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Program Overview
Choose Your Track. Elevate Your Impact.
Cornell Senior Executive Leadership Program (SELP) equips participants with the strategic foresight and innovative mindset essential for success through a unique blend of global experiential learning and tailored tracks. Our curriculum, meticulously crafted by world-class Cornell faculty, addresses the dynamic interplay of strategy, execution, innovation, sustainability and leadership in today’s context.
At the heart of Cornell SELP lies the opportunity for tailored tracks, catering to the diverse needs of executive roles such as CEO, CSO, CFO, CTO, COO, CMO, and CHRO. The bespoke approach ensures that participants not only deepen their expertise but also apply it directly to their respective domains, fostering impactful and transformative leadership. Participants must choose their track at the beginning of the program and follow a personalized learning path.
From immersive in-class sessions held in New York and Dubai to dynamic online modules, the 10 months program offers a comprehensive learning experience.
Upon completion, participants qualify for the prestigious Cornell Executive Alumni Status, unlocking a plethora of advantages. Become part of an elite cohort of global leaders committed to driving organizational success.
The Program fee encompasses tuition fees, academic materials, and program-related meal expenses. Notwithstanding, the fees explicitly exclude transportation, lodging, visa charges, and any unspecified expenses. Furthermore, it does not encompass additional costs beyond those expressly detailed herein.
Please note that in the event of a global or regional catastrophe, or any unforeseen circumstances, the Program's schedule, delivery method, faculty, and associated elements are subject to change at the sole discretion of the university.
The Program fee is inclusive of all taxes. It covers teaching fees, all academic materials, program lunch fees. The fees does not include transport expenses, accommodation expenses and any associated visa fees etc. It also does not cover any other expenses that are not expressly mentioned above.
Program Benefits
2 weeks in-class sessions at New York Campus and Dubai
Choose from 7 personalized tracks (CEO, CSO, CFO, CTO, COO, CMO, CHRO)
9 Online sessions (100% LIVE interactive)
4 Online modules (8 weeks)
- Each Online Module Duration: 2 weeks
- Includes 8 faculty interactions
2 personalized track-based modules (4 weeks)
- (Choose among 15+ modules)
- Includes 4 faculty interactions
Gamified Learning Experience includes Simulations on Leadership and Commercial Acumen
Earn Cornell Executive Alumni Status and Certificate from Cornell University
10 track-based courses
- (Choose from 100+ curated courses relevant to your personalized track)
Elite cohort of diverse global leaders for impactful learning
2-year access to Cornell’s library of 2000+ courses
2 weeks in-class sessions at New York Campus and Dubai
4 comprehensive online modules (2 weeks each)
4 LIVE online sessions
Simulations on Leadership and Commercial Acumen
Select 2 modules from 15+ curated modules in your specialization track (2 weeks each)
Select 10 topics from 100+ curated topics relevant to your specialization track
Earn Cornell Executive Alumni Status
Certificate from Cornell University
Elite cohort of diverse global leaders for impactful learning
2 year access to 2000+ electives from the Cornell library
Program Benefits
2 weeks at New York campus
Cornell Executive Alumni Status
Certificate from Cornell University
Elite cohort of diverse global leaders for impactful learning
8 comprehensive online modules
2 elective modules
Dubai immersion and Industry connect workshop
Simulation exercise on leadership
In-class case studies and collaborative learning with round table discussions
Faculty reviewed project
Program Benefits
2 weeks in-class sessions at New York Campus and Dubai
4 Online modules (8 weeks)
- Each Online Module Duration: 2 weeks
- Includes 8 faculty interactions
9 Online sessions (100% LIVE interactive)
Gamified Learning Experience includes Simulations on Leadership and Commercial Acumen
2 personalized track-based modules (4 weeks)
- (Choose among 15+ modules)
- Includes 4 faculty interactions
Choose from 7 personalized tracks (CEO, CSO, CFO, CTO, COO, CMO, CHRO)
10 track-based courses
- (Choose from 100+ curated courses relevant to your personalized track)
Earn Cornell Executive Alumni Status and Certificate from Cornell University
2-year access to Cornell’s library of 2000+ courses
Elite cohort of diverse global leaders for impactful learning
Industry Immersion in Dubai: Enhancing Decision-Making Skills
Simplifying the decision-making process: Insights from a NASA case study
Over a 2-day industry immersion program, we will focus on improving your decision-making and leadership abilities. During this immersive experience, you will explore how the brain learns, discover techniques to accelerate your learning, understand common pitfalls in judgment, and learn from both successes and failures. Our aim is to equip you with the skills to make more informed and deliberate decisions while enhancing your capacity to learn.
Key learning objectives:
- Develop critical thinking skills and accurate mental models, which are essential for effective learning and navigating complexity.
- Learn to map your mental processes to facilitate informed decision-making on a regular basis.
- Enhance your ability to manage the decision-making process itself, adding value to your organization.
- Gain insights into the human learning process to optimize your own learning potential and leverage the power of your brain.
- Recognize the strong connection between learning and improved decision-making, serving as a motivator for positive change.
- This module incorporates real-life examples and practical exercises to equip you with the tools needed to make better decisions in various professional contexts.
Curriculum
The session helps in building strategies for competitive advantage and generating superior value for customers.
Takeaways:
Understanding the components of an effective strategy
Evaluate how an organization can respond successfully to change and devise appropriate strategies to do so
Understanding the core ideas underlying strategic planning processes
- Tesla case study to understand Tesla’s success strategy
This session focuses on the best practices that will be applicable to a number of product and service designs; business model transformation, and sales transformation templates to devise ideas for new products and services.
Takeaways:
- Gain insights into blockchain
- Tools to identify the best ideas for digital transformation.
- Understand processes to create platform business models
- Understand metaverse, virtual reality and the future of tomorrow
The session provides an understanding of the ways in which digital changes the world. The session will review the business process innovations enabled by emerging technologies and study how to realize gains from those opportunities.
Takeaways:
- Identify areas of risk and uncertainty
- Use of pilots and prototypes
- How to conduct a digitization audit in organizations to assess the adoption of digital
tools in various business phases
The session helps in formulating business models and developing processes to maximize entrepreneurial abilities. It also helps you to adopt design thinking and innovation as a strategy in your organization and helps you apply design thinking frameworks and strategies to develop innovative solutions for complex business problems.
Takeaways:
- Introduction to five stages of the design process.
- Connect design and entrepreneurial thinking to innovation.
- Understand how to generate customer needs into product prototypes.
- Use creativity and innovation to develop solutions.
This session is designed around a set of levers interleaved into a larger framework for ‘Getting Things Done.’ The framework will drive your performance by making your implicit skills explicit, and help you implement ideas back into your work world.
Takeaways:
- A framework of simple but effective levers that have been shown to improve
performance considerably - This session has three goals: to make you more effective, to equip you to teach others to
be more effective, and to give you a framework that will help you implement tools and
concepts to get things done
In this session, you will learn to integrate systems thinking concepts, principles, and practices to improve existing processes, operations, and thinking patterns, ultimately developing a more three-dimensional mindset toward problem-solving.
