Is your technical expertise taking you to new leadership levels of your organization? If you manage or plan to manage a technical workforce, this program will outfit you with cross-functional project management skills and a better understanding of the dynamics of leading technical employees. This program features eight top Purdue faculty from the Daniels School of Business to solidify your foundation as a business leader.
Don’t miss your chance to join us in the heart of Indianapolis. At the Daniels School, we offer executives the opportunity to grow alongside a wide variety of influential industries in Indianapolis, a powerful environment for developing core business skills.
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$3,000 per person (Early Bird)
$3,500 per person (Regular)
Courses are taught by industry-savvy faculty who have extensive experience working with executives in the classroom and who have helped Purdue’s business school attain international recognition. Although there are no graded assignments or exams, you will prepare readings, cases, problem sets, and related homework to bring out key ideas.
This finance course provides a survey of the concepts and tools required to make value-maximizing decisions. Financial management concerns itself with two fundamental questions that every firm faces: What projects should the firm undertake and how should the firm obtain the funds necessary to undertake them? The finance function with the firm seeks to answer these questions such that the value of the firm is maximized. You will learn about:
Good executive presence starts by learning about and practicing foundational communication principles, including emotional intelligence and audience analysis. You will develop these essential communication skills so you can leave with a renewed sense of confidence in your abilities to lead as effective communicators.
Well-designed managerial accounting systems will maximize profits and investment return to business owners. This course introduces you to managerial accounting concepts and techniques and provides an understanding of how managers within an organization use accounting information in order to plan operations, control activities, and make decisions.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
With an explicit focus on leadership of technical employees and the unique factors that help motivate them, this course is taught from a managerial perspective, with an emphasis on what practicing managers need to know to effectively lead and motivate employees, especially technical employees. By the end of this course, you will:
This course is a fast-paced experience that will focus on the strategic value of projects and how project management principles are used to deliver business value. You will acquire skills that will aid in completing projects on time, staying within budget, maintaining consistently high quality, and gaining a competitive edge in the marketplace. You will learn the essentials of defining, scheduling and staffing a program or project, as well as executing a program plan with the teamwork necessary for success.
Program and Project Management is taught by Dr. Amy David.This course will provide you with helpful frameworks for understanding your audience, insights about how people perceive information best, and effective skills to express your ideas in ways that connect.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
Storytelling is taught by Dr. Doug Prium.
“The in-class learning environment was interactive and allowed for direct questions to be addressed in real time with experts in the field.”
Alanna Steffen
Manager, Clinical Operations-Vascular
Cook Research Incorporated
Reach out to Associate Director of Recruiting Brian Grimes at 765-494-1554 or grimes25@purdue.edu with questions about our executive education programs. You can also schedule an online meeting with Brian.
