CII Executive Leadership Program (XLP)
This challenging program will be taught by highly respected construction industry practitioners and by McCombs School of Business faculty. McCombs faculty are renowned scholars, outstanding educators, and groundbreaking researchers who remain involved with practice through relationships with business and industry leaders, and by participating as board members and consultants for top companies around the world. Teaching is accomplished through lectures, discussions, and extensive small group interaction and problem solving.
Stephen Courter, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor Stephen Courter is an award- winning faculty memebr in the department of management at The University of Texas at Austin and a former top corporate executive with worldwide experience.
Following graduation from Penn State, Steve Courtner served in the US Army, reaching the rank of Major. After stints at KPMG and IBM, he became Vice-President and General Manager of Sprint/Global One in Brussels, Belgium in 1987, where he worked until 1998. He became CEO of Enertel Communications in Rotterdam, The Netherland, and later served as CEO and Chariman of Neon Communication in Boston. In 2006, he became CEO and Director of Broadwing Communications in Austin and led the organization until its purchase in 2007 by Level 3 Communications. Board Positions: Courter also served as a Director at Globix, Inc., and is presently a Director of Cadiz Inc., (NASDAQ: CDZI) and Director, Upland Software (NASDAQ: UPLD). He chairs both Audit Committees.
Professor Courter's academic career began at the University of Maryland in 1981, where he taught for fourteen years, and layer at Bryant University, where he taught in 2005-2006. He joined The University of Texas in 2007. His areas of interest include corporate diversification; mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; and venture capital. He teaches graduate courses in Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, New Venture Creation, and an elective on Turnaround, Restructuring and Bankruptcy. Courter has been honored for his teaching, with recognition on the Undergraduate Faculty Honor Roll (2008), MBA Faculty Honor Roll (Spring 2010, 2011, and 2015), WP MBA Honor Roll (2012-2019) Texas Executive MBA Faculty Honor Roll (Spring 2011, 2016, 2017)
He has also been named the Outstanding Professor for the Mexicao City Executive MBA Program (2012, 2015, 2016, 2017), Evening MBA Program (2017) and Executive MBA Program (2017). In recent years he has conducted several MBA Global Connections work study program to Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and India, facilitating consulting projects for large companies in those countries.
John A. Daly, The University of Texas at Austin
John Daly is the Liddell Professor of Communication, TCB Professor of Management, and an adjunct Professor in the College of Pharmacy. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on advocacy and influence, interpersonal communication and organizational behavior. While at UT, he has won every major award given on campus for undergraduate teaching.
Dr. Daly has been the President of the National Communication Association, Chair of the Council of Communication Associations, and served on the Board of Directors of both the International Customer Service Association and the International Communication Association. He has been the editor of two academic journals and served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, and is one of less than 50 scholars in the world who is a Fellow of the International Communication Association. Fellows are recognized for their major scholarly contributions. His work appeared in any number of popular outlets including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times.
On management and communication-related topics (e.g., advocacy and influence, leadership, teamwork, sales, customer loyalty), Dr. Daly has worked with numerous firms such as JP MorganChase, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Roche, Amgen, Merck, Pfizer, Bayer, Astra-Zeneca, State Farm, Prudential, Essilor, Union Pacific, LG, Kraft, Apple, HP, IBM, BP-AMOCO, PetroChina, CNOOC, Shell, ExxonMobil, Halliburton, AGIP, AT&T, Home Depot, Texas Instruments, UPS, McCarthy, Zachry, American Airlines, Continental Airlines, 3M, Novell, Frito-Lay, Dell, and Samsung, among many others.
In the governmental arena, Dr. Daly has worked with the White House (Executive Office of the President) designing and implementing a major customer service initiative as well as with numerous Federal, State, and local government units throughout the United States.
Professor Daly has published more than 100 research articles and chapters in scholarly periodicals and produced eight books including the Handbook of Interpersonal Communication and Advocacy: Championing Innovation and Influencing Others.
Doug Dierking, The University of Texas at Austin
Doug Dierking is a Senior Lecturer and the Assistant Department Chair in the Management Department at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin. He teaches graduate courses in sustainable leadership, leading people and organizations, creating and managing human capital and the art and science of negotiation. At the undergraduate level, he teaches courses in the art and science of negotiation, consulting, and change management and organizational behavior. He has been teaching at the university for over 12 years. Dr. Dierking’s research interests include organizational culture, effective employee on-boarding and retention practices, leadership development and succession planning.
Professor Dierking’s excellence in teaching has been recognized numerous times, most recently on the McCombs School of Business Graduate Business Council Faculty Honor Roll – 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007; Texas Evening MBA Outstanding Professor Award – 2010 and Texas Evening MBA Faculty Honor Roll – 2012, 2011, 2010, 2007 & 2005; Texas Exes Teaching Award – 2005; Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award – 2005; and Hank and Mary Harkins Foundation Award for Effective Teaching – 2005.
In addition to teaching at The University of Texas, Dr. Dierking is very active in the corporate and public sectors. He has worked extensively with Royal Dutch Shell internationally to develop and deliver training in leading project teams, particularly geographically dispersed or virtual teams for project engineers. He has provided training and consulting in the areas of leadership, recruiting, on-boarding and retaining high performance talent, executive coaching and change management to a wide variety of companies such as Ecopetrol, Sinopec, Petrobras, Polycom, BBVA, Gulf States Toyota, Texas Instruments, Dell, Motorola and Emerson Electric (Fisher-Rosemount), as well as numerous smaller organizations.
