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Pathfinder: Owning Your Leadership Journey

November 18-22, 2024 (Online, in English) 

Pathfinder: Owning Your Leadership Journey is an immersive weeklong online course designed for emerging and accomplished leaders searching for meaning, impact and fulfillment in their professional endeavors. It helps participants discover their unique strengths and values, exploring what makes them effective as leaders. The cohort-based course guides them in intentionally shaping their career paths through engaging lessons, personal assessments, and interactive sessions. After the course week, participants can book one personal 1:1 career coaching session with Anita Zielina.

Whether you’re searching for your next management opportunity, wanting to reshape your current role, increase your impact and influence in your organization, or looking at starting your entrepreneurial journey, this course will help bring clarity and focus. By the end of the week, participants will have the tools and confidence to find or design the leadership role that fits them perfectly, taking the next step toward owning their leadership journey with purpose and passion.

Course Overview

Day 1: Analyzing Your Career Path and Leadership Journey

Get to know your fellow participants and dive deep into your professional history to understand the pivotal moments that have shaped your leadership style. This introspective analysis will help you identify patterns, strengths, and areas for growth, setting the foundation for a more intentional and informed career journey.

Day 2: Strengths and Strength-Based Leadership

Discover and harness your unique strengths to become a more effective leader. This session focuses on recognizing your core competencies and leveraging them to inspire and lead your team with confidence and authenticity. Participants will analyze the CliftonStrengths Leadership Assessment they took before the course.

Day 3: Professional Values, Vision and Mission

Align your professional goals with your personal values using the IKIGAI framework. Explore how a clear vision and mission can drive your leadership purpose and create a fulfilling career path that resonates with your core beliefs.

Day 4: Frameworks for Career Decision-Making

Equip yourself with robust decision-making frameworks to navigate complex career choices. This day is dedicated to providing you with practical tools and strategies to make informed, confident decisions that align with your long-term leadership goals.

Day 5: What’s Next? Mapping Out Your Leadership Journey

Plan the next steps of your leadership journey with a clear, actionable roadmap. Reflect on the insights gained throughout the course and outline a strategic plan to continue your growth and achieve your leadership aspirations.

Key benefits at a glance: 

  • A week-long online course, designed for busy leaders

  • 10 hours of engaging live lectures and workshops

  • Access to and analysis of the CliftonStrengths Leadership Assessment (Value 50 Euro)

  • Private 45 min 1:1 coaching session with Anita Zielina (Value 375 Euro)

  • Confidential conversations with a small cohort of like minded professionals

  • Access to the exclusive Better Leaders Lab Alumni Slack space 

Learning Outcomes:

  • Identify and analyze the values, strengths and passions that shape you as a leader

  • Utilize self reflection and strategic approaches to design a meaningful leadership career

  • Learn to implement a framework for current and future career decisions

Instructors and Speakers:

Anita Zielina has coached and advised more than 200 executives, leaders and entrepreneurs. She is an experienced digital media executive, strategic advisor and board member with a focus on digital transformation, modern leadership and management, and product and business strategy. Anita is the founder and CEO of Better Leaders Lab, a Do-and-Think Tank for good leadership and smart management that also acts as a boutique consultancy firm. She is an Executive in Residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in NYC and serves as a non-executive board member at the Austrian Public Broadcaster (ORF), as well as the inaugural board chair of the News Product Alliance (NPA). She holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD and a Masters in Law from the University of Vienna and is an alumna of the JSK Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University and the Reuters Institute Visiting Fellowship at the University of Oxford.

Regular price: 750,00 EUR (+ VAT)

Early Bird price: 650,00 EUR (+VAT)

Information about scholarships can be found in the FAQ. The final application deadline is October 7, 2024. The Early Bird rate is valid until September 9, 2024.

Anita Zielina

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