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Transformational Leadership

Strategies

Webinars Taught By Exceptional Experts

Earn Up to Eight (8) HR & Business Credits

This webinar series is approved for eight 8 HR &  Business Recertification Credits towards any of HRCI’s eight credentials, including SPHR®and PHR®.
AFEE is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.

An Exclusive & Online Program on Leadership

Transformational Leadership Strategies

The world is rapidly changing. Surviving and thriving in today's new world requires professionals to stay ahead of the game.

Our live, interactive two-day online webinar series (on Zoom) is designed exclusively for professionals, with a specific focus on Transformational Leadership Strategies.

  • November 12-13 from 10 am-2:30 pm ET.
  • Earn a Certificate in Transformational Leadership Strategies*
  • Earn up to Eight (8) HR & Business Recertification Credits
  • Meet Leading HR & Business Professionals

Objective: Equip Business Leaders (Women and Men) with the Essential Tools to Spearhead the Leadership Style of Today's Business World.

Organized & Led by: The American Foundation for Educational Excellence (AFEE) and the International Foundation for Women’s Empowerment (IFWE).

*To qualify for the Certificate and Credits, you need to:

  • Attend and actively participate in all 4 webinars
  • Complete all feedback forms

**When you register, make sure you provide valid email and mobile number. It is your responsibility to make sure you receive the emails and/or text messages we send you. Check your junk/spam folder if you don't receive any email from us, despite having provided a valid email address.

November 12, 2022 | 10 am-12 pm ET

Transformative Leadership

Ralph Bounassif, Founder and MD of StratHaus and Former McKinsey & Company and Booz & Company, presents "Transformative Leadership to Lead Organizations Through and For Change." [2 Credits]

The explosion of complexity, uncertainty, and frequency of change is disrupting businesses globally. The need to transform has become an essential part of business for most organizations. But the fact is that business transformation is one of the most difficult tasks to undertake. 75% of business transformations globally fail (Source: McKinsey & Company). While there is no exact recipe for success, there are practices that can help significantly improve the chances of leading a successful transformation.

In this webinar, we will cover the main steps and guiding principles to follow in designing and executing a successful business transformation.

Learning Outcome:

  • Develop an understanding of how to build a robust business transformation plan that has significantly higher chances to succeed.

Ralph Bounassif

Founder & MD of StratHaus

Former McKinsey & Company

Former Booz & Company

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  • Seasoned strategy and transformation advisor with extensive experience with world leading management consulting firms McKinsey & Company and Booz & Company.
  • Engineer and a graduate of management from HEC-Paris, Ralph has been serving companies, investment funds, family conglomerates, and governments for the last 15 years across Europe, the GCC, and Africa on strategy, growth and business transformation.
  • Ralph currently leads a private consulting practice in Paris, StratHaus, and manages several entrepreneurial ventures.

November 12, 2022 | 12:30-2:30 pm ET

Storytelling in a New VUCA World

Babson College's Dr. Jay Rao presents "Storytelling in a New VUCA World."  [2 Credits]

In this age of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Chat Bots, Globalization, and Robotics, the one skill that can separate – leaders, managers, entrepreneurs – from technology and your peers is mastering the ancient art of persuasion. Combining words and ideas to ignite imagination. PowerPoints and Excel spreadsheets may be necessary, but they are not sufficient. Today, more than ever, we need to be able to energize, engage and enable people to support our purpose and enroll in our journey. That’s a skill that will always set people apart.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Explore Pathos and how to win an audience’s emotions;
  • Explore Ethos and how to get an audience to trust the messenger;
  • Explore Logos and how to tell a story that makes sense.

Jay Rao, Ph.D.

Babson College

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  • Dr. Jay Rao teaches extensively in the Babson Executive Education programs. His executive teaching and consulting is in the areas of innovation, implementation of innovation initiatives within firms, corporate entrepreneurship and customer experience innovation.
  • Dr. Rao also teaches 2 elective courses in the Babson MBA programs (1) Leading Innovation: Gorillas, Chimps & Monkeys and (2) #CX #UX #DX Innovation.
  • His research has appeared in The Sloan Management Review, Journal of Innovative Management, The European Business Review, The European Financial Review, Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly and others.
  • He is the author of the book The Discipline and Culture of Innovation.
  • He has written several business cases on a range of topics: Innovation Strategy, Innovation Culture, Leading Innovation, Customer Service, and Strategy Execution.
  • He was a member of the Innovation Advisory Board at Ocean Spray (USA) from 2010 to 2015.
  • He currently sits on the Innovation Advisory Board of Bancolombia (Colombia), and on the Flavor Advisory Board of Firmenich (Switzerland). He also has a family-business background and sits on the board of Hymamshu (Bangalore, India).