Takeaways:
- Learn about the DSRP model
- Understand mental models – for eg, What you think vs what is real
- Engage the eco-system around you to generate new innovation possibilities
- Understand the relationships and systems that create new possibilities
To make informed business decisions, modern organizations need data to be effectively integrated, manipulated, and analysed. The degree to which business decisions are informed is dependent on the accuracy of related analytics reports, which requires you to assess performance critically using the latest data.
Takeaways:
- Help you gain familiarity with different types of increasingly powerful and detailed data that firms can harness in their businesses today
- Study how to successfully combine critical thinking with data analytics
10 months Learning Journey
Program Onboarding - Online (Dec 2023)
Industry Immersion in Dubai
Intersection between Innovation, Execution and Leadership
Ambidextrous leadership requires leaders to be good at both growing today’s business, while also exploring new customer and market opportunities. Most experienced leaders are stronger at the former rather than the latter, so this will be a focused session on Customer focused growth exploration.
We will introduce HOW we find and evaluate opportunities from a Customer/Market point of view, opposed to the conventional product push perspective. The goal is to find customers with unmet or under-fulfilled needs, where those needs require capabilities that the organisation has (or can develop).
Growth leaders are good at objectively exploring the problem space (customer needs) and then building the business case for the organisation to innovate (or capacity build) to create the products/services/business models/customer experiences that would best address customer needs and win in the market.
All great innovations need great ideas. Strategic Innovation is the question of a new Who (Customer), What (Product) or How (Business Model). You will learn how penetrating these questions can lead to new kinds of opportunities.
The preconditions for innovation –
- Individual and collective creativity within organizations. No matter how good an organization’s innovation processes, if the organization is lacking creative people then true innovations will be difficult to achieve.
- Explore the role of the leader in facilitating collective creativity.
Focus will be on helping leaders develop an understanding of how to boost individual and collective creative thinking, and to get an appreciation of why so many companies look to creativity as an important strategic capability.
While the Innovation and Execution help you set a direction, we also need to know how to bring others with us. Negotiations is one such tool set as it allows us to secure agreements between parties who have conflicting interests. Through a series of in-class exercises, we will learn fundamental tools and techniques to create value, claim our fair share of that value, and do both in a context where the parties may or may not be completely rational.
Emotional intelligence is a term that is widely used in business today, describes a collection of leadership skills that are important for all leaders. But all too often leadership training on this topic is too broad, overwhelming, and unactionable. To learn how to manage your emotions, you first need to assess where you stand on a number of traits. Having an honest, self-reflective snapshot of your emotional predispositions will not only help you focus your development efforts, but it will also let you measure your improvement. In this module you will take stock of where you stand on global traits: negative affect and positive affect. You will also examine your anger, anxiety, and depression traits, all of which are sub-components of negative affect.
You will also learn about improving emotional intelligence by increasing self-awareness and ability to self-manage.
Finally we look at how to lead effective teams. Starting with a broad framework (team effectiveness depends on goals, roles and processes), we will carry out a number of exercises, including the Mt. Everest simulation, to learn the simple but critical drivers of team effectiveness. With the skills from this module, you could be dropped into any team and make it run better, independent of the technical expertise you might bring.
4 online modules
- Framing Complex problems with Systems Thinking
- Problem Solving Using Evidence and Critical Thinking
- Value Creation and Profitability
- Cross-Cultural Communication
Framing Complex problems with Systems Thinking – Whether you need to tackle a complex project, communicate more effectively, rethink your organization or your job, solve world hunger, or figure out your teenager, systems thinking can help you. All of these are complex and challenging real-world problems, sometimes called wicked problems. We all confront problems, big and small, in our personal and professional lives, and most of us are searching for better ways to solve them. In this module, Professors Derek and Laura Cabrera will demonstrate how we can use systems thinking to solve everyday and wicked problems, transform our organizations, and increase our personal effectiveness. Systems thinking attempts to better align the way we think with how the real world works. Our thinking is based on our mental models, but these models, created from our unique perspective with its inherent biases, are usually inadequate representations of reality. The Cabreras illustrate how we can use feedback to recognize and adapt our mental models so that they better align with reality, enhancing our problem-solving capabilities. For systems thinking to be successful, it must be adaptive. In this module, you will explore the concept of complex adaptive systems, and while these systems seem unnecessarily complicated, the Cabreras will reveal a surprising discovery. Underlying all complex adaptive systems are simple rules, and applying these rules is the key to transforming the way we frame and solve everyday problems.
Takeaways
- Identify and describe the problems you want to solve in your personal and professional lives
- Examine the mental models you have and how they differ from reality
- Determine how you can use feedback to improve your mental models
- Recognize the biases that you have that can distort your mental models
- Examine complex adaptive systems and the simple rules that underlie these systems
- Determine how systems thinking is a complex adaptive system
- Explore the four simple rules that underlie systems thinking
Problem Solving Using Evidence and Critical Thinking – Have you ever known a very intelligent person who made a very bad decision? If so, you know that having a high IQ does not guarantee that you automatically make critically thoughtful decisions. Critically thoughtful problem-solving is a discipline and a skill—one that allows you to make decisions that are the product of careful thought, and the results of those decisions help your team and organization thrive. In this module, you will practice a disciplined, systematic approach to problem solving that helps ensure that your analysis of a problem is comprehensive, is based on quality, credible evidence, and takes full and fair account of the most probable counterarguments and risks. The result of this technique is a thoroughly defensible assessment of what the problem is, what is causing it, and the most effective plan of action to address it. Finally, you will identify and frame a problem by assessing its context and develop a well-reasoned and implementable solution that addresses the underlying causes.
Takeaways
- Assess the context of the problem
- Determine the current and desired states and confirm this with decision makers
- Identify and articulate the questions that must be answered to bridge the gap between current state and desired future state
- Determine root causes and distinguish symptoms from problems
- Brainstorm a range of possible solutions to address each significant underlying cause
- Assess each option for the extent to which it bridges the gap between the current and future state, whether it is implementable, and if it is ethical
Value Creation and Profitability – Increasing and sustaining profitability requires that you deliver unique value to consumers while guarding against competitive threats. Developing a successful strategy requires recognizing and planning for the specific challenges in your market so as to avoid costly mistakes, seize new opportunities, and raise long-run profits. In this module, you will explore a variety of real-world examples and powerful frameworks to supercharge your strategy and profitability. You will analyze how your organization currently creates value and strategize how best to create new value for your targeted customers, beyond what rivals offer.
Takeaways
- Perform a market diagnosis to describe your target customers and determine how you can best create value
- for them
- Develop a plan to align your organizational resources with your value creation objectives
- Identify and assess threats to your organization’s profits
- Select appropriate strategies to mitigate these and other threats you may encounter
Cross-Cultural Communication – The workplace is filled with employees, clients, and leaders from different backgrounds and cultures. Your Social Style® plays a role in how you communicate and behave in the workplace. This module will prepare you to communicate effectively, efficiently, and empathetically with different cultures no matter your Social Style®. In this module, you will practice becoming more aware of how your Social Style® is interpreted by others and how that impacts your interactions with others at work. You will also develop strategies for overcoming social blind spots in order to mitigate the risk of ineffective communication in cross-cultural settings. Finally, you will discover the ways you can adapt your Social Style® without compromising your core values for effective communication. By the end of this module, you will have gathered the tools needed to communicate appropriately and effectively in a cross-cultural environment.
