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 Overview Martin Cass
Managing Partner at LionsPride Partners

Demands on senior leaders have never been

“ Wharton’s AMP is not for executives who just want to tick the education box. You have to want
to make a change in your career, either by stepping up to a higher level or going somewhere else.
It opens your eyes to what is possible. If you go through the program and you’re not able to enact
greater. In an atmosphere of volatility, uncertainty, the kinds of changes you are inspired to lead, you will be frustrated. That is where I was, and
complexity, and ambiguity, you need to act more AMP came at the right time for me.”
decisively and think more strategically. You must
possess a level of foresight, agility, and resilience
that your predecessors never imagined.
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Wharton’s Advanced Management Program (AMP)
Iain O’Brien (Scotland) credits Wharton’s Advanced
will prepare you to meet those demands and give Management Program with significantly expanding his
you the knowledge, skills, and instincts to reach professional and personal network.
new career heights. In addition to learning the
latest business practices, insights, and trends, you
will examine yourself as a leader, exploring your
strengths and challenges, developing a leadership
philosophy and greater leadership presence,
and deepening your emotional intelligence.
Through your investment in AMP, your greatest
potential will be tapped, and you can expect both
professional and personal breakthroughs.

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 Experiential Learning
A hallmark of Wharton Executive Education is its focus on hands-on learning.

Highlights and
Decades of research confirm that lessons are best retained and ingrained
when they involve immersing students in powerful, memorable stretch
experiences. The program includes intensive simulations and group work and,
Key Outcomes during the on-campus weeks, a wide range of activities that build leadership
and promote teamwork.
Community Building
In the Advanced Management Program, During the AMP, you will become part of an exclusive community of highly
you will: experienced senior leaders from around the world. Your cohort is limited in
size to build camaraderie and maximize the peer-to-peer learning exchange as
• Develop a highly informed global perspective
a wide range of sectors, industries, and companies are represented within the
that will help your organization seize new
group. Together, in a setting designed to foster collaboration and connection, you
opportunities and compete successfully
will explore the latest research and best practices in every business discipline,
well into the future
discussing challenges and trends with Wharton’s world-renowned expert faculty,
• Turn the latest theories and best practices in CEOs, and other senior leaders on the front lines of business today.
marketing, finance, strategy, and innovation
into actionable strategies Unlike similar programs, there are no elective sessions in AMP: participants
come ready for an active experience and a high level of engagement with fellow
• Lead with greater purpose and presence participants. You will share your current leadership challenges and put your
to better meet strategic objectives and knowledge and skills to the test in a variety of stretch experiences and simulations
inspire others designed to engage and educate. The connections you forge will become a lifelong
• Deepen your self-awareness through individual personal and professional network, keeping the AMP experience relevant well into
and peer coaching and faculty mentoring the future.
• Master key leadership skills including Wharton’s whole-person approach also includes addressing the community,
negotiating and harnessing the power of social, and physical aspects of senior leadership. You will work in a small
emotional intelligence group on a social enterprise project that taps your collective business acumen,
• Build a strong global network of peers who will expertise, and connections to address a pressing societal need. You will
be an enduring source of support, advice, and experience executive mindfulness sessions, and enjoy time out of the classroom
personal connection in the conference center’s executive dining room, evening lounge, and fitness
facilities. Off-campus social events include meals at faculty homes and outings in
• Receive Wharton alumni status upon
Philadelphia, one of America’s most historic yet cosmopolitan cities, with world-
completion of AMP, becoming part of a class restaurants, theaters, sports and music venues, and more.
global alumni network with more than
99,000 members

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 Highlights and
Key Outcomes The Partners’ Program
During the last two days of the on-campus session, your spouse, partner, or other
guest is invited to participate in the Partners' Program, which features select AMP
sessions and social activities. Participants welcome this shared experience and
find it greatly enhances and eases their return to home and work.
Mindfulness and Reflection
Through guided reflection you will think deeply
about how to reenter your organization. With an Global Emphasis
emphasis on being a true leader of leaders, you will Because most companies today are international in ways both large and small,
determine how you can best leverage what you AMP builds your skills in working across boundaries, leading geographically diverse
learned in the program to develop those working teams, and developing a deeper knowledge of global markets and geopolitics.
for you. Lead faculty will share their greatest Faculty bring new insights developed on the ground from their extensive work in
challenges and triumphs, including the training China through the parallel CHAMP program (China’s AMP), as well as companies
of NASA astronauts and elite military forces and in India, Africa, Europe, and South America. Your global perspective and
leading teams to the summit of Mount Everest. connections with leaders from around the world will grow exponentially.

