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Join us to learn how leadership development can transform your organization, enhance decision-making, and drive measurable outcomes like it did for AstraZeneca

Wednesday, February 19, 2025, from 12-1pm Eastern

  • Are you a learning leader or executive looking for innovative ways to develop leadership capabilities such as influence, executive presence, and effective communication that directly impact your organization’s success?

Join us for an exclusive webinar where AstraZeneca will share the insights behind its Brandon Hall Group Gold Award-winning initiative in Learning and Development, the GPL Excellence Academy. This leadership development program has transformed the communication, influence, and executive presence skills of AstraZeneca’s Global Project Leaders (GPLs), key drivers of drug development and commercialization.

During this session, we’ll explore the bespoke framework of the GPL Excellence Academy, including crucial elements like the Executive Presence 360 Assessment, Executive Presence Mastery, and Speak Like a Leader sessions, which were designed to:

  1. Develop executive presence and leadership: Build greater self-awareness and enable leaders to inspire trust and credibility at all levels of the organization as well as navigate complex challenges with confidence.
  2. Enhance strategic influence: Equip leaders to influence and accelerate decisions amongst senior executives and their teams. 
  3. Expand communications capabilities:  Provide leaders with tools, practical tips, and practice time to enhance their impact through communications and interactions with others. 

Learn how AstraZeneca’s focus on leadership development led to a 25% increase in decision efficiency, driving faster and more effective outcomes.  Additionally, this scalable program has been designed to be easily implemented in other business units across different leadership levels, providing a model for organizations to replicate this success.

Key takeaways:

  • How AstraZeneca designed and implemented this leadership program that drives performance across global teams
  • A few elements of the program, identified by participants, as instrumental to their growth and improvement
  • The outcomes of the GPL Academy, and how it improved key business metrics
  • Practical lessons learned from a world-class leadership development initiative that you can apply within your organization
  • Recommendations for building and scaling high-impact leadership development programs across various roles and levels

Panelists

Rafael Valdes-Camin, Senior Director of Learning and Development, AstraZeneca/Alexion
Jonathan Hodge, President & CEO, Advantage Performance Group, Moderator
Kristina DiStasio, Partner, Advantage Performance Group
Christa Sorenson,  Executive Advisory, Coach, and Consultant, BTS

(At top from left are Jonathan Hodge, Christa Sorenson, Kristina DiStasio, and Rafael Valdes-Camin)

More about the award...

AstraZeneca, a leading global biopharmaceutical company, enhanced the leadership, influence, executive presence, and communication skills of its leaders.

RSVP today to attend the webinar and find out how this initiative transformed their organization, and can transform yours, too!

 

AstraZeneca’s focus on leadership development led to a 25% increase in decision efficiency, driving faster and more effective outcomes. 

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