Executive Leadership Programs

Develop senior leaders who can drive lasting organizational impact with our highly personalized executive leadership development solutions.

Leading From the Top Requires a Shift in Perspective

Working at the top of an organization — whether it’s leading a department, division, business unit, function, region, or the entire enterprise — is challenging and multi-faceted. And the ability of senior leaders to work together effectively iis among the most critical elements in your organization’s long-term success.

No matter the industry, the executive leadership role of connecting strategy with results requires a broad perspective, a strategic mindset, and a high level of resilience. Your organization’s future depends upon it. That’s why executive leadership training and development is so important for the success of your business in the future.

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Our Executive Leadership Development Courses & Programs

Description
Description Comprehensive, whole-person, highly individualized executive development that maximizes personal leadership power to develop clear action plans for organizational challenges, clarify organizational vision, and improve influence skills. Comprehensive, personalized development for senior leaders, featuring our world-renowned business simulation, enhancing their ability to lead while balancing tactical concerns with strategic priorities and improving decision-making. Working session that brings HR leaders and senior teams together with our experts to rethink leadership readiness and strengthen succession planning as a strategic organizational capability.
Leader Level
Leader Level Executives Senior leaders Senior leaders
Who Should Attend
Who Should Attend

C-suite and senior executives leading the enterprise

Senior leaders of business units, departments, divisions, or regions

HR & executive leaders responsible for leadership continuity (senior teams encouraged)
Format
Format
  • In person
  • In person
  • In person
Duration
Duration 5-day intensive, within a 6-month journey 5-day intensive, within a 6-month journey 2.5 day working session
Includes
Includes
  • 360-degree assessment + 1 team assessment + 3 self-assessments
  • Research-based curriculum on personal leadership power and executive organizational leadership
  • Hands-on practice applying new skills to a real-world challenge
  • 6 hours of executive coaching plus wellness / fitness consultation
  • 360-degree assessment + 1 self-assessment + HiFi Conversation Analytics™
  • Research-based curriculum on senior leadership skills using our world-renowned Looking Glass, Inc.® business simulation
  • Hands-on practice applying new skills to a real-world challenge
  • 6 hours of executive coaching
  • Research-based curriculum on succession strategy including 70-20-10 framework and a focus on immediacy, continuity, and generativity to foster readiness
  • Hands-on practice applying new skills to a real-world succession challenge
  • Facilitated organizational follow-up
Location & Cost
Location & Cost
  • Americas: $15,250 USD
  • APAC: $18,250 SGD
  • EMEA: €12,950 EUR
  • Americas: $10,950 USD
  • APAC: $14,500 SGD
  • EMEA: €9,950 EUR
  • Americas: $5,950 USD
  • EMEA: €5,688 EUR
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Custom Leadership Training Programs for Executives

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All of our executive leadership development courses can be customized for your organization. Partner with us to co-create executive leadership development for your organization that grows the mindsets, skillsets, and capabilities needed among top leaders to spearhead your strategy and steward your culture. Combine our research-based, award-winning learning journeys with engaging experiential learning exercises, proven business simulations, 360-degree assessments, and executive coaching.

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Executive Leadership Training Designed for Lasting Impact

Whether your organization opts to:

we can help strengthen the leadership capabilities needed at the highest levels of the organization.

Leadership development for senior executives provides senior leaders an opportunity to pause, take a step back, and focus on what’s most important, shifting perspectives, building networks, and getting personalized feedback. It can help them become more self-aware and charismatic — especially when dealing with organizational change, difficult stakeholders, team conflicts, and board relationships.

Participants in our executive programs come away with:

  • Increased self-understanding and resilience
  • Improved decision-making skills and agility
  • Enhanced ability to work across boundaries
  • Greater confidence and executive leadership presence
  • Better understanding of organizational strategy
  • Sharpened communication and influence skills
  • Greater effectiveness at leading the organization

Our leadership programs for executives prepare your senior teams to steer your organization’s future.

At CCL, we’ve shaped the leadership development industry for nearly 6 decades through pioneering research and evidence-based innovation. We’re proud of our extensive expertise and experience serving organizations seeking leadership development strategies and solutions.