On-campus AMP includes an off-site retreat

designed to deepen your thinking on leadership
and reflect on the program’s lessons and the ways
in which you will personally apply them.

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 In addition to presidents, chief executive officers, and other senior executives,
past participants have included successful entrepreneurs, media and technology

Participant Profile executives, and leaders of nonprofit organizations.

A high level of English language proficiency is necessary to actively engage in
group discussions and reading assignments. Scores for the Test of English for
International Communication (TOEIC), taken within the past two years, must be
AMP is for executives who are ready to take 800 or higher.*
a bold next step to accelerate the trajectory
of their careers. This program is designed for The Admissions Committee may require that the AMP Candidate Nomination
senior executives who are within three reporting Form be completed before making a decision on your application. This form must
relationships of the CEO or managing director of be completed by your CEO, division president, or other nominator who can attest
their organizations. While participants come from to your professional achievements and provide additional information about your
diverse cultural and professional backgrounds, career goals.
they share several key qualities. Specifically, *If you have less than one year of experience working in an English-speaking environment, or if you are
this program is for dynamic, ambitious, and unsure about your current level of English, please contact us immediately at execed@[Link].
We will schedule an appointment for you to speak with one of our language specialists about our business
multidimensional executives who:
English language programs. The Admissions Committee may also require an interview by phone.
• Motivate by example and have the vision,
leadership capabilities, influence, and
business acumen to lead effectively in a
world of uncertainty and complexity job titles
• Seek a learning experience that provides • CEO, CFO, and other C-Suite • Board Member
an opportunity for deeply personal self- • General Manager • Country Head
assessment
• Managing Director • Regional Director
• Possess substantial experience in a variety of
vertical industry groups, business disciplines, • VP, SVP, and EVP • Principal
regions, and cultures • President • Partner

• Founder

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 industry

Participant Profile
recently attended companies:
• Banco Bradesco

• Cleveland Clinic

• Coca-Cola

• Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC

industry
• Estée Lauder Companies

• Komatsu Ltd. job function

• Lufthansa Cargo AG

• Petronas

• Reserve Bank of India

• Samsung

• Saudi Aramco

• Standard Bank region

• Vanguard

• Virgin Mobile

• Women's World Banking

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Executive Coaching
Your Advanced Management Program
experience will be enhanced through individual
coaching sessions that begin before the
program and extend beyond the close.
Coaching not only supports your learning
during the fast-paced program but also
helps you make the transition back to
your workplace. It provides an intentional The modular version of the Advanced Management Program offers an expanded
opportunity to take a step back for reflection, coaching experience to provide additional support and connection for both
an incredibly valuable learning habit many participants and coaches between the live online classes. Participants in the
senior executives don’t take the time to do. modular version of AMP will receive at least 10 individual coaching sessions.
Because of the positive impact of coaching,
The on-campus Advanced Management Program consists of five consecutive
many Advanced Management Program
participants choose to retain their coach for weeks on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. The experience
months or years after the official sessions end. includes a minimum of five individual coaching sessions that are conducted during
and soon after the completion of AMP.
Small group coaching is also a part of Advanced
Management Program. You will receive real-
time feedback throughout the program as
you share your goals and current challenges
with your group. During experiential learning
sessions, you will experiment with your stretch
goals and have the opportunity to practice new
behaviors and make changes during the AMP.
Your group is a learning support for each other,
and the issues you choose to work on can be
reshaped during the program.

