High-Potential Leadership
Lead beyond your team
Strong managers deliver through their teams. As their responsibilities grow, they also need to build alignment across functions, influence decisions they do not control and help others move through change. High-Potential Leadership gives rising leaders space to practice those skills in challenging, realistic situations.
Program Information
3475 Lenox Road
Atlanta, GA 30326
Special rates are available for UGA alumni and multiple registrants from the same company. Group and Custom Program options are also available.
Contact 404-467-5130 or jordanking@uga.edu for details.
Career Impact
Expand your influence as your responsibilities expand.
Understand how your leadership habits affect others, connect your work to broader business priorities and communicate with greater clarity across the organization. You’ll apply what you learn to current stakeholder and change challenges, then leave with a focused plan for your next 90 days.
What You’ll Learn
Employer Support
Gaining support for professional development requires planning, research, and effective communication to demonstrate how it benefits both you and your company, addressing tough questions with clear value propositions.
Talk to us about a custom program for your organization.
Instructors
Stacy Campbell
Synovus Director and Principal Lecturer, Institute for Leadership Advancement
Stacy Campbell is the Director of the Institute for Leadership Advancement (ILA) at the University of Georgia in the Terry College of Business. After 16 years at Kennesaw State University, most of that as the Executive Director of the Coles College of Business Scholars Program, Stacy is excited to be returning to UGA and working with the ILA to develop our future leaders. She holds a PhD in organizational behavior from the University of Georgia, a M.A. in psychology from the UNC-Chapel Hill, and a BBA in economics/business and psychology from Lafayette College. Prior to her doctoral studies¸ Dr. Campbell worked as a management consultant for KPMG consulting and more recently, the Atlanta-based consulting firm, The North Highland Company, in their change management practice.
Natasha Ganem
Founder & Principal Consultant, Lion Leadership
Natasha Ganem is an Instructor in UGA’s Executive Education program and the Founder and Principal Consultant of Lion Leadership. For nearly 20 years, Natasha has helped companies with building leadership infrastructure from the inside out, end-to-end, until it actually works. In 2026, she launched the Agentic Leadership Framework — an original competency model naming the five leader orientations AI cannot replace — and the ALA, the first psychometrically validated 360 instrument purpose-built for AI-era leadership development. No major assessment publisher had claimed this space.
Natasha’s clients include, among many others, Lowe’s, Mercedes-Benz USA, Spanx, Zaxby’s, Eagle Telemedicine, and Kubota.
Laura Little
Chick‑fil‑A Distinguished Professor for Leadership Advancement, Institute for Leadership Advancement
Laura Little is the Chick-fil-A Distinguished Professor for Leadership Advancement in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. She was the director of the Institute for Leadership Advancement from 2014 to 2023 and has been a professor in the management department since 2008. She is an award-winning professor teaching a variety of leadership and organizational behavior classes at the undergraduate and MBA levels.
Laura’s research focuses on work-family issues (e.g., pregnancy and work, working parents) and self-regulation at work. Her work has been published in several leading academic journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science and Personnel Psychology. She currently serves as Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Journal.
Kachi Ekwerike
Lecturer, Institute for Leadership Advancement
Onyedikachi (Kachi) Ekwerike is a Lecturer in the Institute for Leadership Advancement at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. As a leadership educator, Kachi’s expertise is at the intersection of inclusive leadership, organizational leadership, and community engagement.
Kachi is also a mental health advocate. He has more than seven years of global leadership experience, leading change in the non-profit sector is the founder of Postpartum Support Network Africa, a leading maternal mental health organization in Nigeria.
Before transitioning to leadership education, Kachi worked as a consultant clinical psychologist specializing in mood and anxiety disorders. Kachi’s leadership in the non-profit sector inspired his interest in leadership education. He is passionate about helping people develop leadership capacity.
Kachi is a 2017 Mandela Washington Fellow, a prestigious fellowship awarded to young African leaders by the U.S. State Department. He is also a Global Leadership Fellow having been recognized in 2018 as among the top 10 emerging leaders globally.
Sharon Noble
Lecturer, Institute for Leadership Advancement
Sharon Noble is an instructor in the UGA Executive Education program and the founder of SKE Advisory where she channels her passion for coaching and empowering leaders into lasting change. She focuses on strengthening leadership capability, building healthy cultures, improving performance management, enabling courageous conversations, shaping HR strategy, and advancing the HR business partner role.
She has deep expertise in developing HR strategies, talent acquisition, employee relations, compensation and organizational design. She was responsible for driving significant progress in HEM’s culture and inclusion strategy—referred to as I Belong at Huber. In 2022, she assumed responsibility for HEM Communications.
She has significant HR experience leading Mergers & Acquisitions due diligence processes. During her tenure at HEM, she’s been pivotal to the integration of eight strategic acquisitions, as well as two substantial divestitures.
Tom Will
Instructor, UGA Executive Education
Tom Will is an instructor in the UGA Executive Education program and has more than 20 years of experience as a management consultant, professor, and researcher. As Senior Consultant at The Developmental Edge, Tom helps people make progress on the improvement goals that really matter to them. He has coached executives in more than 30 countries spanning such industries as wealth management, manufacturing, banking, higher education, healthcare, and professional services.
Tom is also Associate Professor of Business Management at Agnes Scott College, where he teaches courses in Strategic Management, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship.
He has published in such outlets as The Leadership Quarterly, The London School of Economics Business Review, Organization Management Journal, and Academy of Management Learning & Education, among others. He is the founder of Adaptive Leadership Atlanta.
Steve Olson
Instructor, UGA Executive Education
Steve Olson is an Instructor in UGA’s Executive Education program, the Rollins Professor of Executive Education at Gary W. Rollins College of Business at the University of Tennessee‒Chattanooga, and President of Generative Consulting. Steve brings more than 27 years of experience in leadership development, executive coaching, and strategic innovation. His work focuses on equipping senior executives, managers, and high-potential leaders with the tools to navigate complex organizational challenges by fostering responsible leadership, ethical decision-making, and innovative thinking.
Steve’s approach emphasizes evidence-based practices in leadership, ethics, and organizational learning, integrating expert facilitation with customized in-person, hybrid, and online learning programs. Passionate about advancing leadership in complex systems, he collaborates with organizations across industries, enabling them to cultivate strategic thinking, enhance team effectiveness, and drive meaningful cultural transformation.
Dennis Lanham
Executive Director of Executive and Professional Education, UGA Executive Education
Dennis Lanham brings more than 20 years of experience developing education programs for professionals and organizations. Before joining Terry, he served as senior assistant dean and executive director of Santa Clara University’s Leavey Executive Center, where he expanded its leadership, corporate governance and other nondegree programs. He began his career in professional development with Georgia State University’s Executive MBA and executive education programs. Lanham holds an MBA from Georgia State’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business. At Terry, he leads programs and partnerships that respond to the needs of working professionals.
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