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INTRODUCTION
In today's fast-moving and complex economic climate and business world, Cambridge Executive Education stands ready to help you address challenges and seize new opportunities. As part of the University of Cambridge and Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge Executive Education is able to call upon both the resources of its highly ranked business school and one of the greatest universities in the world to craft custom programmes for global clients that will inspire, engage and enable your key talent to successfully solve the problems of today and to plan for an even brighter future for your organisation.

The following differences make the Cambridge experience outstanding for our custom clients:

 • As part of the University of Cambridge we have access to the wider University Faculty and involve these thought leaders in the delivery of the programme. The University has also been awarded No.1 University in the World by QS University World Rankings 2010.
 • We are situated in the most vibrant, entrepreneurial community in Europe, known as 'Silicon Fen', containing locally born high-tech and bio-tech businesses and UK subsidiaries of international companies, with access to experienced business founders and leaders.
 • We are part of a dynamic Cambridge ecosystem containing a huge variety of people, experience and knowledge that can be drawn upon.
 • Experiential learning is built into the content of all our programmes. We ensure that learning is developed and brought to life through practice.
 • Programme participants reside at a suitable location of their choice in the historic city of Cambridge offering an inspiring learning environment.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER:
The Cambridge custom offering leverages a wide range of opportunities to provide learning experiences for client organisations that bring outstanding benefits and value. Cambridge Executive Education has the proven capacity to devise custom programmes designed to specific needs. We have successfully worked with a broad range of private and public sector as well as international organisations such as Allen & Overy, Barclays, BT, City & Guilds, Ernst & Young, Essex County Council, Fujitsu, IBM, Investcorp, Laing O'Rourke, Lloyds TSB, Shell, Ofcom, UNDP and many others from sectors including the following:

 • Finance and Banking
 • Public Sector
 • Education Providers in Emerging Economies
 • High-Tech and Telecommunications
 • Professional Services
 • Healthcare

For them, we have designed and conducted programmes that develop a wide range of capabilities, including:

 • Leadership Development
 • Strategic Decision Making
 • Innovation and Entrepreneurship
 • HR Excellence
 • Retail & Investment Banking
 • General Management
 • Operational Excellence, Supply Chain & Project Management
 • Policy Best Practice
 • Marketing Management
 • Healthcare Management
 • Women in Leadership

CAPACITY BUILDING AND CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT
We view working collaboratively on capacity-building projects with international partners as an opportunity for the University of Cambridge to capitalise on 800 years of experience as a world-leading institution. By working with ambitious and well-regarded national institutions to establish themselves as centres of excellence in learning, we believe that the University can enhance existing relationships and establish new relationships with major international institutions, leading to future research collaborations and other high-level academic partnerships.

Cambridge Executive Education, with its experience of working collaboratively across different areas of the University and with a multi-disciplinary approach, is ideally placed to lead the development of these partnerships, drawing on a range of resources and faculty. With an extensive record in professional service delivery for clients from across the world we have the skills and experience to successfully deliver such collaborations.

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
Our programmes are designed to provide a collaborative and stimulating environment for learning and to add value to your organisation. Cambridge Executive Education custom programmes strive to inspire, engage and enable.

Inspire
Participants hear from leading faculty and expert business practitioners from Cambridge Judge Business School, the wider University, external partners and expert practitioners to bring new and inspiring perspectives to bear on contemporary business and leadership issues. They will develop as thought leaders and be encouraged to challenge mindsets and established paradigms.

Engage
We are able to leverage a wide range of opportunities to bring the learning experience to life. This ensures participants move beyond knowledge to stimulate profound personal change through a range of very different challenges and experiences, which could include leadership insights, company visits, creativity workshops and action learning.

Enable
The programme design will integrate learning with practice, providing structured opportunities for participants to apply their learning. It does this through: facilitating reflection, dialogue and discussion, enabling ongoing networking via a dedicated Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), and participation in work-based challenge projects. The goal is to enable participants to be agents of change and develop the knowledge, skills and abilities that can be readily applied in the workplace.

