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Search Search and use the filters below to identify timely and convenient senior-level business courses in Finance, Leadership, Strategy, Diversity and Inclusion and more.

These days, we all expect convenience and flexibility. And SMU Cox Edge delivers. Search programs by location to find the course most convenient to you.

Explore custom modules and topics and we can collaborate and design programs that reflect your organizational strategy and corporate culture, and deliver on your business goals.

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AI For Healthcare Program

Weekdays

Our new AI for Healthcare Program offering has its inaugural session in April 2024. Join us to review case studies, participate in group dialogue, and listen to panels on this undeniable new wave in healthcare.

SMU

$3,500 (group discounts available)

Contact: Lisa Tran

Authentic Leadership

Custom Module for your Organization

Examine the impact you want to have on direct reports, customers (internal/external), your colleagues, and your community

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Building Capability by Coaching and Mentoring Others

Custom Module for your Organization

Explore the benefits of being a better coach and mentor to you, those you influence, and your organization.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Business Challenge: A Facilitated Simulation Workshop

Custom Module for your Organization

An 8‐hour experiential learning simulation that allows participants to practice using the drivers of value in a business: growth, profitability, and risk.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Business Leadership for Law Firm Executives

Weekdays

Business Leadership for Law Firm Executives is an exclusive ten-month transformational development program for law firm executives, including Managing Partners, Practice Group Leaders, and Office Leaders.

SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Business Strategy and Value Creation

Custom Module for your Organization

Identify critical success factors required to undertake success value creation and capture customers.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Corporate Executive Development Program

Phase 1: April 29 - May 2, 2024 - IN PERSON; Phase 2: Aug 26 - 29, 2024 - IN PERSON; Phase 3: October 7– 10, 2024 - IN PERSON; CEDP Virtual: Options available, contact Ana Rodriguez

Unique executive development experience for mid-level Latino managers and directors that highlights the advantages Latino executives bring to corporate America.

SMU

$15,000

Contact: Ana Rodriguez

Cox Leadership Academy

Weekdays

Join forces with the bold optimists at SMU Cox, where we are forging a new future – together. Engage with an innovative learning culture that is changing the way the world does business.

Online, SMU

Online Price -$18,000

Contact: Luigi Pecoraro

Creating and Leading High‐Performing Teams

Custom Module for your Organization

Learn how to help team members exercise leadership and guidance that beyond title or status in an organization.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Critical Thinking and Decision Making

Custom Module for your Organization

Master the art of critical thinking through a distinct framework that is disciplined, objective, purpose driven, and goal directed.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Decision‐Making Traps and Bias That Impacts Results

Custom Module for your Organization

The principle behind the method is “parallel thinking” which ensures that all the people in a meeting/team/project are focused on and thinking about the same subject at the same time.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Difficult Conversations That Produce Positive Results

Custom Module for your Organization

Learn to confront issues head on, hold difficult conversations that get the results you need, and maintain or build relationships along the way.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Diversity, Inclusion, & Bias in the Workplace

Custom Module for your Organization

Participate in scenarios of promotion and performance evaluations to practice how you can improve the judgments and assessments you make around talent management.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Ana Rodriguez

Emotional Intelligence and Its Role in Leadership

Custom Module for your Organization

Designed to help managers become more effective with the growing demand to achieve outcomes at a strategic level through effective communication and heightened emotional intelligence.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Essentials of Finance & Accounting

Fall 2024

Weeknights

This foundational program will arm you with an understanding of the accounting and finance concepts you need to assess your performance—and the performance of your competitors.

Online

$2,795

Contact: Elizabeth Jimenez

Ethics Awareness

Custom Module for your Organization

Explore the main causes of unethical behavior, heighten your awareness, and apply specific management practices to reduce or eliminate problems.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team

Custom Module for your Organization

This powerful in-person or virtual experience provides clear, concise, and practical guidelines for becoming (or enhancing) a high-functioning team.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Ethics (Reality & Consequences)

Custom Module for your Organization

TBD

Based on a Harvard Business School Case, A Letter from Prison is used in this facilitated session to explore ethics and ethical behavior in a corporate environment.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Executive Challenge: A Facilitated Simulation Workshop

Custom Module for your Organization

Improve your ability to tanslate strategy into sustainable results, collaborate and communicate across functional silos, and make decisions under conditions of ambiguity.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Executive Coaching (1:1)

