PROGRAM DATES: October 17-20, 2022
PROGRAM FEE: $14,000
APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 19, 2022
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Accelerated Leadership Program
The Accelerated Leadership Program (ALP) is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills they need to successfully advance to the next level of leadership. The program focuses on four dimensions: personal, people and team, practice, and client leadership. The skills and lessons from each dimension combine to leave participants with a holistic, actionable understanding of how to be better leaders.
Participants will join a diverse cohort of lawyers from around the world alongside renowned Harvard Law School Executive Education faculty to engage in an immersive, interactive learning experience. Through case studies, lectures, and interactive exercises, participants will examine the challenges facing early- to mid-stage law firm partners and leaders of smaller legal organizations. They will emerge with tools that they can apply as soon as they return to work.
The Accelerated Leadership Program is an intensive, four-day program designed to empower emerging leaders with the concepts and tools they need to effectively lead teams, influence strategy, and support clients in today’s ever-changing, global landscape. The program prepares lawyers to:
The Learning Model
Case studies, lectures, classroom discussions, hands-on exercises, and small group discussions focused on law firms and other professional service firms will let participants analyze and understand what behaviors lead to sustained success and effective leadership.
The sessions will help participants work through a range of approaches to the issues that confront partners with leadership responsibilities in law firms. Participants will learn, reflect on, and discuss effective leadership in the face of real-life challenges in a professional service setting, including sustaining productivity and engagement in a remote environment.
Participants in the program will develop a practical understanding of critical business and leadership frameworks and how they can be applied effectively in a challenging market.
Key Concepts:
Who Should Attend?
The Accelerated Leadership Program is tailored for new to mid-level partners who are seeking to be successful in their leadership.
Participants in this program typically manage or oversee other lawyers and/or professionals in their current role and may have firmwide or office/regional responsibilities.
Class size is small and we encourage diversity of participants, drawing from different geographies, backgrounds, practice areas, and firms.
Visit the Admissions page for information on the process.
Our core faculty are members of the Harvard Law School faculty – distinguished academicians, educators, researchers, authors, and practitioners in their respective fields. Representing various disciplines, they are close to practice through their relationships with law firm leaders and general counsel and through personal involvement as consultants for top firms around the world.
Program Teaching Team
Carrie Fletcher, Program Chair
Scott Westfahl
Learn more about the Accelerated Leadership Program faculty→
Need a more customized approach? We provide programming tailored to meet the specific needs of law firm partners. Learn more.