C-Suite Programs

Blended Format: Online + In-Person/Live Online

The Senior Executive Programs are designed to prepare senior executives for transformative leadership roles in their respective fields by developing relevant skills for digital transformation, innovation, and customer engagement. These immersive programs focus on building a strategic mindset and tactical proficiency, aligning with organizational missions and business goals, and equipping participants with the certifications and frameworks needed for high-impact results in a rapidly evolving business landscape.

Chief Product Officer Program

This program harnesses the best practices, frameworks and hard and soft skills to be a successful product manager, whether you are already working in this field or switching from an adjacent field. Participants will master the end-to-end strategic and tactical skills needed to become a professional product manager, develop a broad overview of the product management landscape and gain certifications in product management tools and methodologies to equip them for success in this fast-growing field.

Who should attend:

The Professional Certificate in Product Management is for those who want to build on or formalize their training for product management roles, including:

• Early-career professionals with one to five years of experience as a product manager or in a product support role
• Professionals making a lateral career move from an adjacent field such as engineering, UX/UI, marketing or sales

Participants come from a wide range of industries, including but not limited to:

• Tech companies (software, hardware, electronics, networking, e-commerce)
• Industrial products companies (consumer durables, medical equipment & devices, automotive, construction, agriculture)
• Tech-intensive services firms (banking/fintech, law firms, IT services, consultancies)

Key benefits:

• Master the end-to-end process of discovering, designing, developing, delivering and managing products
• Learn the strategic thinking and tactical implementation skills needed to become a professional product manager
• Gain certifications in product management tools and methodologies including project management, A/B testing (Optimizely), wireframing (Balsamiq), roadmapping (Trello), and analytics (Google Analytics)
• Hone your communication, negotiation and influence skills to effectively manage people and relationships
• Apply frameworks and tools to develop a start-to-finish product marketing plan for a product

Chief Marketing Officer Program

The Chief Marketing Officer Program is designed to prepare senior marketing executives for this vital and increasingly complex role. The program’s immersive journey will help you develop the mindset to lead augmented marketing operations that are aligned with the mission and business goals of your organization.

Who should attend:

• Marketing leaders aspiring to or already serving in C-level roles who want to stay current on trends and ignite growth.
• Directors, general managers, and VPs focused on innovation and leading change in their organizations.
• Senior and mid-career executives from companies of any size or development state eager to align marketing strategy with business goals, leverage marketing opportunities, and drive process improvement.

Key benefits:

• Distinguish the core values that define a customer-centric approach to marketing
• Develop cross-functional strategies that foster innovation and growth
• Promote the alignment of brand strategy and purpose
• Leverage the capabilities of analytics to inform marketing strategies
• Create an action plan to support the organization through intentional leadership
• Propose practical solutions to marketing challenges your organization faces

Chief Digital Officer Program

The Chief Digital Officer Program is designed to transform senior executives into digital transformation leaders. This immersive twelve-month program will enable you to build relevant skills for high-impact digital transformation, develop growth strategies for digital disruption and innovation and identify opportunities to increase customer engagement.

Who should attend:

• Directors or VPs and entrepreneurs responsible for digital transformation and creating an evolving digital roadmap for their organization
• Current and aspiring C-suite executives in digital, information, marketing and IT roles looking to upskill for innovation and growth
• Senior digital transformation consultants and marketing entrepreneurs wanting to drive scale by leveraging digital methods
• Technology experts and executives in SMEs who are initiating their first digital strategy

Participants are expected to have:

• A minimum of eight years of work experience in leading digital strategy
• Expected to be leading digital transformation in the next step of their career
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• International exposure (preferred)

Key benefits:

• Analyze market trends, threats, and opportunities to form a digital growth roadmap aligned with business objectives
• Develop a comprehensive perspective of frontier technologies to advance growth strategies
• Define values-based leadership skills for the C-suite and learn to effectively manage stakeholder relationships
• Build a customer-centric organization by identifying ways to enhance customer experience
• Evaluate your organization’s current practices to create a digital-focused action plan and establish the means to govern digital strategies on an ongoing basis

Chief Marketing Officer Program

In-Person / Invitation-only

Master the insights needed to navigate significant challenges faced by CMOs today, by engaging in meaningful discussions with Kellogg's top faculty and industry executives. This program is specifically designed to increase the odds of success for enterprise marketing leaders.

