Cambridge Owners and Presidents Programme
Step back from the day-to-day demands of leadership and focus on the future of your business at Cambridge Judge Business School. Join fellow owners and senior leaders to tackle your most important challenges, explore new opportunities for growth and develop a clear plan for what comes next.
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Dates:
Duration:
Fees:
Blended
4 Apr-27 Aug 2027
5 months
£22,000
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Blended
Dates:
4 Apr-27 Aug 2027
Duration:
5 months
Fees:
£22,000
Overview
As your business grows, so do the demands on you as a leader. Decisions about where to invest, how to build your leadership team and when to embrace new technologies compete with the daily pressures of running the organisation. Finding time to question your approach and plan for the longer term can be difficult, yet these are the decisions that will shape your business’s future.
The Cambridge Owners and Presidents Programme brings together owners, founders, presidents and senior enterprise leaders to work through these challenges. At Cambridge Judge Business School, you will draw on academic research, engage with experienced faculty and exchange perspectives with peers who understand the responsibility of leading a business. In an environment shaped by intellectual curiosity and entrepreneurial ambition, you will challenge your assumptions and explore new possibilities for your organisation.
Through 2 in-person modules in Cambridge, connected by online learning, you will examine how strategy, finance, innovation, leadership and governance work together to support lasting growth. Peer advisory discussions and business simulations will help you test your thinking and apply new ideas to the challenges you face. You will leave with a clearer sense of direction and greater confidence to lead your business into its next chapter.
Benefits and career impact
When you are responsible for a business, your own development can easily fall behind the needs of everyone around you. Yet giving yourself time to think, learn and challenge your approach can have a lasting influence on the organisation you lead.
At Cambridge, you will have the space to look beyond immediate pressures and consider what is possible – for your business and for yourself as a leader. Working with faculty and fellow owners and senior leaders, you will explore difficult questions, draw inspiration from different experiences and develop the confidence to pursue new opportunities.
Whether your ambition is to expand into new markets, build a stronger leadership team or prepare the business for its next generation, you will strengthen your ability to turn that ambition into informed decisions. The benefits extend beyond your own leadership to the people you empower, the organisation you build and the future you help shape.
- Gain a broader view of your organisation, connecting decisions across strategy, finance, people and operations.
- Strengthen your judgement when assessing growth opportunities, prioritising investment and responding to uncertainty.
- Explore what AI and emerging technologies mean for your business and where they can add value.
- Test your thinking with Cambridge faculty and fellow leaders who bring different experiences and perspectives.
- Build relationships beyond your industry and market, with peers who understand the demands of enterprise leadership.
- Develop a clearer strategic direction, balancing immediate demands with long-term ambitions.
- Build the leadership capabilities, culture and ways of working needed to support sustainable growth.
- Strengthen governance and alignment between owners, the board and the leadership team.
- Prepare for succession and leadership transitions while protecting business continuity.
- Improve your organisation’s ability to adapt to changing markets, manage risk and create lasting value.
Owner-led and entrepreneurial enterprises play a vital role in driving economic growth, creating jobs and shaping industries worldwide. Leading these organisations requires a careful balance of strategy, finance, operations, innovation and leadership to navigate complexity and create enduring value. The Cambridge Owners and Presidents Programme equips business owners and enterprise leaders with the perspectives, frameworks and capabilities to lead with confidence, drive sustainable growth and build resilient organisations in an increasingly dynamic global environment.
This programme is being delivered in collaboration with Emeritus.
Programme content
The Cambridge Owners and Presidents Programme combines immersive learning, peer collaboration and practical application to help you navigate complexity, address strategic challenges and create meaningful impact for your organisation.
Module 1: Leading enterprise growth and transformation | In person in Cambridge
- Broaden your perspective as an enterprise leader, with the confidence to navigate complexity and shape your organisation’s future.
- Discover new paths to growth through innovation, stronger competitive positioning and different business models.
- Explore how AI and emerging technologies can transform your business and prepare you for the future of work.
- Strengthen your financial judgement to prioritise investment, allocate capital and create lasting value.
- Build a deeper understanding of your customers to strengthen your brand and identify new growth opportunities.
Module 2: Strategic thinking for the CXO: platforms, ecosystems and AI-driven strategies | Online and Live Online
- Challenge established approaches to strategy and rethink how your business can succeed in a changing world.
- Explore how platforms, partnerships and business ecosystems can open new opportunities to compete and grow.
- Develop business models that strengthen your competitive advantage and help you recognise unexpected opportunities.
- Understand how AI and data can inform strategic decisions and improve organisational performance.
- Translate your growth ambitions into a coherent strategy, with a stronger understanding of how to put it into practice.
Module 3: Stewardship, governance and global leadership | In person in Cambridge
- Build the leadership, culture and talent your organisation needs to sustain performance as it grows.
- Strengthen your response to geopolitical change, sustainability challenges and global risk.
- Align ownership, governance and leadership, navigating family business dynamics and preparing for succession.
- Develop resilient operations and explore how AI can reshape work, strengthen collaboration and improve productivity.
- Put your judgement to the test in a CEO simulation, bringing together decisions across strategy, finance, operations and governance.
How you learn: 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.
Who attends
This programme brings together leaders with responsibility for the direction, growth and long-term success of their organisations. Whether you have built a business, are leading its next stage of growth or are preparing it for a new generation, you will join peers who understand the weight of those responsibilities and share your ambition to move forward.
It is designed for:
- owners, founders and entrepreneurs scaling established businesses and considering how their own leadership needs to evolve
- presidents, chairpersons and board members shaping strategic direction, strengthening governance and overseeing long-term growth
- owner-CEOs balancing the daily demands of running a business with the responsibility of building its future
- family business leaders pursuing growth while navigating ownership, family expectations and leadership transitions
- senior executives leading organisations on behalf of shareholders or ownership groups, with responsibility across the enterprise
You will learn alongside people from different industries and markets, bringing fresh perspectives to shared challenges and creating opportunities for candid conversations about what it takes to lead.
Faculty and speakers
Learn from our world-class faculty who bring fresh insights from their leading-edge research into all of our Executive Education programmes. The Academic Programme Director (APD) for the Cambridge Owners and Presidents Programme is Professor Khaled Soufani.
Director of the Cambridge Executive MBA Programme
Director of the Circular Economy Centre (CEC)
PhD (HEC Paris)
Professorial Fellow of St Edmund’s College
PhD (University of Cambridge)
PhD (Aston University)
Patrizia works with Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education.
Why Cambridge Judge Business School?
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Contact us
If you have any questions or would like to have a chat about this programme and how it could benefit you or your organisation, please get in touch with the Open Programmes team:
