Aston Business School Centre for Executive Development

TRANSFORMING TODAY’S LEADERS TO BUILD A BRIGHTER TOMORROW

Aston Business School is committed to creating and transferring knowledge that enables, innovates and inspires. 60 years of pioneering research and teaching has made the school internationally renowned, whilst the warm community spirit has created a positive difference to the lives of all of our students, alumni, businesses and organisations.

CENTRE FOR EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT

At Aston Business School’s Centre for Executive Development our vision and commitment is to be a major executive development partner of choice, equipping and inspiring leaders to think clearly, be confident and take innovative action.

By engaging with us for the development of your executives, you benefit from our experience - uniquely honed from our position at the heart of the second largest and most diverse city in the UK - of empowering individuals with the knowledge and confidence to continuously make a positive impact, for themselves, their organisation and their industry, not just for today, but for a long time into the future.

Aston Business School has a track record of successfully devising and delivering executive development programmes. Our peer-tested fresh insights spring from what the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) judged to be ‘world leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ research, and our standing as one of the top 1% of business schools in the world, and one of a very few to have triple accreditation from EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB.

Tailoring our delivery to a post experience and often a post-MBA market, we create customised accredited and non-accredited programmes for your executives, packaging existing and new management knowledge to address your organisation’s specific business needs.
 

AREAS WE LEAD IN

The Development of High Performance Teams

Factors that contribute towards high performing, creative and innovative teams

Team Leadership – value-based driven leadership

HR systems that underpin high performance working environments

Brand Management – promises to reality as a cornerstone of high performing teams

The Practice of Applied Strategy

Strategic alliances - as a critical success factor for the development of multinationals

The practice of strategy in dynamic contexts

 
The Practice of Change Management

Structuring of major change initiatives – particularly in highly ambiguous environments

Human reactions and how to manage those in the context of change

 
The Practice of Project Management

Eight project management competencies: individual and team profiling

The practice of structured projects and their communication plans

 
Finance: Alternative Perspectives 

Foreign Investment, a cornerstone of internationalisation: “who”, “what”, “where” & “why”

Islamic Finance: doing business in Islamic contexts

 
Frameworks for decision-making in highly complex, ambiguous situations 

OUR FACILITIES

The School attracts leading academics from all over the world to create a forward-thinking and inspirational environment. Combined with small class sizes these surroundings foster an innovative and creative learning experience for all of our candidates.

Aston Business School is situated in the heart of Birmingham, the UK’s second largest city, and has excellent on-site facilities. These include exceptional conference facilities, an urban chic conference hotel, bar and restaurant.