Design High-Impact Leadership Programs (Coming Soon)

Develop & facilitate high-impact leadership development programs

Leadership Educator Online Workshop: Design, Facilitate, & Assess a High-Impact Leadership Development & Learning Experience

In this online program to get you started, you and colleagues from your institution can focus on the fundamentals:

+ Assess your own program, course, workshop or leadership education offering with this resource.

+ Gain additional videos, digital materials, and a toolkit of actions you can launch this year to improve your program to the next level.

+ Systematically generate new ideas that relate most to research findings on high-impact student learning and development.

+ Hear examples of creative ways that best practices are in use at institutions.

+ Gain the opportunity to sit down with other leadership education colleagues at your institution for collaboration and focus.


Do you want to design programs that have a greater impact on student learning and leadership development? Do you want to cultivate leadership skills in your students? Do you want to systematically improve the way you educate in a more high impact way? This is an online course from Darin Eich, Ph.D.. Darin is author of Root Down & Branch Out: Best Practices For Leadership Development Programs, which brings key findings to practice from research conducted to determine the most important characteristics of high-impact leadership development programs. What contributes most to student learning and leadership development, and how can you design your program, course, or educational experience better? Here is what we’ve got planned for the program, but do email me if you have ideas or things you would like to learn.


Root Down: Design, Facilitate, & Assess your High-Impact Leadership Education Experience

+ Understand what it means to “root down” to improve your leadership development efforts by doing it.

+ Learn what doesn’t work well for leadership education so you can replace with ideas and actions that can.

+ See examples of the innovative blended programs launching at Dartmouth, Wisconsin, and other institutions.

+ Be guided through, assess, and root down into the best practices for leadership development programs.

+ Gain a toolkit of assessment and program resources to use at your institution and validate your program with stakeholders.

+ Learn more tips from the new book Root Down & Branch Out: Best Practices for Leadership Development Programs and get your own PDF copy.


Your Instructor


Darin Eich, Ph.D.
Darin Eich, Ph.D.

Darin Eich, Ph.D. is an innovation training workshop designer, design thinking training facilitator, keynote speaker & the founder of InnovationLearning.org. His speciality is designing and facilitating high-impact innovative leadership programs. He is also the author of Innovation Step-by-Step: How to Create & Develop Ideas for your Challenge and Root Down & Branch Out: Best Practices for Leadership Development Programs.

Darin's passion involves helping people to become themselves, find and live their strengths, and become more creative, innovative and successful leaders. Darin is a conference keynote speaker and helps institutions develop leadership programs & retreats. He also facilitates professional brainstorming, facilitation training, and innovation sessions for large organizations.



A variety of organizations listed below have utilized Darin's innovative facilitation, consulting, keynotes & workshops, and leadership development programs for training and innovation. Our programs and expertise have also been featured in various media publications.




Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.
What if I am unhappy with the course?
We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 30 days and we will give you a full refund.

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