Choosing Leadership: How to Do It Yourself
Apr 7, 2026 - Apr 28, 2026
Instructor: Linda Ginzel
Full course description
Choosing Leadership: How to Do It Yourself is a four-week, live virtual course designed to make leadership accessible, practical, and actionable—for anyone, at any level. Led by Linda E. Ginzel, Clinical Professor of Managerial Psychology, this program is open to both individual learners and intact teams, and invites employees to develop leadership with their company, at their startup, and alongside their internal team. Each week, participants join a one-hour live session to learn core leadership concepts, then spend an additional hour working through guided assignments together with their colleagues. This “do-it-yourself with your internal team” model allows participants to work through self-development on their own time, at their own pace, while applying ideas directly to their real workplace challenges. The result is not just individual growth, but shared language, trust, and leadership capacity that participants can bring back to the rest of their organization—creating leaders who grow together and lead from where they are.
Live meeting time: 8 to 9 a.m. CT | 2 to 3 p.m. GMT | 10 to 11 p.m. HKT
Dates: April 7, 14, 21, 28
To receive a certificate of completion, you must submit all the assignments within a month of the final session.
Participate With Your Team
Choosing Leadership: How to Do It Yourself is purpose-built for team training. For teams of five or more, we can offer a 20% discount on the total order. Please email us at DavisCenter@ChicagoBooth.edu to coordinate.
Booth Staff, Currrent Students and their Spouses
We can offer the special rate of $25 to Booth staff, as well as current students and their spouses. Please email us at DavisCenter@ChicagoBooth.edu to coordinate.
Registration fee includes mailed copy of Choosing Leadership: Revised and Expanded edition.
Learn more at the Davis Center website.

