ELC Institute 2023 Program Opportunities

Date & Time

Cohort 1 - March 7-9, 2023 (Virtual) - FULL

Optional Day 3 in New York, NY (In-Person)

Cohort 2 - June 6-8, 2023 (Virtual)

Optional Day 3 in Atlanta, GA (In-Person)

Cohort 3 - August 8-10, 2023 (Virtual)

Optional Day 3 in Chicago, IL (In-Person)

About The Program

Program Cost

Making up less than 4% of tech roles, Black professionals are highly unrepresented in the industry; thus, leaving them with fewer avenues toward success in their careers. Identifying the need for increased representation and access to resources, The Executive Leadership Council (ELC) has created a unique development opportunity for and by Black tech professionals.

The ELC and Google have collaborated to present DECODED 2.0, an immersive three-day boot camp designed specifically for Black tech professionals. The ELC invites new and experienced professionals, entrepreneurs, and practitioners across various sectors to build, connect and unlock new pathways for Black people in the world of tech!

What to Expect

• All cohorts will experience 12 hours of live virtual instructor-led sessions, 3 hours of insightful 1-on-1 coaching with an ICFcertified professional, the opportunity to engage fireside chats with Black senior executives at Google, and much more.

• Aside from developmental aspects, the boot camp will facilitate urgent dialogue around the themes of racial bias, inequities, and collective approaches to addressing the needs of Black professionals in tech.

• DECODED 2.0 is a golden opportunity for Black tech professionals to equip themselves with the necessary tools for developing their personal brands in the industry while securing the future of rising professionals.

Conference Agenda

Building

Date & Time

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Sessions: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST

Workshops: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST

Location

Virtual (Zoom)

About The Program

Program Cost

Early Bird Registration: $299 (until March 15, 2023)

Regular Registration: $499

Optional Workshop: $50

There are several truths about the challenges too many Black women face in corporate America:

• They are largely underrepresented in senior leadership positions. Women in the Workplace, a recent study by LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Co. found that while women make up just 48% of entry-level employees, their representation by the time they get to the C-Suite drops to just 26%.

• We know the dual, systemic obstacles of both sexism and racism alarmingly contribute to the income disparities they face in the workplace too. Just last year, USA Today reported that Black women earned only 58 cents for every dollar that men made in 2021.

• We also know that even with low promotion rates and a widening income gaps for Black women, there is a laundry list of other adversities waged against them. According to the Women in the Workplace study, compared to other women at their level, Black women leaders are more likely to have colleagues question their competence and to be subjected to demeaning behavior.

In the battles Black women fight across the corporate landscape and throughout society, we believe self-care can be an act of warfare; a remedy that protects them from the barriers that aim to slow their progress, manipulate their mindsets, and limit their opportunities for professional advancement.

At The Executive Leadership Council’s Power of Women At Work (POWW) conference, a one-day virtual symposium designed to equip Black women with the strategies, tactics, and inspiration they need to reimagine their career journey, we will help them navigate their own path to success and invest in their professional futures. The candid conversations, gamechanging solutions, insightful panels, networking, and partnering opportunities will keep you engaged.

Conference Agenda

Cents and Sensibility: Building Wealth for Black Women

Learn strategies to cultivate and sustain financial freedom from negotiating compensation to discussing financial responsibility in your family

Operating in the Black: An Entrepreneur and Intrapreneur’s Guide to Leading with Innovation

Learn how to execute ideas that will disrupt and advance your career.

Speed Networking

Radical Rest: Authenticity-based Self-care for Preservation and Empowerment

The Radical Pro-Black Roots of “Self-care” : Discover how prioritizing rest will help you operate from a place of power to achieve sustainable work-life harmony.

Black Excellence and Executive Presence (Panel)

Learn strategies that demonstrate the full extent of your business acumen while centering what it means to be a Black woman.

Closing Remarks

12:15 PM-1:00 PM

1:00 PM-1:45 PM

1:45 PM-2:45 PM

2:45 PM-3:45 PM

3:45 PM-4:00 PM

The Power of Women at Work

Tuesday, April 4, 2023 | Virtual

New Workshops: Ability, Attitude, Assignments, and Alliances

Starting this year, we’re also offering the option for a 90-minute end-of-day workshop designed to help you accelerate your career development. At this workshop, we’ll be focusing on one or more of the four A’s for corporate success: Ability, Attitude, Assignments, and Alliances. Workshop topics may include:

• “You have to be twice as good” - An echoing Black Mantra and The Tiring Tap Dance of Corporate Meritocracy

• Knowing Your Value: The Key to Achieving Your Leadership Aspirations

• Leading from the Middle While Black: The Struggle is Real!

• The Art of the Pivot

Join us at the 2023 Power of Women and Work… and embrace your power and explore possibilities.

What Can You Expect?