Dr. Dierking currently serves on the Advisory Board of Directors of a large non-profit organization (Past-President) and has served on several community boards.
Karen Landolt, The University of Texas at Austin
Karen M. Landolt has been teaching, coaching, and leading in nonprofit, legal, and academic settings for 25 years. As an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the McCombs School of Business, Professor Landolt teaches Business Law, Behavioral Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property Law, and Negotiations. Equally fascinated with pop culture and coaching others to lead with their strengths, she finds creative ways to integrate service, experiential learning, and pop culture into her teaching. Landolt previously practiced intellectual property law at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP, a large venture capital/intellectual property firm, and was a founding partner of Tremont Law Group, LLP, a boutique business and intellectual property firm. Landolt was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 2001 and is a Certified Mediator. She served as Director of two UT Austin career services offices and is a founding partner of Engage Leadership Consulting, LLC, which focuses on team building for corporations, start-ups, and nonprofits.
Brian Lendecky, The University of Texas at Austin
Brian Lendecky is a Professor of Instruction in the Department of Accounting at The University of Texas at Austin. He joined the department in 2006 and has taught Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting in the following programs: Undergraduate, Canfield Business Honors, Master in Professional Accounting (MPA), Full-Time MBA, Executive MBA, Houston MBA, DFW MBA, Austin Evening MBA, MS in Information Technology Management, MS in Business Analytics, MS in Finance, and McCombs Executive Education. Brian also teaches Financial Methods for Lawyers in the School of Law. He taught for numerous years in the Mexico City MBA program and also taught the Tax Practicum course, the latter winning a 2008 Governor’s Volunteer Award from Governor Perry and a 2011 Tower Award.
Brian has taught at the ESCP-EAP European School of Management in Paris, the VSE School of Economics in Prague, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has also led MBA Global Trips to Panama, Colombia, Argentina, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates. Brian Lendecky started his career at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and has subsequently managed accounting departments in the food manufacturing, energy, & medical supplies manufacturing industries. He has also provided consulting services in numerous industries the past seventeen years.
Melissa Murphy, The University of Texas at Austin
Melissa Murphy is an award-winning teacher and scholar at The University of Texas at Austin and is the founder and chief communication coach of The Pitch Academy. Professor Murphy currently teaches business communication, negotiation, and entrepreneurship courses for undergraduate and graduate students at Texas McCombs School of Business. She has taught professional communication skills, nonverbal communication, and organizational communication for the Moody College of Communication and has also held academic teaching positions in the Master of Science in Technology Commercialization program since 2012. She also teaches numerous workshops for Texas Executive Education.
Gaylen D. Paulson, The University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Gaylen Paulson is Associate Dean and Director for Texas Executive Education at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also a Senior Lecturer for the Management Department. His research and teaching are focused on the strategic aspects of interacting with people, including negotiation, conflict management, persuasion, and interpersonal communication.
The recipient of numerous teaching awards, Dr. Paulson was most recently named to the “Faculty Honor Roll” by the UT MBA students and “Outstanding Faculty” by the Engineering Management Executive Master’s program. He also received the 2007 Fawn and Vijay Mahajan Teaching Excellence Award in Executive Education.
Dr. Paulson’s consulting and executive training programs have been sponsored by a wide variety of organizations such as 3M, Aegon, Bayer, British Petroleum, The Conference Board, Dell, Ernst & Young, Genesis10, Guidant, Harcourt Publishing, HEB, Johnson & Johnson, KLA-Tencor, LG Electronics, The Merchants Consortium, Microsoft, PMI, the National Council of State Housing Agencies, NAVSEA, NPR, Ortho-McNeil, Pfizer, Shell, Standard Aero, the Southwest Women’s Business Council, Texas Instruments, the Texas Nurses Association, the U.S. Army and VHA Inc. Dr. Paulson presents frequently in programs focusing on negotiation skills, managerial leadership and strategic influence.
Don Ruse, The University of Texas at Austin
Don Ruse is a seasoned executive with an extensive track record of helping C-level executives and global organizations develop and implement strategies that enable scale and drive profitable growth. Professor Ruse has served as a trusted adviser to over 55 organizations, partnering with them to successfully address new growth opportunities, cost and profitability pressures, and large-scale business transformation challenges. He has deep expertise in strategy, organization design, business process improvement, organization governance, and culture transformation. He has served clients across a broad range of industries with considerable experience working with leaders of innovation-based organizations in technology, materials science, and life sciences.
Don’s global experience is extensive, having spent considerable time working in Asia, EMEA, and North America. Don is the Founder and Managing Partner of Bryant Park Partners LLC. Bryant Park Partners is a management advisory firm that specializes in helping companies scale and profitably grow by intentionally designing their organizations to execute strategy. Prior to Bryant Park Partners, Don was a Partner at Axiom Consulting Partners and a Managing Partner at Sibson Consulting. Before moving to professional services, Don spent 12 years as a practitioner and manager working for Honeywell, Mobil Oil, The Quaker Oats Company, and Lennox International.