COURSE NUMBER: EWMBA 291T.11

COURSE TITLE: Advanced Leadership Communication 

UNITS OF CREDIT: 2 units

INSTRUCTORS: Mark Rittenberg, Doy Charnsupharindr, Susan Houlihan, Jenny Herbert Creek

E-MAIL ADDRESSES: mark_rittenberg@haas.berkeley.edu 

MEETING DATES: Sundays 9/18, 10/9, 10/30, 11/20 from 9AM - 6PM
  
PREREQUISITE(S): EWMBA 200C Leadership Communications

CLASS FORMAT: Interactive lectures, small group works, and individual presentations

COURSE OUTLINE:
Advanced Leadership Communications builds upon the skills introduced in EWMBA 200C (Leadership Communications). It is a “deep dive” workshop into the technical communication skills, leadership presence and self-awareness that enable leaders to give memorable and impactful presentations.  

This class focuses specifically on presentations and public speaking. Each student will develop, workshop and deliver a number of presentations, most within the professional context. The course will also examine how inspirational leaders create results through their ability to play a variety of roles, such as speaker, storyteller, motivator, facilitator, coach, mentor, collaborator, and teacher.  

Students will:

• Develop a variety of business presentations, including: a business passion speech, a persuasive professional presentation, an informative presentation and a finale presentation
• Develop self-awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses as a presenter 
• Learn and practice frameworks for giving and receiving feedback
• Practice effective communication skills, such as voice, body movements, breathing, eye contact and energy
• Build improvisational skills such as extemporaneous speaking, asking and answering questions and thinking on your feet
• Effectively leverage technology tools such as slide design software (PowerPoint and Prezi) and virtual presentation tools

REQUIRED READINGS: Textbook and course reader. 

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE:

• 60% presentations
• 40% participation

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Dr. Mark Rittenberg is CEO of Corporate Scenes, Inc. and is the designer of ACTIVE COMMUNICATING corporate education programs. He served for seven years as Associate Professor at Lesley College Graduate School. He currently serves on the core faculty of the Walter Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley where he heads the Leadership Communications program for the evening/weekend MBA students as well as for the Berkeley Columbia MBA program.

In 1985, Professor Rittenberg was visiting Artist and Teaching Fellow at Harvard University where he conducted seminars in the Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Business School. In 1993, he was awarded the J. William Fulbright Senior Scholar awarded by the United States Information Agency and traveled to Soweto, South Africa, where he served as Diversity Specialist in building black/white relationships in South African corporations and education institutions. He returned to South Africa in 1994, 1995, and 1996 in order to implement Active Communicating Educational Programs as a communication intervention to assist corporate and political leadership in the transition to a multicultural, democratic, non-racial South Africa. His doctorate in International and Multicultural Education is based on his work in South Africa.

Dr. Rittenberg evolved the ACTIVE COMMUNICATING methodology from his own background as an actor and director. The methodology draws upon acting skills and anthropological principles in skilling managers, aspiring leaders and the critical mass in becoming both powerful communicators and authentic leaders. He currently provides educational programs and executive coaching programs for corporations including, Lucent Technologies, AT&T, The Gap, Levi Strauss, Lockheed Martin and Sandia National Laboratories. In addition he heads an annual Executive Coaching Institute at UC Berkeley where he trains new executive coaches as well as executives who want to avail themselves of a coaching training in order to become more effective leaders.

Recently he served as chief designer and consultant for the National Principals Leadership academy conducted at Washington University in June 2009 dedicated to high school principals becoming coaches and mentors for teachers teaching in disadvantaged situations. The leadership academy was funded in part by President Obama’s White House initiative dedicated to building better schools through outstanding leadership.