Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Programme

A transformational leadership and general management programme for experienced senior leaders

You will discover and discuss the challenges facing business in the 21st century – from climate change and inequality to cybersecurity, AI, and the future of work. And you will explore specific responses and a long-term transformation that will allow you to turn today’s and tomorrow’s challenges into powerful opportunities.

The programme comprises six modules:

• Your proposed leadership initiative
• 21st-century challenges
• Scenarios
• Your organisation’s purpose
• Your organisation’s performance challenge
• Your leadership initiative redesigned

Working alongside a diverse peer and faculty group at the cutting edge of organisations and industries worldwide, you will refocus your own leadership and stimulate a bold new strategic direction for your organisation, ensuring sustainable growth and societal impact built around an explicit purpose.

The Oxford Double Prism Model

The programme is based on the Oxford Double Prism Leadership Development Model, which is used to guide you through an intense process during which your leadership challenge and experience are carefully deconstructed, reflected on, strengthened and reconstructed.

This takes place in a highly collaborative learning environment. You will engage with leading academics and expert speakers who will offer a wide range of different perspectives on today’s leadership challenges. More importantly, you will discuss, debate, and test your responses to these perspectives with your fellow participants – senior leaders from around the world, representing a diverse mix of public and private sector organisations, and NGOs.

Benefits

To you

• A highly personalised development journey
• Your leadership style and values explored and stress-tested
• A deep understanding of the new global context
• Confidence to lead through complexity and navigate uncertainty
• Meaningful links and co-learning with an experienced group of global leaders
• Lifetime membership of the Oxford Business Alumni Network

To your business

• You return with new thinking and enthusiasm.
• You are better able to align context, purpose, and business strategy.
• You develop innovative ways to support future success.
• You encourage critical thinking and challenge the status quo.
• You open the door to impact through a global business community

Programme outline

Pre-programme

There is a one-on-one application interview with the Programme Director to discuss your leadership initiative and to explore how the programme can assist you in achieving this. This is supported by executive psychometric and 360 feedback analysis.

Module 1: Your proposed leadership initiative

Your leadership initiative placed in today’s business, societal, and geopolitical contexts. Setting the trajectory to enhanced performance..

Module 2: 21st-century challenges

Insights from cutting-edge research and new perspectives on how leaders make sense of, and thrive through, rapid political, social, and economic change. Key topics include: trust in the digital economy; the impact of global events; and the climate emergency.

Module 3: Scenarios

Developing and using scenarios to systematically explore the potential impact of the 21st century challenges for organisations and your leadership initiative.

Module 4: Your organisation’s purpose

Working through a detailed analysis of the purpose of your organisation and the strategic choices it compels; resolving paradoxes between purpose and performance to combine doing the right thing for society with long-term commercial success.

Module 5: Your organisation’s performance challenge

Translating purpose into performance through topics such as leading digital transformation, financing large-scale investments, strategic negotiations, sustaining competitive advantage and superior performance; and diversification and sustainable growth.

Module 6: Your leadership initiative redesigned

Examining successful execution, including adaptive leadership, presence and mindset. Bringing everything together to finalise your ‘Leadership Playbook’ of personalised, contextualised, and fully stress-tested strategies; consolidating your learning and using it as a springboard for innovative thinking, with action plans that will take your new leadership initiative forward.

Post-programme

Participants leave the programme with a tangible Leadership Playbook ready to put into action. A follow up coaching session further consolidates learning. Participants are also invited to join the Oxford Business Alumni Network.