VISTAGE C-SUITE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
VISTAGE C-SUITE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
The Vistage C-Suite Leadership Development Program is a chance for those with high-ranking positions in their companies to hone their skills, advance their leadership abilities, and feel more confident in their positions. You’ll walk away from each class with a project assignment to help you apply what you’ve learned. Whether you’ve been in the c-suite for years or you’re new to this career advancement, the Vistage C-Suite Leadership Development Program is a great way to tackle the real challenges you face day-to-day.
Courses
Organizational Leadership | Jennifer Cummings, Ph.D.
January 30, 2025
This course is designed for senior leaders who aspire to enhance their organizational leadership skills through a deep understanding and application of emotional intelligence principles. Participants will explore the critical role of emotional intelligence in effective leadership and learn strategies to cultivate and leverage emotional intelligence within their organizations.
Strategic Leadership | Ruchi M. Watson, MBA, Ed.D.
March 6, 2025
This course is designed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to being strategic leaders within their organizations. Leaders will better understand drivers of sustained value creation, learn applicable skills for developing theories of value, and identify ways to integrate this mindset throughout the organization.
Finance for the Organizational Leader | Steven Monahan, Ph.D.
April 24, 2025
If you have strong intuition about business, excellent judgment, and extensive knowledge of your company’s products, customers, and competitors, but wonder how to use these strengths in a way that focuses on evaluating financial performance and outcomes, this course is designed to help. When you finish this course, you’ll have a strong understanding of the fundamentals of financial reporting and the ability to calculate and interpret key performance indicators that are based on numbers obtained from financial reports.
Leading Change | Bonita Austin, MBA
June 5, 2025
Organizations encounter two types of changes - episodic and continuous. Episodic changes like organizational transformations are often viewed as discrete events. However, they frequently overlap with ongoing changes. This layering effect causes employees and managers to experience changes as continuous change with no end in sight. Traditional change management approaches are helpful but do not address continuous change effectively. Bain & Co research showed the organizational transformation failure rate dropped from 38% in 2013 to 13% in 2023. However, the transformational change success rate remained stubbornly stuck at a mere 12%, with 75% of transformations falling into the “mediocre” or “so-so” category.
Organization Operational Excellence | Robert Valentino, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Master
September 4, 2025
This course is designed to equip senior leaders with the knowledge, skills, and strategies necessary to foster operational excellence within their organizations. Participants will explore key principles, methodologies, and best practices for enhancing operational efficiency, improving quality, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. Through a combination of lectures, case studies, interactive workshops, and practical exercises, participants will gain insights into effective leadership strategies for achieving operational excellence and sustaining competitive advantage.
Organizational Culture | Michael Waterman, MA
October 23, 2025
This course empowers senior leaders with knowledge, insights, and strategies to effectively understand, shape, and cultivate your organizational culture. Participants will explore the dynamics of healthy and positive workplace culture, its impact on employee behavior and performance, and strategies for fostering and maintaining a culture that engages people and aligns with organizational values and objectives.
Personal Benefits
Complete projects with real-time benefits
Strengthen a variety of skillsets
Gain confidence in your leadership abilities
Organizational
Projects with a lasting positive impact on the organization
Leaders will come away well-rounded
Raise team trust
THE ECCLES DIFFERENCE
The David Eccles School of Business enrolls about 6,000 students in its eight undergraduate majors, four MBAs, seven other specialized graduate programs, one Ph.D. program, and executive education curricula. It is also home to seven institutes and centers that support an ecosystem of entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation, including the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, Ken C. Gardner Policy Institute, Sorenson Impact Center, and more.
Our faculty members boast impressive professional and educational backgrounds and hold Ph.D.s from esteemed universities including the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School, Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School.
TAKE THE NEXT STEP
Telephone: (801) 587-7273
Email: ExecEd@Utah.edu
Website: ExecEd.Utah.Edu
Registration: Eccles.Secure.Force.com/ExecEdApplication
1731 E Campus Center Drive
Robert H. and Katharine B. Garff Building, GARFF 4340
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