• Discover how to accelerate your success in the workplace by managing your emotions and enhancing your wellbeing

• Reach across the aisle to hear from men in the movement combating gender and racial equity in the workplace

• Find the right way to tell your story and own your voice

• Utilize proven negotiation strategies to create an ideal and sustainable work environment from flexible work location and delivery to advocating for work-life-balance

• Network with women looking to partner and create your circle

• Learn how to move from burnout to blaze, dealing with the emotional toll of race and gender bias

Objectives

During this virtual conference participants will:

• Expand self and organizational awareness to enhance building coalitions that drive change

• Explore creativity, ingenuity, and leadership of Black women

• Practice techniques to lead from a position of power to accelerate pipeline development for themselves and others

Topics

• Allyship

• Emotional Intelligence

• Equity

• Finance

• Gender Bias

• Influence

• Management

• Mindfulness

• Negotiation

Date & Time

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Sessions: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST

Workshops: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST

Location

Virtual (Zoom)

About The Program

Program Cost

Early Bird Registration: $299 (until April 15, 2023)

Regular Registration: $499

Optional Workshop: $50

At The Executive Leadership Council (ELC), we have an unrelenting dedication to empowering Black people in the workplace and helping them to accomplish their goals. America’s boardrooms need diverse perspectives and you’re the ones who can provide that. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we’ve opened enrollment for the 2023 Black Men in Leadership Conference.

The Black Men in Leadership conference aims to guide your professional development with networking opportunities and resources to help you make strides in your career. This gathering of professional Black men will provide counterintuitive insights and strategies backed by the latest research highlighting the state of Black men in the workplace. Register for a transformative event designed for purpose-driven male leaders who are committed to overcoming adversity and developing their mindset, skillset, and toolset.

Conference Agenda

The Importance of Mental Health, Connection and Wellness for Black Men

Learn, share and discuss the value and challenge of prioritizing self-care as a Black Man

The Barbershop Buzz Thriving vs. Surviving

Discuss the value of male vulnerability and friendship and its role in becomng your authentic self

A Threat to Whom?

Discuss strategies to address, navigate and respond to bias and microaggressions for Black men

Showing Up and Moving Up

There are a myriad of ways to be Black. In this session you will learn how to bring the full spectrum of your Black experience to advance your career

New Workshops: Ability, Attitude, Assignments, and Alliances

Starting this year, we’re also offering the option for a 90-minute end-of-day workshop designed to help you accelerate your career development. In all of these optional workshops, we’ll be focusing on how Black men can harness their leadership with the power of connection and community.

• Nine Steps to Becoming the Greatest ____ in the World?

• Five Reasons Why You Need an Executive Coach Now!

• Ladders to Lattices: Ascension Essentials for Leaving a Lasting Legacy

Black Men in Leadership

Tuesday, May 16, 2023 | Virtual

What Can You Expect?

• Expand your professional network by connecting with other Black corporate professionals and entrepreneurs using our interactive, virtual networking tool that allows you to connect with professionals from around the world.

• Accelerate your progress toward your professional goals with battle-tested insights, strategies, and tactics presented by academics, thought leaders, and corporate titans. Previous symposiums have featured:

• Robert F. Smith, CEO of Vista Equity Partners,

• Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr., Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University

• Damon Jones, Professor of Public Policy at the University of Chicago

• Network directly with accomplished leaders of the corporate world during fireside chats

• Avoid career derailers by integrating the lessons successful Black professionals share in a candid and affirming “brave space”.

• Prepare yourself for new levels of success-oriented thinking by engaging in practical and inspirational conversations on topics centered on the Black experience.

Objectives

During this virtual conference participants will:

• Increase emotional intelligence and ability to manage relationships to drive pathways to the C-suite

• Explore the creativity, ingenuity, and leadership of Black men

• Practice techniques to build partnerships and identify commonalities leading to a cross-industry support system

• Examine opportunities for investing in yourself by selflessly investing in others

Topics

• Building Coalitions

• Critical Thinking

• Emotional Intelligence

• Diversity

• Influence

• Mindfulness

• Negotiation

• Social Equity

• Interpersonal Relationship

C-Suite Academy

Sponsor:

$7,500

About The Program

The nature of the C-Suite is changing. Increased employee mobility; the need to innovate and remain nimble while operating in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous business environments; and the centrality of digital transformation to business success are among the factors driving these changes. And though we may not know what the C-Suite will look like beyond the near future, we are certain it must evolve from its current post-World War II structure which is based in command and control and specialized silos.

Future CEOs and C-Suite executives need to be ready for the new landscape. They can’t rely on the traditional path to develop the business acumen and discernment needed to navigate future C-Suite challenges. They need new maps for the new territory; and new methods to prepare for success. This is especially true for Black executives.

What they need is a new type of C-Suite training. Welcome to the 2023 C-Suite Academy. In partnership with Accenture, The Executive Leadership Council has reimagined C-Suite.

Here’s what to expect:

During this course, participants will:

• Explore unique challenges for Black leadership in an evolving social, racial, and complex environment on the path to the C-Suite

• Examine current leadership sources of power and how to leverage them to drive change

• Explore and practice getting things done through people (people agility)

• Apply frameworks and innovative techniques to solve current and complex problems

• Explore strategies to navigate organizational decision making

And all of this will take place at Accenture’s Atlanta Innovation Hub – a 30,000 square foot co-creation space designed to tap into the hacker, maker and creator that lies within each Black executive. Through structured combination of collaborative group work, augmented and virtual reality experiences, simulations, fireside chats and workshops, C-Suite Academy participants will clarify their strategic vision, improve their proficiency with key executive competencies, and develop alliances with current and future CEOs and C-Suite executives.