November 13, 2022 | 10 am-12 pm ET

Team Decision-Making when Time is Scarce

Award-winning Yale University faculty member, Dr. Daylian Cain, presents "Leadership-Mindset Webinar: Team Decision-Making when Time is Scarce." (2 credits)

How to Discover that You're on the Wrong Path: FAST!

(Lessons from the Dept. of Defense, Big Tech, Van Halen, and High-Stakes Poker)  

Learn how to use "Red-Teaming" techniques to foster healthy disagreement in your teams, without creating disarray and without wasting time. This is not about criticizing one’s leaders, which is often a career-limiting move. Instead, it is about how you—once you are the leader—can create an atmosphere where people below you are more comfortable to speak up before bad ideas gain traction. This is a “fail fast” method that allows you to lead inclusively while holding more decisive meetings.  

Learning Outcomes:

  • Explore the behavioral-economic theory behind making better decisions through RED-TEAMING.
  • Examine practical leadership tips on how to apply RED-TEAMING.
  • Support healthy disagreement in your teams without wasting time and without lacking confidence.

Daylian M. Cain, Ph.D.

School of Management,

Yale University

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  • Studies why smart people do dumb things.
  • Senior Lecturer of Negotiations, Leadership, & Ethics at the Yale School of Management.
  • Has a Ph.D. in Management from Carnegie Mellon.
  • Prior to joining Yale, Cain was the Russell Sage Fellow of Behavioral Economics at Harvard University.
  • Cain is often one of the highest-rated professors in Yale’s executive education.
  • For multiple years, he had the highest yearly-average rating and lowest variance in ratings.
  • Cain is lead faculty on a new sales and leadership training program for Volvo America, lead instructor for the “Yale Negotiation Strategies” online program, and co-instructs Yale’s “Leading Effective Decision-Making” program, which earned the highest-ever rating of an inaugural program on Yale’s platform.
  • Fun Fact: Dr. Cain has appeared as a special guest on National Geographic’s TV show Brain Games (Season 2, “You Decide”).

November 13, 2022 | 12:30-2:30 pm ET

Promoting Employee and Leader Well-Being

Colonel Deb Lewis, a West Point graduate from its first class with women and a Harvard MBA, presents "Promoting Employee and Leader Well-Being in Today’s New World."  [2 Credits]

Practical leadership strategies, insights, tips/hacks and tools to survive and thrive in Today’s New world.

During this interactive webinar, participants will learn how to apply the ABS Model to develop strong core norms that strengthen employee and team well-being. Participants will develop related strategies and practical skills leaders use to enhance productivity, creativity, and harmony in the workplace.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Identify challenges and opportunities impacting the hot topic of employee and leader well-being.
  • Demonstrate ways to support employee and leader well-being after examining practical leadership strategies and tips.

Colonel Deb Lewis, Ret'd

Harvard MBA

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  •  Commanded three US Army Corps of Engineer Districts, including a $2.1B reconstruction program in combat.
  • Survived the 9/11 Pentagon attack while serving on the Joint Staff antiterrorism team. 
  • Her experiences leading while under fire inspired her unique ‘Mentally Tough Women’ (MTW) program to help women handle more stress – not de-stress – and put it to work for them.

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About the American Foundation for Educational Excellence

The American Foundation for Educational Excellence (AFEE) is a United States-based organization whose mission is to help corporations, organizations, and educational institutions to pursue excellence. AFEE seeks to improve leadership skills, managerial competencies, and educational programs, namely through face-to-face and online trainings. AFEE is headquartered in Virginia, USA, where it has developed professional working relationships with global government and business leaders, and some of the best professors from Ivy League and other leading universities.

Who Organizes, Manages and Moderates the Programs & Webinars?

Nada M. Salem, President and CEO of AFEE & IFWE, organizes, manages, and moderates AFEE & IFWE's Programs and Webinars on Leadership. She is a passionate educator with extensive experience in leading academic institutions in the United States and abroad. She co-created and co-taught a methods course for teachers at The George Washington University Graduate School of Education. Ms. Salem holds a teaching diploma, a master's degree in education, and has successfully completed courses towards a doctorate in curriculum and instruction & educational technology leadership at GW Graduate School of Education. Additionally, she holds an Executive Certificate in Public Leadership from Harvard University. Ms. Salem formerly served as an Administrative Director and Assessment of Learning Coordinator for AACSB Accreditation at the GW School of Business. In September 2019, Ms. Salem was selected as a WOMAN LEADER by the University of Maryland‘s Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace. She is a member of the Marquis WHO'S WHO® list of prominent business professionals, and she was featured among Marquis Who's Who's' Top Executives.

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