Everyday Leadership
About the class
As we try to stay ahead of the ever-shifting norms of work during COVID, many of us are questioning the assumptions we hold about how to be leaders, managers, and colleagues. Dr. Heidi Brooks, who teaches the wildly popular class “Interpersonal Dynamics” at the Yale School of Management, studies, speaks, and consults with top companies on the subject of everyday leadership: the everyday micro-moments of impact that shape our lived experiences.
Our everyday actions today set our trajectory for tomorrow. Yet we are often unaware of the short - and longer - term impact of the ways that we lead and interact every day. In this interactive session, Dr. Brooks invites us to reflect around the changing nature of work, and the role we all can play in crafting spaces that we want to be a part of - places that foster excellence, unleash potential for a broad set of stakeholders, and have the ingredients to craft a good society. We look at simple everyday junctures and actions that can make a big difference in the way work and organizations impact our lived experience.
Dr. Brooks was inviting attendees to share stories from their leadership journey.
Listen to Dr. Brooks on NPR’s Morning Edition: "Companies tell employees it's time to return to the workplace".
About the Presenter
Dr. Heidi Brooks is Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behavior. She teaches and advises on the subject of everyday leadership: the everyday micro-moments of impact that shape our lived experiences. Creating more courageous communities - especially within organizations - is a particular passion of hers. Dr. Brooks specializes in large-scale culture change projects focused on individual and collective leadership effectiveness in organizations. Interpersonal Dynamics, the MBA elective she has taught for 15 years, is one of the courses most in demand at Yale School of Management. Recently, Dr. Brooks pioneered the Everyday Leadership course at SOM, where she first taught the Principles of Everyday Leadership. She has also taught Emotional Intelligence, Power & Politics, Managing Teams and Groups, and Coaching Skills for Managers. Dr. Brooks received her doctorate in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree from Brown University. A life-long experiential learner, you can find her as a student in classrooms as far-ranging as improvisational theater and immersion language lessons.