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 Faculty
Michael Useem, PhD
Faculty Chair
William and Jacalyn Egan
Professor of Management; Editor,
Wharton Leadership Digest;
Director, Center for Leadership and
Change Management,
The Wharton School
Michael Useem is a professor of management and the director of Wharton’s
Center for Leadership and Change Management. He teaches MBA and executive
MBA courses on leadership and change, and he offers programs on leadership,
teamwork, governance, and decision making for managers in the United States,
Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He also works on leadership development and
governance with many companies and organizations in the private, public, and
nonprofit sectors.

Professor Useem is the author of The Leadership Moment, Investor Capitalism, The
Go Point, and The Leader’s Checklist. He is coauthor and/or coeditor of Learning
from Catastrophes; Boards That Lead: When to Take Charge, When to Partner and
When to Stay Out of the Way; and The India Way: How India’s Top
Business Leaders Are Revolutionizing Management.

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ADDITIONAL FACULTY
The interactive and intensive nature of AMP allows participants to work closely with some of the finest minds and thought leaders in the
world of business. Following is a partial list of participating Wharton faculty. (Faculty for specific runnings may change.)

Jeff Klein Witold Henisz, PhD Nancy Rothbard, PhD Christian Terwiesch, PhD
Executive Director, McNulty Deloitte & Touche Professor David Pottruck Professor; Professor Andrew M. Heller Professor;
Leadership Program; Lecturer, The of Management; Professor of of Management; Chairperson, Department Chairperson and
Wharton School and the School of Management; Director, Wharton Management Department, The Professor of Operations, Information
Social Policy and Practice, University Political Risk Lab, The Wharton School Wharton School and Decisions; Co-Director, Mack
of Pennsylvania Institute for Innovation Management,
Todd Henshaw, PhD G. Richard Shell, JD The Wharton School; Professor of
Sigal Barsade, PhD Senior Fellow, Center for Leadership Thomas Gerrity Professor; Health Policy, Perelman School of
Joseph Frank Bernstein Professor; and Change Management, Professor of Legal Studies & Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Professor of Management, The The Wharton School; Distinguished Business Ethics; Professor of
Wharton School Visiting Professor, Schwarzman Management; Chairperson, Legal James D. Thompson, PhD
Scholars, Tsinghua University; Studies & Business Ethics Department, Adjunct Associate Professor,
Quinn Bauriedel President, Leader Development The Wharton School Management Department, The
Speaker, Pig Iron Theatre Company Associates Wharton School; Adjunct Associate
Jeremy Siegel, PhD Professor at the School of Social
Brian Bushee, PhD Rodrigo Jordan, PhD Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance, Policy and Practice, University of
Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor of Senior Fellow, Center for Leadership The Wharton School Pennsylvania
Accounting, The Wharton School and Change Management,
The Wharton School; Executive Nicolaj Siggelkow, PhD
Emilie Feldman, PhD Vice President, Vertical SA Ilene Wasserman, PhD
David M. Knott Professor; Professor Lead Executive Coach; President,
Associate Professor of Management, of Management; Co-Director, Mack
The Wharton School John Kanengieter ICW Consulting Group
Institute for Innovation Management,
Senior Fellow, Center for Leadership The Wharton School
Mauro Guillén, PhD and Change Management, David Wessels, PhD
Dr. Felix Zandman Professor The Wharton School; Director, Adjunct Professor of Finance,
Harbir Singh, PhD The Wharton School
of International Management; Kanengieter Consulting Group Mack Professor; Professor of
Professor of Management; Management; Co-Director, Mack
The Wharton School Cade Massey, PhD Institute for Innovation Management;
Practice Professor, Operations, Wharton School Faculty Director
Information and Decisions, for the Huntsman Program in
The Wharton School International Studies and Business,
The Wharton School
David Reibstein, PhD
William Stewart Woodside
Professor; Professor of Marketing,
The Wharton School

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 ON CAMPUS
Advanced Management Program MODULE VI
sample program schedule * OCT. 18–29, 2021

