Cambridge Advanced Leadership Programme

An outstanding portfolio of programmes for highly motivated professionals at every step on the leadership ladder.  

Overview

• Build skills in the fundamentals of business management or step back and refresh your entire leadership approach. Rigorous, useful and anchored in academic excellence, our exceptional portfolio of programmes offers options for senior executives and managers at every step on the leadership ladder. 
• Whether you’re transitioning to your first senior leadership role, looking to deepen your understanding of key management disciplines or redesigning your existing leadership agenda, we have a programme to suit. We’re also proud to offer a leadership programme designed specifically to address the needs of women building their leadership skills and style. 

Cambridge Advanced Leadership Programme

• Refresh your thinking and fine-tune your leadership agenda. The Cambridge ALP is a challenging, immersive programme designed for seasoned senior leaders and executives looking to revitalise their leadership strategies. Weaving together vibrant debate, deep experience and leading-edge thinking, you’ll gain new skills, confidence and networks.  Step back. Take stock. 
• Test yourself. Challenge yourself. Taught over 3 intensive weeks, the Cambridge Advanced Leadership Programme (ALP) gives senior executives time to step back, reassess and explore new ways of thinking.  
• During this programme you will have the opportunity to gain a fresh perspective.  Learn to respond and adapt to rapid economic and technological change, maintain competitive advantage, mitigate challenge, and recognise opportunity. Developing your own personal leadership style, you’ll return to your organisation primed to lead change. 
• Refresh your thinking and fine-tune your leadership agenda. Be inspired. 

Benefits and career impact

• Science parks. Incubators. Innovation centres. Cambridge Judge Business School makes the most of the Cambridge Phenomenon.  
• A refreshed leadership mindset benefits both you and your organisation.

Benefits for you

• Revitalise your leadership approach for future success.
• Revisit your professional and personal ambitions.
• Exchange ideas and engage with an outstanding faculty and cohort.
• Learn to lead change, develop high-performing teams and operate across geographical boundaries.
• Grow your network of senior executives individually selected for admission and make friends for life.
• Gain a digital attendance certificate from Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education.
• On completing the Cambridge Advanced Leadership Programme you will be eligible to become an associate alumnus of Cambridge Judge Business School, a global network of business people.

Benefits for your organisation

• Ensure your senior executives are refreshed, recharged and ready for greater leadership responsibilities.
• Create ‘agents of change’ – leaders who will cascade learning throughout your organisation.
• Gain a better-networked resource for tackling future organisational challenges.
• Invest in the long-term future of your business.

Programme content

• Chart your next strategic moves. Three inter-connected themes encourage vibrant discussion and debate. 

Making sense of turbulent times

• Learn new ways of thinking – how to navigate global financial crises, cyber security threats trade wars and economic sanctions.
• Develop innovative strategic responses to adapt to rapid economic and technological change.
• Understand an increasingly complex global financial system 
• Achieve long-term sustainability for your organisation. 

Building organisational and personal capabilities 

• Become an agile and smart leader. 
• Know how to establish an ‘ecosystem’ of partners. 
• Learn to manage in a networked or matrix environment. 
• Explore scientific and technological developments to transform your organisation.
• Ensure local success in a global world – understand how to successfully confront local opponents. 

Leading into the future

• Examine your personal leadership style.
• Learn to adapt – but remain authentic to who you are.
• Explore innovative ways of motivating people in a difficult economic climate.
• Examine how reporting systems need to change to remain relevant in today’s globalised environment.  

How you learn: Face-to-face

• Benefit from the power of small. Each ALP cohort is limited to a small number of carefully selected participants. Face-to-face, you’ll enjoy a challenging mix of lectures, debates, simulations, presentations, role play, coaching and group work in an environment that has created learning for 800 years. You’ll also explore fresh insights from guest speakers, leading business practitioners and world-class faculty, like the Cambridge ALP’s Academic Director, Professor Stelios Kavadias.

Who attends
The Cambridge ALP is only as good as the quality of its participants. This programme is for you if: 

• You are a managing director or head of a business unit with at least 5 years’ experience in this role and P&L responsibility
• You work within small, medium and large organisations in the public or private sector
• You are an executive from the non-profit sector 
• You head a corporate function
• You contribute to organisational strategy.

Reserve your place on the Advanced Leadership Programme

• Demand for the Cambridge Advanced Leadership programme is high and we encourage prospective candidates to reserve a place; this ensures we hold a provisional place whilst allowing time to complete the application documents.