SEMESTER: Fall 2019
COURSE NUMBER: EWMBA 291T.11
COURSE TITLE: Advanced Leadership Communication
UNITS OF CREDIT: 2 units
INSTRUCTORS: Doy Charnsupharindr, Susan Houlihan, and Mark Rittenberg
E-MAIL ADDRESSES: doy@haas.berkeley.edu susan_houlihan@berkeley.edu rittenbe@berkeley.edu
MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: 4 Sundays 9AM - 5PM on 9/8, 9/22, 10/6, and 10/23
Please note the unorthodox format of this course, which meets all day on four Sundays. You must attend all four sessions in their entirety in order to earn a passing grade.
PREREQUISITE(S): EWMBA 200C—Leadership Communications
CAREER FIELD: This course is useful for anyone who wants to become an authentic and inspirational presenter to small and large groups and is applicable across all disciplines
CLASS FORMAT: Interactive lectures, small group breakouts, team and individual presentations. At least 50% of each class will be participation in presentation and small group exercises.
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:
REQUIRED READINGS: Talk like TED Textbook and course reader.
BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE:
ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:
Today’s business leader needs to be able to communicate and present inspirationally to enroll others in their vision. It is imperative that they are skilled in presenting to a diversity of audiences in a variety of areas ranging from technical or analytical topics to more personal and motivating types of topics. They need to be able to collaborate and share the stage in their presentations, while connecting to their audience and presenting with passion and conviction.
Objectives
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Doy Charnsupharindr
Doy is an executive coach and an instructor of MBA-level courses on developing leadership, communication, and coaching skills. He has taught at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, UC Davis’ Graduate School of Management, and Berkeley Executive Education. He is also guest lecturer at the Berlin School of Creative Leadership (Germany), Nanyang Business School (Singapore) and the Thailand Management Association (Thailand). Doy is the CEO of the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute.
As an instructor and consultant, Doy draws upon his prior professional experiences in management, customer service, business strategy, operations, and product management for the financial services and high technology industry. Today, he is the CEO of the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute. He continues to coach and lead workshops for some of the largest corporations, as well as non-profit and governmental organizations worldwide. The clients he has worked with include Adobe, Caterpillar, Cisco, Facebook, Genentech, McKinsey, Moody’s, Novartis, Pixar, and Salesforce.
Doy has an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas Business School (2011) and a BA in Economics from Stanford University (2000). He’s a former musical director of Stanford’s Mixed Company a cappella and a winner of the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award (CARA). His love for the performing arts extended to other stages as an actor—from Shakespeare to Broadway musicals—and a dancer with Bay Area’s dance companies. Today, Doy utilizes his extensive experiences in the performing arts to enable others to develop their communication skills and leadership presence. Doy’s goal as a coach and instructor is to be the catalyst for others to become authentic leaders, change agents, and inspirational communicators.
Susan Houlihan
Susan is a Lecturer in Leadership, Communications & Coaching in the EWMBA, EMBA and UG Programs at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and in The Coleman Fung Institute of Engineering. She is an Instructor in UC Berkeley Executive Education in “High Impact Leadership”, “Advanced Executive Presence” and has served as Faculty in many of their Custom Programs such as “Engineer as Leader” and “Leadership for Scientists”. She has been a Guest Lecturer at the Berlin School of Creative Leadership in the Executive MBA Program since 2013. She has taught at The School of Information at UC Berkeley.
She is a Communications Consultant, Executive Coach, and Electrical Engineer who leverages her 15+ years working in engineering and operations in the high-tech sector to bring a perspective firmly rooted in business applications to her consulting and coaching work. In her previous career, she led global engineering and operations teams in manufacturing, sourcing and supply chain. Today she is the COO of the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute.
As an executive coach and workshop lead for Fortune 500 Companies globally, she is particularly interested in helping leaders to become their most authentic selves, reach their full potential and build the skills to motivate and inspire their people and organizations to their highest potential. She has co-designed and led the implementation of culture transformation programs with Berkeley ECI’s key clients.
She has worked with companies such as Adobe, Bio-Rad, B.YOND, Cisco, Disney, Facebook, Ideo, Genentech, Moody’s, Novartis, Peterson Caterpillar, Salesforce.com, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and Zendesk.
Susan holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from University College of Cork in Ireland, an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and is a certified Executive Coach from the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute.
A native of Ireland now based in the US, Susan is an experienced cross-cultural communicator passionate about developing people to live their best lives.
Mark Rittenberg
Dr, Mark Rittenberg is on the professional faculty of the Walter Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, where he heads the Leadership Communications program for the Evening & Weekend MBA students as well as for the students of the MBA for Executives Program.
His executive coaching practice includes clients from Sandia National Laboratory, Lockheed Martin Corporation, GAP Inc., Transnet Corporation (South Africa), Sasol Corporation (South Africa) and the ATandT Corporation. In addition, he trains executive coaches and directs the Executive Coaching Institute through the Center for Executive Education, University of California, Berkeley.
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, ATandT, 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.