The Pandemic crisis continues to disrupt entire industries across the globe, but more importantly, it has created winners and losers in all facets of business. Perhaps none has been more dramatic than the overnight changes and ongoing agility required in the retail, restaurant, food service, and related sectors.
Leading an organization was already a challenge, but capitalizing on new opportunities, managing all facets of risk, and pivoting quickly to profitable business models is more essential than ever. To take on the challenge and harvest the possibilities, today’s leader needs to move beyond management to a keen understanding of high performing leadership behaviors, their own strengths and areas for growth, and the business context where their own organization can meet the passions of the customer.
Join a cross section of industry peers who also want to develop elite leadership skills in an exciting, engaging, and interactive journey with top ranked faculty, industry experts, and peers who will help you explore:
- Proven, researched leadership behaviors that create personal and organizational success.
- What today’s customers want and expect from a business that feeds their passions for food, health, and sustainability.
- Your organization’s business model so you can pivot towards success.
- Your awareness of organization context and culture, which allows you to respond more thoughtfully to rapid changes in business circumstances.
- Deep consumer insight using trend analysis and the latest social media methods.
- Methods to analyze performance impact and efficiencies in product sales and inventory.
- Best practices of product placement and atmospherics in stores.
- The why and the how of Leading Inclusively in today’s diverse employment and consumer marketplace.
- Why it is essential for leaders to understand good management.
- What employees need from managers.
- Leading for change in your organization and your industry.
This program will be delivered in an in-person format over the course of three days in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin. Set on the lakefront campus of the University of Wisconsin, you will engage with dynamic and highly interactive instructors, several of who were formerly industry practitioners and are now highly skilled instructors. You will participate in lecturettes, active discussion, small breakout teams, case studies, and individual reflection to make sure you are deeply immersed and can integrate what you learn into your work environment and culture. The program will wrap up with a guided retail tour.
The University of Wisconsin Madison, with over 43,000 students, is one of the nation’s top 6 research universities with over $1 billion in research expenditures and has produced the most Fortune 500 CEOs of any university as well as over 360 start-up businesses. As the 15th ranked public university in the US, it has over 15,000 graduates who are managers and executives. The University houses many top ranked Colleges and research Institutes including: the Wisconsin School of Business, the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the Dairy Research Center, The Kohl’s Retail Center, The Food Research Institute, the Industrial Refrigeration Consortium, and much more. Program faculty are drawn from several of these organizations.
This agenda may be refined to meet participant needs based on final participant registration.