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A Culture of Leadership

Our Leadership Institute is designed to support CIMBA’s educational philosophy, which includes the pillars of knowledge, process, and behavior. This philosophy helps people in all phases of their life and career develop the skills necessary to turn ideas into practical innovations and to effectively manage and lead others to higher levels of performance, while also becoming more confident in their abilities to overcome the most demanding challenges. That’s why CIMBA has infused its leadership and personal development programming into nearly all aspects of its global business education.

About the Leadership Institute

Established by CIMBA Founder Al Ringleb, the Leadership Institute is based on more than 30 years of scientific research in neuroscience and social psychology. Dr. Ringleb and CIMBA Executive Director Cristina Turchet joined forces with Kepner-Tregoe, a multinational company specializing in problem-solving strategies, to create this groundbreaking, science-based curriculum. CIMBA’s personal development program gives students, managers, executives, and up-and-coming leaders concrete steps to improve skills related to decision-making, problem-solving, social- and self-awareness, self-regulation, management, consulting, and training.

The Institute also gives you access to one of the most comprehensive, highly personalized coaching programs in the U.S. and abroad. Students have one-on-one sessions with coaches who help them explore issues such as managing daily stress and conflict, developing better social skills, adapting to social transitions, and more. Our MBA students also have the opportunity to learn basic coaching skills such as giving and receiving feedback, asking powerful questions, active listening, listening for potential in others, and being a facilitator.

LIFE Leadership Training

LIFE (Leadership Initiative for Excellence) is a three-day, full-immersion training. It is an intensive, highly stimulating course in which participants encounter and practice the skills needed for effective leadership. This program is performance-based, meaning you will experience and practice all leadership training through challenging, hands-on exercises rather than passively listening to lectures. The results will lead to increased opportunities for sustainable, personal growth by helping you understand the effect of your behavior on others and teaching you how to develop strategies to improve your people skills. A key benefit of the program is that it will also help you to identify personal characteristics that may inhibit your success, thus allowing you to make changes.

During LIFE, you will have the opportunity to use biofeedback tools to measure your stress levels while participating in activities, helping you reflect on the impact of your behaviors in professional and personal settings. Many students find it eye-opening to see real data describing their body’s physical reaction to stress. Once the program is complete, you will receive a leadership certificate signifying your accomplishment.

Program Benefits
  • Increase emotional intelligence for managerial and personal success
  • Develop communication and listening skills
  • Enhance public speaking skills
  • Learn to speak with power and conviction
  • Increase ability to influence people
  • Build self-confidence
  • Increase motivation to bring about a high-performance workplace
  • Develop a goal-setting and action-plan mindset
  • Develop the ability to empower yourself and others
  • Learn to transmit passion and enthusiasm
  • Increase empathy toward other people
  • Increase ability to focus and take action

LIFE Leadership Training

LIFE (Leadership Initiative for Excellence) is a three-day, full-immersion training. It is an intensive, highly stimulating course in which participants encounter and practice the skills needed for effective leadership. This program is performance-based, meaning you will experience and practice all leadership training through challenging, hands-on exercises rather than passively listening to lectures. The results will lead to increased opportunities for sustainable, personal growth by helping you understand the effect of your behavior on others and teaching you how to develop strategies to improve your people skills. A key benefit of the program is that it will also help you to identify personal characteristics that may inhibit your success, thus allowing you to make changes.

During LIFE, you will have the opportunity to use biofeedback tools to measure your stress levels while participating in activities, helping you reflect on the impact of your behaviors in professional and personal settings. Many students find it eye-opening to see real data describing their body’s physical reaction to stress. Once the program is complete, you will receive a leadership certificate signifying your accomplishment.

Program Benefits

  • Increase emotional intelligence for managerial and personal success
  • Develop communication and listening skills
  • Enhance public speaking skills
  • Learn to speak with power and conviction
  • Increase ability to influence people
  • Build self-confidence
  • Increase motivation to bring about a high-performance workplace
  • Develop a goal-setting and action-plan mindset
  • Develop the ability to empower yourself and others
  • Learn to transmit passion and enthusiasm
  • Increase empathy toward other people
  • Increase ability to focus and take action

LIVE 2 Influence

LIVE 2 Influence is an interactive, experiential-learning, transformational, personal-development experience spread over 2.5 days. A group of eight participants move through the entire program as a team, working toward a common goal–to improve their influence skills and abilities.

