Executive

Education
Advanced Management Program

GLOBAL. BUSINESS. LEADERS.

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Advanced Management Program

PROGRAM SNAPSHOT Learning outcomes
Delivered by world-class faculty, including strategy, marketing and
Duration Program Director resilience experts Geoff Martin, Jill Klein and Don O’Sullivan, the
13 days Mark Grant Advanced Management Program develops the complete mindset
you need to lead with confidence and authority in a complex
Location Apply now
business environment.
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By the end of the program, you will be able to:
Please refer to our website for program dates and fees
• Activate your personal leadership style
Note: This program is residential where participants stay on campus and
• Understand your identity and vulnerabilities
participate in workshop activities after hours. The program fee covers
tuition, meals and accommodation during the workshop. • Analyse your relationship habits
• Build your leadership story and vision
• Communicate to persuade and influence
• Create teamwork across functional and enterprise areas
Boost your leadership effectiveness with
• Develop global teams and partnerships
an integrated view of you, your • Employ powerful techniques for resilience
organisation and the future. • Engage in futures thinking and enterprise modelling
• Ensure levers such as HR, finance, marketing and strategy
Together, we’ll examine emerging deliver results
• Establish a culture of performance and accountability
workplace challenges and expand your
• Lead change and innovation amid disruption
understanding of senior managing • Improve decision making across the enterprise
through an emphasis on managing for • Interpret high-level analytics

the future, building a high-performance • Know what your brand and values stand for in the market
• Review marketing at C-suite level
organisation and enhancing your
• Adapt to media scrutiny.
leadership. Delivered by our world-class Three months after the program, you will receive follow-up group
coaching to gauge how well you are using your new skills and
faculty, the Advanced Management
knowledge in the workplace.
Program (AMP) will provide you with
powerful learnings to apply instantly at Program outlook
Perfect for cross-functional senior and emerging leaders, this deeply
work. You will gain the right insights and
immersive residential program takes a multidisciplinary approach to
skills to lead in a complex, ever-evolving, advanced business theory, personal and peer development,
leadership analysis and how organisation’s think about strategy.
business environment.
“The work is complex, personal and a little close to therapy,” says
Mark Grant, a trained psychologist and Director of the Advanced
Management Program. “The environment allows you to reflect on
your management style and how you build relationships and deal
with challenges.”
Who should attend
You will converse with faculty, visiting business leaders and your
From either small, medium or large enterprises, this program
program peers to gain a whole-of-organisation outlook on
is ideal for:
communicating with influence, building alignment and making
• Chief Executive Officer decisions that resonate.
• Director “By the time you leave, any cynicism you might have will be
• Managing Director replaced by a new confidence in what it means to excel as a
• General Manager senior leader,” Mark says.

• General Counsel
• Chief Manager Bring your challenge
We encourage you to bring in a work challenge to unleash the power
of peer learning. Together, we will unpack its complexity, contradictions,
weak points and your own leadership effectiveness in addressing it. It
could well be the most rewarding experience of your career.
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PROGRAM JOURNEY
Advanced Management Program
PRE-PROGRAM
PROGRAM SNAPSHOT Learning outcomes Program Journey
ACTIVITIES SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
Delivered by world-class faculty, including strategy, marketing and Pre-program preparation
(Approx. 6 weeks
Duration Program Director resilience experts Geoff Martin, Jill Klein and Don O’Sullivan, the
• Complete 360 Feedback Assessment prior to program
13 days Mark Grant Advanced Management Program develops the complete mindset commencement)
you need to lead with confidence and authority in a complex • 1:1 90 minute coaching session
Location Apply now
business environment. • Understanding and accommodating your needs through a
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conversation with the Program Director.