Takeaways
- Evaluate how your Social Style® is interpreted by others
- Become aware of your social blind spots in the cross-cultural work environment
- Adapt for effective communication
Curriculum
IN-PERSON MODULE IN DUBAI (TBD)
Interplay of Strategy, Execution and Leadership
The module aims to provide a “state-of-the-art” overview of the key principles and practices of strategic management in today’s fast-paced competitive environment. It covers a range of topics designed to equip you with the necessary knowledge and skills to navigate the complexities of strategy development, execution, and leadership.
Strategy Fundamentals:
- Understanding the concept of competitive strategy and distinguishing good strategy from others
- Exploring the characteristics and components of effective strategy implementation
Global Context and Strategy Analysis:
- Recognizing the impact of the global context on strategic decision-making
- Developing skills in strategy analysis to gain valuable insights into market dynamics and competitive forces
Challenges in Strategy Execution:
- Appreciating the complexities of implementing strategic initiatives in complex business environments
- Identifying and addressing common challenges that arise during the execution phase
Learn approaches, frameworks and techniques for developing capabilities for strategic thinking and execution. Understand how to develop and implement strategy in an increasingly complex and volatile operating environment.
A particular emphasis is placed on customer-focused growth exploration and the role of ambidextrous leadership in driving organizational success.
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IN-PERSON MODULE IN CORNELL, NEW YORK CITY CAMPUS (16-20 JUNE 2025)
Interplay of Innovation, Sustainability and Leadership
The next 5 years may be the best time in history to build new things. If you have an innovation which has the potential to be profitable, your next step is to identify the internal or external organizational resources that help make your innovation unique. By developing these resources, you can enhance your market power and increase your likelihood of success. In this module, we will explore, learn from, and emulate, the culture and processes of companies whose innovation allows high-frequency experimentation.
To ensure the long-term viability of your innovation, you need to develop strategies to secure your resources and mitigate the power of rival firms thereby expanding your long-term competitive advantage. In this module, we will explore a variety of tactics and strategies you can use to protect your strategic resources and increase their value over time. These strategies will enable you to optimize your competitive advantage and create a more sustainable position.
Sustainable business opportunities can be simple, have positive impacts, and increase profitability — sometimes without having to do or change much about how a company functions. In this module, we will understand how businesses are increasing profitability by identifying and pursuing sustainable business opportunities. We will explore the many questions that businesses face in the changing landscape of sustainability norms, making it an area of untapped potential. Understand how businesses can be a facilitator for system-level change in the face of significant global issues by making deliberate decisions along the lines of sustainability.
You will identify activities that will improve productivity and support forward-thinking and far-reaching transformation. You will then explore any gaps in your strategy and plan to support incremental change and further continuous improvement. You will also identify the risks you are willing to take.
You will also deep-dive into topics including:
- Learn the ‘Do-Think-Do’ innovation-focused approach
- How and why innovation and execution are diametrically opposite skillsets
- How to develop innovation and execution capabilities
- How do businesses respond to sustainability norms
- Decision-making in times of global change- Creativity, Innovation, Process, Sustainability
Furthermore, the module covers essential topics related to effective leadership, including:
Advanced Negotiation skills:
Negotiation can be a complex and unpredictable process that requires you to juggle multiple factors. This module introduces you to basic distributive negotiation tactics. You are also provided with a practical tool to which you can refer as you prepare for any future negotiations that require the use of distributive tactics. Through a series of in-class exercises, we will learn fundamental tools and techniques to create value, claim our fair share of that value, and do both in a context where the parties may or may not be completely rational.
Emotional and Social Intelligence:
With the help of assessments and frameworks, participants will improve their emotional intelligence by better identifying and managing their emotions along with effectively navigating interactions with others, building trust, and engaging in differences, to enable outcomes with greater impact.
- Understanding the concept of emotional and social intelligence and its importance in leadership
- Assessing personal emotional predispositions and exploring traits such as negative affect and positive affect
- Enhancing self-awareness and self-management abilities to improve emotional intelligence
- Learn about the key drivers and elements of Social Intelligence
- Understand and deepen awareness of how others respond to you, how others see you responding to them and how you respond in moments of difference
Leading Effective Teams:
- Gaining insights into the key factors that contribute to team effectiveness, including goals, roles, and processes
- Acquiring skills to lead and improve team performance, regardless of technical expertise
Gamified Experience: Simulation on Leadership
This award-winning simulation is a high-stakes wilderness expedition that challenges participants’ abilities in group dynamics and leadership. It immerses participants in an intense and gripping scenario where they take on one of five different roles within a climbing team aiming to conquer a treacherous mountain.
Throughout the simulation, the team faces the daunting task of reaching the summit, which involves passing through a series of five camps over six simulated days. This tightly-packed experience spans intense decision-making and teamwork. The climbers must confront a variety of critical factors, such as weather conditions, health concerns, available supplies, their ultimate objectives, and the speed at which they hike.
Complicating matters further, participants must handle three hidden challenges during their journey, each of which has significant repercussions on their progress. A major aspect of the simulation revolves around the delicate balance of information sharing. The team members are faced with the dilemma of deciding how much of the gathered information to disclose to their fellow climbers. This element adds a layer of complexity to the decision-making process and can significantly influence the group’s dynamics. The experience is meticulously designed to instill crucial skills like collaboration, strategic thinking, and leadership under pressure.
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4 ONLINE MODULES
- Framing Complex problems with Systems Thinking
- Problem Solving Using Evidence and Critical Thinking
- Value Creation and Profitability
- Cross-Cultural Communication
Framing Complex problems with Systems Thinking – Whether you need to tackle a complex project, communicate more effectively, rethink your organization or your job, solve world hunger, or figure out your teenager, systems thinking can help you. All of these are complex and challenging real-world problems, sometimes called wicked problems. We all confront problems, big and small, in our personal and professional lives, and most of us are searching for better ways to solve them. In this module, Professors Derek and Laura Cabrera will demonstrate how we can use systems thinking to solve everyday and wicked problems, transform our organizations, and increase our personal effectiveness. Systems thinking attempts to better align the way we think with how the real world works. Our thinking is based on our mental models, but these models, created from our unique perspective with its inherent biases, are usually inadequate representations of reality. The Cabreras illustrate how we can use feedback to recognize and adapt our mental models so that they better align with reality, enhancing our problem-solving capabilities. For systems thinking to be successful, it must be adaptive. In this module, you will explore the concept of complex adaptive systems, and while these systems seem unnecessarily complicated, the Cabreras will reveal a surprising discovery. Underlying all complex adaptive systems are simple rules, and applying these rules is the key to transforming the way we frame and solve everyday problems.
