Manager Forums

Manager Forums are a way for you to gain insights from university and industry leaders, connect with other managers, learn more about the resources available to support you, give input to new or changing workplace programs, and share your learnings from approaches with your teams that had fantastic results—and approaches that didn’t work so well.

Format and participants: Live (no cost) sessions are held via Zoom. Manager Forum events are not recorded. Registering through STARS is required. All people managers from across the university are invited to participate in Manager Forums, but enrollment is limited.

The Systems Leader, a Two-Part Series

Part One: May 27, 2025 | 1 - 2 p.m. 
Part Two: June 25, 2025 | 11 a.m. - noon

Facilitated by Robert Siegel, Lecturer in Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Part one of the series will introduce you to “Systems Leadership,” Siegel's holistic framework that helps leaders understand and master five key dimensions where they are likely to feel contradictory cross-pressures. You’ll leave with a framework and practical ways to lead effectively. In this session, we will share how leaders from all over the world have navigated issues around prioritization, managing people, understanding global and local issues, and balancing ambition and stewardship in times of incredible upheaval. 

In June, part two of the series will focus on how you can apply these lessons and the Systems Leadership framework to your work life at Stanford and how you can be more effective as an individual contributor or a manager. This will be an interactive session that builds upon the content shared in the first session.

Enroll in STARS

Please note that when you enroll, you will be auto-enrolled in both sessions and receive meeting invites from STARS. If you have any questions about enrollment, please email learningdev@stanford.edu.

Upcoming Manager Forums

Manager Forums will take a pause in July and will resume sessions just before the Fall quarter begins.

Previous Manager Forums Resources

Get a refresher on previous sessions which brought you insightful topics to help you navigate challenging conversations at work, optimize team effectiveness and connection, address compensation and career advancement, and improve relationships through constructive feedback.