8.30am
By the end of the program, you will be able to: The field & Business
Please refer to our website for program dates and fees • Access to program materials and networking through our trends that
• Activate your personal leadership style Models & Culture:
online-learning platform. CONNECT inform
Note: This program is residential where participants stay on campus and Value reading,
• Understand your identity and vulnerabilities strategy
participate in workshop activities after hours. The program fee covers with the Creation leading and
Program
tuition, meals and accommodation during the workshop. • Analyse your relationship habits Program changing it
Director
• Build your leadership story and vision Building organisational transformation
Break Break
• Communicate to persuade and influence • Corporate and board governance, reporting and strategy Networks,
Corporate
• Create teamwork across functional and enterprise areas Finance Power &
Boost your leadership effectiveness with • Activating finance, marketing and HR levers across an
Influence
• Develop global teams and partnerships organisation
an integrated view of you, your • Employ powerful techniques for resilience • Talent development and workforce pipeline
ACCESS
Regional
Free Time
Canvas and Session:
organisation and the future. • Engage in futures thinking and enterprise modelling • Influence, power and the ethics of decision-making review welcome Leadership Valuing a
The Field
& Futures
Resilience
• Group and team dynamics and their impact on results and information Challenging Awareness & business
• Ensure levers such as HR, finance, marketing and strategy Thinking
Executive
Together, we’ll examine emerging deliver results
Managing for the future
Strategy
Presence
• Establish a culture of performance and accountability
workplace challenges and expand your • Futures thinking, sustainability and corporate results Marketing &
• Lead change and innovation amid disruption In-Market Strategy:
understanding of senior managing • Improve decision making across the enterprise
• Leading change to support futures thinking and innovation Developing & Day Diversity &
value
Challenging Cross-cultural
• Complexity and disruptive change, digital shift and associated creation
through an emphasis on managing for • Interpret high-level analytics
business opportunities
Strategy awareness

the future, building a high-performance • Know what your brand and values stand for in the market
• Big data, digital shift, disruptive complexity and decision-
• Review marketing at C-suite level making
organisation and enhancing your COMPLETE
Group
Coaching
• Adapt to media scrutiny. • Corporate culture, diversity and support for global business
leadership. Delivered by our world-class Three months after the program, you will receive follow-up group 360 Feedback
Enhancing personal leadership Assessment
coaching to gauge how well you are using your new skills and Data &
faculty, the Advanced Management • Your leadership brand, digital brand and media presence Analytics
knowledge in the workplace.
Program (AMP) will provide you with • How leadership presence and approach underpins corporate 1:1 Coaching
performance (90 minutes via
powerful learnings to apply instantly at Program outlook phone or Skype) 3.00pm 3.00pm
• Your brain and leadership: improving engagement with people
Perfect for cross-functional senior and emerging leaders, this deeply Welcome & Free Time
work. You will gain the right insights and • Well-being and resilience for corporate executives Orientation Human Complexity
Program
immersive residential program takes a multidisciplinary approach to Decision Decision Group Individual Group Close
Pre-program Capital Adaptive
skills to lead in a complex, ever-evolving, advanced business theory, personal and peer development, Post-program readings
Making Making Coaching
Management Leadership
Reflection Coaching
leadership analysis and how organisation’s think about strategy.
business environment. • Continued learning through access to program materials,
“The work is complex, personal and a little close to therapy,” says

After dinner/evening sessions

facilitators and networking via our online-learning platform, Questionnaires
Mark Grant, a trained psychologist and Director of the Advanced
CANVAS.
Management Program. “The environment allows you to reflect on
your management style and how you build relationships and deal
with challenges.” Learning methods
Who should attend Introductions Free Time Free Time Free Time Free Time
You will converse with faculty, visiting business leaders and your • Interactive sessions, delivered by our world-class presenters, Leadership Human Dinner with Dinner with Dinner with
From either small, medium or large enterprises, this program Decision
program peers to gain a whole-of-organisation outlook on Awareness Capital guest speaker guest speaker guest speaker
is ideal for: are grounded in academic research to increase your awareness Making
Management
communicating with influence, building alignment and making and effectiveness.
• Chief Executive Officer decisions that resonate.
• Case studies provide practical, real examples that translate
• Director “By the time you leave, any cynicism you might have will be management theory into applicable skills.
• Managing Director replaced by a new confidence in what it means to excel as a • Peer-learning groups facilitate knowledge sharing,
• General Manager senior leader,” Mark says. collaboration and feedback to ensure you have a powerful and CANVAS
• General Counsel personal experience that drives results.

