Performance-Driven Leadership

Empower People for Lasting Impact

Cultivate resilient teams to meet the demands of an ever-changing market.

Elevate your leadership capabilities and achieve long-term growth

Over six weeks, you’ll explore how effective talent leadership is essential for overcoming business challenges. You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of key talent management essentials, including people literacy, team structure and dynamics, growth planning, and your role as a leader. You’ll systematically identify your organization’s unique strengths and weaknesses within each area and develop targeted action plans.

You’ll emerge with mastery of leadership and talent management principles, empowering you to align business goals with your team’s strengths—ultimately giving your organization a competitive edge and cultivating a thriving workforce.

90 %

of respondents believe that to succeed in today’s work environment, leaders must focus on the human aspects of leadership.

86 %

of respondents say that coaching employees is the top way to add value to talent and people management in an organization.

54 %

of companies saw their employee turnover rate increase over the past year.

Distinctive Online Learning Features

FLEXIBLE METHOD

Our online learning method adapts to your schedule, commitments, and needs. In addition to self-paced content, our programs incorporate knowledge checks, interactive discussion boards, simulations and live sessions to bring content to life.

USER-FRIENDLY PLATFORM

Navigate program content with ease using a simple interface that offers a seamless learning experience.

TAILORED GUIDANCE

Throughout the program, you’ll be accompanied by an expert mentor to answer your questions and provide feedback on your work.

Your Chicago Booth Instructor

John Philbin

Adjunct Associate Professor, Executive Education Programs

As the founder and managing partner of Spectacular at Work, John Philbin helps companies compete, win, and build thriving workplace cultures.

John advises CEOs and develops future business leaders around the world. He and his team coach leaders and up-and-comers, help companies determine who to hire to make their company stronger, and architect leading people processes to make sure companies have a steady flow of future leaders that fit their culture.

John works with some of the most respected companies in the world (Blue Cross Blue Shield, PwC, Aon, Reebok, McDonalds) and with those aspiring to be great—really any company that wants to be better at the people stuff, no matter the size or industry. He is regularly invited to speak on People Literacy®, building better leaders and corporate culture (What’s Really Going On at Work?™), creating a competitive advantage through people and culture (“The Four Stages of Talent Management”), and strategic talent management + succession planning.

John Philbin earned his PhD in Psychology at Loyola University and is an adjunct faculty member of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Where Your Expertise and Booth Insights Converge for Optimal Team Performance

A High-Impact Learning Format

The program features two live-online sessions with faculty in conjunction with self-paced learning, offering a blend of interactive classroom sessions, group discussions, case studies, and assessments.

Participants will gain access to Spectacular Team Assessment, a proprietary survey designed by John Philbin, which serves as an integral part of the program. This tool offers leaders anonymized, aggregated insights into team dynamics across the cohort.

You’ll also unlock customized insights and action plans through:

  • A proprietary People Literacy® framework that offers crucial insight into common business challenges.
  • Talent assessment that offers a clear snapshot of your company’s current standing, along with a detailed roadmap for future actions.
  • Talent risk assessment that will evaluate the state of your succession planning and identify potential risks to your company’s performance due to talent gaps.
  • Personality assessment to understand your core behavioral tendencies and build better teams.
  • Additional tools to help you learn rapidly from your own experiences. 

 

Live-Online Sessions

This program incorporates two faculty-led live-online sessions.

Program Duration

Six weeks, 5–6 hours per week.

By completing this program, you’ll...

Certificate of Completion

Upon program completion, you'll also...

Have learned from a world-class faculty within a university associated with 99 Nobel laureates.

Be awarded a certificate of completion and a digital credential of your accomplishment.

Become a member of the global Chicago Booth Executive Education network.

Program Modules

Faculty-Led Live-Online Sessions

This program features two live-online sessions—a unique opportunity to put theory into practice immediately to amplify your learning and see results. These required sessions not only offer an opportunity to reflect and receive real-time feedback with faculty and peers, but also integrate interactive that can only be taught in a live environment. Participants are expected to attend at least two of the three live sessions to maximize their growth. If a participant is unable to attend a session, an extra asynchronous assignment must be submitted to complete the program.

This program is an excellent fit for:

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What our participants have to say:

Lucia Gonzalez Fernandez
Lucia Gonzalez FernandezDirector of Internal Audit Methodology and Quality Assurance, CaixaBank (Spain), Trainer & Quality Assurance Specialist, Institute of Internal Auditors of Spain
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I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation to the Chicago Booth team for their remarkable support. I am satisfied that I have achieved further development and career-building with this online experience. Thank you all.
Vanesa Salgado
Vanesa Salgado
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“I've had a highly positive online learning experience. Acquiring new skills applicable to both my professional and personal life has proven to be incredibly valuable. The opportunity to expand my network and connect with experts from diverse global sectors has been particularly rewarding; you never know when mutual assistance might come into play. Being a student again and engaging in the learning process has been an exciting and fulfilling journey as well. Overall, it has been a fantastic experience!"

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