Think Leadership
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Think Leadership
Think Booth
- Susan Lucia Annunzio
President and CEO, The Center for High Performance
- Offered in English
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RESILIENT LEADERSHIP FOR HIGH-PERFORMING ORGANIZATIONS
Develop the Courage to Tackle Tough Times
“Leadership is not for the faint of heart—brave leaders face challenges head-on.”
—Susan Lucia Annunzio, President and CEO of The Center for High Performance
Rising to meet challenges and adversity tend to be watershed moments in a leader’s career. Whether navigating the complex turbulent landscape of a global pandemic, managing technological change, or responding to economic setbacks, the highest-performing leaders are those who are brave, resilient, and embolden others in their organization to action.
Program Takeaways
Faculty
Susan Lucia Annunzio
PRESIDENT AND CEO, THE CENTER FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE
Susan Lucia Annunzio is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Center for High Performance (CfHP). She is a strategic advisor to CEOs of leading global companies on strategy attainment and business transformation. Susan partners with senior executives to increase their ability to simplify complex strategic decisions through enhanced collaboration and creativity. She is a globally recognized speaker and thought leader on shaping and maintaining high-performance business environments. She has a strong track record helping leaders maximize returns on strategic, financial and human-capital investments.
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Previously, Susan ran the research-based high performance consulting subsidiary of Hudson Highland Group, Inc., a leading international professional staffing and talent management solutions firm.
Under her direction, Hudson Highland completed the most comprehensive global study of knowledge workers ever conducted regarding the factors that accelerate or stifle high performance. Susan has presented on this study at such prestigious venues as the World Economic Forum, The International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change at the University of Greenwich, and Vacature’s 2004 “Talent Economy” launch event in Belgium.
Susan has been an Adjunct Professor of Management at the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business. She has been a guest lecturer at INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau, France, Kellogg Graduate School of Management and Instituto Empressa in Madrid. She also has taught at General Electric’s Crotonville Corporate Training Center.
She is the author of Contagious Success (Portfolio, 2004), a dynamic management book that revealed a global standard for high performance. Contagious Success was voted Fast Company’s Readers’ Choice selection in January 2005. Additionally, Susan authored two more prominent business books: Communicoding (Fine, 1990; Penguin USA, 1991) and Evolutionary Leadership (Simon & Schuster, 2001; Fireside, 2002).
She has been a guest on numerous local and national television and radio news programs and has been quoted extensively in the business press, including The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, BBC, USA Today and Bloomberg.
Susan is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, the Executives’ Club of Chicago and the University of Chicago Women’s Business Group. She also works with the Metropolitan YWCA of Chicago and The United Way.
Who Should Attend?
This program will benefit mid- to senior-level executives who are charged with having tough talks, minimizing fears, and mobilizing an organization to move ahead amid uncertainty.
Leaders from a wide range of industries and organizations, including corporations, associations, nonprofits, startups, and public sector organizations, will find this program beneficial.
Executives from most job titles and functions will also benefit from attending this program, including entrepreneurs and consultants; and those in finance, operations, business development, human resources, sales, marketing, general management, donor relations, and operations.
Live-Online Format
Our live-online programs are delivered in a synchronous format where you’ll engage with faculty, industry leaders, and a global set of peers in an interactive, high-impact virtual environment. Often, these programs blend live sessions with activities or projects, and readings to deepen one’s understanding of the materials. The benefit to this format is that you’ll receive Booth’s rigorous content in short, digestible sessions held multiple times weekly and span over a few weeks.
Participants should expect to commit a total of 4-6 hours per week to this program.
Live online sessions are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays 9-11am US Central Time. View the full program schedule here.
Networking Forum
This program includes a live-virtual networking session, where participants will have an opportunity to introduce themselves to the cohort and share their work experience, as well as their most significant business challenge they are currently facing. Booth team members will host these forums, and will help continue post live-forum discussions onto the program’s online discussion boards.
Why Booth?
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For more information contact:
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business Executive Education
Call us:
+1 312 800 8657
Email us:
execedon@chicagobooth.edu