Registration Now Open for the NFPA Executive Leadership Program

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Registration is now open for the 2020/21 cohort of the NFPA Executive Leadership Program, presented in collaboration with the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Registration for this cohort will close December 31, 2019.

The program consists of a series of six full-day education sessions over the course of 18 months and is designed to provide a fluid power industry specific experience that accelerates leadership and fosters long-term connections. Session content will focus on both the hard and soft skills needed to create success for participants’ organizations and the fluid power industry as a whole:

  • February 10-11, 2020 | Executive Judgment
    Mandarin Oriental in Miami, Florida (in conjunction with the 2020 NFPA Annual Conference)
  • May 20-21, 2020 | Innovation Strategy & Strategic Operations
    Allen Center at Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois
  • August 9-10, 2020 | Negotiation Tools and Strategies
    Hilton Oak Brook in Oak Brook, Illinois (in conjunction with the 2020 NFPA Industry & Economic Outlook Conference)
  • February 22-23, 2021 | The Surprising Science of Character-Based Leadership, Culture and Engagement
    Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, Arizona (in conjunction with the 2021 NFPA Annual Conference)
  • TBD May 2021 | The Power of Story & Leading in a VUCA World
    Allen Center at Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois
  • TBD August 2021 | Macroeconomic Trends Impacting Business & The Future of Marketing
    TBD Chicago, Illinois (in conjunction with the 2021 NFPA Industry & Economic Outlook Conference)

NFPA Future Leaders Network participants as well as other emerging leaders, directors, officers, and senior executives at NFPA member companies would benefit from taking part. At this time, we are accepting one registrant per member company, and the cohort size is capped at 24 participants. The program registration cost is $15,000. This amount can be paid all at once or split into two payments of $7,500.

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