Develop stronger senior leaders with Durham University Business School
Senior leaders across the North East are operating in an increasingly complex business environment. From technological change and growing commercial pressures to developing people, managing finances and delivering long-term strategy, leadership teams are being asked to make better decisions, faster.
Durham University Business School’s Senior Leader Accelerator has been designed to help experienced and emerging senior leaders build the knowledge, practical skills and confidence needed to respond to those challenges.
The programme brings together four areas that are increasingly important for anyone moving into, or already operating at, senior leadership level:
- Leadership
- Strategy
- Finance for Non-Financial Managers
- Technology in Business
Each module is delivered over three days, giving participants 12 days of face-to-face learning across the complete Senior Leader Accelerator programme.
Throughout the programme, participants explore current academic thinking alongside practical tools, frameworks and real-world business applications that can be taken back into their organisations.
Leadership development backed by executive coaching
A key part of the Senior Leader Accelerator is its integrated executive coaching.
Participants receive four one-to-one coaching sessions during the programme, providing dedicated time to reflect on their own leadership challenges, put learning into practice and concentrate on individual development priorities.
This combination of structured learning and individual coaching is intended to help participants move beyond simply understanding leadership concepts and consider how they can apply them within their own role and organisation.
Flexible learning for busy senior leaders
Recognising the demands on senior managers, the Senior Leader Accelerator has been designed to offer greater flexibility.
Rather than having a single annual starting point, participants can join the programme at any of the four modules and complete the remaining modules as they run subsequently.
For employers, this means leadership development can begin when it is needed, rather than having to wait for the start of a new annual cohort.
Supporting leaders in engineering and manufacturing
For businesses across the engineering and manufacturing sector, the breadth of the Senior Leader Accelerator is particularly relevant.
Senior leaders can find themselves balancing immediate operational pressures with longer-term business strategy, while also responding to AI and digital transformation, developing their teams, managing increasingly commercial customer and supplier relationships, and taking on greater financial responsibility.
The programme provides an opportunity to step away from those day-to-day pressures, look at the bigger picture and strengthen leadership capability across several interconnected areas of the business.
For emerging leaders, it can also help build broader commercial and strategic knowledge as their responsibilities increase.
Leadership development from Durham University Business School
Durham University Business School has extensive experience of delivering leadership development for organisations across the region and beyond and is an internationally triple-accredited business school.
Its Executive Education activity combines academic expertise with practical business application, helping organisations develop leadership capability that can be applied within the workplace.
The complete Senior Leader Accelerator costs £5,000 per participant, including all four modules and four individual coaching sessions.
Participants who complete the programme receive a Durham University Business School Certificate of Participation.
Find out more about the Senior Leader Accelerator
Businesses interested in developing existing or emerging senior leaders can find out more through Durham University Business School’s Executive Education team.
For further information, contact the team at exec.ed@durham.ac.uk or visit Durham University Business School’s Executive Education pages.
