Advanced Management Program
Boost your effectiveness as a senior executive with an integrated view of you, your organisation and the future.
Advanced Management Program Overview
Experience the most comprehensive program of its kind offered in Australia.
Together, we’ll examine emerging organisational challenges and expand your understanding of executive management through an emphasis on anticipating future business needs, building a high-performance organisation and enhancing your leadership.
Immerse yourself in a dynamic 11-day residential program offering personalised 1-to-1 and group coaching, a tailored leadership assessment report, and exclusive networking opportunities with esteemed business leaders during evening dinner sessions.
This includes a dedicated session with Australia’s AI pioneer, Professor Jon Whittle exploring what businesses are getting wrong about AI and how to shift your focus for strategic advantage.
4.93 / 5
The learning experience received an average score of 4.93 out of 5.
100%
thought their learning was enhanced by Program Director Vivek Chaudhri.
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globally respected professors facilitate the 11 day program.
Who Should Attend the Advanced Management Program?
General Managers
- Preparing for a C-suite role
- Preparing for a managing director role in a high-growth business, or
- Wanting to advance their skills in their current role.
C-suite Executives
- Wanting to advance their skills in their current role
- Managing a high-growth business, or
- Who have recently moved into their role.
CEOs or Managing Directors
- Managing enterprises of all sizes.
Advanced Management Program Key Takeaways
Harness Your Leadership Power
- Build your leadership story, vision and brand
- Activate your personal leadership style and self-awareness
- Analyse your relationship habits
- Communicate to persuade and influence.
Influence Optimal Performance
- Improve decision-making across the enterprise
- Ensure levers, such as HR, marketing and strategy, deliver results
- Establish a culture of performance and accountability
- Motivate and develop your team to high performance.
Drive Change for the Future
- Lead change and innovation in complexity and disruption
- Engage in futures thinking and enterprise modelling.
Build Better Teams
- Develop global and domestic partnerships and teams
- Strengthen cross-cultural mindsets
- Foster collaboration across functional and enterprise areas.
Advanced Management Program Topics Covered
Enhancing Personal Leadership
Building Organisational Transformation
Understand the building blocks required to achieve organisational transformation and how to harness them effectively.
Developing and Challenging Strategy
Getting Value out of Marketing
Managing for the Future
Advanced Management Program Success Stories
"The short course was perfect for where I was in my career and perfect for how I learn."KRISTEN RABY
"It was challenging and quite emotional. A journey of discovery for me."ANTONY BLACKSHAW
"It's a really practical, engaging, and life-changing program."ManDy Burns
Expand or Deepen the Capabilities of Your People
Melbourne Business School’s short courses help organisations develop executive alignment through consistent and productive behaviours and capabilities.
This leader-led change will empower your team to tackle any future business challenges as a united force.
Volume booking discounts may be available for organisations registering multiple employees across a variety of our short courses over a 12-month period.
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Empowering your leaders with cutting-edge knowledge and skills is an investment in the future success and sustainability of your company.
VIVEK CHAUDHRI
Program Director
Advanced Management Program Key Facilitators
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Vivek consults widely to industry and government in Australia and globally. In addition to his role as Academic Director of Melbourne Business School’s Executive MBA Programs, he currently serves as a strategy advisor to the CEO of CSL and MD of Grannus Securities.
PROFESSOR OF MARKETING
Don is a marketing and brand expert who studies the impact that marketing activities have on company performance. He has worked with brands including Johnson & Johnson, NAB and Nestle.
PROFESSOR OF STRATEGY
Geoff worked at the highest levels of international finance before becoming an academic focusing on risk-taking by executives. He has received several research excellence awards from the University of Melbourne.
Jon Whittle
DISTINGUISED FELLOW AND PROFESSOR (IDIA)
Jon is Australia's leading thought leader on AI for business, currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Digital Innovation and AI (IDIA). A former technical lead at NASA and director of CSIRO's Data61, he also founded Australia's National AI Centre. He has a global reputation for applying AI to achieve real world impact with a human-centred approach.
PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT, ASSOCIATE DEAN, RESEARCH
With a PhD in social psychology, Jennifer specialises in organisational behaviour, negotiation and people management, and conducts research into the ways in which power is used in the workplace.
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Yalçın is a Professor of Operations Management at Melbourne Business School. He holds a dual-title PhD degree in Business Administration and Operations Research from Pennsylvania State University. Yalçın’s research focuses on revenue management, dynamic pricing, inventory management, retail operations, stochastic modelling of service and manufacturing systems.
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
Andrew John is Professor of Economics, Melbourne Business School. Andrew teaches Ethical Leadership in the Senior Executive MBA program and Managerial Ethics & the Business Environment in the MBA, Executive MBA, and Senior Executive MBA programs. He has also taught Global Business Economics and Managerial Economics in the MBA and various topics for MBS Executive Education. He is a winner of the MBS Dean's Service award as well as the MBS Teaching Excellence award for his teaching in the Senior Executive MBA Program.
PROFESSOR OF LEADERSHIP
Will Harvey is a Professor of Leadership at Melbourne Business School. He is an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation Will researches on reputation, talent management and leadership within organisations. He has recently published the book, Reputations at Stake, with Oxford University Press.
Upcoming Sessions
This is a residential program in which participants stay on campus and engage in workshop activities after hours. The program fee covers tuition, meals and accommodation.
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