Executive Leadership Development Program

Program Description

The Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP) is offered by NAMIC in partnership with UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management. The program was customized for NAMIC by the Anderson School's Office of Executive Education Programs, renowned for its Leadership Institutes focused specifically on African-American, Latino and Asian populations. The Anderson School administers the program's academic curriculum, while NAMIC maintains management responsibility for the overall program.

The NAMIC ELDP targets upper-middle managers (executives of color who have a minimum of two years experience at the director level and above) from the telecommunications industry.

These individuals are seeking senior-level positions and report to senior leaders who believe that their performance and potential puts them on track for executive-level responsibilities with increasing business scope. The central goal of the ELDP is to help our industry develop a pipeline of leaders of color who will be well prepared to assume the top industry leadership roles.

Tangible ROI for the participants and the companies that sponsor them is the core value around which the ELDP curriculum has been designed. During four sessions, class members explore areas critical to sustained success in the ever-changing, dynamic telecommunications industry: marketing and financial analysis; corporate strategy; organizational behavior; managing innovation; operations management; achieving optimal results from diverse teams; communication strategies in a multi-cultural context; change management; and entrepreneurship.

The other pillar that supports the ELDP structure is that of in-depth personalized assessment and career planning. Participants spend time in guided examination of their leadership styles, strengths and "blind spots," emotional intelligence, and the unique experiences that executives of color have with power: acquiring it; using it wisely; comprehending it in all its cultural and organizational complexity.

The multi-ethnic, multi-cultural ELDP faculty comprises professors from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and lecturers from other renowned centers of learning. To these are added experts on leadership and the culture of organizations, as well as senior executives from the communications industry.

In addition, the top-flight researchers and subject-matter-experts, many of whom, as they say, "wrote the book," engage the group in interactive exercises, simulations, and self-directed discovery of the value of strategic networking, mentoring, negotiation, conflict management, and problem solving and decision making.