Christiaan Engels
"Gain a competitive edge by equipping your high-potential innovation leaders with better business skills. This intensive one-week course delivers the skills, concepts, language, and tools that innovation leaders need to make more effective strategic decisions and communicate those decisions to those in different business functions. The Innovation Research Interchange, in partnership with Northwestern University’s top-ranked Kellogg School of Management, specifically designed Shaping Innovation Leaders to meet the needs of demanding leadership roles in promising mid-level managers in research, development, innovation, and engineering.
Participants gain the skills, concepts, language, and tools they need to make more effective strategic decisions.
• Address the challenges of leadership and motivate and lead others
• Gain knowledge of general management through insights into marketing, finance, accounting, organization behavior and operations functions
• Develop their ability to analyze, formulate, and implement strategies
• Learn techniques for communicating with executives in other divisions
• Grasp the latest thinking and management tools used in the business environment
• Gain fresh perspectives for competing in a global marketplace
• Gather priceless knowledge gleaned from networking with industry peers"