Takeaways
- Identify and describe the problems you want to solve in your personal and professional lives
- Examine the mental models you have and how they differ from reality
- Determine how you can use feedback to improve your mental models
- Recognize the biases that you have that can distort your mental models
- Examine complex adaptive systems and the simple rules that underlie these systems
- Determine how systems thinking is a complex adaptive system
- Explore the four simple rules that underlie systems thinking
Problem Solving Using Evidence and Critical Thinking – Have you ever known a very intelligent person who made a very bad decision? If so, you know that having a high IQ does not guarantee that you automatically make critically thoughtful decisions. Critically thoughtful problem-solving is a discipline and a skill—one that allows you to make decisions that are the product of careful thought, and the results of those decisions help your team and organization thrive. In this module, you will practice a disciplined, systematic approach to problem solving that helps ensure that your analysis of a problem is comprehensive, is based on quality, credible evidence, and takes full and fair account of the most probable counterarguments and risks. The result of this technique is a thoroughly defensible assessment of what the problem is, what is causing it, and the most effective plan of action to address it. Finally, you will identify and frame a problem by assessing its context and develop a well-reasoned and implementable solution that addresses the underlying causes.
Takeaways
- Assess the context of the problem
- Determine the current and desired states and confirm this with decision makers
- Identify and articulate the questions that must be answered to bridge the gap between current state and desired future state
- Determine root causes and distinguish symptoms from problems
- Brainstorm a range of possible solutions to address each significant underlying cause
- Assess each option for the extent to which it bridges the gap between the current and future state, whether it is implementable, and if it is ethical
Value Creation and Profitability – Increasing and sustaining profitability requires that you deliver unique value to consumers while guarding against competitive threats. Developing a successful strategy requires recognizing and planning for the specific challenges in your market so as to avoid costly mistakes, seize new opportunities, and raise long-run profits. In this module, you will explore a variety of real-world examples and powerful frameworks to supercharge your strategy and profitability. You will analyze how your organization currently creates value and strategize how best to create new value for your targeted customers, beyond what rivals offer.
Takeaways
- Perform a market diagnosis to describe your target customers and determine how you can best create value
- for them
- Develop a plan to align your organizational resources with your value creation objectives
- Identify and assess threats to your organization’s profits
- Select appropriate strategies to mitigate these and other threats you may encounter
Cross-Cultural Communication – The workplace is filled with employees, clients, and leaders from different backgrounds and cultures. Your Social Style® plays a role in how you communicate and behave in the workplace. This module will prepare you to communicate effectively, efficiently, and empathetically with different cultures no matter your Social Style®. In this module, you will practice becoming more aware of how your Social Style® is interpreted by others and how that impacts your interactions with others at work. You will also develop strategies for overcoming social blind spots in order to mitigate the risk of ineffective communication in cross-cultural settings. Finally, you will discover the ways you can adapt your Social Style® without compromising your core values for effective communication. By the end of this module, you will have gathered the tools needed to communicate appropriately and effectively in a cross-cultural environment.
Takeaways
- Evaluate how your Social Style® is interpreted by others
- Become aware of your social blind spots in the cross-cultural work environment
- Adapt for effective communication
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PERSONALIZED TRACKS
At Cornell SELP, participants have the opportunity to personalize their learning journey through tracks, each designed to deepen expertise and drive impactful leadership. You get to choose from seven distinct tracks, in which you will gain access to 15+ modules and 100+ courses. You must complete 2 modules (2 weeks each) and 10 courses as part of your track.
Available personalized tracks:
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Develop strategic leadership skills essential for guiding organizations to success, covering topics such as Developing Innovation Strategy, Navigating the Global Business Landscape, Strategically Governing the Organization, Leading Strategic Change Initiatives and many more.
CSO (Chief Strategy Officer)
Explore innovative approaches to strategy development and execution, focusing on areas such as: Change, Disruption, and Growth, Game Theory and Business Strategy, Strategic Business Planning and Forecasting, Synergies, Mergers, Alliances and many more.
CFO (Chief Financial Officer)
Dive into financial management strategies and techniques critical for driving business performance, including topics such as Determining Appropriate Budgeting, Debt Financing, and Cash Flow, Financial Planning, Valuation and Dilution, Fundraising and Revenue Generation, Making Capital Investment Decisions and many more.
CTO (Chief Technology Officer)
Master technology-driven innovation and digital transformation strategies, exploring topics such as AI and Digital Technology: Opportunities and Pitfalls, AI and the Future of Work, Identifying New Business Models Enabled by AI, Demystifying AI and Digital Technologies and many more.
COO (Chief Operating Officer)
Gain insights into operational excellence and process optimization, covering areas such as Aligning Performance Measures with Business Strategy, Designing Organizations for Systems Thinking, Planning and Managing Resources, Identifying and Evaluating Risk and many more.
CMO (Chief Marketing Officer)
Explore cutting-edge marketing strategies and consumer insights, focusing on areas such as Creating and Communicating the Value of Your Brand, Drivers of Consumer Behavior: Attention, Emotion, Coherence, Using Behavioral Science to Influence Customer Behavior Online, Storytelling Across Media and many more.
CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer)
Focus on human capital management and organizational development strategies, covering topics such as Aligning HR Strategy with Organizational Strategy, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Work, Countering Bias in the Workplace for HR, Assessing the Financial, Strategic, and People-Related Return on Pay for Performance and many more.
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ONLINE SESSIONS (100% LIVE)
AI tools and applications
Creative Leadership
Operational Excellence
Commercial Acumen (Simulation – 5 sessions)
Managing Complexity
In this immersive module, participants will gain insights into how the brain learns, how to learn more quickly, why we frequently make poor judgments and how to learn from both successes and failures. Through real-life examples and interactive activities, participants will learn how to make more deliberate and informed decisions while potentially doubling their learning capacity. Participants will also learn how to systematically think back on their experiences and draw lessons from them.
AI tools and applications
In this module, participants will gain insights into the accelerating disruption of the Digital Age, drawing from best practices of digital leaders. Uncover the profound impact of AI on organizations, and understand the evolving landscape with a focus on leadership roles. Develop strategies for implementing AI, leading initiatives, and fostering a culture of innovation. Explore collaboration with AI for enhanced productivity with cutting edge tools. Anticipate future trends and discover how to nurture an AI-ready leadership mindset.
Creative Leadership
In this intensive module, participants will develop an understanding of how to boost individual and collective creativity and get an appreciation of why so many organisations look at creativity as an important strategic capability. Learn techniques for boosting individual and collective creativity towards achieving higher levels of organisational innovation. Unleash your personal and organisational creative potential with interactive lectures, case study discussions and experiential exercises.
Operational Excellence
The goal of this module is to provide participants with an in-depth understanding of how and why operational decisions are integral to the success of an organization. First participants explore the question of how a firm’s operations should be structured so as to be consistent with the firm’s chosen way to compete. Then participants will consider the question of what operational activities should remain in-house and what should be done by a business partner and the long-term implications of these decisions on competitive advantage and the issue of managing the business relationships with supply chain partners. The module will force participants to consider key decision categories in operations, e.g., capacity decisions, process choices and managing networks, and shows how these decisions can lead to distinctive capabilities.
