Executive Education

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Whether you're beginning your leadership journey or making the final step up to the C-suite, we have programs to meet your development needs.

  • Leading Business Analytics

    Oct 29 2018 to Oct 31 2018
    Monday - Wednesday
    LEVEL: Mid Level Leaders, Senior Leaders

    Learn how machine learning and artificial intelligence can propel insight discovery, informed decision-making, and rapid action.

  • Finance for Non-Financial Managers

    Nov 6 2018 to Nov 8 2018
    Tuesday - Thursday
    LEVEL: Emerging Leaders, Mid Level Leaders, Senior Leaders

    Learn critical financial fundamentals to confidently communicate with finance partners and understand how to analyze and evaluate financial decisions.

  • Carlson Executive Leadership Program

    Nov 12 2018 to Nov 16 2018
    Monday - Friday
    LEVEL: Senior Leaders

    Accelerate your readiness to take on enterprise-wide responsibility. The Carlson Executive Leadership Program is a senior-level development program designed to accelerate the pace at which rising leaders can successfully take on enterprise-wide responsibilities.

    In this 15-day transformative program, delivered over three one-week sessions, leaders learn a unique combination of the hard and soft skills required to lead in today’s environment of continuous disruption. Participants learn how to effectively lead from the front and gain practical tools and frameworks to apply to challenges facing their organizations.

    This course offers an elite learning environment that incorporates peer learning opportunities and an action-learning project that directly puts new skills and insights into practice. 

    Course highlights include:

    • Pre-program assessment and debrief using an emotional intelligence assessment to increase self-awareness and self-leadership
    • Four individual executive coaching sessions to enhance critical development opportunities key to your growth as a leader
    • Action learning project that utilizes course frameworks, skills, and perspectives and applies them to a crucial organizational initiative. Guidance and tactics provided by the Carlson School Consulting Enterprise group.
    • Applied mindfulness activities specifically designed to complement the program content. 

  • Digital Marketing—Strategy, Analytics, and AI

    Nov 13 2018 to Nov 15 2018
    Tuesday - Thursday
    LEVEL: Emerging Leaders, Mid Level Leaders

    Increase the ROI of your digital marketing spend by learning the latest in digital search, display, social, and mobile strategies, tactics, and analytics.

  • Mergers and Acquisitions

    Dec 3 2018 to Dec 5 2018
    Monday - Wednesday
    LEVEL: Mid Level Leaders, Senior Leaders

    Increase your success with planning and executing an M & A deal.  Learn analytical tools and frameworks to help better determine when and how an M&A transaction will maximize shareholder value. 

  • Leading Innovation

    Mar 12 2019 to Mar 14 2019
    Tuesday - Thursday
    LEVEL: Mid Level Leaders, Senior Leaders, C-Suite

    You have hired phenomenal people. Tap into their knowledge of markets, products, systems, and ideas to unleash tomorrow’s breakthroughs.

  • Pricing for Profitable Decision-Making

    Mar 26 2019 to Mar 28 2019
    Tuesday - Thursday
    LEVEL: Mid Level Leaders, Senior Leaders

    Delve into the psychology of pricing strategies, while considering the perspective of your customer, competition, and company.

  • Creating and Executing Strategy

    Apr 9 2019 to Apr 11 2019
    Tuesday - Thursday
    LEVEL: Mid Level Leaders, Senior Leaders

    Learn how to develop a sound strategy and foster its implementation throughout your organization.

  • Leading Transformational Change

    Apr 9 2019 to Apr 11 2019
    Tuesday - Thursday
    LEVEL: Mid Level Leaders, Senior Leaders, C-Suite

    Leading a major change initiative, whether cutting costs, managing through a crisis, or making good great, can be the defining point of a career. But according to McKinsey, only 30% of change initiatives succeed, equating to high risk for the individuals and organizations involved. 

  • Power and Influence

    Apr 16 2019 to Apr 17 2019
    Tuesday-Wednesday
    LEVEL: Emerging Leaders, Mid Level Leaders, Senior Leaders, C-Suite

    Learn to use practical tools to become more powerful and influential with coworkers, managers, and partners. 

  • Negotiation Strategies

    Apr 23 2019 to Apr 25 2019
    Tuesday - Thursday
    LEVEL: Emerging Leaders, Mid Level Leaders

    Learn the art and science of building winning negotiation strategies. This program covers the basics of planning, distributive and win-win negotiations, groups problem solving, multi-party negotiations, and more. Discover expert tricks of the trade and convert that expertise into a competititve advantage.

  • Emerging Leaders Bootcamp

    Apr 30 2019 to May 2 2019
    Tuesday - Thursday
    LEVEL: Emerging Leaders

    Prepare tomorrow's leaders today with this targeted and highly impactful program to enhance emerging leaders’ collaboration, communication, and leadership skills. 

  • MBA Essentials

    May 6 2019 to May 10 2019
    Monday - Friday
    LEVEL: Emerging Leaders, Mid Level Leaders

    You know your field inside and out. However, to effectively partner throughout your organization, you  need to understand the key fundamentals across core business disciplines. Learn how to collaborate more effectively with coworkers and develop better relationships with client, customers, and suppliers. 

  • Finance for Non-Financial Managers

    May 14 2019 to May 16 2019
    Tuesday - Thursday
    LEVEL: Emerging Leaders, Mid Level Leaders, Senior Leaders

    Learn critical financial fundamentals to confidently communicate with finance partners and understand how to analyze and evaluate financial decisions.

Executive Education

  • The Carlson Advantage

    Tools and frameworks to apply to business challenges back at work

    Experiential learning to apply via projects, many at your own firm

    Instruction from both award-winning Carlson thought leaders and sitting industry executives

    Opportunities for networking and peer-to-peer learning

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