The Berkeley Executive Leadership Program

"The Berkeley Executive Leadership course showed me how organizational and leadership styles transcend different business strategies. The interactive approach of the course provided very useful insights even for someone from the public sector. The canvas exercise helped me crystallize an action plan to see how I could affect a cultural change in my organization. The group videotape exercise on effective influence and persuasion provided very useful feedback on my interpersonal skills. This course helped me to focus on the importance of my organizational culture and leadership styles and see how the two could better fit with each other."

Howard Chan, Deputy Director, Hong Kong Government Logistics Department

"I had never aligned my organizational culture and leadership styles to my strategy in the way that Professor Jenny Chatman went over in class. That was one of the many useful takeaways from the Berkeley Executive Leadership course."

Siobhan Chretien, Regional Managing Director, Canadian Tourism Commission

"The Berkeley Executive Leadership program is an invaluable resource for executives: it's well done, well paced, clear, concise, and complete. The session on understanding and leveraging culture was very helpful, as was the feedback from my organization on culture and my personal leadership style. "

Brad Rodgers, Research and Development Director, PepsiCo, Inc.

"The framework of the Berkeley Executive Leadership program was extremely organized and well planned out, the presenters and faculty members were phenomenal."

Mike West, Director of Athletics, Bellarmine College Preparatory

"The Berkeley Executive Leadership program is a great way to step back and see the big picture with regards to leadership, vision, and strategy. I especially enjoyed the Little Bets workshop on how experimentation works and how to use it to drive growth."

Josh Doss, Senior Product Manager, Intel Corporation

"The most useful part of the Berkeley Executive Leadership program is the opportunity to practice applying the concepts learned to my specific organization and situation."

Ryan Tabrah, Senior Product Manager, Intel Corporation

"The Haas Berkeley Executive Leadership course was full of hands-on exercises that demonstrated real world concepts."

Joe Aliasso, Director of Engineering, Graham Corporation

"The Berkeley Executive Leadership course is an excellent program with great faculty and just the right workload and pace. The workshops and case studies on communication, influence, and persuasion, along with those on organizational design for innovation and growth were fantastic. I also really enjoyed the discussions around the leadership style and organization culture surveys."

Vinod Tiwari, Manager of Sales, Perth Energy Pty Ltd.

"The most useful session of the Berkeley Executive Leadership program was analyzing the results of my own leadership style survey."

Katherine Bella, Vice President of Development, The Bay Citizen

"The Haas Berkeley Executive Leadership course is an overall outstanding program. It provides an excellent environment for learning, great staff, and inspiring speakers. My ‘A-ha!' moment was connecting my main personal leadership traits to where my company's vision and strategy needed to be."

Mark Higginbottom, President, Sloan Valley Dairies, Ltd.

"Thanks to the organization culture assessment, the Berkeley Executive Leadership course gave me a clear frame of reference as to where my company culture stands. I also loved working one-on-one with my professional coach."

Beth Peterson, President, BPE Global

"The Berkeley Executive Leadership program provides a great structural framework for using culture to become a more effective leader. The sessions included valuable information on leadership styles and personality traits, and how to use them to communicate successfully."

Gopinath Kuduvalli, Senior Director of Engineering, Accuray Incorporated

"My staff is going to hate me when I get back. I have so many ideas from the Berkeley Executive Leadership program that I want to try!"

Mark Rieck, Executive Vice President, International Right of Way Association

"The Berkeley Executive Leadership program's overarching canvas exercise was a fantastic tool to link key concepts together in a unified and actionable way. The final wrap-up session on taking action and getting traction really helped to ensure follow-through."

Mark von Hagel, Controller, National Frozen Foods

"The Berkeley Executive Leadership Program has helped me learn much more about my leadership style. It taught me how to build super-flexible organizations, enhance collaboration and foster innovation. I am currently putting to good use much of what I have learned from the program. Attending this elite program has bolstered my confidence and prepared me well to deal with the complex challenges that our business faces today."

Dave Lobo, Group Product Marketing and Development Manager, Verizon

"The coaching session at the Berkeley-Haas Executive Leadership Program was highly useful: my coach was a great match and had experience in my area. His questions were incisive and prodded me to really think through my strategic business plans. Also, learning about the three most effective styles of leadership and when to use each was extremely valuable."

Paul Angulo, County Auditor-Controller, County of Riverside

"The Berkeley Executive Leadership program will dramatically change the way I do my day to day work. It was exceptional! I was impressed by the intellectually stimulating curriculum and the outstanding faculty. The program helped me take a step back and have a 360-degree overview of my leadership style, my organizational culture and the kind of mindset a leader needs to be successful. I also appreciated the feedback I received from colleagues and peer coaches at the program, as well as the one-on-one professional coach discussions."