Commercial Acumen (Simulation – 5 sessions)
One of the biggest obstacles that hinder the growth of senior managers today is their inability to judge the financial strength of their strategic and operational decisions. This handicap results from a lack of financial background. Senior Executives who address this problem early enough can transform their careers with a new-found ability to visualize the cause and effect of their ideas in a financial context. This program provides a concise overview of how financial management is used to create higher market values for an organization, and how value creation impacts the day-to-day life of managers.
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GAMIFIED EXPERIENCE: SIMULATION ON COMMERCIAL ACUMEN
CORNELL’S LIBRARY OF 2000+ COURSES
The module aims to provide a “state-of-the-art” overview of the key principles and practices of business strategy and strategic management in today’s fast-paced competitive environment. It covers a range of topics designed to equip you with the necessary knowledge and skills to navigate the complexities of strategy development, execution, and leadership.
Throughout the module, you will delve into the following areas:
Strategy Fundamentals:
- Understanding the concept of competitive strategy and distinguishing good strategy from others.
- Exploring the characteristics and components of effective strategy implementation.
- Recognizing the impact of the global context on strategic decision-making.
- Developing skills in strategy analysis to gain valuable insights into market dynamics and competitive forces.
- Appreciating the complexities of implementing strategic initiatives in complex business environments.
- Identifying and addressing common challenges that arise during the execution phase.
A particular emphasis is placed on customer-focused growth exploration and the role of ambidextrous leadership in driving organizational success.
The next 5 years may be the best time in history to build new things. If you have an innovation that you have determined has the potential to be profitable, your next step is to identify the internal or external organizational resources that help make your innovation unique. By developing these resources, you can enhance your market power and increase your likelihood of success. In this module, we will explore, learn from, and emulate, the culture and processes of companies whose innovation allows high-frequency experimentation.
To ensure the long-term viability of your innovation, you need to develop strategies to secure your resources and mitigate the power of rival firms thereby expanding your long-term competitive advantage. In this module, we will explore a variety of tactics and strategies you can use to protect your strategic resources and increase their value over time. These strategies will enable you to optimize your competitive advantage and create a more sustainable position.
Sustainable business opportunities can be simple, have positive impacts, and increase profitability — sometimes without having to do or change much about how a company functions. In this module, we will understand how businesses are increasing profitability by identifying and pursuing sustainable business opportunities. We will explore the many questions that businesses face in the changing landscape of ESG, making it an area of untapped potential. Understand how businesses can be a facilitator for system-level change in the face of significant global issues by making deliberate decisions along the lines of sustainability.
You will identify activities that will improve productivity and support forward-thinking and far-reaching transformation. You will then explore any gaps in your strategy and plan to support incremental change and further continuous improvement. You will also identify the risks you are willing to take.
You will also deep-dive into topics including:
- Learn the ‘Do-Think-Do’ innovation-focused approach
- How and why innovation and execution are diametrically opposite skillsets
- How to develop innovation and execution capabilities
- How do businesses respond to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) norms
- Decision-making in times of global change- Creativity, Innovation, Process, Sustainability>
Furthermore, the module covers essential topics related to effective leadership, including:
Advanced Negotiation skills:
Negotiation can be a complex and unpredictable process that requires you to juggle multiple factors. This module introduces you to basic distributive negotiation tactics. You are also provided with a practical tool to which you can refer as you prepare for any future negotiations that require the use of distributive tactics. Through a series of in-class exercises, we will learn fundamental tools and techniques to create value, claim our fair share of that value, and do both in a context where the parties may or may not be completely rational.
Emotional and Social Intelligence:
Participants will improve their emotional intelligence by better identifying and managing their emotions along with effectively navigating interactions with others, build trust, and engage in differences, to enable outcomes with greater impact.
- Understanding the concept of emotional and social intelligence and its importance in leadership.
- Assessing personal emotional predispositions and exploring traits such as negative affect and positive affect.
- Enhancing self-awareness and self-management abilities to improve emotional intelligence.
- Learn about the key drivers and elements of Social Intelligence
- Understand and deepen awareness of how others respond to you, how others see you responding to them and how you respond in moments of difference
- Gaining insights into the key factors that contribute to team effectiveness, including goals, roles, and processes.
- Acquiring skills to lead and improve team performance, regardless of technical expertise.
This award-winning simulation is a high-stakes wilderness expedition that challenges participants’ abilities in group dynamics and leadership. It immerses participants in an intense and gripping scenario where they take on one of five different roles within a climbing team aiming to conquer a treacherous mountain.
Throughout the simulation, the team faces the daunting task of reaching the summit, which involves passing through a series of five camps over six simulated days. This tightly-packed experience spans intense decision-making and teamwork. The climbers must confront a variety of critical factors, such as weather conditions, health concerns, available supplies, their ultimate objectives, and the speed at which they hike.
Complicating matters further, participants must handle three hidden challenges during their journey, each of which has significant repercussions on their progress. A major aspect of the simulation revolves around the delicate balance of information sharing. The team members are faced with the dilemma of deciding how much of the gathered information to disclose to their fellow climbers. This element adds a layer of complexity to the decision-making process and can significantly influence the group’s dynamics. The experience is meticulously designed to instill crucial skills like collaboration, strategic thinking, and leadership under pressure.
In this immersive module, participants will gain insights into how the brain learns, how to learn more quickly, why we frequently make poor judgments and how to learn from both successes and failures. Through real-life examples and interactive activities, participants will learn how to make more deliberate and informed decisions while potentially doubling their learning capacity. Participants will also learn how to systematically think back on their experiences and draw lessons from them.
AI tools and applications
In this module, participants will gain insights into the accelerating disruption of the Digital Age, drawing from best practices of digital leaders. Uncover the profound impact of AI on organizations, and understand the evolving landscape with a focus on leadership roles. Develop strategies for implementing AI, leading initiatives, and fostering a culture of innovation. Explore collaboration with AI for enhanced productivity with tools like ChatGPT, Bard, Perplexity, Claude, etc. Anticipate future trends, including SynthAI, and discover how to nurture an AI-ready leadership mindset.
Creative Leadership
In this intensive module, participants will develop an understanding of how to boost individual and collective creativity and get an appreciation of why so many organisations look at creativity as an important strategic capability. Learn techniques for boosting individual and collective creativity towards achieving higher levels of organisational innovation. Unleash your personal and organisational creative potential with interactive lectures, case study discussions and experiential exercises.
Operational Excellence
The goal of this module is to provide participants with an in-depth understanding of how and why operational decisions are integral to the success of an organization. First participants explore the question of how a firm’s operations should be structured so as to be consistent with the firm’s chosen way to compete. Then participants will consider the question of what operational activities should remain in-house and what should be done by a business partner and the long-term implications of these decisions on competitive advantage and the issue of managing the business relationships with supply chain partners. The final leg of the module will force participants to consider key decision categories in operations, e.g., capacity decisions, process choices, IT implementation, and managing networks, and shows how these decisions can lead to distinctive capabilities.
Available specialization tracks:
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Develop strategic leadership skills essential for guiding organizations to success, covering topics such as visionary leadership, strategic planning, and corporate governance.
CSO (Chief Strategy Officer)
Explore innovative approaches to strategy development and execution, focusing on areas such as competitive analysis, market positioning, and strategic decision-making.
