The Leadership Masterclass: Your Journey to Exceptional Impact
Identify and build upon your unique strengths to lead with confidence. Make a significant difference in your team, department, and organization.

Course Information

Course Dates:

  • March 14, 2025 (Virtual Kickoff)
  • April 2 - 4, 2025 (On Campus)

Registration Deadline: March 12, 2025

Format: On Campus

Times:

  • 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (Virtual Kickoff)
  • 9:00 am to 5:00 pm (Program)

Cost: $6,400

Whether you lead a small team or a large department, becoming a proactive, strategic, and effective leader will accelerate your career.  Designed for high-potential business professionals from any industry, this program will help you learn to navigate challenges, build collaborative teams, and retain your best talent.

During this three-day Leadership Masterclass, you will work with one of the world’s top leadership coaches, Jay Conger, to identify your leadership aspirations and devise a roadmap to achieve them. After completing the program, you will possess a concrete action plan. You will be able to put applicable skills into practice immediately when solving real-world business challenges.

Learning Objectives:

The Leadership Masterclass offers a highly interactive, hands-on course environment, as well as a customized 360° leadership assessment. At the conclusion of the program, participants will be able to:

  • Learn the leadership skills for influencing superiors, peers, and subordinates
  • Enhance your personal effectiveness
  • Sharpen your skills in effective communication, influence, motivation, and networking
  • Develop a greater awareness of your leadership competencies and how you are perceived by others
  • Identify your career and leadership aspirations
  • Formulate a specific plan to take your skills and behavior to achieve your leadership aspirations
  • Practice and improve your leadership skills using your personalized leadership plan


 
For more, check out our Programs for Individuals page.

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Who Should Attend

This program is designed to accelerate the careers of experienced leaders, individuals transitioning to more prominent managerial roles, those moving into their first-time executive positions, and executives who may need to strengthen the leadership competencies of a director/VP/C-level position.

Digital Badge and Certificate

An important aspect of our programs is the ability to share your accomplishment with important stakeholders. Upon completing The Leadership Masterclass, you will earn a digital badge recognizing your new proficiency. Share and showcase your achievements by posting your digital badge on online resumes and social networks such as LinkedIn.
TIME REQUIREMENTS
3 days, totaling 24 hours
Additional Dates
October 15 - 17, 2025
COURSE DISCLAIMER
Every reasonable effort will be made to ensure this course runs as described on this web page. Please note that course dates and professors are subject to change. You will be notified by email in advance if there is a date or professor change. Additionally, this course also requires a minimum number of registrants to take place. You will be notified by email if the course does not meet this minimum.

Teaching Methods

This program is run in a focused classroom setting that gives you frequent one-on-one access to USC Marshall faculty. Using case studies, current business articles, in-class exercises, and small group projects, our faculty will lead you to focus on the key knowledge and skills you need to create new market opportunities.

Program Faculty

Jay Conger

CEO Affiliated Research Scientist

Jay Conger is one of the world’s experts on leadership. You will see him quoted in the Wall Street Journal and other business periodicals analyzing people and trends in the executive suite and in the boardroom. He is a senior research scientist at the USC Center for Effective Organizations as well as the Henry Kravis Chaired Professor of Leadership Studies at Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles. As an executive educator, coach, and program designer, Dr. Conger has coached thousands of leaders and worked with over six hundred organizations in his career. He is the author of fifteen books on topics of leadership. His most recent book published by the Harvard Business Press is the High Potentials Advantage.