The Kellogg Executive Development Program transforms organizational leaders. It equips top-performing, mid-level to senior management executives to make decisions and take strategic action based upon both traditional and innovative business practices. Participants build skills and awareness as they realize their potential for assuming and thriving in general management roles.
The Kellogg faculty has developed teaching methods and a curriculum especially for the general manager. Our first order of business? To provide the tools, conceptual frameworks and metrics you need to navigate the general manager’s world.
Become a part of the Kellogg global family. Join us to build professional and social networks that only evolve through the immersive live-in experience. Discover first hand our:
Our emphasis on peer and faculty interaction intensifies the learning experience, promotes the informal exchange of ideas and fosters rewarding relationships that can last a lifetime.
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY
With a completed application, you will be invited to join us for a complimentary Zoom experience — Gateway to EDP: A Welcome Series. The first installments in this series are posted on this page and we invite you to watch the recordings. In this last session on February 17, 2021, we will continue to kick-start your EDP experience by previewing the content in the program and introducing you to several members of the faculty and as well as past participants. This series offers you ways to prepare for and maximize your time with us at Kellogg in June of 2021. We encourage your early application so you can join in our pre-program conversations.
August 26, 2020 Recording
October 8, 2020 Recording
Participants represent a rich diversity of disciplines, geographies and career experiences. They come from a wide variety of industries, including wholesale trade, manufacturing, financial services, health care, not-for-profit and government. Candidates are chosen not only for what they can learn and implement but also for what they can contribute.
Build Executive Presence
Dedicated sessions will help you build your message up, down and across the organization. Leverage skills in communication, persuasion, and presentation.
Action Learning
During the program participants will meet in small groups to create action plans that can be taken back and implemented in their organizations.
Perspectives from Industry
In addition to our seasoned faculty, the program features industry speakers immersed in current business challenges and opportunities. Site visits to local businesses enhance program content by expanding perspectives.
Optional Leadership Coaching Package
If you would like to deepen, extend and personalize your Executive Development Program experience, Kellogg offers an optional leadership coaching program for an additional fee. You will work one-on-one with an experienced Kellogg leadership coach who is familiar with the program's content. With your coach, you will set goals and discuss leadership strategies to meet the challenges of your specific situation. Post program coaching via scheduled conference call takes place within a six-month period.
This three-week program will enrich you with fresh ideas and empower you to gain a broader perspective and increased confidence.
Week 1: Organization and Leadership Foundations
Grounds the participant with a common language to reflect on their organization and their role as leader. Topics include strategy, fundamentals in leadership and regional topics in the world economy.
Week 2: Core Business Linkages
Emphasizes the foundational business skills needed by general managers to understand and lead the workforce. Topics include:
Accounting
Demystifying financial statements and reporting enables you to ask the right questions and talk numbers with confidence. You’ll examine the workings of financial statements and the conceptual underpinnings of corporate financial reports.
You’ll learn strategies for evaluating and linking earnings and cash flow to value creation, developing a clearer understanding of corporate disclosures and nondisclosures, and how companies take advantage of allowable income-increasing strategies.
Finance
You’ll become familiar with both the frame of reference used by financial officers and the challenges they encounter. You’ll explore cash flow analysis, capital budgeting allocation decisions and capital structure analysis, as well as models for evaluating investment alternatives and the ranking of investment projects.
Marketing
Moving beyond the fundamentals, members of Kellogg’s world-renowned marketing faculty will share insights into how marketing is changing and how development and deployment of marketing strategy must adapt. Through case studies and classroom exercises, you’ll explore the impact of decision-driven marketing, design thinking and digital tools on the marketing function. This will expand your understanding of their impact on operating results. This module assumes familiarity with basic marketing principles.
Operations
You’ll focus on the strategic role of operations in financial success, take a systemic view of organizations as collections of business flows and supply chains and identify key metrics for targeting improvement. This module also emphasizes the linkage of operational and financial flows as part of daily management and examines strategic capacity investment and operational hedging.
Strategy
Examine the forces that influence competitive advantage and innovative approaches to creating value and profit. Whether performing a competitive analysis, focusing on growth or creating a system of metrics to drive performance, this module will encourage you to ask if your organizational structures support your strategy and provide tools to drive alignment.
Week 3: Managing Into the Future
Sessions focus on preparing for a return to the workplace with skills ready to make a difference. Topics include:
Motivating Your Team
In this series of modules that encourages a diagnostic approach to motivating your team, you will explore your own unit’s alignment to company values, identify your organization’s motivation culture and discover how it impacts performance. You will learn techniques for assessing your team and developing customized approaches to their development. And while organizational structures can drive operations, we will delve into the power of informal networks and how to leverage their role in your team’s success.
Leveraging Data for Business Decisions
Data-based decision-making unleashes the power of information, changing the way you think and communicate about strategy, marketing, operations, the future of your workforce and more. Capturing this power requires an understanding of the limits as well as the upside potential of data analytics and machine intelligence. Our faculty explore the underlying structures designed to exploit data and create relevant classroom exercises to help you critically analyze decisions around embedding intelligent automation throughout the enterprise.
Communications Essentials for Leaders
Self-assessments, role-plays and workshops will help you refine your communications strengths and recognize where you can improve. These modules are designed to build your expertise in reading your audience, crafting your message and delivering it with confidence. Learn strategies for overcoming negativity. Engage in interactive exercises to practice techniques for enhancing your executive presence and effectiveness as a leader.
Cross-Cultural Negotiations
You’ll learn basic business negotiation skills, practical frameworks for negotiating in a globalized marketplace and new ideas and techniques from the field of dispute resolution. Although you can use what you learn here in virtually any situation, this module emphasizes negotiation within organizations and group decision-making.
Admission Criteria
An admissions committee thoroughly reviews each application and considers the nature and scope of the applicant’s responsibilities. For the benefit of class members, sponsoring organizations and the integrity of the program, the committee seeks to admit individuals with diverse skills and experiences and who meet the qualification criteria as described above under 'Who Should Attend'.
Kellogg expects that participants will attend all sessions, immerse themselves completely in the experience and free themselves of all other obligations while the program is in session.
Sponsorship
To enroll in the Executive Development Program, you must have a sponsor from your organization, someone familiar with your background and motivations for attending. This could be the person to whom you report, your organization’s chief human resources officer or the person responsible for management development in your organization.
Should you be interested in self-funding your participation, please reach out to Kellogg’s Executive Development Advisor for this program to discuss options.
LanguageJan A. Van Mieghem - Academic Director; Harold L. Stuart Professor of Managerial Economics; Professor of Operations
Kathy Preble Bayert - Academic Leadership Team, Sr. Program Director
Naini Serohi - Academic Leadership Team, Program Director
Sally Blount - Michael L. Nemmers Professor of Strategy
Gregory Carpenter - James Farley/Booz Allen Hamilton Professor of Marketing Strategy; Director of the Center for Market Leadership; Faculty Director, Kellogg Markets & Customers Initiative
Alexander Chernev - Professor of Marketing
Robert Dewar - Associate Professor Emeritus of Management & Organizations
Brenda Ellington Booth - Clinical Professor of Leadership
Steven Franconeri - Professor of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; Director, Northwestern Cognitive Science Program; Professor of Leadership, Kellogg School of Management (Courtesy)
Thomas N. Hubbard - Elinor and H. Wendell Hobbs Professor of Management; Professor of Strategy; Faculty Director of Insight
Nour Kteily - Associate Professor of Management & Operations
Damian Ma - Director and co-founder of MacroPolo, the Think Tank of the Paulson Institute
Kevin McTigue - Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing
Adam Pah - Clinical Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations; Associate Director, Research Assistant Professor, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
Mitchell A. Petersen - Glen Vasel Professor of Finance; Director of the Heizer Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital
Marian Powers - Adjunct Professor of Executive Education
Mohanbir Sawhney - McCormick Foundation Chair of Technology; Clinical Professor of Marketing; Director of the Center for Research in Technology & Innovation
David Schonthal - Clinical Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship; Faculty Director of Zell Fellows Program; Senior Director of Business Design – IDEO
Edward (Ned) Smith - Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management; Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Sociology at Northwestern University; Faculty Affiliate, Northwestern Institute for Complexity (NICO)
Leigh Thompson - J. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolution & Organizations Professor of Management & Organizations
“[EDP...] shows you how to be purposeful in your strategy and how that must align with everything you do. It also gives you tactical tools to achieve success.”
Director, Training and Maintenance Services, NAV CANADA
“The EDP experience at Kellogg has been invaluable to me. The professors are really top notch and their passion is evident in their teaching. I will most treasure the connections I have made here and the friendships. As a leader in my company, I know I have gained some valuable tools to help me continue to grow both within my organization and in my own personal life. There are no words to adequately express my gratitude so I just say thank you.”
Director Intermodal Planning and Pricing, Norfolk Southern Corporation
“[EDP is] ... a program that refreshes concepts, reloads enthusiasm and gives you a new perspective of life and career.”
Division Manager, Panama Canal Authority
Please contact us to schedule an advising session
June 7-25, 2021 Start: June 7 at 8:30 AM End: June 25 at 1:00 PM
This Approval Program is limited to individuals with specific business experience. All applications will be subject to review and approval from the program’s Academic Director. |
$35,350 Fee includes lodging and most meals |
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Sept. 27 - Oct. 15, 2021 Start: September 27 at 8:30 AM End: October 15 at 1:00 PM
This Approval Program is limited to individuals with specific business experience. All applications will be subject to review and approval from the program’s Academic Director. |
$35,350 Fee includes lodging and most meals |