We are not just providing C-Suite training, we are building the next cohort of Black CEOs. Are you ready for the challenge? Are you committed to thriving at the highest echelons of business? Are you prepared to embrace the discomfort that comes from undertaking a great – and achievable – challenge?

Then register today for the C-Suite Academy… and get ready to soar.

Date & Time

In-Person: June 26-29, 2023, Location TBD

(All six LDW courses will be offered)

Virtual (Zoom): August 1-3, 2023

(Bright Futures, Strategic Pathways for Women and Leading Innovation)

Virtual (Zoom): August 8-10, 2023

(Navigating the Corporate Landscape, Strengthening the Pipeline 1 and Strengthening the Pipeline 2)

About The Program

Program Cost

In-Person: $7,500

Virtual: $4,250

There has been noteworthy progress that Black corporate professionals have made in the United States. Specifically:

• The Spencer Stuart Board Index found Black executives accounted for 26% of the 456 new independent directors appointed to S&P 500 companies in 2022—a significant increase from 11% in 2020.

• A Washington Post study found that among the 50 largest U.S. companies (by April market capitalization), 8% of C-suite executives were Black; Five companies as of 2021—Merck, UPS, AT&T, UnitedHealth Group, and Home Depot—had C-suites where at least 20% of executives were Black.

• The number of Black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies has reached an all-time high.

But there’s far more work to be done.

As all of us continue to emerge from the global pandemic, and the challenges we were faced with throughout it, now is the time to move forward. And given the progress Black executives have made from the boardroom to the C-Suite across the United States over the last three years, we need a place that enables us to capitalize on our collective momentum.

The Executive Leadership Council’s Leadership Development Weeks (LDW) offers Black professionals that opportunity in a safe space cultivated for us, by us. The conferences are deliberate in creating an experience capable of inspiring Black professionals throughout the country to take charge of their careers by rejuvenating the leader within them. They are the premier leadership development experience for Black executives that helps them examine the challenges and opportunities of being a Black leader today, defying the odds and setting new standards for success.

Black executives who attend The ELC’s LDW leave the experience changed, carrying with them a renewed, strategic network of Black professionals who support their fellow colleagues along their leadership journeys. Unlike most professional seminars or leadership conferences, The ELC’s Leadership Development Weeks are unique with all its participants being Black, with all Black facilitators, and is packed with course content intentionally centered around the Black corporate experience.

Leadership Development Weeks

June 26-29, 2023 | In-Person

August 1-3 & August 8-10, 2023 | Virtual

The ELC’s signature intensive leadership development programs will be delivered three times in 2023. Later this year, our Institute for Leadership Development and Research will offer LDW virtually from August 1-3 and August 8-10. The only in-person LDW will be held during the Essence Festival from June 26-29, 2023 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

LDW Courses

The In-Person and Virtual LDWs will feature six courses including:

Session

In-Person: All six LDW courses will be offered

Virtual: Bright Futures

Virtual: Strategic Pathways for Women

Virtual: Leading Innovation

Virtual: Navigating the Corporate Landscape

Virtual: Strengthening the Pipeline 1

Virtual: Strengthening the Pipeline 2

Dates

June 26-29, 2023

August 1-3, 2023

August 1-3, 2023

August 1-3, 2023

August 8-10, 2023

August 8-10, 2023

August 8-10, 2023

MID-LEVEL MANAGERS’ SYMPOSIUM

Date & Time Sessions:

Wednesday, October 4, 10AM - 5PM EST

Thursday, October 5, 9AM - 2PM EST

Networking event at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Wednesday, October 4, 8PM - 12:00 AM EST (shuttles will be provided)

About The Program

Program Cost

In-Person: $1,500

Virtual (Streaming): $750

Location

Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center 1201 Waterfront St., National Harbor, MD 20745

As a Black professional, you have already demonstrated your ability to survive and thrive, mentor and sponsor, and contribute to your organization’s bottom line. The Executive Leadership Council (ELC) can be your force multiplier and advocate.

The goal of ELC’s Mid-Level Managers Symposium (MLMS) is to amplify the successes of Black professionals and increase their capacity for designing meaningful careers. It is not “professional development”; it’s “professional transformation” in an atmosphere where the Black experience is centered, essential and unapologetic. For this year’s Symposium, join The Executive Leadership Council on a professional development journey with the Black experience at the center. With no roadmap, we will have to blaze our own path. It will be hard work, but the rewards are beyond estimation—just like the bonds that will connect us as we travel and climb together.

What Can You Expect?

• Prime yourself for new levels of success-oriented thinking by attending keynote addresses from Black thought leaders

• Accelerate your progress toward your professional goals with battle-tested strategies and tactics presented in more than 15 concurrent sessions

• Avoid career derailers by integrating lessons learned from fireside chats with successful Black professionals

• Expand your professional network by connecting with peer Black professionals through our interactive, virtual networking experience