Wharton On-Campus Programming

Monday, October 18 Tuesday, October 19 Wednesday, October 20 Thursday, October 21 Friday, October 22 Saturday, October 23
BREAKFAST BREAKFAST
BREAKFAST BREAKFAST
The Week Ahead Executive Mindfulness
BREAKFAST BREAKFAST
8:00–8:45 Leadership Pig Iron 8:00–8:45
Navigation Challenge Theatre Company break
break
Leadership Venture
Identity Loyalty Managing the Divestitures Emergent Topics
Corporate Portfolio
9:00–10:30
break 9:00–10:30 9:00–10:30 9:00–10:30

Brand Crisis break break break

Managing the Divestitures (continued) Emergent Topics
8:30–12:15
10:45–12:15 Corporate Portfolio (continued)
LUNCH LUNCH (continued)
10:45–12:15 10:45–12:15 10:45–12:15
Connected Strategy Leadership Navigation
Challenge (continued) LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
1:30–3:00 1:30–3:00
Organizational Culture Unconscious Biases
break break Pig Iron Movies
Connected Strategy Team Coaching
1:30–3:00
(continued) 1:30–3:00
3:15–4:45 break break
break Organizational Culture Unconscious Biases
Executive Mindfulness (continued) (continued)
5:00–6:00 8:30–6:00 3:15–4:45
3:15–5:30 3:15–5:00

DINNER DINNER DINNER DINNER DINNER

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sample program schedule * OCT. 18–29, 2021

Wharton On-Campus Programming

Sunday, October 24 Monday, October 25 Tuesday, October 26 Wednesday, October 27 Thursday, October 28 Friday, October 29
BREAKFAST
BREAKFAST
The Week Ahead
BREAKFAST BREAKFAST BREAKFAST BREAKFAST
8:00–8:45

break Leadership and Integrity

8:30–10:00
Individual Cover Story CEO Perspective Strategic Persuasion Crisis Leadership
Coaching Session 9:00–10:30 break
9:00–11:00 break Leadership and Integrity
break Crisis Leadership (continued)
(continued)
9:00–12:15 CEO Perspective 9:00–12:15 10:45–12:15 10:15–11:45
(continued)
LUNCH 11:15–1:00 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH

Scaling Ventures LUNCH Leadership Economic Outlook Community Closing

and Followership 1:00–2:15
Team Coaching
1:30–3:00 1:30–3:00 1:30–3:00
break
break break break Community Closing
(continued)
Scaling Ventures Leadership and Economic Outlook
(continued) 2:30–4:30
(continued) Followership (continued)
3:15–4:45 3:15–4:45 Free time / change for
3:15–4:45
Change for break graduation festivities
break Partners Reception Executive Mindfulness
Executive Mindfulness 2:00–4:30
5:00–6:00
9:00–6:00 5:00–6:00 break 4:45–6:00 4:30–6:15

PARTNERS
DINNER DINNER DINNER DINNER GRADUATION EVENING
WELCOME RECEPTION

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 plan your
stay with us
Most Wharton Executive Education programs are
offered on the University of Pennsylvania campus in
Philadelphia. Located between New York City and
Washington D.C., Philadelphia is easily accessible from
most major cities around the world.

HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
Your Philadelphia program fee includes hotel
Wharton staff took a lot of accommodations. Most participants stay at the
the stress out of the logistical Steinberg Conference Center, a 103-room full-service
hotel and classroom facility on Penn’s campus. There
concerns so I could really
are also several other hotels available nearby, including
focus on absorbing the course the Hilton Inn at Penn.
content.”

— Megan K., MEALS DURING YOUR STAY

Energy industry executive The majority of your meals are served in the Steinberg
Conference Center and are included in your program
fee. With advance notice, we can accommodate special
dietary needs.

HISTORIC AND CULTURAL HUB

A historic and cultural powerhouse, Philadelphia offers
numerous tourist attractions, including the
Independence National Historical Park, the National
Constitution Center, the Philadelphia Museum of Art,
and the Barnes Foundation.

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