Overview

My teaching and research focus on crisis leadership and how men and women use crises to make themselves better leaders. I currently teach a module in the Advanced Management Program and an HBS Online LIVE course on Courageous Leadership. The purpose of each course is to help participants become more courageous, resilient, focused, and self-aware individuals as well as leaders. We accomplish this goal in two, related ways. First, each course spotlights a number of crisis leaders and the lessons they learned as they each pursued a big, worthy mission. We examine these insights, experiences, and tools, with each participant focusing on those that are most relevant and useful to him or her. Equally important, we engage in a series of grounded, disciplined, and meaningful conversations about who we each are, how each participant can be even better as a person and as a leader, and the purpose or mission each of us is pursuing on our respective path. Throughout the course, participants are encouraged to examine the choices each leader made, the path he or she traveled—including the mistakes and failures each experienced—the values and goals he or she nurtured, and the larger stage on which that person acted.