CFO (Chief Financial Officer)
Dive into financial management strategies and techniques critical for driving business performance, including topics such as financial analysis, capital budgeting, and risk management.
CTO (Chief Technology Officer)
Master technology-driven innovation and digital transformation strategies, exploring topics such as technology trends, IT governance, and cybersecurity.
COO (Chief Operating Officer)
Gain insights into operational excellence and process optimization, covering areas such as supply chain management, project management, and lean operations.
CMO (Chief Marketing Officer)
Explore cutting-edge marketing strategies and consumer insights, focusing on areas such as branding, digital marketing, and customer experience management.
CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer)
Focus on human capital management and organizational development strategies, covering topics such as talent acquisition, performance management, and employee engagement.
New technologies, global connectivity, and changing business dynamics have changed the way we work and live. This implies a new approach to strategic thinking, leadership, and operational and strategic management. In this connected world, it is no longer sufficient to learn from the past. We must learn from the future. Participants will be challenged to think differently and to consider the future operating environment for their industry, new and shifting markets and customer segments, new stakeholder engagement models, and what these may offer when seen through new eyes and with new insights and perspectives.
Takeaways:
- Understanding critical future shifts in consumer behaviour, technology, and market engagement models and how these impact strategy, market positioning, and execution capabilities in a digital world
- Key forces that are shaping markets and industries into the future and the new growth opportunities that these will create
- Provide a structured methodology to use and investigate for future operating context and business in global markets
- Practical and relevant application of the discussions, its leaders, and its role in the markets, both today and into the future.
One of the biggest obstacles that hinder the growth of senior managers today is their inability to judge the financial strength of their strategic and operational decisions. This handicap results from a lack of financial background. Senior Executives who address this problem early enough can transform their careers with a new-found ability to visualise the cause and effect of their ideas in a financial context.
This programme provides a concise overview of how financial management is used to create higher market values for an organisation, and how value creation impacts the day-to-day life of managers. Through the use of a business simulation, the programme helps in understanding financial statements, how financial decisions are made, analysing a firm’s financials and discovering its strengths and weaknesses, building a cost-pricing strategy, forecasting cash flows, identifying a new opportunity, selecting an investment project, analysing a new market, revisiting the firm’s strategy, understanding profitable growth and the value drivers for achieving the same.
- Framing Complex problems with Systems Thinking
- Problem Solving Using Evidence and Critical Thinking
- Value Creation and Profitability
- Cross-Cultural Communication
Framing Complex problems with Systems Thinking – Whether you need to tackle a complex project, communicate more effectively, rethink your organization or your job, solve world hunger, or figure out your teenager, systems thinking can help you. All of these are complex and challenging real-world problems, sometimes called wicked problems. We all confront problems, big and small, in our personal and professional lives, and most of us are searching for better ways to solve them. In this module, Professors Derek and Laura Cabrera will demonstrate how we can use systems thinking to solve everyday and wicked problems, transform our organizations, and increase our personal effectiveness. Systems thinking attempts to better align the way we think with how the real world works. Our thinking is based on our mental models, but these models, created from our unique perspective with its inherent biases, are usually inadequate representations of reality. The Cabreras illustrate how we can use feedback to recognize and adapt our mental models so that they better align with reality, enhancing our problem-solving capabilities. For systems thinking to be successful, it must be adaptive. In this module, you will explore the concept of complex adaptive systems, and while these systems seem unnecessarily complicated, the Cabreras will reveal a surprising discovery. Underlying all complex adaptive systems are simple rules, and applying these rules is the key to transforming the way we frame and solve everyday problems.
Takeaways
- Identify and describe the problems you want to solve in your personal and professional lives
- Examine the mental models you have and how they differ from reality
- Determine how you can use feedback to improve your mental models
- Recognize the biases that you have that can distort your mental models
- Examine complex adaptive systems and the simple rules that underlie these systems
- Determine how systems thinking is a complex adaptive system
- Explore the four simple rules that underlie systems thinking
Problem Solving Using Evidence and Critical Thinking – Have you ever known a very intelligent person who made a very bad decision? If so, you know that having a high IQ does not guarantee that you automatically make critically thoughtful decisions. Critically thoughtful problem-solving is a discipline and a skill—one that allows you to make decisions that are the product of careful thought, and the results of those decisions help your team and organization thrive. In this module, you will practice a disciplined, systematic approach to problem solving that helps ensure that your analysis of a problem is comprehensive, is based on quality, credible evidence, and takes full and fair account of the most probable counterarguments and risks. The result of this technique is a thoroughly defensible assessment of what the problem is, what is causing it, and the most effective plan of action to address it. Finally, you will identify and frame a problem by assessing its context and develop a well-reasoned and implementable solution that addresses the underlying causes.
Takeaways
- Assess the context of the problem
- Determine the current and desired states and confirm this with decision makers
- Identify and articulate the questions that must be answered to bridge the gap between current state and desired future state
- Determine root causes and distinguish symptoms from problems
- Brainstorm a range of possible solutions to address each significant underlying cause
- Assess each option for the extent to which it bridges the gap between the current and future state, whether it is implementable, and if it is ethical
Value Creation and Profitability – Increasing and sustaining profitability requires that you deliver unique value to consumers while guarding against competitive threats. Developing a successful strategy requires recognizing and planning for the specific challenges in your market so as to avoid costly mistakes, seize new opportunities, and raise long-run profits. In this module, you will explore a variety of real-world examples and powerful frameworks to supercharge your strategy and profitability. You will analyze how your organization currently creates value and strategize how best to create new value for your targeted customers, beyond what rivals offer.
Takeaways
- Perform a market diagnosis to describe your target customers and determine how you can best create value
- for them
- Develop a plan to align your organizational resources with your value creation objectives
- Identify and assess threats to your organization’s profits
- Select appropriate strategies to mitigate these and other threats you may encounter
Cross-Cultural Communication – The workplace is filled with employees, clients, and leaders from different backgrounds and cultures. Your Social Style® plays a role in how you communicate and behave in the workplace. This module will prepare you to communicate effectively, efficiently, and empathetically with different cultures no matter your Social Style®. In this module, you will practice becoming more aware of how your Social Style® is interpreted by others and how that impacts your interactions with others at work. You will also develop strategies for overcoming social blind spots in order to mitigate the risk of ineffective communication in cross-cultural settings. Finally, you will discover the ways you can adapt your Social Style® without compromising your core values for effective communication. By the end of this module, you will have gathered the tools needed to communicate appropriately and effectively in a cross-cultural environment.
Takeaways
- Evaluate how your Social Style® is interpreted by others
- Become aware of your social blind spots in the cross-cultural work environment
- Adapt for effective communication
- Business and Management
- Data Science
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Engineering Management
- Finance and Business Performance
- Healthcare Management
- Hospitality and Foodservice Management
- Human Resources
- Business Law
- Leadership and Strategic Management
- Marketing
- Project Leadership and System Design
- Technology
Choose from over 1700+ topics that will enhance your knowledge and skills across business functions. With unlimited access to Cornell’s resource library, you will have the opportunity to learn something new, every day. Super-specialize in your area of interest from topics across domains like innovation, leadership, marketing, human resources, supply chain, finance, service excellence, operations, project management and more.
