Open Enrollment Programs
Open enrollment programs provide professionals with access to award-winning faculty, experiential learning and contemporary content on critical business topics. These programs equip participants with practical skills and insights that can be applied immediately, fostering both personal growth and organizational impact.
LEAD: Nurturing Your Leadership Power
Offered through the Warren Bennis Leadership Institute, LEAD empowers authentic, courageous leaders to thrive amid complexity and change. This six-week hybrid program enables transformational learning by nurturing leaders' unique strengths.
Rooted in research and real-world leadership expertise, experts from the Warren Bennis Leadership Institute help build your capabilities through innovative frameworks, self-reflection and its supportive cohort.
Your journey begins with Leader Identity (Module 1), where you’ll explore and refine your authentic leadership style. Gain clarity about your strengths, develop a more profound sense of purpose, and learn to embrace the many ways you can assume a leadership role.
Next, in Risk, Resilience, and Confidence (Module 2), you’ll master the tools to face uncertainty, take bold risks, and foster resilience for yourself and your team.
Finally, in Navigating Tensions (Module 3), you’ll explore the art and science of balancing complex and competing demands, leveraging both/and thinking to make more innovative and impactful decisions.
When: February 17 to March 28, 2025
What & Where: The asynchronous online portions will be held as follows:
- Module 1: February 17 to February 28
- Module 2: March 3 to March 14
- Module 3: March 17 to March 28.
On February 28, March 14 and March 28, the synchronous portion will be held from 9-10:30 a.m. EST. Participants can join in-person at the 1819 Innovation Hub or online via Zoom.
Why: This course is ideal for professionals aspiring to elevate their leadership, expand their impact and harness their unique strengths amid the challenging dynamics of modern organizations and life.
Meet the Faculty
Marianne W. Lewis, PhD, is dean at the Lindner College of Business. Renowned for her research on leadership paradoxes, her latest book, "Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems" was published by Harvard Business Review.
Lewis has been recognized among the world’s most-cited researchers in her field (Web of Science) and received the Decade Award (2021) from the Academy of Management Review. Her work also appears in such media outlets as Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Newsweek, and MarketWatch, and received the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Award for 2023.
Jane Ziegler Sojka, PhD, is a professor-educator of marketing at the Lindner College of Business, where she teaches confident selling in her award-winning sales course. Sojka is a frequent speaker and has published sales-focused research.
Donna Chrobot-Mason, PhD, is a psychology professor at the University of Cincinnati and the Thornburgh Academic Director of the Warren Bennis Leadership Institute.
Donna teaches leadership and organizational psychology courses, is a certified leadership coach, and has published over 30 academic articles and books on leadership.
HR Analytics: Driving Impact with Data
The future of human resources is data driven. Are you ready to lead the way? This course will teach you how to use data to improve your HR practices, making a real impact on your organization’s success and employee engagement.
In this program, you will learn to:
- Use a proven framework for conducting HR analytics investigations.
- Explore and analyze real HR data sets using Microsoft Excel and artificial intelligence.
- Evaluate HR analytics case studies, identifying best practices and common pitfalls.
- Communicate your findings to stakeholders and influence decision-making.
- Gain practical skills you can immediately apply to real-world challenges.
- Position yourself as a strategic leader by leveraging the power of HR analytics.
When: May 14-15 (9 a.m.-4 p.m.), May 16 (9 a.m.-12 p.m.)
Where: Lindner Hall Kautz Attic (rooms 4330 & 4350)
What: An in-person course at UC focusing on leveraging HR analytics for project design and employee engagement, managing project requests and stakeholders, influencing recruiting and hiring decisions, enhancing learning and development, and utilizing AI tools and capabilities.
Modules
Introduces the eight-step model for conducting HR analytics investigations, equipping you with a framework for using data to solve real-world HR challenges. Learn how to use pivot tables, a powerful tool built into Excel to analyze HR data and draw meaningful insights.
Covers different project designs, allowing you to select the right approach for your HR analytics investigations, whether it's understanding employee engagement or predicting turnover. Learn how to analyze both quantitative and qualitative data to get a holistic view of employee engagement.
Explores the demand for HR analytics projects and how to effectively manage stakeholder expectations, ensuring your projects align with organizational goals and priorities. Learn how to use data analysis to improve your recruiting and hiring processes, including analyzing personality assessments and identifying the most effective recruiting sources.
Focuses on effectively communicating HR analytics insights using visualizations, storytelling, and demonstrating ROI, enabling you to secure buy-in for data-driven initiatives. Build an analysis on learning and development data to optimize training programs for maximum impact.
Introduces the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications in HR, including AI-powered tools for recruiting and employee engagement. Use generative AI for analyzing survey comments and other qualitative data, gaining deeper insights into employee sentiment and experiences.
Meet the Faculty
Scott Spera, PhD, brings over 30 years of experience in leveraging data to drive positive change in organizations, with a passion for teaching and empowering others. He has taught courses in statistics, organizational behavior, applied psychology and HR analytics, making complex concepts accessible and engaging.
Scott's 30-plus years in business, including analytic consulting, and learning and development roles at AT&T, NCR and Concentrix, provides real-world context and practical examples to enrich your learning experience. His unique blend of academic and industry experience ensures you will gain valuable skills and knowledge to become a data-driven HR leader and make a strategic impact on your organization.
Mike Wagner, PhD, is an assistant professor-educator of management and the director of the MS in Human Resources program at the Lindner College of Business. Mike teaches courses in leadership, compensation, organizational behavior, and the capstone for human resource management.
Previously, Mike was vice president of compensation at Fifth Third Bank, where he led a team responsible for the incentive design and compensation for all commercial bankers, capital markets traders, underwriters and call centers. Mike has also served in compensation, employee engagement and analytics roles at American Express, Equitable Insurance and Mercer Human Resources Consulting. Mike received his PhD in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. His research on HR has been published in peer-reviewed journals and has been presented at international business conferences.
Contact Us
Scott Dust, PhD
Senior Director of Lindner Professional Programs, and Kirk and Jacki Perry Professor in Leadership