LDI Brochure by UCI Paul Merage School of Business

Building Future-Proof Leadership ™

“Empowering individuals and organizations through sustainable leadership.” Our Mission

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Leadership Development Institute The UCI Paul Merage School of Business Leadership Development Institute (LDI) provides individuals and organizations with relevant and research-based solutions to build sustainable leadership. Our world is becoming more complex, uncertain and volatile each day. Finding new ways to motivate, inspire and engage others while at the same time exploring new ways to create, capture and deliver value is one of the top global challenges today. LDI bridges the gap between today’s world and our accelerated future, empowering individuals and organizations to constantly create new value in times of constant disruption and build Future-Proof Leadership.

An Era of Constant Disruption The global pandemic, economic crisis, wars and societal uprise against socioeconomic and racial disparities have ushered in a new radical era of change for all of us. The unprecedented speed of impact of these events has forced an accelerated disruption of our daily lives and completely upended our economies and exacerbated existing critical gaps and challenges within our global community. Given our new reality, we must rely on powerful and effective solutions to guarantee our society's survival and sustained growth.

Some key global compounded challenges:

Global Healthcare

Economic Uncertainty

Political Polarization

Socioeconomic & Racial Disparities

Environmental Impact

Equity in Healthcare Politicization of Health Lack of Leadership

Supply Chain Constraints Shifting Consumer Demands Untethering of the Workplace

Collective Goals Belonging Diplomacy

Digital Alienation Gap Exacerbation Access and Opportunity

Speed of Industrialization Economic Needs Digital Demands on Energy

Expertise Accounting AI Business Economics DE&I Decision Sciences Digital Transformation Entrepreneurship ESG Finance Healthcare Human Resources Investments Management Marketing Operations Organizational Change Real Estate Strategy Technology Management Venture Capital

Leadership As A Catalyst

Performance Adaptation Mobilization Transformation Future-Proof Leadership

Building Future-Proof Leadership Our LDI framework enables individuals, teams and organizations to create sustainable value through developing and applying key strategies around adaptation, mobilization and transformation, building a virtuous cycle of resilience, engagement and reinvention.

The Present

Clarity

The Future

Alignment

Growth

Understand the current state, the

Align internal and external resources to

Change the ways to create, capture, and

change, the data, the critical gaps,

find creative pathways to anticipate

deliver value. Find relevance and build for

gather insights on the landscape,

change. Being passive in a moment of

the future, not just for today. Prioritize and

create a strategy for the current and

disruption will increase chances of failure.

focus on the results that matter.

future environment.

We have thoughtfully designed our solutions to support the advancement of leadership in today’s interdependent world.

Developing Future-Proof Leadership Understanding that individuals, teams, and organizations must be able to continuously adapt, mobilize, and transform in order to maintain relevance and effectiveness against the future, we have designed a clear architecture for development. Empowering individuals and organizations to set their benchmarks, understand their gaps, gain critical knowledge, and be able to immediately apply and measure the lessons learned.

Our blueprint for development

Individual Development

Organizational Development

Open Enrollment Programs

Custom Programs

Core Development

Strategy

Specialized Skills

Culture

Specialized Audience

Talent

Empowering the Entire Leadership Pipeline Our mission is to focus on developing leaders at all levels and enabling effective organizational leadership. We understand that the competencies and challenges faced at each leadership level are unique and cumulative as one advances within their responsibilities and scope. We have developed our solutions to mirror and support the advancement and flow of this pipeline through our open enrollment and custom programs. Leadership Development Pipeline:

Leading Self

Leading Others

Leading Managers

Leading the Function

Leading the Organization

Individual Contributors

Leaders of Individual

Leaders of Managers

Leaders of Functions

Leaders of the

and Emerging Leaders

Contributors

or Senior Staff

or Divisions

Organization

Individual Development Open Enrollment

Leading Others Leaders of Individual Contributors

Leading Managers Leaders of Managers or Senior Staff

Leading the Function Leaders of Functions or Divisions

Coming Soon

Emerging Leaders Program

Leadership Development Program

Specialized Audience

Leading the Organization Leaders of the Organization

Coming Soon

Global Health Care Leadership Program

Chief Medical Officer Program

Specialized Skills

Core Development

Leading Self Individual Contributors & Emerging Leaders

Coming Soon

Chief Nurse Executive Program Coming Soon

Coming Soon

ESG Leadership Academy

CFO Leadership Program

Women's Leadership Program

Give Us Your Toughest Challenges We are here to support you in solving your toughest challenges. Leveraging the unique advantages of a world-renowned research university combined with the flexibility of a market-facing institute, we convene global researchers, faculty, experts and industry leaders to work on what is most important to you. We have expertise across several industry sectors: AI, ESG, digital transformation, health care, investments, venture capital, entrepreneurship, real estate and others.

Some of the key leadership challenges that we can support include:

Preparing for management or a leadership role Building common leadership language in organization Increasing personal effectiveness and performace

Transitioning from individual performer to leading a team Building relationships to get work done Dealing effectively with conflict Solving problems successfully

Integrating cross-functional perspectives in decisions

Setting vision and building toward the future

Setting organizational direction

Handling complesity and managing politics

Balancing trade-offs between the short and long-term

Fostering alignment across the organization

Selling ideas to senior leaders Selecting and leading managers for high performance

Aligning the organization for strategy implementation

Gaining commitment for performance Refining and building a strong executive persona

Organizational Development Custom Programs

Discovery

Design

Delivery

Evaluation

The discovery phase is a

The design phase takes

The delivery phase is how

At the discovery phase,

comprehensive and

the information collected

we transfer the insights,

we set clear metrics that

integral part of the

during discovery and

knowledge and skills

we will measure

leadership development

begins to build a learning

through a combination of

throughout the entire

process. It is critical to

journey that is bespoke to

online and in-person

engagement and beyond.

establish a clear

the needs of your

experiences, workshops,

Our goal is to be able to

benchmark for

organization, taking into

simulations, classroom

measure growth and

development, set clear

consideration the unique

lectures and intentional

advancement and

metrics for growth and

culture, learning style,

networking connections.

correlate it to the

determine key outcomes

business challenges

The objective here is

achievement of the

and objectives.

and goals.

experiential growth

organizational objectives.

and development.

Taking experience and real-life applications to the next level

Context is Everything

80/20 Rule

Experience is Core

Content without context lacks the

We design each program with an

Everything we design is with the

core for implementation. Each

approximate ratio of 20% theory

participant in mind—from the

content area is framed within the

to 80% application. We believe

faculty, coaches and lectures and

context of your organization and

that this balance of theory and

coaches we select to the coffee

your industry. We use dialogue,

application gives the participants

breaks and networking

case studies, simulations and

the space they need to turn

experiences. Programs are

company-specific sessions to

theoretical concepts into

thoughtfully designed with the

achieve this.

practice. Application activities

participant at the center. We

include facilitated dialogue,

believe that a positive experience

coaching, cases, simulations,

augments and accelerates the

and group activities.

learning journey.

Some of Our Key Partner-Clients

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