Leadership and Innovation in Creative Environments

Catalog description

This course is intended to prepare current and future leaders in the publishing industry for the responsibilities, situations, and challenges they may encounter during their careers in publishing. Leaders must learn to balance the interests of many stakeholders, including their reports, their manager, other departments, upper management, shareholders, and the community, among others. This course is intended to help students meet these expectations on a daily basis and excel. Topics include understanding leadership and supervising individuals, ethics of leadership, specific leadership challenges in publishing departments, DEI, leadership communication, and leading change, among others. Articles and videos will focus on publishing examples whenever possible.