WiLD Executive Fellows Program
Graduate Level Education for the Whole Leader
The WiLD Executive Fellows Program is a graduate level educational experience designed for the leader with a desire for rigorous study in whole leader development that fully integrates psychological science, their real-time experience and organizational context, and their whole person - including their faith and humanity.
The WiLD Executive Fellows Program is approved for the following ICF hours:
Core Competencies: 40.5 Hours
Resource Development: 65.75 Hours
The WiLD Executive Fellows Program is approved for the following SHRM hours:
45 Hours
The program is nine days - divided into three intensives over a year, making it accessible to leaders currently functioning in a full time role.
Executive Fellows complete the program with extensive knowledge of the the scientific and theoretical foundation of whole leader development, the skills to apply that knowledge to real-time organizational challenges, and a meaningful connection to an exceptional community of like-minded leaders.
For those who have participated in other WiLD Programs and understand the power of whole and intentional leader development, this program will build up advanced meta-cognitive and executive level skills, knowledge, and fortitude.
The WiLD Executive Fellows program creates an actionable and sustainable reinforcement framework to transfer participant learning to real-world behavior change in a way that is personal, and whole.
“The most impactful part of the Executive Fellows Program was the cohort - the safe space to let down your guard and be honest…having that rhythm.”
Real Leaders
Whole leader development is both personal and professional. The program will push you to new developmental edges for your sake and the sake of others around you. The participants are chosen based on the potential they bring as competent and effective leaders, and more importantly, for their willingness to edit themselves and to serve others. Every leader engages in a variety of dialogues and coaching partnerships to connect with, learn from, challenge and support every other participant.
Rigorous Studies
The WiLD Executive Fellows Program is taught and facilitated by leading scholars and practitioners in the fields of Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Whole Leader Development. Building deeper knowledge and discernment of the research and theories behind topics like motivation, personality, leader effectiveness, efficacy, developmental readiness, team functioning, character formation, learning agility, and organizational culture and change takes a leader from a practical level of understanding, to a level of mastery that will bring about long lasting organizational and leader transformation.
Intentional Development
The Executive Fellows Program takes participants on a deeper journey into the science behind leading well, and makes that science approachable and accessible for real-time development - theory in practice. The WiLD Toolkit is the research-based system that provides the framework. Integrated through the nine-day program, the 10 assessments in the WiLD Toolkit provide an intentional way for the theory and science to come to life in the experience of a leader, and provides a pathway to take forward long after participants finish the program.
Earn your certificate as a WiLD Leaders Executive Fellow in Whole Leader Development
Program Details
Offered as a cohort style program, the WiLD Executive Fellows Program includes three-day experiential sessions in 3 consecutive quarters with online tools and assignments that provide the best of what face-to-face programs offer with the flexibility of virtual education.
Graduates from the Executive Fellows Program also have the option to apply to become WiLD Certified Coaches and to increase their Mastery Level through a variety of expanded topical seminars related to whole leader development.
Upon completion of the 9-day core in the three Executive Fellows Program, participants are awarded the status of Executive Fellow in Whole Leader Development.
Quarterly Time Commitment:
Three 3-day sessions (virtual + live + interactive) and an additional 4-6 hours of development assigned per month (ex. readings, virtual experiences/conversations, + WiLD Toolkit assessment tools).
During the three-day Executive Fellows Program Sessions, every day is scheduled from 8am to 1pm (PST), 11am to 4pm (EST) .
Program and Application Dates:
Application Deadline for Fall 2022 Cohort: Friday, September 30th, 2022
Program dates for Fall 2022 -2023 Cohort: October 19-21, 2022, February 22-24, 2023, June 7-9, 2023
Executive Fellows Colloquium | For current WiLD Fellows and Alumni
January 13 , 2023 | 1 - 2:30 PM (PT), 4 - 5:30 (ET)
April 14, 2023 | 1 - 2:30 PM (PT), 4 - 5:30 (ET)
Additional Executive Coaching:
Executive Fellows Participants can choose to add executive coaching with a WiLD Expert Coach. Each of our coaches has a heart for people and an ability to push their clients toward action. Our coaches are unique because they are committed to investing in developing leaders as whole people. They know that developing whole leaders requires vulnerability, and vulnerability requires courage and an openness to change.
Program Cost:
$5,000 total, for all the three sessions and materials (PRICING FOR 2021 COHORTS)
Optional Expert WiLD Coaching: $5,000 (12 sessions)
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Cancellation & Change Policy
In some cases, participants request to change the date they would like to start the Executive Fellows Program. Changes made within 4 weeks of the program start will incur a 10% of tuition fee, which will go towards future tuition payment.
All Cancellations are subject to a $100 administrative fee.