# The Leadership Accelerator

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### [Lauren Maghsoudi](https://business.rice.edu/person/lauren-maghsoudi)

Assistant Director, Open Enrollment Programs

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### [Zoran Perunovic](https://business.rice.edu/person/zoran-perunovic)

Senior Director, Executive Education

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## Leadership Training Programs

### Upcoming Dates

Fall Dates: October 5-8, 2026

### Time

8:30 am to 4:30 pm each day

[Register](https://execed.rice.edu/the-leadership-accelerator-october-2026)

### Tuition

### $6,500

### Overview

### Join our interactive, four-day program where you’ll learn strategies to create and lead a more cohesive, high-performing team. Using case studies, exercises, simulations, and extensive discussion, you’ll examine the building blocks of leadership – leading oneself, leading others, leading teams, and leading the enterprise – and become well-positioned to navigate any challenges that lie ahead.

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### Who Should Attend

Mid-level managers and executives wishing to expand their knowledge of best practices in leadership

### Program Takeaways

- Develop a better understanding of one’s own leadership style
- Understand your leadership context
- Develop tools to adapt your leadership style as the context warrants
- Coach team members to realize their potential and avoid derailment
- Foster a sense of shared purpose and mutual accountability among team members
- Explore and implement effective communication practices

- Motivate team members to exceed expectations and understand how their contributions affect the enterprise
- Improve process and collective behavior  to enhance team outcomes
- Enhance both individual and team critical reasoning and decision-making
- Lead change through accurate organizational diagnosis, stakeholder analysis, influence and adaptation

### Program Building Blocks

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**Leading Oneself:**The foundation of good leadership is self-awareness of our strengths and weaknesses as managers and an understanding of our own developmental mindset. Becoming an effective leader is a lifelong process requiring good learning habits. This building block is intended to develop a leader’s ability to focus their development on critical needs and build a framework for learning throughout their career.

**Leading Others:** The primary responsibility of a leader is to get the best from his/her employees. Yet, leaders often underestimate the effect they have on employee motivation, commitment, and engagement. This building block focuses on developing habits to enhance employee performance.

**Leading Teams:**Leaders must align the interests of a diverse set of employees around a common goal. When employees work in teams, problems of collaboration and conflict frequently arise. This building block is dedicated to developing habits of team leadership focused on setting a common, compelling direction for the team and addressing problems of team commitment through effective team coaching.

**Leading the Enterprise**: This final building block is intended to teach leaders the basic principles of organizational alignment to improve the effectiveness of their function, business unit or organization by comprehensively diagnosing culture, process, and people.

[Register Today](https://execed.rice.edu/tla1023)

## Meet Your Professor

### [Brent Smith](https://business.rice.edu/person/brent-smith)

Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education\
Associate Professor of Management and Psychology – Organizational Behavior

Departments
[Leadership](https://business.rice.edu/directory?field_departments_target_id=2846), [Faculty](https://business.rice.edu/directory?field_departments_target_id=1926), [Executive Education](https://business.rice.edu/directory?field_departments_target_id=276)

Office

McNair Hall 338

Contact
[713-348-3651](tel:713-348-3651)
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### **Rice Business Wisdom**

Rice Business Wisdom is our online ideas magazine that features faculty research.

Workplace Emotions | Peer-Reviewed Research

### [Big Boys And Girls Do Cry](https://business.rice.edu/wisdom/peer-reviewed-research/outside-perception-leaders-influenced-emotions-they-display)

The Outside Perception Of Leaders Is Influenced By The Emotions They Display

Based on research by Professor D. Brent Smith \

Business Partnerships | Peer-Reviewed Research

### [Love At First Sight Isn't Enough](https://business.rice.edu/wisdom/hidden-work-behind-successful-business-alliances)

In Business Partnerships As In Marriage: Get Acquainted, Be Nice And Build Trust

Based on research by Professor Prashant Kale

Creativity | Peer-Reviewed Research

### [Fertile Ground](https://business.rice.edu/wisdom/peer-reviewed-research/how-to-recognize-employee-creativity)

What Kind Of Manager Recognizes Creativity?

Based on research by Professor Jing Zhou

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##### Have a Question?

### [Lauren Maghsoudi](https://business.rice.edu/person/lauren-maghsoudi)

Assistant Director, Open Enrollment Programs

[Email](#)

### [Zoran Perunovic](https://business.rice.edu/person/zoran-perunovic)

Senior Director, Executive Education

[713-348-3720](tel:713-348-3720)
[Email](#)