• Chief Manager Bring your challenge • Experiential learning deepens your insights into leadership,
strategy and change, providing practical opportunities to
We encourage you to bring in a work challenge to unleash the power
reinforce new learning.
of peer learning. Together, we will unpack its complexity, contradictions,
weak points and your own leadership effectiveness in addressing it. It • Feedback increases self-awareness and strengthens your
could well be the most rewarding experience of your career. capacity as a leader.
• Reflection allows time to place your learnings in a broader
context to identify issues and establish the way forward.

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Presenters

Mark Grant Jill Klein

Program Director | Advanced Management Program Presenter | Decision Making and Resilience
Professor of Marketing
Mark has over 20 years of experience in merchant and
investment banking, including six years at a Chief Executive level. Jill has delivered executive education programs for more than 15
He has taken both lead and support roles in the discovery, design, years. Drawing on her family’s experiences during the Holocaust,
development and delivery of executive development programs Jill’s insights and teachings on resilience have inspired business
for both public and private sector clients, including Telstra, leaders from around the world. She has worked with large
Accenture, VicRoads and NAB. His particular expertise is in international organisations, including Ericsson, AstraZeneca,
working deeply with senior executives on aspects of their Toshiba, Syngenta and Adidas. Her research interests are
personal development as leaders. gift-giving and sharing in impoverished contexts, consumer
boycotts, and corporate social responsibility.

Don O’Sullivan
Jennifer Overbeck
Presenter | Marketing
Associate Professor of Marketing Presenter | Networks, Power & Influence
Associate Professor of Management
With more than 20 years’ experience as a marketing consultant
and academic in the field, Don is a well-regarded expert with a Jennifer currently teaches Organisational Behaviour, Negotiation
global perspective, having worked in Australia, Europe and North and Deal-making and Power and Politics on our MBA and
America. Alongside his academic career, Don also works with Executive MBA programs. She also teaches Research Methods and
global brands, such as Johnson & Johnson, Motorola, NAB, Nestlé, Statistics on our PhD program and delivers on our executive
Salesforce, Siemens and AMP, and comments regularly in The education programs. Jennifer’s research, which has been
Australian Financial Review, ABC and other media outlets. Don published in several distinguished journals, focuses on negotiation
consults on managing marketing performance and marketing performance and the effects of power and status on first
metrics, and has led teams in developing award-winning impressions and in group settings. Jennifer’s writings have also
international marketing campaigns. appeared in the Huffington Post, New York Times, USA Today and
other international publications.

Geoff Martin
Mark Alexander
Presenter | Strategy
Associate Professor of Strategy Presenter | Data and Analytics

As a strategy consultant and charted accountant, Geoff is actively Mark is Executive Director of the Centre for Business Analytics at
involved in advising and consulting to Boards and Senior Melbourne Business School. Mark’s previous roles include
Management of numerous private and public institutions, in Strategy Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group and Strategy
Australia and internationally. Geoff is an accomplished facilitator Development Manager at Medibank. Mark then moved into Data
on Executive Education programs, specialising in Strategy, Strategy before founding his own consultancy, Alexander
Finance, and Corporate Governance. Geoff also works with MBS’ Consulting. Specialising in data strategy, clients included Financial
Indigenous Leader’s program (MURRA) and the Social Trader’s Services, Health, Utilities, Entertainment, and Recruitment.
Crunch program that provides consulting expertise to a wide
range of social enterprises and has worked with the Asylum
Seeker’s Resource Centre.

Dr Amanda Bell (past participant)

Executive Director, Rongoa Wai,
NZ Strategic Insights Panel member

“An ideal combination of best

business theory and practice from
faculty with globally relevant and
up-to-date commercial experience.”
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