Kellogg Shared Facility Leadership and Management Course
Program Overview
This executive education program is designed specifically for directors, managers and business administrators overseeing core facilities. The program was developed to enhance participants’ ability to think strategically and address the unique challenges of operating a small business within a non-profit environment. This year's four-day in-person sessions are scheduled June 9-12, 2025, on the Chicago campus of Northwestern University. Please read more program details on the Kellogg Course webpage.
C-ShaRP offers participants financial support of up to $8,000 per person, which includes full coverage of the $5,000 registration fee for the Kellogg course and up to $3,000 for travel-related expenses (such as flights and hotel accommodations), reimbursed in alignment with Stanford University’s travel guidelines.
- June 9-12, 2025
- Start: June 9 at 8:00 AM
- End: June 12 at 5:00 PM
- Format: In-Person on Chicago campus of Northwestern University
Participants
A cohort of four-six participants will be selected through a nomination process to attend the 2025 Kellogg Shared Facility Leadership Course. Nominations must be submitted by senior Shared Facility leaders within the participant’s respective school or unit. Final selection of participants will be performed by the Chair of C-ShaRP. Eligible candidates must meet the following criteria:
- Hold managerial responsibilities in their current role at a Shared Facility or be slated to resume such duties in the near future.
- Demonstrate consistently high-performance standards.
- Actively contribute visible, impactful value to their organization.
- Exhibit leadership potential extending beyond their current responsibilities.
Program Content
The curriculum will offer a rigorous and research-based classroom learning experience paired with relevant tools and business principles that can be put into practice immediately.
- Leadership Topics:
- Enhancing persuasion and influence skills
- Leveraging strengths-based leadership
- Understanding and creating strong organizational culture
- Leading teams and collaborating for impact
- Fiscal Strategy and Management Topics:
- Marketing and consumer behavior
- Pricing strategies
- Creating market value
- Key Benefits:
- Understand key management concepts including leadership, finance, pricing strategies, marketing and others
- Learn to think strategically about your facility and identify important concepts you can apply to build the organization, increase stability and enhance growth
- Build a network of peers and mentors to support continued professional growth and development
- Acquire new knowledge and skills for strengthening your organization’s capacity to meet the challenges of a changing competitive landscape
Nomination Process
Deadline: Submit nominations via this Google Form no later than March 21, 2025.
How to Submit: Nominations must be submitted by the nominee’s supervisor or senior leadership. Ensure all required details are included in the form.
Questions? Contact:
Claudius Mundoma, PhD, MBA
Director of Shared Research Platform
📧 cmundoma@stanford.edu | 📞 650-723-8789 (O); 850-980-6666 (C)
What Participants say?
"The Leadership & Management in Core Facilities program at Kellogg was an invaluable experience, offering rare professional development training specifically tailored for non-profit facility management. The engaging instructors and interactive format made topics like building successful teams, creating an effective organizational culture, and understanding non-profit finance both relevant and insightful. I really enjoyed the opportunity to network with peers from other institutions and to hear first-hand about their management experiences and best practices. I highly recommend it for managers in core facilities!"
-Sara Ostrowski, Associate Director, nano@stanford
“Today’s Core Directors are experts in their fields with years of formal training and research experience. However, few have had formal training on marketing, management and leadership. Skills in these areas are not innate and can be taught. Just as I would go to a Core Director when seeking assistance with a scientific technique, I go to Kellogg instructors to improve my performance in these areas. The Kellogg Management Class for Core Director’s teaches technical experts how to view their work as value added vs a cost, how to generate buy-in from staff, collaborators and customers and how to change strategies when teams are not performing at optimum levels. I would recommend it to any person with a technical background that works in a small business or core facility.”
Director, IMSERC; Director of Core Facilities at Northwestern
“I personally learned the values of better leadership and the means to build a successful team and facility which will be useful for the rest of my career. I highly recommend the course for new leaders and leaders running nonprofit labs/cores, and especially for those having difficulties with leadership, having to face the challenges of creating new services, and being exposed to outside competition.”
Research Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“Attending the Kellogg course was a superb experience. The instructors were excellent speakers and very engaging, while my fellow students were friendly, asked insightful questions, and participated enthusiastically in discussions in and out of class. The course introduced many topics relevant to my work, in particular the topics related to team management and understanding the creation of value. The topics on management and leadership of teams were very relevant, including understanding biases and assumptions especially as they relate to creating an appropriate culture in the workplace. The topics related to value and the value proposition enabled me to better understand who the true customers of our facility are and how to ensure that we create appropriate value for them.”
Director, Northwestern DND-CAT Facility at Argonne National Laboratory