Based on the philosophy of "inspire, engage and enable", Cambridge Executive Education will help you develop a custom programme tailored to you needs and will:

 • Build unity and alignment around strategy. Develop the executive capabilities needed to successfully and rapidly implement strategy.
 • Build core strength by accelerating the development of your pool of high potential talent.
 • Help executives make successful transitions at key milestones.
 • Identify and address critical marketplace/business challenges. Develop the mindsets, knowledge and skills needed to address those challenges.
 • Act as a catalyst for organisational change and transformation. Identify and develop the capabilities needed to transform.


HOW WE WORK WITH YOU
Our programmes bring together a range of learning styles and methods of delivery, based on our approach of "inspire, engage, enable".

At the start of your relationship with us, a dedicated Client Director will work with you to achieve your learning outcomes. With experience in developing custom programmes to clients across the globe and from a wide range of business sectors, our Client Directors will provide exceptional service and deliver excellent results.

Once a programme format and timescales have been agreed, a Programme Manager will work with you to make all logistical arrangements in advance of the programme. They will be your day-to-day contact in preparing for your arrival and will be on hand during the actual delivery to assist with any queries as they arise and ensure the whole process runs seamlessly.

On an academic level, the programme will be led by a Faculty Programme Director whose role is to steer the 'learning journey' for participants, setting the context, facilitating discussion, debriefing sessions and working closely with participants to ensure their learning needs are met. The programme will combine a range of learning approaches that links new knowledge with participants' own real work experience. The Programme Director will be closely involved in the design and development phase to ensure the programme reflects the organisation's context and that programme aims are translated into meaningful learning objectives throughout the programme.

Contact us to tell us how we can address your learning needs and develop a custom programme for you and your organisation.

EXPERIENCE
 • Distinctively, your time in Cambridge is not limited to classroom-based activity and we aim to incorporate a number of practical experiences into the programme to aid understanding and to gain fresh perspectives on recurrent themes.

 • Leadership insights: hear powerful leadership journeys from successful business leaders and reflect on leadership challenges in a range of contexts such as at the Churchill Archive at Churchill College or perspectives on leadership in the arts at the University of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum.

 • Company visits: to experience different business environments and study key corporate challenges in different contexts. We are ideally situated in the entrepreneurial 'Silicon Fen' area and with easy rail links to London we have access to many multinational and technologically innovative companies.

 • Creativity workshops: Leaders develop new insights into the experience of leadership through a range of creative and arts-based activities. Some recent activities include: an interactive session with the Cambridge orchestra in residence, Britten Sinfonia, exploring ideas on the nature of leadership, communication and team roles; voice workshops focussing on communication, leadership and the experience of change; theatre workshop on innovation, creativity, risk and failure.

 • Research at the cutting edge: A theme of sustainable environments can be explored in depth with a visit to a leading Cambridge research institute; e.g. exploring future global scenarios with a focus on climate change through a visit to the British Antarctic Survey, where leaders hear from scientists first hand, visit the ice cores and aquaria and challenge scientists on their understanding of climate change and its future implications.

 • The Cambridge Experience: the unique historical setting of the Cambridge Colleges can include a wider programme of visits and events that complements the programme themes, such as punting on the River Cam, the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, the Darwin Collection, the Wren Library at Trinity College, or the various Cambridge science museums. All of our programmes can include formal College dining and the opportunity to network with Cambridge faculty.


RECENT CLIENTS
 • Allen & Overy
 • AWG
 • BT
 • Bech-Bruun
 • Coventry Building Society
 • Hong Kong Chevening Scholars
 • Department for Education and Skills
 • Diageo
 • Ericsson
 • Ernst & Young
 • ESSEC-Philips
 • Fujitsu
 • International Health Leadership Programme
 • International Women's Forum
 • Lloyds TSB
 • Ofcom
 • Pohto
 • PPD
 • Rolls-Royce
 • Roschier
 • Royal Mail
 • Shell
 • University of São Paulo
 • WHO/DFID