Offered in partnership with the Goff Strategic Leadership Center.
Strategic leaders are able to identify available resources and drive growth, while also accepting adequate risk to ensure growth occurs at the right pace. Assess your strategic skills and embrace a problem-finding skillset to enable your company to outperform rivals and delight current and future customers.
Welcome to the Strategic Leadership course, where we recognize the seismic shifts that have shaped the business landscape over the past two decades. From rapid technological advancements and globalization to changing demographics and the challenges posed by a global pandemic, organizations are facing continued uncertainty facilitating the need to adjust strategy in an ever-evolving world.
In this context, strategic leadership has become more critical than ever before to not only adapt but thrive. As a leader, you are entrusted with navigating uncertainties and challenges, while inspiring team members to pursue continued value creation relentlessly. Crafting clearly identifiable strategies that resonate with colleagues and partners will be essential, and you’ll need to skillfully navigate your organization’s structure, systems, culture, and talent to achieve strategic visions successfully.
Throughout this course, you will explore fundamental tasks of strategic organizational leadership, encompassing pathfinding, where you’ll delve into crafting strategies, missions, visions, and goals, and implementation, which entails shaping organizational architecture, and nurturing a positive culture. We take a strategic perspective on leadership, emphasizing the art of leading and transforming organizations, groups, and teams.
By embracing a problem-finding mindset and honing both analytical and interpersonal skills, you will accelerate your development as a strategic leader. This accelerated growth will empower you to make significant contributions to your organization’s success, delivering results in a diverse environment and engaging people at all levels as leaders.
Join us on this transformative journey to become a strategic leader, you will leave this course well-equipped to steer your organization through the challenges and opportunities of today and the future, and create a lasting impact of success.
This class can count towards the Executive Leadership Certificate. The Executive Leadership Certificate is highly customizable. Choose any of our 6 leadership classes to receive the full certificate. The Executive Leadership Certificate covers both soft skills and hard skills necessary to lead organizations. If you are in a mid-level to senior-level position and want to grow in your organization, or make a career change, this certificate is right for you. If you are an individual who wants to understand business from multiple angles and develop your leadership skills, this certificate is also right for you.
This course is designed for strongly motivated individuals who are currently in leadership positions – or aspiring to take on leadership positions. It will even benefit successful leaders who are seeking to expand strategic thinking, communication, and other vital skills. It is especially useful to individuals and leaders who are charged with setting and reaching ambitious growth and performance goals.
Spring Class Dates
May 29-30, 2025
Fall Class Dates
November 20-21, 2025
Class Time
8:30am – 4:30pm
Course Price
$1900
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Eccles Executive Education is recognized by SHRM to offer SHRM-CP or SHRMSCP professional development credits (PDCs). This program is valid for 13 PDCs. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit SHRMCertification.org.
This course is a part of the Executive Leadership Certificate.
Whether you are an aspiring professional or an attentive executive, this certificate can elevate your leadership potential. The courses in this certificate are designed to provide you with the expertise, credibility, and confidence required to lead modern teams.
Bill Hesterly, Ph.D.
Dr. Bill Hesterly is Associate Chair and the Dumke Family Presidential Chair in Strategic Management at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. His most recent research focuses on appropriation and the locus of value creation. His research has appeared in top journals including the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. He served on the editorial boards of Strategic Organization, Journal of Management, and Organization Science. He is the co-author of Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage. Bill has been recognized several times with awards for teaching MBA and executive students. He also received the Western Academy of Management’s Ascendant Scholar Award. He was a founding member of the Strategic Human Capital Interest Group at SMS and was also a co-founder of the Utah-BYU Winter Strategy Conference.
Heidi Herrick, Ph.D.
Dr. Herrick is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at the University of Utah. Dr. Herrick’s recent research and consulting work focuses primarily on strategic leadership, enrollment of key stakeholders, innovation, economic development, and operating under conditions of uncertainty. Dr. Herrick works with the Goff Strategic Leadership Center and Lassonde Entrepreneurial Institute to develop the future leaders of tomorrow.
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