Executive Program
Next Session: In Person
Executive Program
Overview
Transform your leadership and management potential into reality.
Since 1954, generations of exceptional executives, entrepreneurs and professionals from all sectors have come to UCLA’s flagship Executive Program seeking the spark to ignite a new phase of growth in their careers. If you are ready to expand your impact and evolve your leadership capabilities to meet the challenges of the volatile global, digital business environment, you should consider this program. The rigorous 4-month learning journey – offered both in person and in a blended format – delivers strategies, skills and acumen that will elevate your leadership profile and enhance your ability to innovate and manage change.
Program Highlights
- Comprehensive Curriculum
- Work-Friendly Schedule
- Flexible Delivery Options
- Expert Faculty
- Dedicated Program Team
- Coaching & Assessments
- Team Case Competition
- UCLA Anderson Alumni Status
The Impact
The program delves into all the core areas of management – including finance, strategy, operations and marketing - while focusing on the three key dimensions of leadership:
Understand Yourself
- Identify and develop your authentic leadership style
Understand and Lead Others
- Make the leap from individual contributor to team leader
- Learn how to motivate others for higher levels of performance
Understand and Lead the Organization
- Grasp the principles of organizational strategy
- Translate your strategic thinking skills into action
Brian Cornell (B.A. ’81, Executive Program ’91), Target Corporation board chair and CEO
The Impact
The program delves into all the core areas of management – including finance, strategy, operations and marketing - while focusing on the three key dimensions of leadership:
Understand Yourself
- Identify and develop your authentic leadership style
Understand and Lead Others
- Make the leap from individual contributor to team leader
Learn how to motivate others for higher levels of performance
- Understand and Lead the Organization
- Understand the principles of organizational strategy
- Translate your strategic thinking skills into action
Curriculum
Immersion I (3-Day On-Campus Intensive)
Strategic and Personal Leadership
Weekly Sessions (Live Online)
- Corporate Strategy
- Managerial Economics
- Operational Excellence
- Marketing Fundamentals
- Branding & Digital Strategy
- Managerial & Cost Accounting
- Financial Accounting
- Investment Evaluation
Immersion II (3-Day On-Campus Intensive)
Business and Finance Simulation
Weekly Sessions (Live Online)
- Managing for Organizational Impact
- Communicating for Impact
- Data Analytics
- Leading Change
- Leadership Development
Immersion III (3-Day On-Campus Intensive)
- Enhancing Your Performance
- Capstone Case Competition & Graduation Ceremony
Who Should Attend
Rising managers, executives, entrepreneurs and professionals from all industries seeking to acquire core management skills, and develop their leadership capabilities in order to embrace greater organizational responsibility, accelerate their careers, or switch career paths. The program is also ideal for veterans seeking to transition from military to corporate leadership. *
* This program is approved to train military veterans and other eligible persons.
Learning Journey
Leadership assessments, pre-readings and executive coaching prepare you for a rigorous four-month learning journey capped by a team-based case competition in which you and your peers synthesize and apply program frameworks and insights to solve a real-world business case. Whether on campus or live online, our dedicated program manager takes care of all the details so that you can focus on your learning journey.
In Person Learning Experience
- Strong connection to instructors, coaches and peer learning group
- Focused and intensive learning ‘oasis’ away from daily grind
- Promotes deep personal transformation, strong networks and lasting impact
Blended Learning Experience
- Learning flexes to fit work/life balance
- Weekly live online classes offer real-time connection to faculty, coaches and peer learning group
- Trio of focused in person 3-day intensives at start, mid-point and conclusion of program, bring together key learnings, cement personal networks and celebrate milestones
Alumni Benefits
Earn your certificate in leadership and management and join the vibrant UCLA Anderson alumni community – more than 40,000 globally and counting. Your Anderson alumni status gives you access to:
- UCLA Anderson alumni directory and alumni LinkedIn groups
- UCLA Anderson Alumni Conference (held annually)
- UCLA Anderson alumni events offered globally by the school and/or the alumni network chapters and groups
Faculty
UCLA Anderson faculty are leaders in their fields – passionate teachers who are highly skilled at leveraging their extensive real-world experience to deliver frameworks which you can apply immediately and which will continue to support you wherever your career path may lead.
Lori Santikian
Adjunct Associate Professor; Faculty Director, Fink Center for Finance and Investments; Executive Program Faculty Director
Kumar Rajaram
Professor of Decisions, Operations and Technology Management; William E. Leonhard Chair in Management
Andres Terech
Adjunct Professor of Marketing, Associate Faculty Director at Morrison Center for Marketing and Data Analytics
Sanjay Sood
Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision Making
Beatrice Michaeli
Associate Professor of Accounting
George Geis
Adjunct Professor of Strategy
Mark J. Garmaise
Professor of Finance
David Wessels
Adjunct Professor of Finance
Chris Erickson
Professor of Management and Organizations
Stephen Spiller
Associate Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision Making, Director of Behavioral Lab
Robert M. McCann
Adjunct Professor of Management and Organizations; Director, Leadership Communication Program
Jana Gallus
Associate Professor of Strategy and Behavioral Decision Making
Jorja Leap
Adjunct Professor of Social Welfare; Executive Director, Social Justice Partnership; Co-Founder and Director, Watts Leadership Institute
"Anderson is nimble. We take risks in reinventing the classroom."
—Sanjay Sood
Professor of Marketing and Behavioral Decision Making
UCLA Anderson’s Executive Education Program Is Approved for Post-9/11 GI Bill Funding
Next Sessions
Fall 2024
Start Date: October 5, 2024
Finish Date: February 10, 2025
Delivery: Blended
(Live Online & In Person)
Program Fee: $23,000
Spring 2025
Start Date: March 1, 2025
Finish Date: June 23, 2025
Delivery: In Person
Program Fee: $23,000
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