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Oxford Strategic Management Executive Programme

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Gain the knowledge and tools to enhance your management capabilities and become a more effective leader on the Oxford Strategic Management Executive Programme. This six-month online programme provides core leadership, strategy, and finance skills to drive a competitive advantage for your company.

Leadership
Strategy
Finance
Team Management
Decision-Making

Overview

This programme leverages content from three leading online Oxford programmes to provide you with core leadership, strategy, and finance skills. You will learn how to better manage teams, make more informed financial decisions, and achieve organisation-wide strategic objectives. The course is designed for current and aspiring leaders, senior executives, and managers looking to enhance their ability to make an impact in their roles.

English
course language
Professional Certification
upon course completion

Who is this course for?

Current Leaders

Enhance your ability to make an impact in your role and overcome contemporary organisational challenges.

Aspiring Leaders

Gain holistic and transformative knowledge to accelerate your career growth and broaden your professional impact.

Senior Executives and Managers

Learn how to create effective strategies to leverage new opportunities for your business.

Gain the knowledge and tools to enhance your management capabilities and become a more effective leader. This programme covers key topics in leadership, strategy, and finance, making it ideal for current and aspiring leaders, senior executives, and managers. Enhance your ability to make an impact in your role and drive your career forward.

Pre-Requisites

1 / 3

Experience in a leadership or management role
Basic understanding of business operations
Willingness to engage in intensive learning

What will you learn?

Programme Orientation

Welcome to your Online Campus

Section I: Executive Leadership

Over eight weeks, refine and develop your leadership skills and purpose to align with your organisation’s strategic focus. Improve your ability to lead authentically, manage high-performance teams using effective strategies, explore core leadership themes, and become a driving force for change in your company.

Section II: Executive Finance

Following a one-week programme break, start developing the essential corporate finance knowledge to make more informed decisions and drive business success over six weeks. Examine the key trends that are changing financial practices such as corporate governance, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing. Learn how to confidently engage in and add value to financial discussions with colleagues and other stakeholders.

Section III: Executive Strategy

After a one-week programme break, explore a modern approach to strategy, informed by Oxford’s unique and extensive research over seven weeks. Develop an organisational strategy that considers the challenges of rapidly changing environments, stakeholders and goals, and gain a strategy playbook that can be immediately applied to your business context.

What learners say about this course

“This programme has been oxygen to my brain for the full duration of its seven weeks. It's been intense, challenging, and inspiring. If this is your field of interest and you're willing to put in the time and go through the thinking process, I can only highly recommend this programme to you.”
Annelies Noblesse
Oxford Executive Strategy Programme

Meet your instructors

Trudi Lang
Instructor, GetSmarter
Trudi Lang, PhD, is a Titular Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Oxford-Hyundai Motor Group Foresight Centre at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. She also works as an Instructor for GetSmarter.
Richard Whittington
Professor of Strategic Management and Millman Fellow in Management, GetSmarter
Richard Whittington, Professor of Strategic Management and Millman Fellow in Management at GetSmarter, is a thought-leader in strategy and co-author of Europe's best-selling textbook, Exploring Strategy. Richard collaborates with organizations like IBM Consulting and the Institute of Directors, and his research has been featured in major publications.
Tim Morris
Instructor, GetSmarter
Tim Morris is a professor of Management Studies at Said Business School, University of Oxford. He teaches and supervises undergraduate, masters, and doctoral programs, as well as executive programs on leadership and management.

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