In a complex and changing environment, strategic thinking and implementation becomes ever more important. This set of in-person and virtual workshops is designed to guide the leaders of UJA-affiliated organizations through the hands-on work of reconsidering and refreshing their strategies and set them up for effective implementation.
 
Participants that engage fully with the workshops will (1) check and adjust their organization’s strategies with the goal of creating value for stakeholders while sustaining the organization; (2) align their organizations to implement their strategies; (3) practice techniques for communicating the strategy in their organizations in order to improve employee engagement and performance.

Paul Ingram , Ph.D.
Kravis Professor of Business| Columbia Business School, Faculty Director 
Columbia Advanced Management Program

Paul has taught crisis leadership to executives, top management teams and business students for the last ten years.  The courses he teaches on management and strategy benefit from his research on organizations in the United States, Canada, Israel, Scotland, China, Korea and Australia. Prior positions include a faculty role at Carnegie Mellon and visiting professorships at Tel Aviv University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Toronto.  

He has served as President of the College of Organization Science of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). He is currently an Associate Editor for Academy of Management Discoveries and has served as a consulting editor for the American Journal of Sociology, a senior editor for Organization Science, an Associate Editor for Management Science and on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly and Strategic Organization.