​Custom Executive Education

Our custom programmes are designed to reflect the unique context and needs of public value leaders and organisations. Through decades of working with public value leaders on world scale challenges, we know how to support them to drive strategic change and deliver on their purpose.

Our clients include governments, public sector bodies, sectors and systems, private sector businesses and NGOs from around the world. These clients are often working to a transformational agenda – at scale. Examples include:

• Developing public sector leaders
• Strengthening public services
• Addressing wicked problems
• Reinforcing national competitiveness
• Driving sector level change
• Leading futures and foresight.

The Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses UK programme was launched in 2010 to address the support gap for growth-orientated small businesses, helping them to unlock their economic and job creation potential. 

It is open to high-growth businesses across the UK, from all sectors and is fully funded for participants by the Goldman Sachs Foundation. It's specifically aimed at the owner or senior decision maker of an established small business. After completion, participants enter into a global alumni community, where they receive ongoing support through specialist workshops, national alumni events and ongoing peer-to-peer mentoring.

Developed by the Custom Executive Education team, the Oxford Sprint process brings University research and provocations from leading scholars to rapidly test solutions in an accelerated timeframe. In a custom programme, a sprint is organised around a specific, systemic problem, where participants are encouraged to move quickly, think expansively, take chances, collaborate effectively, and work across disciplines.

From Ego to Eco: Leadership for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Leaders are under scrutiny like never before. In a world which appears to be changing fast and in unpredictable ways, leaders have to make sense of the context people are working in, and to lead their people and organisations to respond effectively. This is no easy task; to lead today requires a rich and varied set of skills and capabilities. Written by Jon Stokes, Senior Fellow in Management Practice and Sue Dopson, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, this paper defines the nature of these challenges and sets out the necessary leadership capabilities needed.

Ignite is a programme for senior leadership groups to tackle a key, systemic challenge within their enterprise.

We have partnered with world-renowned leadership development firm, Meyler Campbell, to allow participants to stretch their skill-set and mind-set through executive coaching, and also access the full-range of insights and teaching from the University of Oxford.