Leadership and Strategic Impact
Inspire others. Transform organizations. Deliver results.
Program Overview
Turn vision into action. Drive strategic change.
At the intersection of strategic thinking, strategic communication, and personal leadership, the Tuck Leadership and Strategic Impact program at Dartmouth integrates the frameworks you need to lead with impact and drive breakout performance for your organization.
Are you ready to take your leadership to the next level? Join us.
Program Benefits
For You
- Sharpen your approach to strategic decision making.
- Discover new strategies to manage team dynamics, improve performance, and drive organizational growth.
- Develop an action plan and sustain momentum after the program.
- Earn a general management certificate that can be shared on LinkedIn or other platforms.
- Gain access to the Tuck Executive Education alumni community and receive a 10% discount on future Tuck Executive Education programs.
For Your Organization
- Participants begin applying their learnings on their first day back to work through their personalized action plan, resulting in an immediate ROI.
- For companies that send small groups, Tuck Executive Education programs allows teams to create a common language and shared framework that connects leadership concepts to action.
- Participants thrive post program and transfer their learning back to teammates. One client company has reported that 75% of their global leadership team is now comprised of Tuck Executive Education alumni.
Build a Business Case to Attend
Learn more about organizational benefits and how to advocate for yourself on our Building the Business Case page.
Certificate of Excellence in Advanced Management and Leadership
Pair together Leadership and Strategic Impact and the Advanced Management Program, to maximize your organizational effectiveness.
Who Should Attend
For today’s highest-potential executives
Participants are typically emerging or experienced leaders who are committed to exploring their own strengths and weaknesses. Building an action plan helps to accelerate their development, allowing them to adapt their leadership styles for their current challenges — or whatever comes next.
Leadership and Strategic Impact is a fit for you if you meet the above criteria and seek to:
- Develop your leadership style
- Implement strategy across your organization
- Maximize your leadership effectiveness
Cohorts by the Numbers
Participant Stories
Even after the program, my cohort has been able to check in as a peer group to see how we are doing on our plan. We help each other point out where we've grown and where we need to continue to work on our leadership styles.
Eileen Mastrio
Head of Best Interest, MassMutual
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Tuck’s Leadership and Strategic Impact program offers a stimulating environment with access to world-class faculty and content, which opened my mind around leadership and overall business strategy. The formal case studies, coupled with the classroom discussion and activities, provided a great learning platform that I still draw from today.
Chris Chang
CIO, Darden Restaurants
My expectations of LSI were sky high and I was still blown away. It helped me realize a broader definition of leadership. Since attending, I’ve primarily focused on my goal to pause, listen, and reflect more. It’s had a profoundly positive impact. Rather than immediately jumping in when faced with a challenge, I instead provide encouragement to my teams to identify their own solutions. The result is that they're energized and engaged, and I’m less harried.
Katherine Andersen
Head of Life Science and Healthcare, HSBC
Leadership and Strategic Impact added a new dimension to my understanding of leadership as being about our daily relationships with colleagues, whether they are our peers, or junior or senior to us. Without a doubt, LSI is a program that every organization's aspiring leaders need in their professional development.
Emmanuel A. Opoku
Deputy Chief Executive of Operations at the Ghana Cocoa Board
I selected LSI because I was looking for inspiration, new skills, a classroom with colleagues from around the world, and top notch professors. I found it! It was a challenging and intensive week on campus and truly exhausting and exhilarating. Now I have a completely new repertoire of skills to engage my team so that they can be the best they can be.
Janet Joy Wilson
Artistic Director, The Reading Line
The Leadership and Strategic Impact Program was an eye-opening experience for me in my journey to become a successful leader. The content was excellent and it was delivered in a way that was both thought-provoking and insightful. I am no doubt improved as a leader, and perhaps more importantly as a person, as a result of actively participating in this program.
Ben Watkins
Vice President of Operations, McCarthy Building Companies
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Strategic leadership is formed at the intersection of strategic thinking, strategic communication, and personal leadership
Leadership and Strategic Impact amplifies participants' strategy, communication, and leadership skills to help them drive breakout performance for their organizations. Via robust, experiential learning frameworks, each participant refines their unique leadership style and develops their ability to communicate and implement strategy across the enterprise.
