Best executive courses in United States

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Influence and Negotiation Strategies Program

Develop powerful negotiating skills in a rigorous, highly interactive program combining hands-on simulations with research-based discussions. In this intensive, in-person program led by Stanford GSB faculty, you’ll spend most of your time actively negotiating with fellow participants — all...

Stanford Graduate School of Business

LGBTQ Executive Leadership Program

Build your career and network with a specialized leadership program for LGBTQ+ executives, the first of its kind from a leading business school. It’s time to lean into your role as an LGBTQ+ leader — to lead with authenticity and confidence. The LGBTQ Executive Leadership Program, established in...

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Executive Program in Strategy and Organization

Effectively diagnose and solve problems using proven frameworks for executing change in this multidisciplinary strategic management course. Strategic management. Organizational theory. Personal leadership. The Executive Program in Strategy and Organization focuses on all three. Through...

Stanford Graduate School of Business

People, Culture, and Performance: Strategies From Silicon Valley

Gain a competitive advantage using Silicon Valley models and mindsets to recruit, retain, and inspire people for performance and growth. Talented people are your company’s most valuable asset and, bottom line, your key to success. Silicon Valley companies have proven this again and again....

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Executive Program for Growing Companies

Discover business growth strategies and build a stronger company designed to sustain progress, scale management, and facilitate market expansion. This comprehensive two-week general management program is solely focused on the needs, challenges, and opportunities of growing companies. You’ll...

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Executive Program in Leadership: the Effective use of Power

Develop a leadership style and an action plan tailored to your personal objectives that inspire innovation in your team, your company, and the world. Power. Influence. Collaboration. Learn to master all three in Leadership Strategies: The Effective Use of Power. This one-week, live online...

The Wharton School

Pricing Strategies: Measuring, Capturing, and Retaining Value

Pricing is the most critical profit driver in business, but it is also one of the least leveraged and understood. Most executives instead turn to increasing sales, advertising, and reducing inefficiencies, which are complex, slow, and costly. Pricing on the other hand can be changed quickly and...

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Finance and Accounting for the Nonnfinancial Executive

Learn how to make better financial management decisions to increase the value of your company in the marketplace. Balance sheets and income statements. Cash flow and financial management. Many executives rise to positions of great responsibility with less knowledge of these finance and...

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Mergers and Acquisitions

Tackle the entire M&A process through an interdisciplinary curriculum and a hands-on, weeklong team simulation project. Through a dynamic mix of lectures, case studies, class discussions, hands-on learning, and visits from guest speakers, this program provides critical insights and powerful...