Chief Executive Leadership Institute

The world’s first school for CEOs featuring applied research and peer-driven learning.

The Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI) is the pioneer of CEO learning. The Institute hosts CEO summits, bringing together business leaders, policy makers, and leading academics in a unique learning environment that fosters candid, off-the-record exchanges.

A British Challenger tank is engaged in a NATO drill in Estonia on Feb. 5. The U.K. government is now considering plans to supply Ukraine with the advanced battle tanks.

The U.S. has thwarted Putin’s energy blackmail. Europe says ‘Tanks a lot!’

January 11, 2023

Lech Wałęsa, former president of Poland and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute Honors Nobel Peace Prize Laureate President Lech Wałęsa with Lifetime of Leadership Award

December 13, 2022

Russia List - animal being poked and prodded

The Viral List That Turned a Yale Professor Into an Enemy of the Russian State

December 6, 2022

CNBC - Sonnenfeld on Palace Revolt At Disney Returning Iger to Throne

Chief Executive Leadership Institute November 21, 2022

Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld Testifies to Congress on Withdrawing Investments from Russia

Chief Executive Leadership Institute November 17, 2022

Almost 1,000 Companies Have Curtailed Operations in Russia—But Some Remain

Chief Executive Leadership Institute December 11, 2021

MSNBC: Morning Joe: Iconic US Brands Suspend Business in Russia

Chief Executive Leadership Institute March 11, 2022

Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute Honors Nobel Peace Prize Laureate President Lech Wałęsa with Lifetime of Leadership Award

December 12, 2022

About CELI

CEO Summit

National leadership summits of short duration, where CEOs and other top leaders gain perspective on their own current leadership challenges.

CEO Caucus

A semiannual roundtable for business leaders, political leaders, and scholars to discuss the business implications of urgent national and global events.

Mayors College

Bringing together mayors from mid-sized to large cities across the U.S. with leading scholars in healthcare policy, urban sociology, and history for an intensive one-day, peer-driven roundtable.

Yale Higher Education Leadership Summit

Annual Summit for leaders in higher education to explore pivotal ideas and trends shaping colleges and universities.

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January 28, 2023

Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld Hosts Ukrainian Ambassador at Yale SOM

Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld hosted the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya for an in-person campus visit to Yale School of Management on Thursday, January 26. The Ambassador, who has been a previous guest of Prof. Sonnenfeld's at prior Yale CEO Summits and other events, spoke to a packed, standing-room only crowd of 120 students; had lunch with senior faculty and dignitaries; visited with a Ukrainian student delegation; and participated in a panel discussion in Sonnenfeld's Strategic Leadership Across Sectors course during the full-day visit.

January 23, 2023

Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute Presents Hanna Holborn Gray, 10th President of the University of Chicago and 18th Acting President of Yale University, with Legend in Leadership Award

Hanna Holborn Gray will accept the Legend in Leadership Award from the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute on January 24 at the Yale Higher Education Leadership Summit in New Haven, CT.

December 13, 2022