every level.

Develop a Competitive Leadership Advantage: Harness innovation and tri-sector leadership (business, government, and social) to skillfully solve today’s most pressing business challenges as well as fortify your C-level role and elevate you and your organization’s reputation.

Create and Nurture a High-Performance Culture: Become a force multiplier, embody mindful leadership to attract and retain ambitious employees, and build and motivate diverse, cross-functional, and global teams.

Women in leadership roles are at an all-time high. Still, stereotypes and lack of support impact their growth and influence, leading to blockages and needless challenges. Female leaders' continued growth in high-ranking roles calls for a movement of all genders to practice leadership styles that propel women in business for greater personal and organizational success.

The Women’s Executive Leadership training program is a professional growth opportunity for all genders to let go of perceived gender barriers to understand how women’s executive management roles positively influence a company’s agility and longevity. The advanced and nuanced leadership skills acquired from this training empower all leaders to reach their full potential while enabling them to have a better understanding of and deeper empathy for women leaders—leading to fresh perspectives and stronger synergy.


Key Takeaways

Understand The Women's Perspective in Business: Comprehend the impacts of gender on authority, business relationships, and leadership. Grasp and adopt the exceptional female perspective to overcome obstacles in your life, organization, and beyond.

Strengthen Your Leadership Skills and Outcomes: Unlock your potential and arm yourself with the tools to leverage power, diagnose complex situations, solve difficult problems, and master successful negotiation tactics that enable your professional growth and help you achieve success.

Cultivate Personal & Professional Fulfillment from Work: Unlock the key to a more balanced and rewarding work life with approaches to increasing your professional relationships and business networks and to reap greater rewards and personal satisfaction from your work.