Leadership Academy


4-week Accelerated Management Development Program

Goals & Objectives: Learn essential skills to become more effective at directing teams through times of change. Foster a culture of trust, collaboration, and growth that will engage employees and achieve team success.

Program Overview

Teaches leaders to examine who they are at their core and lead from that place rather than trying to fit themselves into some preconceived notion of what a leader should be.  Participants learn that it is through finding and maintaining this authenticity that they will find true leadership success.

Explores the psychological dimensions of change as well as key change management principles and success factors, and prepares leaders to effectively cope with and lead change initiatives. The concepts, tools and exercises introduced apply to individuals who are leading or experiencing change. Participants will have the opportunity to analyze a change they are currently experiencing and/or leading, and develop plans for change action.

Provides leaders with the information and tools needed to conduct tough conversations with staff, peers, clients and more.  Too often people avoid these conversations because they don’t know how to conduct them effectively. This results in bad situations growing worse. This course helps anyone needing to deliver tough messages to learn and use skills to make these communications effective, thus benefitting all involved. The session is highly interactive and includes individual and group exercises, role plays and action planning.

Position staff for success in engaging in conversations about their career trajectory in the context of the organization, whether it’s a promotion conversation, a conversation about growing in place, or one about a transition to a new career path – this program provides helpful tools to make sure the conversation is one in which both manager and staff gain a better understanding of possibilities and a path forward.

Program Details


Dates Fall/Spring Semester
Duration Four weeks, 1 module per week
Location The program is being offered on-site only. Participants must commute to TC's campus 
Time Commitment  -Three hours of in-person collaboration per module
-Pre and post module assignments
-Commitment to mentor future program attendees 

Interested in Learning more about the Leadership Academy:

Email HRLearning@tc.columbia.edu

Meet the Fall 2023 Leadership Academy Cohort:

Harry R. Alvia

Denise Boneta

Jasmin Braithwaite

Ashari Edwards

Tony Fangel

Tiffany Garcia

Jamila Gerald

John D. Handal

John Harris

Michele Lopez

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Victor Melendez

Meriam Polilen

Sharion Scott

Michael Slaven

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