Leadership Certification Track

The Value of Differences: From Transactional to Transformational Leadership

Leadership Certification Track

The Value of Differences: From Transactional to Transformational Leadership certification is designed for individuals at all levels of an organization who seek to cultivate resilience and agility to support their organizations as change agents. Participants will develop and enhance leadership competencies to support positive transformation. This is a desirable, complementary certification for those that want to be transformative leaders.

The content of the Value of Differences: From Transactional to Transformational Leadership certification focuses on organizational change leadership, institutional direction setting and leading inclusive teams at the individual, department and institutional level. In addition, participants will develop a unique transformational leadership mindset that goes beyond managing the usual day-to-day activities and will gain the knowledge and confidence to create strategies for taking their team to the next level of performance and success.

Courses and Learning Outcomes

Leader in Action: Leading Transformational Change

Learning Outcomes:

Acquire tools and techniques for effectively leading and motivating organizational change
Understand why transformation initiatives often face resistance and address the root causes
Learn how to design and reshape organizational structures and systems to support organizational change and transformation
Model change behaviors and learn to develop a culture of teamwork and collaboration that supports transformation

Leader as Self: Explore inclusive leadership and how to thrive in complexity

Learning Outcomes:

Identify diversity and inclusion as drivers of organizational success and employee engagement
Understand the perceptual, institutional, and psychological processes that impact the ways people interact with each other
Examine how professionals can design better work practices and leverage employee potential
Investigate individual responsibilities as an inclusive leader
Explore the internal mindset shift that all employees and leaders must embrace to lead effectively

Leader & Development: Understand how to develop and understand strategic plans that are sustainable, agile, dynamic and intentional

Learning Outcomes:

Become familiar with the language common to strategic planning and goal setting
Learn to communicate strategic planning and goal-setting concepts
Identify key points in the development of a transformative strategic plan
Implementation of the strategic plan: How to get things done

Data-Driven Leadership: Obtain the knowledge, tools and techniques to collaborate, manage and lead in an evolving data landscape

Learning Outcomes:

Examine the values of data-informed decision making
Develop the habits and skills necessary for data-driven leadership
Learn to seek and understand data, to question assumptions and to think critically about reports and data displays
Demonstrate how to balance analytical and creative thinking in plans and decisions
Advance data-driven management skills such as formulating value-adding questions, directing the collection and selection of data, operationalizing the insights from data, and telling stories with data

Who Should Attend

Emerging and practicing leaders who seek leadership development and competencies related to transformational leadership
Professionals who are responsible for or who would like to enhance their understanding of how to develop a transformation-focus strategic plan
Prospective first-level supervisors and supervisors and managers at all career levels

Benefits of Attending

Attendees will:

Reflect on their own personal leadership efficacy, allowing for future improvement
Acquire skills to lead transformation and be a change agent
Model and cultivate collaborative thinking
Provide strategic leadership during change process
Communicate effectively with senior management and technical staff to apply data-driven strategies

Presenter: Dr. Sheila Boysen-Rotelli

Dr. Sheila Boysen-Rotelli is a tenured professor, Master Certified executive leadership coach, facilitator, author, and TEDx speaker. As a thought leader in the coaching field, Sheila has held global and local board roles with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and the Association of Coach Training Organizations (ACTO). She has created and accredited numerous ICF coach training programs and has trained hundreds of coaches both internally for organizations as well as through graduate-level academic training programs.

Since becoming a certified coach over a decade ago, she has worked with over 1000 clients in all areas of industry. Sheila is driven by the opportunity to enable leaders to engage in ways that feel courageous and authentic so they can go on to accomplish remarkable things. She supports others to grow as leaders, achieve results, and develop their own leadership competencies.

As a leader across multiple industries, her experience in enabling positive change empowers her to partner with students and clients at depth to truthfully look at themselves within their work and life context to return with greater choice, authorship, and impact as a leader. Sheila brings extensive senior HR experience to her coaching and facilitation. Her career spanned multiple industries and both private and public organizations. Her focus was on the people side of the business, including leadership development, organizational effectiveness, and performance optimization. Sheila has coached Executives and emerging leaders from a wide range of industries that include tech, finance, consumer package goods, education, government, and non-profit sectors.

Outside of work, Sheila and her husband, Graham, are parents to Finn (9), Blaney(8), and Declan (4), as well as their 14-year-old black cat (Dublin) and Yorkie puppy (Kerrigan). Sheila loves crafting and creating things, perfect combinations like red wine and chocolate, and 90s music.