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Executive Education

Private & Custom Programs

Personalized Learning Partnerships

Our customized programs for teams and organizations present an alternative approach to conventional, out-of-box, learning and development initiatives. By working with you to understand your strategic goals, identify your opportunities for growth and define your metrics for success, we create more impactful learning experiences that deliver a measurable return on investment. Collaborate with us to create and implement tailored programming that is directly aligned with your organizational scope, budget, and goals.

Developing Your Custom Program

1. Needs Assessment

We meet with you to understand your learning and development initiatives, culture, strategy, and opportunities.

2. Program Design

We’ll collaborate to choose a program type, framework, and duration tailored to your organizational needs.

3. Curriculum Development

We’ll develop customized curriculum and action-based learning activities tailored to your unique objectives.

4. Program Delivery

Our faculty and program managers will handle the program logistics and deliver an impactful learning experience.

5. Evaluation & Support

We’ll evaluate the program to ensure your goals were met and explore methods to promote and ensure lasting impact.

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Explore Our Private & Custom Program Types

Leadership Development Programs

Our leadership development programs range in duration from a few days to multiple months. Depending on your budget, scope, and desired impact, we can deliver a range of experiences that nurture your existing talent and provide pathways for personal development and organizational improvement.

Partnerships in Action:

Sponsor Your Employees: Send your managerial team to the Accelerated Leadership Experience, a five-day equivalent workshop designed to nurture and develop impactful leaders.
Private Programs: Work with us to create a three-month leadership program that provides mentoring, team-based learning, and relevant business seminars to high-potential minority employees.

Business and Technical Acumen Workshops

These quick-hit learning experiences provide intensive upskilling in business topics critical to organizational success. Choose from topics like Finance, Data Analytics, and Sales Skills to kickstart growth.

Partnerships in Action:

Sponsor Your Employees: Send your organization’s managerial team our to our Finance for Non-Financial Managers workshop on-campus at the University of Denver
Private Programs: Run our Sales Skills for High-Impact workshop privately for your sales team, focused on your understanding your organization’s specific selling propositions and improving lead flow..

Offsites

Partner with DU Executive Education to facilitate offsites that encourage innovation and community building. Whether you are seeking to accelerate team development or solve a business challenge, offsites get your people out of daily routines and into a headspace to spur creativity and alignment. We offer half, full, and two-day offsites in a variety of formats based on your objectives.

Real-world applications:

Team Building Offsite: Experience a two-day team building offsite in the Rocky Mountains. With content that blends experiential activities with team management best practices, the outcome is enhanced team dynamics, improved relationships, and increased productivity and performance back in the workplace.

Business Offsite: Our faculty can design an offsite around a current business challenge or use case. We can facilitate design thinking or brainstorm sessions, steer a strategy design workshop, or help executive teams refine their management operating system.

Executive Learning Sessions

Our Faculty are experts in a wide range of business topics relevant to leading in today’s dynamic world—they can provide “booster shot” sessions around an emerging topic critical to your business. We’ve delivered sessions on AI and Machine Learning, Business Ethics, Advanced Negotiation, and Organizational Development to name a few.

Real-world applications:

Faculty deliver a half or full day session on understanding the foundations of AI and Machine Learning—including current operational uses, as well as preparing the organizational culture for rapidly evolving technology.
A half-day session on advanced negotiation for a sales team

Case Study: Comcast Denver Leadership Academy

The Comcast Denver Leadership Academy Program is a nine-month intensive leadership program aimed at director-level, high-performing candidates within Comcast’s leadership.

Created by Executive Education faculty Kerry Plemmons and Todd Porch, in collaboration with Comcast Senior Executives, the program focuses on developing self-awareness, confidence, and decision-making abilities to prepare participants for senior leadership roles.

Topics covered include engagement, culture, execution, design and strategy, and customer experience, with learning activities conducted at the University of Denver and in the Rocky Mountains. Participants apply their learnings to drive innovation, creativity, and increase profitability.