Executive Programs
Chief Executive Officer Program
A 12-week executive program for leaders who run, or are preparing to run, a whole organization.
12 weeksAdvanced12 modules
About this course
A 12-week executive program for leaders who run, or are preparing to run, a whole organization. Each Saturday combines the economics, strategy, finance, technology and governance a CEO must master with real company cases, peer exchange and work on your own organization, ending with a growth plan you present to an executive panel.
What you'll learn
- Set a clear CEO agenda and translate it into the organization's priorities.
- Read economic and geopolitical shifts and turn them into strategic options.
- Use financial information to make and defend capital-allocation decisions.
- Build growth strategies around a sharp understanding of customers and markets.
- Design the organization and operating rhythm that make strategy happen.
- Lead an enterprise approach to data, analytics and AI.
- Work effectively with boards and strengthen governance.
- Negotiate, influence stakeholders and lead change with confidence.
Curriculum
12 modules
- What boards, owners and markets expect from a CEO today
- The CEO's first 100 days and the agenda that follows
- Balancing the short term with long-term value
- Your personal leadership agenda for the program
- Reading macroeconomic signals: inflation, currency, interest rates
- Geopolitical risk and sanctions in strategy
- Supply-chain shocks and resilience
- Turning external uncertainty into options
- Competitive position and sources of advantage
- Scenario planning and strategic options
- Where to play and how to win
- Strategy for organizations in recovering economies
- Reading the P&L, balance sheet and cash flow together
- Capital allocation and investment decisions
- Valuation basics and what creates value
- Working with the CFO as a strategic partner
- Customer insight and segmentation
- Pricing and value
- Customer experience as a growth engine
- Choosing growth paths: markets, products, partnerships
- Organization design: structure, roles and decision rights
- Operating rhythm: goals, reviews and accountability
- Process excellence and productivity
- Copying an operating model versus building your own
- What executives need to know about analytics
- Asking better questions of data
- Dashboards and KPIs that drive action
- Avoiding common traps in data and decisions
- What generative and agentic AI can do for the business
- Finding high-value AI use cases
- AI governance, risk and responsible use
- Preparing the workforce for AI
- Sources of innovation inside and outside the company
- Business model innovation
- Protecting new ventures from the core business
- Building an innovation culture
- Fiduciary duties and the role of the board
- Board committees, reporting and executive pay
- ESG and sustainability in strategic decisions
- Managing the CEO–board relationship
- Negotiation: claiming and creating value
- Stakeholder mapping and influence
- Mergers, acquisitions and partnerships
- Communicating as CEO, inside and outside
- Leading large-scale change
- Culture, trust and accountability
- Developing the next generation of leaders
- Capstone presentations to an executive panel
Who it's for
CEOs and general managers, C-suite executives preparing for the top role, founders and family-business successors.
Before you start
No formal prerequisites. Bring curiosity and a willingness to practise.
Let's plan your next step together.
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