Program sessions include the following:
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Leadership
Leading in a Crisis (Paul Argenti)
During this session, participants learn how to distinguish between drama and crisis, what to do during and after a crisis, and best practices for crisis management.The Leadership Challenge (Paul Argenti)
This session focuses on harnessing the collective wisdom of a team and the opportunities that arise from working with people with diverse backgrounds.Leadership and Personal Responsibility (Paul Argenti)
In this session, participants explore how responsibility guides leadership and develop an approach for their personal responsibility as a leader when they spot moral dilemmas.360 Assessment: Overview of Leadership Styles and Peer Coaching (Pino Audia)
Prior to attending LSI, all participants must complete a 360-degree leadership assessment. During this session, they analyze that feedback and work with faculty and peers to understand their leadership styles and developmental opportunities.360 Assessment: Leadership Action Planning (Pino Audia)
Participants take hold of their feedback and convert it into an effective action plan that identifies and addresses gaps between their ideal and current leadership profile.The Purposeful Leader (Shannon Huffman Polson)
By owning their stories, participants learn to align with their purpose, connect their individual purpose to a broader organizational purpose, and nurture this in their teams.Leadership Lab: Getting Results with Others (Action Learning Associates)
After completing a personality inventory test, participants use this experiential-learning session to understand their results relative to their leadership styles.
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Communication
The Strategic Communication Imperative (Paul Argenti)
During this session, participants connect their strategic vision to implementation and learn communication strategies to achieve organizational alignment.StoryMythos: A Movie Guide to Better Business Stories (Shane Meeker)
Participants learn how a good story can help build impact in all areas of leadership, from creating powerful brand connections to enacting inspirational business strategies.
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Strategic Mindset
Developing a Strategic Mindset: Laying the Foundation (Paul Argenti)
This session guides participants to understand the connection between company culture and company strategy, helping managers affect change on their organization.Strategy and Leadership (Sydney Finkelstein)
This session dives into the key things that leaders must think about differently when it comes to strategy: their business, their value, and their people.Winning the Right Game (Ron Adner)
In this session, participants explore how to reconceptualize competition in a world of ecosystems—and ecosystem disruption—and how to adapt their strategy to succeed.
Experiential Learning
Leadership and Strategic Impact asks executives to learn by doing in experiential learning sessions that link leadership development to business strategy.
TypeCoach Assessment
Participants receive their pre-program personality inventory results and explore the relationship of those results to their leadership style and its applications to organizational change.
Leadership Labs
Working in small groups, participants are challenged to quickly define strategy and execute against a series of experiential exercises, providing a visceral, behavioral understanding of how their leadership style applies to leadership and teamwork.
Personal Action Plan
With input and feedback from Tuck's renowned faculty and their fellow leaders in the program, participants develop their own individualized personal action plan, which takes program concepts and applies them to individual circumstances to help participants maximize their strategic leadership potential.
Through faculty-led discussions and guided group work with their peers, participants return to their organizations equipped with finely-honed plans to become stronger leaders. A post-program follow-up with faculty and peers keeps them on track to make real progress.
Program Faculty
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Ron Adner
Tuck Executive Education Faculty and David T. McLaughlin D’54 T’55 Professor
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Paul Argenti
Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Professor of Corporate Communication
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Pino Audia
Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Professor of Management and Organizations
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Sydney Finkelstein
Tuck Executive Education Faculty and Steven Roth Professor of Management
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Shannon Huffman Polson T’03
Tuck Executive Education Faculty
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Shane Meeker
Tuck Executive Education Faculty
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The Tuck Experience
A setting unlike any other
Tuck is located in the heart of New England, in the quintessential college town of Hanover, New Hampshire. Our immersive environment offers rich opportunities to refresh yourself mentally and physically as you're learning transformative new skills.
For decades, our faculty and staff have offered participants the personal, connected, and transformative experience for which Tuck is renowned. Executives leave our campus and return to work refreshed and ready to apply their new frameworks
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Travel & Accomodations
Part of what makes our programs so transformational is our secluded location in the Still North. Tuck is located less than three hours from Boston and less than five hours from New York City. Participants stay at the iconic Hanover Inn, a historic hotel with comfortable, modern rooms, located in the center of Hanover within easy walking distance of Tuck.
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Dining
Tuck provides delicious and healthy meals, including lunch and some dinners, for participants, offering a wide variety for all tastes. Coffee, tea, and light snacks are made available each day outside of the classroom. For the few dinners that are not provided as part of the program, participants often gather in small groups for an evening at one of Hanover’s many in-town restaurants, which serve up cuisines ranging from farm-to-table American and pub fare to Cuban and Nepali dishes.
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Recreation
Participants can keep up their fitness routines with complimentary access to the Lewinstein Athletic Center or by taking advantage of our rich natural resources with a hike through one of Dartmouth’s two on-campus parks. Participants may also enjoy visiting some of the College’s most iconic sites, including Baker Library, the Hood Museum of Art, and the Hopkins Center for the Arts.
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