Leadership Development
Smith’s integrated Leadership Development Program is designed to help you become a more effective, confident, and impactful leader. Through rigorous assessments, executive coaching, experiential learning, and evidence-based practices, you will gain deeper insight into your leadership style, how others perceive you, and the impact you have on those around you.
Throughout the program, you will strengthen your executive presence, communicate with greater authenticity, and develop the skills to build trust, inspire engagement, and lead high-performing teams. Guided by a personalized leadership development plan, you will translate these insights into meaningful action, developing practical strategies to motivate others, elevate performance, and bring out the best in yourself and those you lead.
In this program you will learn:
- How your colleagues perceive you and your leadership style
- Authentic communication skills
- Strategies to create enthusiasm and lead others to peak performance
- How to inspire team members to reach their personal best through small, but impactful interactions
- To leverage assessment tools and executive coaching to identify your leadership strengths, address development opportunities, and elevate your impact as a leader
Leadership Curriculum
Core Courses
Strategic Thinking in Action
This course develops a fundamental, structured and disciplined framework for understanding how a business grows and operates.
Managing People & Organizational Performance
This course takes a strategic perspective on how to attract, organize, develop and manage talent to achieve organizational objectives, drawing on organizational behaviour and human resource management. Assignments are practical opportunities to assess and improve your own management practice.
The Science & Practice of Leadership
This course introduces transformational and charismatic leadership alongside passive and unethical leadership, building a conceptual understanding of each form, its antecedents and its consequences, and of how you can use charismatic and transformational leadership in your own work situations.
Leading Digital Transformation
Surviving the digital age depends on an organization's ability to meet customer and employee demands through digitalization. With the fusion of the digital and physical worlds transforming existing business models, this course covers modern thinking on transforming to a digital business.
Electives
Developing Your Leadership Presence
This interactive and experiential course helps you build an authentic and influential presence. Leadership presence combines self-awareness, confident communication, emotional intelligence and storytelling, and key topics include confidence building, empathetic listening and purposeful speaking.
Negotiating in Complex Business Environments
Negotiation expertise is now considered a core competency for managers and leaders. This course gives you the opportunity to develop your own negotiation style and skills in the safe environment of a classroom, and places negotiation behaviour in a broader theoretical context.
Responsible Analytics & AI
This elective focuses on the governance, risk and accountability of analytics and AI systems, treating responsible use as a strategic leadership function rather than a compliance exercise. It examines where these systems fail and how executives can design governance structures that ensure trust, fairness and resilience.
Special Topics - Customer Experience Marketing Strategy
This course explores the basics of customer needs discovery and customer experience design in a learn-by-doing environment. Starting from the core concepts of empathic, customer-centric design, you apply jobs-to-be-done theory, customer journey mapping and design thinking to real-world cases, and turn the insights into CX-driven marketing strategies.
Academic Enrichment
AI Literacy Workshop
In addition to AI-related curriculum, the Executive MBA kicks off with a half-day workshop on AI literacy. This workshop teaches participants how to use the current generation of AI tools to get better results in the classroom and at work. It focuses on practical skills like writing better prompts, using platform features, assessing output quality, and automating tasks.
Leadership Development Program
Smith's integrated Leadership Development Program is designed to help you become a more effective, confident, and impactful leader. Through rigorous assessments, executive coaching, and experiential learning, you will gain deeper insight into your leadership style and how others perceive you. Guided by a personalized leadership development plan, you will strengthen your executive presence and develop practical strategies to build trust and lead high-performing teams.