Leadership Essentials for Investigators
Leadership Essentials for Investigators
“Leadership Essentials for Investigators was truly transformative for me. It completely changed how I organized and mentored my team and the outcome has been far better than I expected.”
Leadership Essentials for Investigators
Project Management and Team Leadership Training for Health Sciences Faculty Researchers
Audience: Any faculty member
The Clinical and Translational Science Institute and partner the Fisher College of Business Executive Education, present Leadership Essentials for Investigators (formerly the Business of Science) designed for faculty researchers in the health and biomedical sciences to give them the tools they need or will need as they develop their careers as independent investigators.
Enrollment is capped at 25. Faculty from all ranks are encouraged to apply by August 1.
When
September 30, October 7 and 14, 2026, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Where
The Longaberger Alumni House, 2200 Olentangy River Road
The workshop focuses on building high-performing, cross-disciplinary teams; communication strategies for handling high-stakes conversations; effective decision-making; and managing innovation amid uncertainty. Participants also explore cultural awareness, team alignment and leadership identity, with opportunities to apply learned skills to real-world challenges and develop a lasting leadership legacy.
Specific workshop sessions are as follows:
- High-Performance Teams: Covers collaboration, cultural awareness, performance management, and working in virtual or technology-driven settings.
- Crucial Conversations: Develops skills for handling high-stakes discussions with opposing viewpoints and strong emotions, with real-world application.
- Decision-Making: Introduces approaches to making effective and informed leadership decisions.
- Innovation and Uncertainty: Explores agile processes, risk assessment and managing both expected and unexpected challenges.
- Leadership Development: Emphasizes authentic leadership, culture and creating a lasting leadership legacy.
- Collaborating with AI: Learn how to effectively use AI tools to enhance productivity, support decision-making, streamline workflows and drive innovation
The sessions are practically oriented, interactive and introduce participants to methods they can implement immediately in their research projects.
“As a junior physician scientist, I found the Leadership Essentials for Investigators course extremely helpful. This course opened my eyes to thinking “outside the box” of the typical medicine and science perspective. I truly believe that the concepts and strategies outlined in the course will be invaluable in my efforts to build an effective research program and team.”
“The entire program helped me as a scientist better understand how to both think of new ways to develop innovations and to market those ideas to broader non-scientific audiences.”