Oxford Advanced Leadership & Management Program

Oxford Advanced Leadership and Management program drives organizational change, performance, and growth. We influence CEOs, MDs, DGs and organization’s Executive members align business activities, systems and global teams to gain a strategic edge.

We inspire you to negotiate complex deals that deliver superior outcomes. The program helps organisations balance innovation and profitability while managing risk. At the end of the training, you will capture opportunities to create value as global markets shift. Digital disruption will become your competitive advantage and you’ll be able to inspire and empower colleagues. 

As your challenges change, renewing your leadership skills is a priority to stay relevant and effective. Advanced Leadership and Management gives you a chance to step back and reflect, refocus and renew, so you become a more effective leader of yourself and others. The program is designed to spark self-reflection, innovation, and collaboration.

This two-week program features global case studies, personal assessments and feedback, professional one-on-one coaching, guest speakers, and development of a personal case addressing a leadership challenge or strategic opportunity for your organization.

Key benefits of ALM program

This program will change the way you and your company do business. You will emerge better able to tackle your organization’s toughest strategic challenges, lead with greater confidence, and inspire performance at all levels as a key member of your company’s senior leadership.

Invited Delegates

The program is for proven business leaders within two levels of the CEO who are central to the company’s succession plan. Members of the executive committee, heads of business units, and senior members of the operating group are all ideal candidates.

Module I: Leading Strategic Innovation and Change

Effectively lead innovation and transformation efforts that will impact your organization now and into the future.

• Understand the role innovation plays as organizations evolve and leadership’s role in shaping transformation and change.
• Drive the strategic alignment of organizational structures, systems, competencies, and culture for successful outcomes.
• Overcome the unique challenges of open innovation and digital transformation.
• Deliver short-term results while working toward longer-term innovation.
• Explore how leadership renewal is linked to organizational renewal.

Module II: Understanding the Behavioural Economics That Lead to Better Decisions

Improve your decision-making skills, lead others to better decisions, and become a more effective negotiator.

• Understand the behavioural factors that affect decision-making, ethics, and negotiations.
• Create an organizational architecture that leads to better decision-making for yourself, employees, and key stakeholders.
• Engage in a series of real-world simulations, with feedback on your own behaviour, to test your analytic ability and tactical skills and to experiment with new ideas.
• Learn a negotiation framework that will help you analyze, prepare for, and execute negotiations more systematically and effectively.
• Gain techniques for mitigating your weaknesses and leveraging your strengths.

Module III: Master Marketing in a Digital World

Gain a comprehensive understanding of long-standing marketing principles and how they relate to our digital world.

• Learn how digital transformation and AI are disrupting the consumer landscape and how to capitalize on
  that disruption.
• Leverage core marketing principles to create, communicate, and deliver customer and brand value at all
  stages of the product life cycle.
• Continually fine-tune strategies to remain relevant and address shifting market conditions.
• Use pricing strategies to effectively capture and maximize value.
• Recognize changing customer needs and innovate new products and services to meet them.

Module IV: Becoming a More Authentic Leader

Uncover, analyze, and strengthen the unique personal characteristics that will enable you to lead with greater authenticity, integrity, and purpose.

• Increase self-awareness through introspection and feedback from peers and coaches.
• Gain clarity about your values, motivations, and leadership purpose.
• Lead and live with greater mindfulness and intentionality.
• Participate more fully in group discussions and learn how to “deeply listen” to peers.
• Empower and inspire others by communicating authentically.

Module V: Navigating Corporate Responsibility, Accountability, and Ethics

Successfully manage the challenges and trade-offs of meeting the complex demands of investors, customers, employees, and society.

• Responsibly handle situations that involve competing responsibilities, serious legal issues, factual uncertainties, aggressive or hostile stakeholders, and intense time pressure.
• Understand the different stakeholders and shareholder interests involved in many CEO and C-suite managerial decisions.
• Clearly define the specific economic, legal, and ethical responsibilities you and your company have to investors, customers, employees, and society.
• Use your understanding of responsibilities to resolve “gray area” problems in practical, effective ways.

Module VI: Driving Financial Performance

Maximize financial performance while creating value and managing risk.

• Gain a conceptual framework and techniques for understanding and analyzing financial issues.
• Assess the financial health of your business through the three pillars of financial performance: profitability, liquidity, and financial structure.
• Understand your critical role in company valuation.
• Analyze opportunities for adding value to the organization.
• Evaluate the risks of your decisions in an uncertain and turbulent environment.

Module VII: Capitalizing on Digital Transformation and AI

Overcome the challenges and seize the opportunities created by digital transformation.