The LIVE 2 Influence co-Learning environment enhances communication skills, critical thinking abilities, cultural awareness, and other fundamental leadership soft-skills and attributes. The engaging and intentional flow of the content, mixed with multiple practice sessions, real-time feedback and the latest in neuroscience, creates a new awareness that changes thinking and effectively builds new, long-lasting, productive behaviors. You will leave the program with an expanded set of practical tools and techniques that enhance your ability to speak from the heart in a way that positively influences others, leading to improved communications, stronger interpersonal relations and heightened business results.

Expected Results
  • Increased self-awareness and presence to promote value-based leadership
  • Connection to your origin story, values and wisdom in your heart to unleash the power of your most authentic voice
  • Skills to engage people’s hearts and minds by effectively communicating using the LIVE 2 Influence 3-step sequence
  • Increased self-confidence to lead and communicate more effectively by applying the LIVE 2 Influence principles and tools
  • A personal edge that empowers you to continue to flourish and succeed long after you have finished this workshop
  • Your heart speaking in the sequence that the listener’s brain understands, elevating your game as a decisive influencer and authentic leader

LIFE Leadership Training

LIFE (Leadership Initiative for Excellence) is a three-day, full-immersion training. It is an intensive, highly stimulating course in which participants encounter and practice the skills needed for effective leadership. This program is performance-based, meaning you will experience and practice all leadership training through challenging, hands-on exercises rather than passively listening to lectures. The results will lead to increased opportunities for sustainable, personal growth by helping you understand the effect of your behavior on others and teaching you how to develop strategies to improve your people skills. A key benefit of the program is that it will also help you to identify personal characteristics that may inhibit your success, thus allowing you to make changes.

During LIFE, you will have the opportunity to use biofeedback tools to measure your stress levels while participating in activities, helping you reflect on the impact of your behaviors in professional and personal settings. Many students find it eye-opening to see real data describing their body’s physical reaction to stress. Once the program is complete, you will receive a leadership certificate signifying your accomplishment.

Program Benefits

  • Increase emotional intelligence for managerial and personal success
  • Develop communication and listening skills
  • Enhance public speaking skills
  • Learn to speak with power and conviction
  • Increase ability to influence people
  • Build self-confidence
  • Increase motivation to bring about a high-performance workplace
  • Develop a goal-setting and action-plan mindset
  • Develop the ability to empower yourself and others
  • Learn to transmit passion and enthusiasm
  • Increase empathy toward other people
  • Increase ability to focus and take action

LIVE 2 Influence

LIVE 2 Influence is an interactive, experiential-learning, transformational, personal-development experience spread over 2.5 days. A group of eight participants move through the entire program as a team, working toward a common goal–to improve their influence skills and abilities.

The LIVE 2 Influence co-Learning environment enhances communication skills, critical thinking abilities, cultural awareness, and other fundamental leadership soft-skills and attributes. The engaging and intentional flow of the content, mixed with multiple practice sessions, real-time feedback and the latest in neuroscience, creates a new awareness that changes thinking and effectively builds new, long-lasting, productive behaviors. You will leave the program with an expanded set of practical tools and techniques that enhance your ability to speak from the heart in a way that positively influences others, leading to improved communications, stronger interpersonal relations and heightened business results.

Expected Results

  • Increased self-awareness and presence to promote value-based leadership
  • Connection to your origin story, values and wisdom in your heart to unleash the power of your most authentic voice
  • Skills to engage people’s hearts and minds by effectively communicating using the LIVE 2 Influence 3-step sequence
  • Increased self-confidence to lead and communicate more effectively by applying the LIVE 2 Influence principles and tools
  • A personal edge that empowers you to continue to flourish and succeed long after you have finished this workshop
  • Your heart speaking in the sequence that the listener’s brain understands, elevating your game as a decisive influencer and authentic leader

The Experiece

LIVE 2 Influence is your life in 2.5 days. Each session systematically guides you down a transformational path through practical application of what you have learned, pluswith a lot of intense feedback. You are expected to be fully present, as you will be providingconsistent feedback on every presentation. Your greatest satisfaction comes when you apply and practice what you have learned–being your best whether in front of anaudience of 1 or 1000.

LIVE 2 Influence was built to take you on an introspective journey to becoming a more powerful communicator, influencer, and leader. You will immediately feel the change in impact you can have by communicating in an authentic and effective way. As a leader, you will be able to communicate your vision, gain buy-in from your team and present difficult information in a way that keeps people engaged and drives action. You will gain new tools and skills, as well as learn the science behind influence and the art of applying the LIVE 2 Influence principles to achieve positive influence and greater impact in your life and in your work.