Cohort Statistics
The Program fee is inclusive of all taxes. It covers teaching fees, all academic materials, program lunch fees. The fees does not include transport expenses, accommodation expenses and any associated visa fees etc. It also does not cover any other expenses that are not expressly mentioned above.
Hear from our Participants
Lama Albabtain
Founder & COOTBWA Worldwide
Kuwait
Harold Tjiptadjaja
Managing Director – Investment BankingMandiri Sekuritas
Jakarta, Indonesia
Elat Niyas
Treasury ManagerAl Masaood LLC
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Samar Mohamed Omar Al Saggaf
ProfessorKing AbdulAziz University
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Faisal Alkadi
Group DirectorAlthawaqh Food Company (AFCO)
Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Bonny Loo
Chief Legal Counsel Hospital Authority Kowloon, Hong Kong
Nour El Houda Zorgui
Director, Dental Health ProgramSaudi Commission for Health Specialties
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Seema Menon
Founder & CEOMeridian Market Resources
Bangalore, India
Andre Sylvestre
Chairman & CEOEber Petrochemical Group
Jakarta, Indonesia
Lester Fernandes
Principal Data Science CoELTIMindTree
Mumbai, India
Srikanth Lakshminarayanan
Vice PresidentSagility
Manila, Philippines
Surya Thammiraju
Executive DirectorChubb
Hyderabad, India
Evi Afiatin
CFOPT. Kawasan Industri Terpadu Batang
Jakarta, Indonesia
Saleh Binsaleh
Chief Strategy Planning OfficerKing Saud University – Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Sara McAleese
Director – Strategy and TransformationGrant Thornton
Dubai, UAE
Shehab Sleem
Chief Development OfficerPublic Investment Fund
Dubai, UAE
Graduation Ceremony at the Cornell campus, New York
The Global Cornell SELP Cohort
Alumni Mixer
Experience the vibrant Cornell Campus
In-class sessions in Dubai
Hear from our Participants
Faculty
Indicative faculty, subject to change based on availability and university guidelines
Faculty
Clinical Professor of Management and Organisations
Allan Filipowicz teaches Managing and Leading Organizations, Negotiations, Executive Leadership and Development, Leading Teams and Critical and Strategic Thinking. He was also a Former Dean for Executive Education. He has recently won a Best Core Faculty award. He has taught executives across the globe. His professional experience includes banking and consulting, including running his own boutique consulting firm and four years with the Boston Consulting Group in Paris.
Professor of Operations Technology and Innovation
Karan Girotra is the academic lead for the flagship studio-based education programs at Cornell Tech and is applying his research on innovation to help build a new model for graduate education. As one of the first business faculty at Cornell Tech, he is helping build a unique new educational institution that fuses technology with business and creative thinking. He has collaborated with companies building new business models in the areas of urban living, smart transportation and e-commerce, helping them build rigorous research-based solutions.
Systems Scientist
Derek Cabrera is an internationally known systems scientist who in 2021 was inducted as a Member of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS) for outstanding contributions to the field. He is the Faculty Director for the Graduate Certification Program in Systems Thinking, Modeling, and Leadership and is a senior scientist at Cabrera Research Lab. Cabrera has developed a suite of systems thinking tools for use in academia, business, and beyond including the first validated personal inventory of systems thinking.
Professor of Practice and Management
Risa Mish designed and teaches the MBA, EMBA, and Cornell-Tsinghua Core courses in Critical and Strategic Thinking, teaches elective courses in critical thinking and leadership, and was the founding faculty director of the Johnson Leadership Fellows program. Risa Mish serves as a keynote speaker and workshop leader at global, national, and regional conferences for corporations and trade associations in the consumer products, financial services, health care, high tech, media, and manufacturing industries
Professor of Management
Glen Dowell is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Johnson Graduate School of Management and Area Coordinator for the M&O Area at the SC Johnson College of Business. His researches are in the area of corporate sustainability, with a focus on firm environmental performance. He is a faculty affiliate for the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and is a faculty fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.
Senior Lecturer of Management Communication
Barbara Mink is a management communication professional with a focus on intercultural communication, leadership, and persuasion. She teaches persuasive and informational writing for business purposes, as well as business presentations that are clear, concise, and compelling. Mink is also an active painter with an international presence.
Professor of Management
Professor Justin Johnson received his PhD in Economics from MIT and is currently the Deane W. Malott Professor of Management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management. Professor Johnson teaches Business Strategy to Executive MBA students. On four occasions he has received the EMBA Teaching Excellence Award, voted on by graduating EMBA students and awarded to one professor. In addition to his research, academic presentations, teaching, and executive development, Professor Johnson discusses his research and its relevance to current matters of interest with governmental bodies and other parties around the world, including the US Department of Justice, the US Federal Trade Commission, the EU Directorate General for Competition, the European Commission, and the UK Competition Authority.
Clinical Professor of Management and Operations
Allan Filipowicz teaches Managing and Leading Organizations, Negotiations, Executive Leadership and Development, Leading Teams and Critical and Strategic Thinking. He was also a Former Dean for Executive Education. He has recently won a Best Core Faculty award. He has taught executives across the globe. His professional experience includes banking and consulting, including running his own boutique consulting firm and four years with the Boston Consulting Group in Paris.
Professor of Operations Technology and Innovation
Karan Girotra is the academic lead for the flagship studio-based education programs at Cornell Tech and is applying his research on innovation to help build a new model for graduate education. As one of the first business faculty at Cornell Tech, he is helping build a unique new educational institution that fuses technology with business and creative thinking. He has collaborated with companies building new business models in the areas of urban living, smart transportation and e-commerce, helping them build rigorous research-based solutions.
Systems Scientist
Derek Cabrera is an internationally known systems scientist who in 2021 was inducted as a Member of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS) for outstanding contributions to the field. He is the Faculty Director for the Graduate Certification Program in Systems Thinking, Modeling, and Leadership and is a senior scientist at Cabrera Research Lab. Cabrera has developed a suite of systems thinking tools for use in academia, business, and beyond including the first validated personal inventory of systems thinking.
Professor of Practice and Management
Risa Mish designed and teaches the MBA, EMBA, and Cornell-Tsinghua Core courses in Critical and Strategic Thinking, teaches elective courses in critical thinking and leadership, and was the founding faculty director of the Johnson Leadership Fellows program. Risa Mish serves as a keynote speaker and workshop leader at global, national, and regional conferences for corporations and trade associations in the consumer products, financial services, health care, high tech, media, and manufacturing industries
Professor of Management
Glen Dowell is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Johnson Graduate School of Management and Area Coordinator for the M&O Area at the SC Johnson College of Business. His researches are in the area of corporate sustainability, with a focus on firm environmental performance. He is a faculty affiliate for the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and is a faculty fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.
Senior Lecturer of Management Communication
Barbara Mink is a management communication professional with a focus on intercultural communication, leadership, and persuasion. She teaches persuasive and informational writing for business purposes, as well as business presentations that are clear, concise, and compelling. Mink is also an active painter with an international presence.
