Leadership
An outstanding portfolio of programmes for highly motivated professionals at every step on the leadership ladder.
Overview
Build skills in the fundamentals of business management or step back and refresh your entire leadership approach. Rigorous, useful and anchored in academic excellence, our exceptional portfolio of programmes offers options for senior executives and managers at every step on the leadership ladder.
Whether you’re transitioning to your first senior leadership role, looking to deepen your understanding of key management disciplines or redesigning your existing leadership agenda, we have a programme to suit. We’re also proud to offer a leadership programme designed specifically to address the needs of women building their leadership skills and style.
Refresh your thinking and fine-tune your leadership agenda. The Cambridge ALP is a challenging, immersive programme designed for senior leaders and executives looking to revitalise their leadership strategies. Weaving together vibrant debate, deep experience and leading-edge thinking, you’ll gain new skills, confidence and networks. Step back. Take stock. Then return, ready to move forward and create immediate impact.
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Face-to-face
1-20 Jun 2025
3 weeks
£28,000 + VAT
Face-to-face
2-21 Nov 2025
3 weeks
£28,000 + VAT
Face-to-face
7-26 Jun 2026
3 weeks
£28,000 + VAT
Face-to-face
1-20 Nov 2026
3 weeks
£28,000 + VAT
Format:
Face-to-face
Dates:
1-20 Jun 2025
Duration:
3 weeks
Fees:
£28,000 + VAT
Format:
Face-to-face
Dates:
2-21 Nov 2025
Duration:
3 weeks
Fees:
£28,000 + VAT
Format:
Face-to-face
Dates:
7-26 Jun 2026
Duration:
3 weeks
Fees:
£28,000 + VAT
Format:
Face-to-face
Dates:
1-20 Nov 2026
Duration:
3 weeks
Fees:
£28,000 + VAT
Engage with world-renowned Cambridge faculty and interact with an exceptional peer group. The Cambridge Senior Management Programme is a uniquely transformative learning journey covering four key themes: Strategy, Digital Innovation, Organisational Transformation and Business Analytics. Building confidence and expertise, you’ll enhance your strategic leadership perspective in preparation for the next step in your career.
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Blended
18 May 2025 (start date)
6 months
£22,000
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Blended
Dates:
18 May 2025 (start date)
Duration:
6 months
Fees:
£22,000
Application via the Emeritus website
Broaden your perspective, create new connections and gain a deeper understanding of key management disciplines, including Finance, Marketing, Operations and Innovation. The Cambridge General Management Programme is an intensive two-week programme that will stretch your thinking and increase your confidence. Designed to support your transition to a broader management role, you’ll improve your decision-making abilities and get ready to accelerate your career.
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Face-to-face
11-23 May 2025
2 weeks
£20,000 + VAT
Face-to-face
12-24 Oct 2025
2 weeks
£20,000 + VAT
Format:
Face-to-face
Dates:
11-23 May 2025
Duration:
2 weeks
Fees:
£20,000 + VAT
Format:
Face-to-face
Dates:
12-24 Oct 2025
Duration:
2 weeks
Fees:
£20,000 + VAT
Explore your professional capabilities and build a strengths-based approach to leadership. The Cambridge Rising Women Leaders Programme is designed for women in the early to middle phases of their management career and looks at the positives of female power. Reflecting on your authentic female leadership style, you’ll develop a career action plan focusing on your rise to senior leadership roles.
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Face-to-face
3-5 Mar 2025
3 days
£4,550 + VAT
Face-to-face
2-4 Jun 2025
3 days
£4,550 + VAT
Format:
Face-to-face
Dates:
3-5 Mar 2025
Duration:
3 days
Fees:
£4,550 + VAT
Format:
Face-to-face
Dates:
2-4 Jun 2025
Duration:
3 days
Fees:
£4,550 + VAT
Unprecedented global competition has made it essential for companies to invest in innovation and build technology to drive the future of business. This requires visionary technology leaders with an innovation agenda and a forward-thinking outlook to complement their growth mindset. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Programme will empower you to deliver impactful results by harnessing new technologies and positioning your organisation to swiftly respond to change.
