Executive Education
A focus on leadership
Being good at what you do is not enough. Leading requires seeing yourself in new ways—now, and over the course of your career. Duke Executive Education is designed to provide the strategies and tools that ensure you’ll become what you need to be next. Built around current research and trends in management, our programs help you solve current challenges while providing frameworks you can apply over time. You’ll learn from the same world-renowned faculty who teach in our MBA programs, while going beyond your comfort zone in innovative exercises that encourage you to absorb new perspectives.
Whether you're a new manager or an experienced executive, Duke Executive Education's portfolio of open enrollment and tailored programs will help you grow.
Certificate
Earn Duke's new Certificate of Leadership & Management when you complete a customized learning experience that equips you with a solid grounding in leadership and enables you to choose electives in management, communication, negotiation, finance, decision-making, or health care strategy.
Contact Details
Duke Executive Education
100 Fuqua Drive
Durham, NC 27708-0120 USA
Tel +1.919.660.8011
Toll Free +1.800.372.3932
Office Hours
Monday - Friday
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Improve decision-making, manage conflict, and foster innovation using practical insights and actionable strategies from management science to guide and support your team in this live-virtual course.
Harness the power of diversity in your organization without succumbing to obstacles such as implicit bias and systemic racism. Learn why diversity, equity, and inclusion can benefit your team, business unit, or entire organization, and how to break down barriers to successful implementation of an inclusive environment.
Elevate your innate leadership strengths to forge solid and enduring relationships by understanding what a leader needs to offer under different circumstances. In this highly engaging live-virtual course, you'll explore alternate actions you can take to achieve your ultimate goals.
Enhance interactions with your diverse team or organization through inclusive communication skills that increase everyone’s engagement and commitment. Improve your overall effectiveness by learning to navigate culturally sensitive discussions, becoming aware of micro-behaviors and their impact on your audience, and defining your role as an authentic ally.
Understanding the dynamics of drug discovery and development processes, as well as the frequent changes in drug regulation and reimbursement practices, can have a positive effect in leading your successful biotech/pharma business.
This online program covers the same content and is taught by the same faculty as our in-person class, via a blended format that enables you to combine live virtual classes with online assignments completed outside of class sessions.
Ensure you maximize the return on your investment in analytics capabilities by creating a culture of understanding and acceptance of business analytics. Empower your employees to value and leverage evidence-based insights for successful outcomes.
Gain a broad perspective about how different sectors within the health care industry are upending their business models and reassessing their market strategy at a rapid pace.
Women face different issues in business, especially in a virtual business setting. Learn what strategies have been used by those who have reached top leadership positions in their firms. This 4-session virtual program will inform both women professionals and men who support their advancement or who are interested in employing these strategies themselves.
This online program covers the same techniques you can use to influence negotiations and strategies, and is taught by the same faculty as our in-person class, combining live virtual classes with practice negotiations after class sessions. Learn to capitalize on strengths while leveraging different perspectives.
Ensure you maximize the return on your investment in analytics capabilities by creating a culture of understanding and acceptance of business analytics. Empower your employees to value and leverage evidence-based insights for successful outcomes.
Explore how aligning your operations processes with your firm's business strategies can increase value for your stakeholders in this live-virtual course.
Discover new ways to align operations processes with your business strategy so that you can improve profitability and market share.
Learn multiple techniques to influence negotiations and strategies that capitalize on each others' strengths while leveraging different perspectives.
Learn disciplined communications strategies that can improve your performance in different contexts. Apply new techniques and skills to transition your communications to the video screen.
Learn to use financial information as a strategic tool in decision-making throughout your organization, by interpreting and using information from financial report and statement components.
Understanding how to interpret data for your current environment, when parties' goals conflict or emerging factors are driving market changes, can increase your confidence in data-driven decisions.
Explore and improve your current leadership style to find your innate strengths and build solid and enduring relationship behaviors--whether you have leadership responsibilities or will have them in the near future.
Guide and support your teams to improve decision-making, manage conflict, and foster innovation using practical insights and actionable strategies from management science.
Gain a broad perspective about how different sectors within the health care industry are upending their business models and reassessing their market strategy at a rapid pace.
If you interface with different audiences, learn how to adapt your message to each. Build your personal and professional brand and develop disciplined communication strategies as well.
The Duke Certificate of Leadership & Management demonstrates your completion of a customized learning experience expanding your professional competencies and knowledge base.
Strengthen an internal or multi-department team with a tailored development program created by our faculty to suit your organization's specific needs.