Professor of Management
Professor Justin Johnson received his PhD in Economics from MIT and is currently the Deane W. Malott Professor of Management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management. Professor Johnson teaches Business Strategy to Executive MBA students. On four occasions he has received the EMBA Teaching Excellence Award, voted on by graduating EMBA students and awarded to one professor. In addition to his research, academic presentations, teaching, and executive development, Professor Johnson discusses his research and its relevance to current matters of interest with governmental bodies and other parties around the world, including the US Department of Justice, the US Federal Trade Commission, the EU Directorate General for Competition, the European Commission, and the UK Competition Authority.
Indicative faculty, subject to change based on availability and university guidelines
Global Industry Experts
Indicative faculty, subject to change based on availability
Global Industry Experts
Jamie has held teaching positions at some of the world’s top business schools, such as London Business School, IMD, ESMT Berlin and the University of Melbourne. Named as a "management guru" by the Financial Times, Jamie has also been listed as one of the world’s top 25 management thinkers by the journal Business Strategy Review. He is passionate about teaching strategy, innovation and creativity.
Mike Grandinetti is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Engineering at Brown University. Grandinetti has been continuously active in the fields of innovation, entrepreneurship, human-centric design and digital marketing.
Anton Musgrave lectures regularly for London Business School, Duke CE, IMD and Oxford’s Said Business School. He is passionate about teaching business strategy, innovation and the future. He shares an insightful understanding of the drivers of long-term business success, shifting business models and what it takes to stay ahead of the market.
Edward Rogers joined NASA in 2003 and served as the Chief Knowledge Officer at the Goddard Space Flight Center for 17 years. Dr. Rogers earned his PhD from Cornell University and has taught executives across the globe for more than a decade.
Professor Medini Singh joined Columbia Business School in 2001 as a member of the Decision, Risk, and Operations Division. He teaches a variety of courses in Columbia’s MBA and Executive MBA programs, including the core course in Operations Management and electives in Supply Chain Management, Operations Strategy, and Service Operations Management. Professor Singh holds a B.E. in industrial engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (India) and an M.E. in mechanical engineering, an M.S. in manufacturing and operations systems and a Ph.D. in Industrial Administration, all from Carnegie Mellon.
Jamie has held teaching positions at some of the world’s top business schools, such as London Business School, IMD, ESMT Berlin and the University of Melbourne. Named as a "management guru" by the Financial Times, Jamie has also been listed as one of the world’s top 25 management thinkers by the journal Business Strategy Review. He is passionate about teaching strategy, innovation and creativity.
Mike Grandinetti is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Engineering at Brown University. Grandinetti has been continuously active in the fields of innovation, entrepreneurship, human-centric design and digital marketing.
Anton Musgrave lectures regularly for London Business School, Duke CE, IMD and Oxford’s Said Business School. He is passionate about teaching business strategy, innovation and the future. He shares an insightful understanding of the drivers of long-term business success, shifting business models and what it takes to stay ahead of the market.
Edward Rogers joined NASA in 2003 and served as the Chief Knowledge Officer at the Goddard Space Flight Center for 17 years. Dr. Rogers earned his PhD from Cornell University and has taught executives across the globe for more than a decade.
Professor Medini Singh joined Columbia Business School in 2001 as a member of the Decision, Risk, and Operations Division. He teaches a variety of courses in Columbia’s MBA and Executive MBA programs, including the core course in Operations Management and electives in Supply Chain Management, Operations Strategy, and Service Operations Management. Professor Singh holds a B.E. in industrial engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (India) and an M.E. in mechanical engineering, an M.S. in manufacturing and operations systems and a Ph.D. in Industrial Administration, all from Carnegie Mellon.
Indicative faculty, subject to change based on availability
Hear from Faculty
Prof. Jeremy Kagan on Entrepreneurial Mindset for Organizations
Dean Vishal Gaur and other Faculty on the Cornell Campus
Prof. Glen Dowell on Leading Through Sustainability
Cornell Executive Alumni Status
1. 2-year access to Cornell’s online leadership symposiums with industry experts and distinguished faculty
2. 30% fee waiver on all Cornell online certificate programs for 2 years
3. Complimentary subscription to eCornell keynotes and Cornell newsletter
4. Inclusion in the global Cornell-XED directory of elite senior leaders
5. Networking opportunity with Cornell’s Executive Alumni Community
Cornell Executive Alumni Status
Upon successful completion of SELP, you will become a Cornell Alumni and receive the following benefits
- 1. 2-year access to Cornell’s online leadership symposiums with industry experts and distinguished faculty
- 2. 30% fee waiver on all Cornell online certificate programs for 2 years
- 3. Complimentary subscription to eCornell keynotes and Cornell newsletter
- 4. Inclusion in the global Cornell-XED directory of elite senior leaders
- 5. Networking opportunity with Cornell’s Executive Alumni Community
Certificate
Upon successful completion of the program, you will earn a certificate of completion from Cornell University
Note: Certificate image is for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of Cornell University.
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Application Process
When considering applications for this program, the Admissions Committee seeks a balance of function industry representation, as well as candidates’ professional experience and current organizational responsibilities.
The Admissions Committee assesses your:
• Application responses
• CV or LinkedIn profile
• Interaction with Admissions Panel
The interaction allows the Admissions Committee to further evaluate your candidature for the program. We may choose to have a one-on-one discussion with candidates on a case-to-case basis to assess interpersonal and communication skills, work experience, career focus and motivations for pursuing this program.
The interaction will be conducted online. The time and date will be communicated to you via email.
APPLICATION
SUBMISSION
Answer the questions and submit your CV/upload LinkedIn profile
STEP 2
APPLICATION
REVIEW
Admissions Committee will verify your application and evaluate it for eligibility and fit to the program
STEP 3
ONLINE
INTERACTION
Select candidates to be called for an online Interaction with the Admissions Panel
RESULT
Receive a decision on your program application via an email from the Admissions Committee within 5 working days
APPLICATION SUBMISSION
Answer the questions and submit your CV/upload LinkedIn profile
STEP 3
ONLINE
INTERACTION
Select candidates to be called for an online Interaction with the Admissions Panel
RESULT
Receive a decision on your program application via an email from the Admissions Committee within 5 working days
Testimonials
Mandiri Sekuritas
Jakarta, Indonesia
King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Alpha Alternatives
Mumbai, India
Metanoia - Changing Mindsets
Pune, India
Hospital Authority
Kowloon, Hong Kong
PT. Kawasan Industri Terpadu Batang
Jakarta, Indonesia
Xebec Communications Pvt.Ltd
Pune, India
Avanse Financial Services
Mumbai, India
Grant Thornton
Dubai, UAE
Who Should Apply?
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Cornell SELP is meticulously crafted to guide CXOs, business owners, and seasoned leaders through today's evolving business landscape, empowering them to excel amidst disruption and emerging challenges, with a key focus on their personalized tracks
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10+ years of proven experience in leading high-performing teams or impactful projects
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A minimum of a graduate degree
- Country of residence at the time of enrolling must be Latin America, South Asia, Middle East, Africa, Far East
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