Custom Module for your Organization

Connect with an executive coach, certified by the International Coaching Federation and evaluated by SMU Cox Executive Education for inclusion in our programs.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Hiring, Engaging, and Retaining the Best

Custom Module for your Organization

Understand key human capital challenges facing organizations, evaluate the alignment of human capital with strategic initiatives, and discuss the role of managers and leaders in attracting, engaging, and retaining top talent.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Innovation: Creating the Environment

Custom Module for your Organization

Create an environment for innovation through intentional decisions that change the way your organization works.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Innovation: Human Centered Design

Custom Module for your Organization

Gain an understanding of a world bigger than your own through an understanding of design impact.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Introduction to Financial Statements

Custom Module for your Organization

Understand the basics of creation and the role of financial statements in assessing the financial health of an enterprise.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Leader as Coach

Custom Module for your Organization

Strengthen your ability to mentor/coach as a leader, one of the most effective ways to get more done for the company while building an engaged and enthusiastic workplace.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Leading Change: A Facilitated Simulation Workshop

Custom Module for your Organization

ExperienceChange™ is an expert‐guided workshop designed to help you execute on your ideas while learning the essentials of successful change.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Leading Effectively: Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership

Custom Module for your Organization

Participants will be able to take an honest look at themselves and their leadership behavior.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Managing Performance in the Workplace

Custom Module for your Organization

Improve your ability to both manage a problem performer and develop a high performer.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Negotiations (Master Negotiations)

Custom Module for your Organization

Based on in‐depth research, this intensive 3‐day course provides the newest negotiation tools needed to ensure success in negotiations with peers, clients, customers, and adversaries.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Negotiations (Through Relationships)

Custom Module for your Organization

Develop the ability to improve your negotiation strategy and execution based on an understanding of persuasion, critical thinking, and effective planning.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Organizational Trust and Its Impact on Business

Custom Module for your Organization

Learn to use trust as a specific business strategy to increase speed of execution and decrease cost.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Positive Collaboration

Custom Module for your Organization

Understand the components and variations of approaches to positive collaboration that build relationships.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Rising Latino Leaders - Spring '23

April 17 - 21, 2023

Weekdays, Weeknights

This innovative intensive experience prepares participants for success in their first managerial positions and equips them to progress into higher levels of responsibility.

Online

$5,775

Contact: Ana Rodriguez

Strategic Leadership in Times of Exponential Change

Weekdays

Strategic Leadership in Times of Exponential Change is a deep dive into "Dreams and Details," the dynamic new model that's helping leaders develop and unleash human potential to achieve exceptional performance.

Online, SMU

$12,000

Contact: Luigi Pecoraro

Strategic Thinking for a Competitive Advantage

October 24-25, 2023

Weekdays

Through interactive sessions, small group work and case studies, you'll discover and practice the capabilities, mindset and toolkit it takes to build a courageous, flexible strategy for a stronger future.

SMU

Contact: Sheri Moore

Strategy (Adaptive Strategy Workshop)

Custom Module for your Organization

This workshop illustrates a strategic framework to help you answer these key questions: Who do you serve? What’s your model? What do you bring? What’s in your way? How will you win?

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Strategy (Team Based – A Virtual Simulation)

Custom Module for your Organization

An 8‐hour highly collaborative virtual simulation that gets you to strategic clarity and focused action.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Strategy: The Business Model Canvas

Custom Module for your Organization

Become familiar with the 9 elements of the Business Model Canvas

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Influence: The Power of Influence

Custom Module for your Organization

Strengthen your ability to communicate, persuade, and influence others to realize and implement a vision and strategy.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Transformational Leadership

Fall 2024

Weeknights

In 10 challenging sessions, this dynamic course for mid-level and experienced leaders will transform your leadership vision and approach from the inside out.

Online, SMU

Online price - 3,795/On Campus Price - $4,295

Contact: Elizabeth Jimenez

Volatile Uncertain Complex Ambiguous

Custom Module for your Organization

Navigating a VUCA world during accelerating change is a challenge for most organizations.

Corporate, Online, SMU

Contact: Executive Education

Women's Leadership Program

Weekdays

Apply today for immersive learning experience that helps women navigate the business landscape, develop and leverage their unique talents, and assume roles as executive leaders.

Online, SMU

$4,195

Contact: Ana Rodriguez