Today’s Senior Executives are at the forefront of organisations the world over that are faced with a long period of significant change and instability driven by globalisation, accelerated changes in technology, production and markets, and employment uncertainties.

These conditions entail direct challenges to jobs, careers, organisations, industries and nations, but importantly they also hold valuable opportunities for those who become most adept at developing and continuously upgrading the skills and knowledge necessary to compete and thrive in such an environment.

Many efforts at many levels are required to help organisations thrive rather than go under in the seemingly permanent “white water” of global change.  Today’s senior executives can take a leading role in helping organisations thrive but to do so they must understand the relevant factors and possible adaptations at the organisational, industry-specific, business sector, and national levels.

Additionally, each senior executive needs to develop a research-based set of fundamental skills; a skill set that provides a permanent basis for success by allowing the senior executive to better adapt to any type of change.  This fundamental skill set allows the individual senior executives to function more effectively in any situation.

Engaging an expert executive education group such as Ivy Executive Education to deliver customised on-site education to executives enables organisations to develop non-routine behavioural and cognitive skills (such as abstract reasoning, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration) that have already been shown to be essential to allowing individuals to adapt to changing situations, including changes in corporate environments.  Organisations typically consider their specific needs in relation to one of the following areas; leadership, negotiation, general management, behavioural finance, investment decision making, human resources and performance improvement to government policy and non-profit development and then engage an expert to tailor a curriculum that addresses those needs.

There are a number of options available to corporate, government and non-profit organisations looking for leadership development programs but often there are drawbacks – for example local providers can lack the international depth of knowledge and experience that the top US and European universities provide while the top US and European universities come at a cost, both in financial terms (which subsequently limits the learning experience to only a handful) and in terms of time away from work and family.  Further, in both these cases, executive learning is typically limited to those academics employed by the one institution.

Ivy Executive Education eliminates the need for executives to spend time away from work and home by flying executive educators to the client; it reduces the financial cost significantly compared to comparable offerings which enables organisations to extend the learning experience to all of their executives rather than just a handful; and it provides faculty from more than just one university by drawing on a faculty of over 100 handpicked executive education experts from the world’s leading universities and business schools including Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Stanford, Babson, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Oxford, HEC Paris, Imperial College London and New York University.

Organisations engaging Ivy Executive Education for custom executive education benefit from a tremendous mix of academic and real world experience which is hard to find anywhere.  Faculty members have worked with some of the most prestigious organisations in the world including NASA, FBI, UNICEF, World Bank, IMF, American Express, Barclays, Prudential Investments, Boeing, Chevron, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, GE, Glaxo, ING, JP Morgan, McKinsey, PWC, Roche, UBS and Johnson & Johnson.

Drawing on talent from the world’s best schools and delivering that to the executive’s doorstep provides a powerful incentive for executives to enhance their essential leadership skills quickly and cost effectively; and it comes at a time when executives, more than ever, need to continue their professional development to be effective leaders.