Deans' and Directors' strategic workshop: Strengthening capability in Executive and Professional Education

Senior business school leaders are increasingly expected to make strategic decisions about how to grow commercial income through executive education and professional development. This means responding to changing market demands, navigating policy developments, creating sustainable delivery models, and ensuring business engagement aligns with wider institutional goals.

This workshop is designed to equip senior business school leaders such as Deans, Directors, and Heads of School with the strategic insight, practical tools, and peer learning needed to strengthen their school’s business engagement capability. Participants will explore how to develop and scale executive education and professional skills provision in ways that support both commercial growth and external engagement ambitions.

By the end of this workshop, participants will have:

• Developed a clearer understanding of the evolving policy landscape around lifelong learning, apprenticeships, part-time and executive education through engaging with key government and policy stakeholders, influencers and business stakeholders

• Generated actionable ideas that can strengthen the development of their own institutional strategies, by exploring different institutional and business models for the delivery of executive and professional development, and learning from their peers’ case studies

• Identified opportunities for growth and future developments, including online and international markets