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Duke Executive Leadership Program

Duke University
Durham , United States
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Leadership Studies | Management
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Business and Administration
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English
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Program Overview

Duke Executive Leadership Program

The Duke Executive Leadership Program is designed to transform senior executives into impactful leaders through experiential learning and professional development. It focuses on honing decision-making skills, strategic competencies, and leadership styles to drive organizational success. Participants engage in real-world applications, interactive sessions, and case studies led by distinguished faculty. The executive leadership development program emphasizes a personalized approach with mentoring and action plans, fostering both professional and personal growth. Graduates join an elite network of alumni, enhancing their career trajectory and leadership effectiveness.


Program Overview

  • In-depth executive leadership training
  • Experiential learning with real-world applications
  • In-person mentoring and bespoke action plans

Amplify Your Leadership Skills

The Duke Executive Leadership Program is designed to amplify your leadership capabilities through a blend of experiential learning, expert mentoring, and real-world simulations. This leadership training program leverages a holistic approach to leadership development, integrating advanced decision-making frameworks, strategic problem-solving techniques, and a focus on personal leadership styles. Participants are immersed in a dynamic learning environment where they develop the tools and know-how to navigate complex business landscapes with confidence and agility. The program's design connects executives to their full potential, enabling business leaders to drive organizational success and achieve their career goals.


Gain the Executive Edge

After going through a Six Domains of Leadership 360-degree assessment, administered by our executive coaching partner, you’ll explore the different ways you lead and identify individual business challenges and opportunities. Throughout the program, you’ll work one-on-one with an executive coach to interpret feedback and develop a customized plan to achieve your goals.


The ROI of Duke’s Executive Leadership Certificate

Participants in the Duke Executive Leadership Program see measurable improvements such as promotions and salary increases, reflecting their enhanced value to their organizations. These tangible benefits stem from the executive training program's real-world curriculum, which equips executive leaders with advanced skills in strategic thinking, communication, and decision-making. Graduates often find themselves better positioned for higher-level roles, as their ability to lead effectively and drive results is significantly amplified.


Who Should Attend Duke’s Executive Leadership Training?

The leadership training program is appropriate for anyone who leads and influences others in their work. Senior leaders and senior managers who currently have or anticipate having leadership responsibilities, as either an executive or a manager, will gain the most from this curriculum.


Curriculum

  • Individual Action Planning: Before starting the program, you’ll identify a set of colleagues to complete a survey which informs our 360-degree assessment of your leadership style. Along with information faculty gather directly from you, this data will become the foundation of your program experience, providing a framework to discuss your leadership style and identify your unique challenges and opportunities.
  • Six Domains of Leadership: The program’s intellectual foundation is the Six Domains of Leadership model, developed by professors Sim Sitkin and Allan Lind. This framework begins with your innate strengths, helps you understand how you are performing in different dimensions, and provides guidance on developing solid and enduring leadership behaviors.
    • Personal Leadership – Building a leadership persona from your personality and values
    • Relational Leadership – Forging sound relationships with those you lead
    • Contextual Leadership – Providing coherence and team identity
    • Supportive Leadership – Protecting your people
    • Inspirational Leadership – Motivating exceptional effort
    • Responsible Leadership – Ensuring your leadership is balanced and ethical
    • Configurational Leadership – Adapting your leadership style
    • Leading Change - Apply the leadership domains to the move from old to the new
    • Co-leadership – Sharing leadership authority

Program Objectives

The curriculum breaks down the act of leadership into easily digestible scenarios. Over 5 days, you’ll learn how to:


  • Create and project your vision, values, and expertise
  • Make your leadership style more intentional and strategic—don’t rely on intuition alone
  • Build coherence by clarifying roles, rules, and processes
  • Serve as a source of optimism and enthusiasm while eliciting excellence and innovation
  • Provide the resources and support to encourage savvy risk taking
  • Infuse responsibility, ethical actions, and balance in an organizational setting
  • Recognize ways to lead effectively under a variety of conditions/circumstances
  • Lead during times of change
  • Leading your organization through the challenge of crises
  • Create an effective leadership team

Program Format

Prepares for a 5-day immersion in leadership development. Drawing insights from participants in different industries and functions, faculty engage you in lively debate and analysis. A combination of individual and team assignments ensure you can put what you’re learning into practice. Innovative exercises help you understand different concepts in a visceral way and create new dimensions in your learning. You’ll also spend significant one-on-one time with your leadership coach, working through feedback in your 360-degree personal assessment and developing an action plan.


Sample Schedule

Arrival

  • Check-in Available: 3:00 PM
  • Program Introduction: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Dinner: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Day 1

  • Breakfast: 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
  • Personal & Relational Leadership: 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • SDLS Overview & Applying What You Learn: 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Lunch & SDLS Review: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Experiential Exercises & Debrief: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Break: 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Coaching & Workbook Planning: 4:00 PM - 7:15 PM
  • Dinner & Video Case: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Day 2

  • Breakfast: 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
  • Contextual Leadership: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Lunch & OCI Planning: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Inspirational & Supportive Leadership: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Coaching & Workbook Planning: 5:00 PM - 8:15 PM
  • Dinner: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Day 3

  • Breakfast: 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
  • Responsible Leadership: 8:00 AM - 10:00 PM
  • Trust Exercise: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Lunch: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Configurational Leadership, Video Case & Debrief: 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Optional Campus Tour: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Coaching & Workbook Planning: 5:00 PM - 8:15 PM
  • Dinner: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Day 4

  • Breakfast: 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
  • Leading Change: 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Video Case: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Lunch: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Leadership During Crisis: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
  • Individual Reflection/Planning (PDP & OCI): 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Coaching Teams & OCI Presentations: 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Celebration Dinner: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Day 5

  • Breakfast: 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
  • Co-Leadership & Leadership Teams: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Program Review: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
  • Evaluations & Program Close: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Lunch: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Certificate of Completion

Upon successful completion of the Duke Executive Leadership Program, participants receive a verified Certificate of Completion and digital badge issued by Duke Executive Education. This credential signals your achievement and can be easily added to your LinkedIn profile to highlight your new capabilities in leading transformational initiatives, aligning teams with purpose, and delivering results that shape the future of your organization.


Faculty

  • Sim Sitkin: Michael W. Krzyzewski University Professor, Professor of Management and Public Policy, Faculty Director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics, and Director of the Behavioral Science and Policy Center at Duke University. Professor Sitkin has extensive, worldwide consulting and executive education experience with many corporations, nonprofit, and government organizations. His research focuses on leadership and control systems, their influence on risk taking, accountability, trust, learning, and innovation, and how they empower organizational members to become more capable of change and innovation. His most recent books are Organizational Control, The Six Domains of Leadership, and The Routledge Companion to Trust.
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