Who should attend:

Newly appointed CMOs and candidates for the CMO position or equivalent. Program is by invitation only.

Key benefits:

Gain a broadened point of view on key marketing topics through our proven learning framework with a small, select group of cross-industry participants from non-competitive firms.

Corporate Governance

Effective board members bring to the table skills and capabilities that differ distinctly from those of management and other corporate leaders. This corporate governance program paves the way to mastering the skills required to govern successfully.

Who should attend:

• New board members or senior executives who expect to be on a board in the near future
• Experienced board members who are in need of a "refresher"
• Executives from outside North America who wish to learn about North American governance practices

Key benefits:

• Develop a deeper understanding of board governance models
• Analyze the role of the board vis-à-vis management, internal and external auditors, and other outside advisors
• Understand how to navigate boardroom conflicts
• Engage in a “board in crisis” case simulation
• Study the legal and ethical challenges faced by today’s boards in areas such as executive compensation
• Become conversant in current boardroom topics such as cyber security and activist investors

Family Enterprise Boards

Family businesses are uniquely complex enterprises. This program empowers current and future directors of family-owned businesses to navigate the challenges posed by those organizations while learning to design, engage and lead boards that leverage their companies’ strategic advantages.

Who should attend:

• Current family and non-family board directors, trustees and chairs of family-controlled firms
• Family members developing themselves for future roles as board members in their enterprise
• Family and non-family executives who interact with or who will soon be appointed to the board

Key benefits:

• Define the board's role in understanding family business strategy
• Explore the differences in board decisions for a family enterprise
• Understand the unique challenges of selecting family and non-family directors
• Learn to effectively link the board with the family

Governing Family Enterprises

Join peers from leading family-run organizations to learn how family governance can help sustain business continuity, family unity and commitment. Come away equipped and energized to realize your vision for the future of your family enterprise with confidence.

Who should attend:

• Family and non-family directors, CEOs, board chairs and trustees of family-controlled firms. The enterprise must be 3rd generation or beyond, with a significant number of family owners and minimum annual revenue of US$100m with a preference for $500m or above (1st and 2nd generation enterprises should check out our Forming Family Enterprise Governance program)
• Family members involved in governing their family councils, family office or their family foundations
• Family shareholders

Key benefits:

• Define the roles and responsibilities of owners, directors, board chairs, the executive team and the family council
• Improve your board’s effectiveness
• Learn about critical governance policies needed to sustain the relationship between the enterprise and the family
• Learn how a common vision can unite family owners in a long-term commitment to continuity
• Learn how governance can be used to gain trust among family owners, directors and top management
• Leverage governance as a key competitive advantage of family business

Women's Director Development Program

Discover the keys to unlocking boardroom doors in this first-ever director development program for women seeking a role in governance. Develop the skills required to contribute meaningfully and come away with practical tools for landing a seat at the table.

Who should attend:

• Senior women executives seeking directorships
• Women directors seeking opportunities on Fortune 1000 boards
• Women with the financial literacy, business acumen, perspective and experience necessary to perform well in a governance role
• This program is limited to women with specific business experience. You must receive approval from Kellogg to participate. This will require a completed Kellogg application and a recommendation from either your CEO or a sitting board member of your choice endorsing you as qualified for board opportunities.

Key benefits:

• Broaden your understanding of the role of the board
• Hone your skills crafting and delivering your value proposition for a board seat
• Increase your visibility with executive search firms and nominating committees
• Analyze opportunities to harness your network to identify and create board opportunities
• Learn to detect red flags and read between the lines in financial statements

Kellogg Corporate Governance Conference

Exclusive, by-invitation-only annual conference that brings together more than 200 corporate directors and CEOs to discuss critical issues in corporate governance.

Who should attend:

Experienced corporate directors and CEOs

Key benefits:

Network and share best practices in corporate governance with other experienced directors and CEOs from leading companies