Excellence in Executive Leadership (ExcEL)

Click here to download brochure	Next Session:	Fall 2012
	Schedule:	Registration & Continental Breakfast: 8am Sessions: 8:30am - 4:30pm
	Location:	Jay Peak Resort
	Tuition:	$5,000 (Applications received before May 15, 2012) $5,500 (Applications received after May 15, 2012)
	Application Fee:	$75

Achieving a New Standard of Leadership Excellence, Continued Organizational, Personal, and Professional Growth

Compare your leadership style to that of the most talented and inspirational leaders you have encountered. Are there areas where further development and practice could help you achieve personal leadership excellence? Executive leadership development is an essential step to developing your full potential as a leader. Through experience, education and attention to the three key elements of self, skills and relationships, you can learn how to truly listen; to use integrative and strategic thinking; and to create new, innovative solutions through the synthesis of divergent ideas and concepts – the essential steps to developing an effective leadership practice.

Champlain College and The Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce have combined their extensive knowledge and resources to create the ExcEL: Excellence in Executive Leadershipprogram – a unique and transformative professional growth opportunity that will prepare you to become an effective leader.

The ExcEL Program

ExcEL consists of four, 2-day “intensives” held over four months. During each intensive, you will examine the keys to successful leadership in a cohort of your peers. Learn to develop an effective leadership practice through relevant, engaged interaction with your cohort, leadership education delivered by executive coaches and experts, and activities designed to propel you professionally through an examination of your personal leadership style and performance.

ExcEL is built on three core elements:

- Strengthening Emotional Intelligence

- Building Strategic Capacity

- Influencing Systems

See the ExcEL brochure for more information.

How to Apply

Who should enroll in ExcEL?

Attendance is reserved for senior leaders with demonstrated leadership experience in Vermont companies and organizations and who have strong potential to assume top leadership positions in their organizations.

The success of ExcEL depends largely on the dynamic of the cohort. In order to ensure you will be part of a strong cohort of engaged peers, the size of the cohort is limited to 25, and all candidates will be evaluated in a competitive selection process. The strength of your organization’s support of your candidacy will also be a factor.

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Excel Graduates

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Application

A $75 application fee is required.

If you have any questions, please contact Melissa Hersh at hersh@champlain.edu.

All applications are reviewed by the ExcEL Advisory Committee and decisions on acceptance are made in mid-June.

Those accepted into the program will be notified starting July 1, 2012. Registration will be available upon notification of acceptance.

Tuition

Tuition for applications received on or before May 1, 2012: $4,500
Tuition for applications received May 1-15, 2012: $5,000
Tuition for applications received after May 15, 2012: $5,500

ExcEL Faculty

Cortney Cahill, MSOD is an organization development consultant focused on developing leaders and their teams to drive business results through strategic initiatives and organizational alignment. Cortney is faculty in the MBA Program at Champlain College and faculty in the National Training Lab’s Diversity Leadership Certificate Program.

Tracy Fenton, MBA specializes in working with individuals and teams to bring them into alignment with their vision, strategy, and professional roles. Since obtaining an International MBA from Cornell University, New York and Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario in 2006, Tracy has worked with public and private sector clients in the UK, South Africa, Singapore, Europe, the U.S., and Canada.

Sean Collins, Ed. D. is an experienced organization development practitioner. He holds a doctorate in Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of VT, and a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Northeastern University. A consultant for businesses in the airline, medical, educational, government and corporate sectors, Sean maximizes leaders' impact and influence by showing how to lead upward, inspire followership, and develop capacity from within.

ExcEL Guest Faculty

Frances Johnston, PhD, is co-founder of the Teleos Leadership Institute, a professional consulting firm for both private and public sectors that encourages and develops values-based and resonant leadership, and is the co-author of Becoming a Resonant Leader (2008).

Fran has designed programs in leadership development and transformation, group dynamics, and organizational renewal. She serves as an advisor and coach to senior executives internationally and designs and implements advanced leadership programs throughout North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Her particular focus in the application of emotional and social intelligence competencies in the challenge of organizational leadership.

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