Effective Team Decision-Making and Leadership: Harvard Kennedy School with HCUK

Nathalie Laidler-Kylander, Program Chair of ‘Senior Executive Fellows at HKS’, invites you to an evening workshop to develop decision-making and leadership capacity.

Participants will gain practical insights into how to improve teamwork and collaboration by exploring:

• Do teams make better decisions? When and why?
• Why are some teams more effective than others?
• What key challenges must teams overcome to maximise effectiveness?
• What role does a leader play in driving team effectiveness?

The highly interactive executive session runs for two hours and provides hands-on experience. No pre-work is required.

Cost: £30

About Nathalie:

Nathalie Laidler-Kylander returns to Harvard Kennedy School to serve as the Program Chair, Senior Executive Fellows (SEF). Nathalie was previously a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (2010-2016), teaching in the Management, Leadership and Decision Sciences (MLD) area and chairing several executive education programs. She was also a Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Institute. A leading expert in the international nonprofit sector, she previously served as the CEO and President of Trickle Up, a development organisation focused on economic and social empowerment of women living in extreme poverty and worked as a Managing Director at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, acting as an operating partner to early-stage nonprofits and global social enterprises. Additional prior teaching experience includes the Fletcher School, Tufts University (2009 – 2011) and Boston University School of Management (2007-2009). Nathalie has supported many of her students as they created and launched social enterprises both at Tufts University and at Harvard.