Advanced Management Program

Fast-track your transition into business leadership through our Advanced Management Program (AMP).

Together, we’ll examine the emerging challenges of the 21st-century workplace, while building your understanding of senior management through an emphasis on managing for the future, building a high-performance organisation and developing your personal leadership abilities.

By learning from our experts – who generally teach MBA programs – you’ll gain the knowledge, insights and skills needed to lead within an everevolving, complex business environment.

Key benefits

• As a result of this program, participants will be able to:
• Develop global teams and partnerships
• Strengthen cross-cultural mindsets
• Lead change and innovation in complexity
• Engage futures thinking and enterprise modelling
• Foster collaboration across functional and enterprise areas
• Improve decision-making across the enterprise
• Ensure levers, such as HR, marketing and strategy, deliver results
• Establish a culture of performance and accountability
• Motivate and develop your team to high performance
• Build your leadership story and vision
• Activate personal leadership style and self-awareness.

Program journey

Your program journey is designed to ensure you emerge with new skills and behaviours, aligned with your learning goals.

Program preparation

• Understanding and accommodating your needs through a conversation with the Program Director
• Access to program materials through our online-learning platform
• Program (residential)
• The following key themes are explored:

Building organisational transformation

• Corporate and board governance, reporting and strategy
• Activating finance, marketing and HR levers across an organisation
• Talent development and workforce pipeline
• Influence, power and the ethics of decision-making
• Group and team dynamics and their impact on results

Managing for the future

• Futures thinking, sustainability and corporate results
• Leading change to support futures thinking and innovation
• Complexity and disruptive change, digital shift and associated business opportunities
• Big data, digital shift, disruptive complexity and decision-making
• Corporate culture, diversity and support for global business

Enhancing personal leadership

• Your leadership brand, digital brand and media presence
• How leadership presence and approach underpins corporate performance
• Your brain and leadership: improving engagement with people
• Well-being and resilience for corporate executives

Post-program

• Participants complete an action-learning project in small groups over a period of two months and report back to a faculty member via video conferencing/Skype or in person
• Continued learning through access to program materials and facilitators via our online-learning platform