Sabrina Mekhalfa, Senior Director of Finance, Oracle Corporation

"The Berkeley Executive Leadership program offers a tremendous opportunity to learn about your own personal leadership style and to better understand your organizational culture. You will learn how to use your strengths to infuse greater organizational innovation and collaboration within your organization and team."

Elaine Katz, Vice President of Grant Programs and Special Initiatives, Kessler Foundation

"The Berkeley Executive Leadership program taught me to bring discipline and a results-orientation to our collaborative efforts, in order to catapult my company towards meeting our strategic objectives."

Elfride Covarrubias, Manager for Climate Change and Environmental Services, Det Norske Veritas

"One of the highlights of the Berkeley Executive Leadership program was the coaching program. The value I received with my coach convinced me to go out and immediately hire a professional coach to continue the work we started."

Andrew Staples, Principal, Golf & Energy Resources, Staples & Associates, Inc.

"The contacts I made during this program, especially my peer coaches, are incredibly useful. I also loved that the sessions were so tangible, like the case studies and video exercises."

Aurimas Bakas, Director, MarkMonitor

"The Berkeley Executive Leadership program is outstanding. I loved the overall atmosphere. The speakers and experts were excellent. There are many lessons I want to bring back to my company, especially a new plan to be more customer-focused."

Jean-François Vanreusel, Director of Localization, Adobe Systems Inc.

"The Berkeley Executive Leadership Program is excellent. It's well organized, led by top faculty and outstanding guest lecturers. It also offers a lot of practical leadership tools that can be brought back to the workplace."

Martin Bean, Vice President, Operations, West Wind Aviation

"The Executive Leadership program is a definitely a must for all senior leaders regardless of experience as you will be certain to come out with multiple gems that you can apply immediately. This program was particularly useful in that it is based on real-life experience and suggests concrete, actionable application of lessons learned. I especially enjoyed Cisco SVP Inder Sidhu's case study session on capturing profit and driving growth."

Ravi Rajaratnam, Vice President, Bridgepoint Education Inc.

"Thank you very much for your well-organized Executive Leadership Course. The staff and faculty are professional and full of experience. I really enjoyed this program and will take many new ideas back to my company in China!"

Diana Ding, President, Eden Information Service Limited

"The Berkeley-Haas Executive Leadership Program is a very well organized program with top-notch professors. The holistic canvas with the links to each aspect of leadership was a great model to tie all the lessons together. The variety of presentations and exercise styles kept the energy and interest levels sustained throughout the week."

Dr. Julia Martin, Greater Gorgon Asset Support Manager, Chevron Australia

"This is the best professional development course I've ever taken!"

David Park, Executive Vice President, Mission Advancement, America's Promise Alliance

"The organizational canvas used in the Haas-Berkeley leadership program is a great framework to break down big, complex issues into bite-sized pieces. I have a lot of learning to take back and share with my team, using the canvas as a launching point."

Dominic Wilde, Chief Technologist, Hewlett-Packard Company

"I looked at Stanford, Harvard, and Wharton, but their offerings seemed mostly theoretical. My decision was validated. This week at the Berkeley Leadership Program has provided quantitative methods to implement and measure change."

Daniel Rex, CEO, Toastmasters International

"The Berkeley Executive Leadership program was full of fun, intelligent, accomplished people who will stay in my network for a long time."

Louise Felton, Vice President, Global Brand Management, Yahoo!

"We recently merged with another company with a different corporate culture. After a week in the Haas Leadership program, and seeing how we can learn from understanding our culture, I'm organizing to have all the leadership of our merged organization take this training."

Lynnette Helmle, Senior Vice President, Gateway EDI

"This is a phenomenal program full of aha moments. The session on attracting, developing and motivating talent was hugely insightful, as were the leadership survey results. I already have so many ideas about how to improve my company."

Victor Holt, CEO, V-Tech Solutions

"Professor Jenny Chatman is remarkable – her passion for the subject matter makes the class. All the speakers have deep knowledge, experience and passion and are therefore able to give me the tools to diagnose and find solutions to issues. The peer coach program is a great way to learn while thinking through others' problems. This program is definitely a worthwhile investment."

Cassio Conceicao, Vice President and General Manager, Service Products, Applied Materials

"This program highly exceeded my expectations. I loved the professional coaching session. I also found the organizational canvas a great way to tie all the topics together and help me develop an action plan for my company. I've already told my boss he needs to attend this program!"

Terri Moran, Senior Vice President, Vela Insurance Services, LLC

"I particularly liked the fact that the program was anchored with our own data and the instructors talked about specific actionable ideas rather than just providing general concepts and theories."

Heather McKay, Vice President of Human Resources, ACL Services Ltd