MBA Courses
Corporate Innovation and Design Experience
The Consulting Process
Strategy as Design (Barcelona GBE)
Executive Education Courses
Catalyst: Becoming an Extraordinary Growth Leader
Managing Individual and Organizational Change
Biography
Jeanne M. Liedtka is a faculty member at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business and former chief learning officer at United Technologies Corporation, where she was responsible for overseeing all activities associated with corporate learning and development for the Fortune 50 corporation, including executive education, career development processes, employer-sponsored education and learning portal and web-based activities.
At Darden, where she formerly served as associate dean of the MBA program and as executive director of the Batten Institute, Jeanne works with both MBAs and executives in the areas of strategic thinking, innovation and design and leading growth. Her passion is exploring how organizations can engage employees at every level in thinking creatively about the design of powerful futures.
Jeanne received her DBA in management policy from Boston University and her MBA from Harvard Business School. She has been involved in the corporate strategy field since beginning her career as a strategy consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.
Expertise
Leading Growth
Strategy
Corporate Innovation and Design Thinking
Consulting
Featured Video
"The Catalyst: How You Can Become an Extraordinary Growth Leader" from authors Jeanne Liedtka, Robert Rosen and Robert Wiltbank was published in March 2009. Mid-level managers may have absolutely no clue where to begin in the quest for growth, or they may have some ideas but not a shred of data to prove that any of them will move the revenue needle. And these managers face not only stretch goals but also, paradoxically, the many obstacles to achieving them — such as inflexible processes and a passion for data and analysis — that are common in large organizations. The most valuable lessons for these managers come straight from their peers: the managers within mature, established corporations who have the talent and skill for driving organic growth. Like chemical catalysts, they make things happen quickly that wouldn't without them, mostly by virtue of their ability to navigate between two worlds: the corporate world, designed for stability and control, and the entrepreneurial world, which is defined by uncertainty. It is the stories of these growth leaders that the authors tell in "The Catalyst."