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Blended
18 Dec 2024 (start date)
12 months
£19,500
Format:
Blended
Dates:
18 Dec 2024 (start date)
Duration:
12 months
Fees:
£19,500
Application via the Emeritus website
This programme will equip you with thought-provoking perspectives on current HR trends and dynamics and help you build a future-ready people operations and HR strategy.
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Blended
30 Jan 2025 (start date)
12 months
£19,500
Format:
Blended
Dates:
30 Jan 2025 (start date)
Duration:
12 months
Fees:
£19,500
Application via the Emeritus website
The Cambridge Family Business Leadership Programme will enable you to navigate generational transitions, succession planning, governance and market disruptions through deep insights and long-term strategies.
Upcoming programme dates to be confirmed.
Application via the Emeritus website
Leading through rapid change is a huge and complex challenge. Move beyond the ordinary, developing a flexible leadership style that strikes the right balance between inspirational leadership and results-oriented management.
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Face-to-face
23-24 Jan 2025
2 days
£3,600 + VAT
Face-to-face
3-4 Apr 2025
2 days
£3,600 + VAT
Face-to-face
2-3 Oct 2025
2 days
£3,600 + VAT
Format:
Face-to-face
Dates:
23-24 Jan 2025
Duration:
2 days
Fees:
£3,600 + VAT
Format:
Face-to-face
Dates:
3-4 Apr 2025
Duration:
2 days
Fees:
£3,600 + VAT
Format:
Face-to-face
Dates:
2-3 Oct 2025
Duration:
2 days
Fees:
£3,600 + VAT
This programme is being delivered in Limassol, Cyprus in collaboration with CIM Cyprus Business School. The Transformational Leadership (Cyprus) programme provides the tools needed to enhance your leadership and people management skills. Grounded in rigorous, cutting-edge research, the programme aims to furnish you with the knowledge required to get the full potential out of employees.
Upcoming programme dates to be confirmed.
Explore some of the major shocks and contemporary long-term global challenges facing countries, companies and individuals, and the megatrends shaping the global economy.
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Face-to-face
10-12 Feb 2025
3 days
£4,550 + VAT
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Face-to-face
Dates:
10-12 Feb 2025
Duration:
3 days
Fees:
£4,550 + VAT
Delivery formats
High quality programmes, flexible formats. Our 3 delivery styles allow you to choose whichever format best suits your needs.
Face-to-face
Immerse yourself in an inspirational learning environment in the historic and beautiful city of Cambridge. In an intense classroom-based experience, you will engage with faculty and peers in person. Join ‘Cambridge Union’-style debates, hear from guest speakers and faculty, and enjoy group exercises, role-play and informal conversations both in and outside class.
Live Online
Experience the best of Cambridge face-to-face learning right inside your home or office. Using current technologies, our seamless Live Online delivery offers you richly immersive interaction with faculty and peers. You’ll experience virtual debates, hear from guest speakers and faculty, and engage in breakout groups, simulations and role-play.
Online
Study whenever and wherever you want. Our highly flexible fully online programmes run over multiple weeks. Enjoying carefully structured learning, you’ll benefit from curated videos, live Faculty webinars, Q&A chat sessions and a dedicated Programme Support Team.
Faculty and speakers
Meet the faculty teaching on our leadership programmes.
Deputy Director of the Centre for Financial Reporting and Accountability (CFRA)
PhD (University of California, Berkeley)
DBA (Boston University)
Member of the Advisory Board, Cambridge Judge Business School
Fellow (Organisational Theory and Information Systems)
PhD (HEC Paris)
PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Stylianos (Stelios) Kavadias
Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies in Innovation and GrowthCo-Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre
PhD (INSEAD)
Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Chinese Management
PhD (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
MPhil, PhD (School of Management, Fudan University)
PhD (University of Cambridge)
PhD (Case Western University)
PhD (Washington University in St Louis)
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