Social Enterprise: Custom Programs
Columbia Business School Executive Education designs custom executive education programs to meet the development requirements of individual organizations. Our faculty members tailor sessions in a broad range of disciplines to address the unique challenges confronting your organization. With their extensive backgrounds in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors, Columbia Business School Executive Education faculty members bring the best in new ideas and practices to your organization. While midsize and larger organizations frequently rely on Custom Programs to support comprehensive change management or leadership initiatives, smaller organizations can supplement their use of Open Enrollment Programs with customized follow-up components.
Our Custom Programs can range in length from days to several weeks, typically consist of 15 to 30 participants and can include midlevel or senior executives or both. Programs can incorporate case analyses, lectures, small-group discussions, simulations, individual and team projects, self-assessment instruments, 360-degree feedback, and individual coaching.
Our current clients include the venerable and venerated programs that serve senior managers in the New York City Police and Fire Departments. We also have presented the Center for Curatorial Leadership program for the last three years that trains a select group of 10 art museum curators per year. The King Khalid Foundation takes us to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where we deliver a nonprofit management program to meet the needs of emerging leaders of nascent nonprofits and foundations.
Additional selected Custom Program clients have included the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Robin Hood Foundation, the UJA-Federation of New York, the United Neighborhood Houses, the Girl Scouts of the USA, and the Ariane de Rothschild Fellows Program that serves mostly Jewish and Muslim fellows who seek to use social entrepreneurship to bridge the cultural divide.
