Custom programmes
We create transformational experiences for executives and future leaders.
Overview
We empower individuals and businesses through immersive and personalised executive education. For us, learning is a process where our clients and participants experience a shift in awareness, knowledge, attitude, and self-identity. We are proud to support clients and individuals who are ready to bring positive change to their organisation and the world.
We design our customised, transformational learning programmes with a passion for learning and for the success of each individual. We want to do impactful things and are at our best when we work with organisations that feel the same way. We understand that learning works best and stays when it is experiential and personalised.
We access world-leading expertise available within the University of Cambridge ecosystem, the home of cutting-edge research and innovation.
Erin Hallett, Director of Custom Programmes: “We recognise that although your challenges may be similar to those of your competitors, your resources, culture, and people must address these challenges uniquely. We build a customised solution for and with you that matches your organisation’s unique needs.”
Stelios Kavadias, Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies in Innovation and Growth: “Cambridge Judge Business School is a unique place to engage for a custom executive education programme. Our passion to understand the challenges that the clients face and work based on our own expertise, which is extremely broad and always surrounds this notion of tackling the big management challenges out there in the world so that we can help them build better solutions. We borrow from a wide wealth of expertise from the rest of the University of Cambridge in order to be able to inform both our clients but also our research and the advice that we give in the best possible way.”
Dawn Denvir, Managing Director – Global Learning and Development, The Nature Conservancy: “We chose Cambridge Judge Business School for 3 important reasons, the first, they listened carefully. In that application process, they were very attuned to our needs and providing us solutions we were looking for. Second, they offered a wide array of different collaborators, facilitators, speakers, drawing from the entire Cambridge University pool. And third, they had deep connections with conservation and environmental organisations in the area that brought real knowledge, skills, and credibility into the room for our leaders.”
Christopher Marquis, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management: “It is the latest University of Cambridge research that is at the heart of all of our programmes, combined with cutting-edge, real-world insights. By embedding this unique and actionable research into our learning solutions, we ensure demonstrable impact on your organisation and your people upon programme completion.”
Rossa Shanks, Chief Marketing Officer, ISTARI: “The impact of the programme on the participants is immeasurable. They’re now armed and equipped with fresh perspectives, new thinking frameworks and toolkits to elevate themselves from technical leaders to business leaders to really drive organisational change.”
Christopher Marquis, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management: “We are extremely proud to be a certified B corporation. We’re committed to using business as a force for good, helping other organisations understand how they too can be a force for positive change.”
Rossa Shanks, Chief Marketing Officer, ISTARI: “Working with Cambridge has been a career highlight for me personally. From the design sprint through to the programme delivery, the team at Cambridge has been a real joy to work with. Together, we’ve created an immersive, inventive experience inside and outside of the classroom right here in the heart of Cambridge.”
Cambridge Judge
Cambridge Judge ranked #1 by Times Higher Education in the Business and Management Studies category.
Research centres
The Business School community of faculty and researchers are actively engaged with a wide variety interdisciplinary centres and initiatives.
Faculty
Our faculty are leaders in their field, directing cutting-edge research and consulting for businesses and government.
Journal citations
Since 1990, Cambridge Judge Business School has forged a reputation as a centre of rigorous and high-impact thinking and transformative education.
Learning design
Our custom programmes are all delivered by Cambridge Judge Business School’s world-class faculty at the University of Cambridge. The content stems from their latest cutting-edge research.
The results from the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) highlight the global impact of research at Cambridge Judge. The Times Higher Education’s rankings placed Cambridge Judge at #1 for Business and Management Studies and a third of Cambridge submissions were ranked in the top three institutions in their subject areas, with Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Architecture and Land Economy, and Business leading the field.
We draw upon the strengths and resources of the wider University of Cambridge and the Cambridge ecosystem to ensure our programmes make a lasting impact on our clients.
- All our programmes can be tailored to be blended; with a customised mix of Face-to-face, Live Online and high-quality on-demand content, which can be selected from the CJBS Executive Education library.
- By effectively blending these formats and underpinning them with world-class research, we can design robust learning experiences.
- We are able to provide insightful data and reports at the individual and company level through world-leading psychometrics and learning analytics.
Our learning design principles
Our programmes are learner-centred, allowing participants to intervene and shape the learning process to their needs. We use a series of methods such as reflective practice, simulations and design sprints to help leaders discover and generate new insights as well as a lecture style approach. This self-discovery aids retention of learning and creates opportunities to embed that learning through peer-to-peer interaction.
We help learners diagnose their starting position before breaking down a complex topic. Using a variety of instructional techniques, we equip leaders with a toolkit of frameworks to assess organisational challenges collaboratively in a safe practice environment with access to real-time expertise and coaching.
Across our executive education programmes participants leave with a blueprint for how they are going to lead change. We look to enhance the social dimension of learning, facilitating the creation of action learning groups and communities of practice to enable collective action.
We craft our programmes to ensure your organisational strategic priorities inform the design. We recognise that although your challenges may be similar to those of your competitors, your resources, culture and people must address these challenges uniquely. In building a solution that matches your needs we go beyond best practice to propose in-depth diagnosis and tailor-made programmes for, and with you. Our expert faculty are carefully chosen to work with you on the programme, and they spend time pre- during- and post- programme delivery to ensure the best outcome possible.
Open programmes
Develop your talent with Cambridge Judge Business School’s Executive Education Open Programmes. Combining powerfully small classes and outstanding teaching with a choice of highly interactive delivery formats, this portfolio of 40+ programmes explores everything from Leadership, to Marketing, to Innovation and Technology.
Making an impact
Our custom design process is flexible, scalable and adaptable to your strategy shifts. We work with you to understand your objectives and map tangible outcomes, prioritising measurable impact through our world leading psychometric centre, which has an array of ready to use tests as well as bespoke test generation capability.
Our programmes are learner-centred, allowing participants to intervene and shape the learning process to their needs. We use a series of methods such as reflective practice, simulations and design sprints to help leaders discover and generate new insights, as well as a lecture-style approach. All activities are crafted around your strategy and context. This self-discovery aids retention of learning and creates opportunities to embed that learning through peer-to-peer interaction.
We work with our clients to understand their objectives and map tangible outcomes, prioritising measurable impact through our world leading psychometric centre, which has an array of ready to use tests as well as bespoke test generation capability.
We utilise the best delivery methodologies to enable the full spectrum of learning outcomes, with high touch faculty interactions, combined with the power of the latest learning technology, including AR and VR.
As a research-driven school, we always look to take an evidence-based approach to our work. This ranges from pre- and post-programme feedback surveys, where we assess “Aims Achieved” with you directly, through to cutting-edge psychometric assessments to both identify objectives and assess success in securing those objectives.
We are situated in the heart of the most innovative ecosystem in Europe, Silicon Fen, and work with leading practitioners and organisations to deliver truly experiential sessions. We utilise our relationships within this ecosystem to generate accessible case studies and simulations that personalise our learning journeys.
As a result of the programmes, we now have articulated values, a clear business strategy and individual ownership, as well as enhanced leadership capabilities and a greater awareness of the organisation.
Delivery formats
Blended
All our programmes can be designed to be blended, with a customised mix of face-to-face, Live Online and high-quality on-demand content, which can be selected from the CJBS Executive Education library.
Customised
We design from scratch to make sure that the learning experience is true to your needs. The development and build are then a mix of new content and curated existing content and delivered in the modality that best meets the design brief.
Immersive
We can provide high quality, interactive and immersive content using virtual and augmented reality solutions.
Multi-channel
Our ultimate aim is to create a multichannel approach to education that provides seamless, high-quality learning experiences that really make an impact.