As trusted architects of transformation, we partner with clients — from global Fortune 500 companies to regional nonprofits — to help them tackle the leadership challenges they face, including executive leadership development. When working with us, your organization can expect:

  • Evidence-based leadership training solutions, based on over 50 years of research and decades of experience in executive leader development
  • Collaboration with best-in-class leadership experts who have earned many awards and accolades for our partnerships with clients
  • Customized white-glove services tailored to your organization’s needs and drawing insights from one of the largest leadership research databases in the world
  • Transformational, personalized programs centered on your leaders’ individual strengths, skills, and real-world challenges
  • Access to scalable learning experiences that foster new ways of thinking, expand capacity, and drive sustainable growth across your organization
  • Partnership with a mission-driven organization working to advance the practice of leadership worldwide through a belief in the positive ripple effect that leadership development can have on individuals, teams, organizations, and society.

Our approach goes beyond skill-building — we help leaders instill new, deeper ways of thinking. With CCL as your partner for executive leadership training, you gain evidence-based, purpose-driven development that delivers meaningful, measurable, lasting impact for your organization.

What Our Clients Are Saying

As a top-ranked provider of leadership development, we’ve shaped the industry for more than 50 years and are trusted globally to design and deliver solutions that enable individuals and organizations to reach their full potential. Clients around the world — including 2/3 of the Fortune 1000 — have partnered with us for executive leadership development training, driving remarkable transformations at their organizations.

But don’t just take our word for it — take theirs.

My experience at the CCL LAP course was unlike any other previous professional development. The pre-course personal assignments, coupled with 360 feedback across multiple layers within the company, all make this course about you. Being based on application also ensures a caliber of attendees, and this leads to immediate connections that are maintained post-course.

Simon Crowhurst

Simon Crowhurst

Vice President, Creative

Vungle

The ecosystem of co-participants who were senior executives from varied industries and geographies, coupled with a highly experienced faculty, a safe zone set up to forego inhibitions and open myself to give and receive feedback, all made a huge personal impact on me, in my leadership learning journey.

Sanjay Chintalapalli

Sr. Director of Technology

Gilbarco Veeder Root

For me, the biggest ‘Aha!’ was realizing that even though we, as a senior leadership team, are very good at communicating our corporate message throughout the organization, we can use some simple strategies to make sure that everyone not only knows our strategies, but lives them.

Pamela McNamara

VP of Sales, US

Kao Group

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Why Executive Leadership Development Is Worth the Investment 

Executives at the top of their organizations must balance many competing factors in their roles. A broad perspective, a strategic mindset, and a high level of resilience are all essential for success. As leaders move into senior management, they must be able to see the whole system to be effective.

But how do you help high-performing executives stay aware of their blind spots? How do you ensure leaders at this level think strategically, balance competing priorities, and see the whole field? And how can they learn to work together to bridge silos, not wage turf wars? Executive leadership development can help.

Your Trusted Partner for Executive Development

A group of highly effective senior leaders can transform the culture of your organization and the speed at which you can execute on your strategy. And at CCL, we show them how. Whether you’re looking to align and transform your entire executive team, or seeking targeted support with coaching or executive leadership courses to develop key leaders at the top of your organization, we offer a variety of research-based executive leadership development solutions.

Let’s Talk About Executive Leadership Development

Our experts are here to help. Get in touch with us to discuss how our executive leadership programs and courses could be transformational for your senior leaders — and your organization.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Executive Leadership Training

Executive leadership courses and programs offer a range of benefits, including providing individualized feedback to enhance senior leaders’ self-awareness, resilience, and leadership presence and the personalized support leaders need to try out new behaviors and sustain lasting changes that bring out the best in themselves and their organizations. Tangible benefits include sharper influencing and communication skills; improved decision-making and change leadership; enhanced boundary spanning; and wider perspectives.

Organizations should invest in developing their senior leaders with executive education training and senior executive team development as if their future depends on it — because it does. Your executive team’s ability to work together effectively may be the single most critical element in your organization’s long-term success. Executive leadership development can help senior leaders uncover blind spots, think more strategically, balance competing priorities, navigate complexity and uncertainty, and bridge organizational silos.

Both executive coaching and executive leadership programs are designed specifically to help top-level leaders navigate the complex challenges they face — including balancing competing priorities, increasing enterprise-wide influence, and making high-stakes decisions.

Executive coaching complements executive leadership courses by helping senior leaders translate concepts into action, personalizing the learning to meet the individual’s specific needs, providing accountability to help the learning “stick,” and supporting the executive in applying what they learned to the challenges they’re facing in real time.

All of our executive education leadership programs offer personalized feedback via 360 assessments and also leverage executive coaching to help leaders better understand their strengths and areas of opportunity, integrate what they learned in the program, and sustain behavior change over time. Many organizations opt to support their senior leaders in continued engagements with an executive coach to support their ongoing growth and development.

More questions? Our experts are here to help. Let’s have a conversation!