Coaching (Group & One-on-One)

The International Coach Federation (ICF) defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.” All CIMBA coaches utilize the ICF framework and follow the ethical and professional guidelines established by ICF.

Our coaches guide you through questions designed to encourage you to think through your goals, both professional and personal, so that you can create an actionable plan to achieve these goals and overcome any barriers. Coaching sessions at CIMBA are supported by biometric and psychometric assessment data collected through CIMBA’s unique, highly sophisticated data-capture system. The tools and techniques used by our coaches are based on recent neuroscience findings and are constantly improving with the integration of new technology. Our data-driven coaching system is reviewed and supported by a team of experts in neuroleadership and its supporting fields.

With your coach at CIMBA, you will participate in personalized sessions to discuss your future plans and opportunities related to both your career and personal life. During these sessions, the coaches will use discussions, data collected during LIFE and from your assessment results to help you identify your strengths and areas for improvement. With your coach, you will work to clarify dreams, goals, and challenges, while creating a plan to reach your highest potential. You will begin to implement your plan at CIMBA and continue your personal growth journey beyond graduation.

Coaching (Group & One-on-One)

The International Coach Federation (ICF) defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.” All CIMBA coaches utilize the ICF framework and follow the ethical and professional guidelines established by ICF.

Our coaches guide you through questions designed to encourage you to think through your goals, both professional and personal, so that you can create an actionable plan to achieve these goals and overcome any barriers. Coaching sessions at CIMBA are supported by biometric and psychometric assessment data collected through CIMBA’s unique, highly sophisticated data-capture system. The tools and techniques used by our coaches are based on recent neuroscience findings and are constantly improving with the integration of new technology. Our data-driven coaching system is reviewed and supported by a team of experts in neuroleadership and its supporting fields.

With your coach at CIMBA, you will participate in personalized sessions to discuss your future plans and opportunities related to both your career and personal life. During these sessions, the coaches will use discussions, data collected during LIFE and from your assessment results to help you identify your strengths and areas for improvement. With your coach, you will work to clarify dreams, goals, and challenges, while creating a plan to reach your highest potential. You will begin to implement your plan at CIMBA and continue your personal growth journey beyond graduation.

Our coaches guide you through questions designed to encourage you to think through your goals, both professional and personal, so that you can create an actionable plan to achieve these goals and overcome any barriers.

Leadership Competencies

The CIMBA MBA program stands out for its strong emphasis on personal development, rooted in neuroscience and social psychology–especially focusing on behavioral aspects. Central to this unique approach are its Leadership Competency Workshops (LCWs), which aim to blend theoretical knowledge with practical applications of neuroscience in leadership. These workshops guide students to effectively manage their own emotions and understand those of others, crucial in areas like conflict management, diversity, feedback, change management, negotiations, and team activities. LCWs form the practical backbone of the MBA program, complementing its unique and highly acclaimed LIFE and LIVE 2 Influence workshops. The LCWs utilize a mix of teaching methods, including neuroscience research, case studies from CIMBA alumni, videos, interactive practices, and the use of personal measurement technology. A key component is the Alignment Quotient™, a personal development system created by a CIMBA alumnus, which supports students in their introspective journey throughout the program.

These workshops guide students to effectively manage their own emotions and understand those of others, crucial in areas like conflict management, diversity, feedback, change management, negotiations, and team activities.

Leadership Competencies

The CIMBA MBA program stands out for its strong emphasis on personal development, rooted in neuroscience and social psychology–especially focusing on behavioral aspects. Central to this unique approach are its Leadership Competency Workshops (LCWs), which aim to blend theoretical knowledge with practical applications of neuroscience in leadership. These workshops guide students to effectively manage their own emotions and understand those of others, crucial in areas like conflict management, diversity, feedback, change management, negotiations, and team activities. LCWs form the practical backbone of the MBA program, complementing its unique and highly acclaimed LIFE and LIVE 2 Influence workshops. The LCWs utilize a mix of teaching methods, including neuroscience research, case studies from CIMBA alumni, videos, interactive practices, and the use of personal measurement technology. A key component is the Alignment Quotient™, a personal development system created by a CIMBA alumnus, which supports students in their introspective journey throughout the program.

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