The Executive Development Program focuses on concepts and tools that you can use to become a more strategic thinker, effective manager, and skillful decision-maker. You can schedule a class visit during the academic year at this link.
View the 2025-2026 program schedule
Leadership
Understand transformational leadership. Develop your own leadership philosophy to inform your presence in the workplace.
Organizational and Change Management
Major topics include teamwork, perception and decision-making, motivation, strategic organizational design, corporate culture, and organizational change.
Competitive Strategy
Understand how the basic concepts of market segmentation and positioning are essential to the strategic planning process. Consider what distinguishes successful product or service launches from those that fail relative to go-to-market strategy.
Generative AI & The Future of Work
Discover how cutting-edge Generative AI is reshaping the future of work and creative decision-making for executives. Through live demos, case studies, and interactive exercises, examine how AI can revolutionize workflows, boost productivity, and create new value across industries.
Competing Around AI
Help your organization navigate today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape using the lenses of technology strategy, innovation, and industry evolution.
Creativity & Innovation
Delve into hands-on activities to develop greater intuition about where successful innovations come from. Apply a design thinking approach to solve problems and foster new ideas.
Negotiation Skills
Become a more effective negotiator through proven techniques for building and maintaining relationships, applying appropriate power and influence, structuring agreements, and developing buy-in.
Accounting and Finance
Learn to interpret and use accounting data for planning, decision-making, and financial reporting.
Solving Complex Problems
Examine the interpersonal dynamics that can inhibit good problem-solving in groups. Adopt a model that can help you guide groups to solve unstructured, ambiguous, and novel problems.
Managing Diverse Teams
Investigate barriers that can prevent new ideas and perspectives from surfacing in a team setting and learn strategies to overcome them.
Entrepreneurial Thinking
Gain insight into how entrepreneurs conceive, adapt, and execute strategies to spur growth. Identify and understand fundamental strategic principles that influence success in entrepreneurial settings.
Business Communication Skills
Master fundamental tools to connect, be clear, and compel any audience. Receive customized coaching in a highly interactive and personalized setting to enable immediate behavior change.
Supply Chain
Recognize the critical importance of resilient and responsible supply chains, and explore ways that companies can innovate to build supply chains that are agile, sustainable, and better equipped to navigate future uncertainties.
HR Management
Identify the HR tools that are most pivotal in strengthening business performance and learn to prioritize practices that are most likely to drive results.
Power and Status Dynamics
Appreciate the nuance of power and status in the workplace. Develop tactics to impact lives and organizations meaningfully.
Brand Management Strategy
Learn how to create and maintain a market-oriented organization to lessen price pressure on products and grow a stable base of loyal customers. Identify key factors in successful brands that apply to your enterprise.
*Information is subject to change.
In the Executive Development Program (EDP), you will experience a variety of teaching styles with opportunities for both individual and group involvement. Lectures are interactive and allow you to relate the material to your own professional experience. Case studies, role-playing, small group work and other highly participative teaching techniques encourage your active involvement:
- Faculty members present thought-provoking lectures pertinent to your current challenges and encourage participant involvement in the evening’s discussion.
- Case study analysis and discussion of business problems focus on application in real-world businesses.
- Company presentations give you an opportunity to develop your communication skills while you describe your function and organization to the group. You will learn about diverse industries and business units from other experienced professionals in the class.
- Dinner discussions on Monday class evenings allow you to share work experiences and explore the best practices in your industry with your classmates in a relaxed setting.
- Individual study prior to class strengthens your strategic thinking skills and prepares you for the classroom discussion.
- Residential sessions take place at the beginning and end of the program. They are intensive two-to-four-day learning experiences focused on strategy and leadership skills at resorts within driving distance from the Seattle area. Residential sessions allow you to move beyond just networking with your classmates toward forming lasting connections.
Wendy Baesler
Acting Instructor of Accounting
Patrick J. Bettin
Senior Lecturer, Management and Organization
Elizabeth Blankespoor
Professor of Accounting
Marguerite Reimers Endowed Faculty Fellow
Léonard Boussioux
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
Crystal Farh
Professor of Management
Michael G. Foster Endowed Fellow
Faculty Director of the PhD Program
Thomas Gruver
Principal Consultant and Executive Coach
Lange International
Benjamin Hallen
Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Neal and Jan Dempsey Endowed Professor
Michael Johnson
Professor of Management
The Boeing Company Endowed Professor in Business Management
Stacia Jones
Affiliate Instructor of Management and Organization
VP and Global Head of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Action (IDEA) at lululemon
Suresh Kotha
Professor of Management
Olesen/Battelle Excellence Chair in Entrepreneurship
Research Director of the Arthur W. Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship
Emily Cox Pahnke
Associate Professor of Management
Lawrence P. Hughes Endowed Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Masha Shunko
Associate Professor of Operations Management
Elizabeth Umphress
Professor of Management
William D. Bradford Endowed Professor
Faculty Director of Consulting and Business Development Center
Elijah Wee
Assistant Professor of Management
Lance Young
Teaching Professor of Finance and Business Economics
*Information is subject to change.
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