• Understand how digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI) impact operating and business models.
• Maximize new opportunities for digital value creation and capture.
• Address the common strategic, operational, and cognitive challenges of digital transformation and AI.
• Establish a framework for understanding the digitally transformed world and developing strategies and tactics for shaping your business environment.
• Understand the broader digital transformation implications impacting the labour force and society at large.

Module VIII: Leverage Strategic Choice and Differentiation

Become an effective leader-strategist. Set the direction of your business and craft its overarching strategy.

• Dissect your firm’s external environment to understand how outside factors combine to shape the overarching competitive environment.
• Evaluate the patterns that distinguish highly profitable industries.
• Manage the relationship between the competitive strategy of a business unit and the corporate strategy of an enterprise.
• Think holistically about your environment, your firm, and your own role as a leader.
• Take strategic actions to position your firm for future success in an environment experiencing profound transformation.

Module IX: Use Management Systems to Drive Performance and Governance

Create a high-performance organization using management systems and processes that foster a culture of accountability and establish effective governance.

• Develop a comprehensive framework for driving organizational performance.
• Create a winning culture, drive sustained financial results, promote personal accountability, and manage risks.
• Facilitate effective governance among top executives, boards of directors, and investors.
• Understand the interplay between boards and capital markets.
• Balance creating short-term accountability with fostering a long-term orientation.

Module X: Leading in a Global Economy

Determine how each country’s economic performance and geopolitical context will impact your global business strategy.

• Understand the trends driving globalization.
• Accurately assess regional business environments and growth trajectories.
• Analyze a country’s economic performance, social and political context, institutional strengths and weaknesses, and government strategy.
• Identify and anticipate policy barriers (and incentives) to doing business and the
• potential impact of a country’s accounting, fiscal, investment, and innovation policies.
• Make competitive decisions that consider and address country differences.

PROF. BO received her degrees in Economics from Lanzhou University of China (BA), Renmin University of China (MSc), London School of Economics and Political Science UK (MSc.), and University of Groningen the Netherlands (PhD). Prof. Bo’s research covers topics in financial economics, including firm investment decisions under uncertainty, capital market imperfections, comparative financial systems, corporate finance, corporate governance, and the Chinese economy. She has published in internationally well-recognized academic journals, including Journal of Corporate Finance, Review of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Economica, Regional Studies, European Journal of Finance, and International Review of Financial Analysis, etc. 

DR CLAUDIA SIGAMONEY is a Senior Executive with over 20 years experience in Strategic Business Development, Management & Leadership and Corporate Governance with a proven ability to oversee the management of finance, budgets and business functional areas with the objective of generating revenue. She embraces trans-disciplinary engagements with problem-solving orientation. Her associations with organisations and educational sectors have positively changed in the workplace, community, and society. She is a successful and highly experienced Organizational Leader who has progressed from Credit Controller to Company CEO.

PROF. PRADEEP BRIJLAL Oxford University Business School facilitator/ trainer and an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town, and an Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape. He lectures in various finance and business management modules ranging from undergraduate to post graduate levels. Professor Brijlal also lectures to MBA students in various quantitative and finance related modules. He has published over twenty articles in peer reviewed journals in the fields of Business, Entrepreneurship, and Finance and has presented his research at various national and international conferences. He currently supervises master’s and doctoral students in the fields of Entrepreneurship, and Finance.

Learners enroll with us because of the content of our courses. This is important to consider when applying to any institution of learning. They are always excited about the modules that Oxford offer for every course. The delivery of our trainings and our tutorial system is another thing that appeal to most learners making Oxford University Business School, Worldwide, stand out from all other institutions, and the opportunity to have discussions in small groups with leading experts and researchers at the forefront of the subject is one of the best things about our institution.

Our training programs are diverse and learners find it easy to find like-minded people in all our classes. Our programs are current and with versatile subjects so learners never feel bored and everything feels very relevant to the future but also the past.

Learners Activities:

Oxford executive education is more than training or coursework. Our learners’ classes don’t stop at 05pm. They include night discussions between 07:30 – 08:45pm among trainees at place of residence with friends and colleagues on case studies, assignments and group presentations during our training.

Through extra activities, you’ll meet new people, pursue your interests (or discover new ones), and enrich your understanding of the world and the people in it with whom you share similar professions.

Health & Wellbeing:

Physical health, mental and emotional wellness which form wellbeing remains a critical priority. Everything you need to stay healthy can be found in all residences and hotels we allocate to our learners.

Because of the intensive nature of our programs, we encourage all trainees to spare 30 minutes a day and engage in health, wellness, and fitness activities.

Diversity & Inclusion:

We are committed to creating an inclusive living and learning environment for every member of our community. We ensure equality and diversity irrespective of race, gender, religion and belief, sexual orientation. We encourage responsible behaviour and our policy discourages any form of harassment to any of our learners, facilitators and staff.