School of Business

Transformative custom programmes

Welcome to custom programmes with the University of Leicester School of Business – delivering transformative, flexible learning to meet the needs of your organisation, your teams and your employees.

As the pace and scope of global change advances, your organisation and employees are faced with complex challenges, significant uncertainties and novel opportunities.

Ensuring your organisation is fully equipped and sufficiently agile and resilient to navigate future developments and secure its competitive advantage is central to your success.

“Employees that can adapt their experience to different situations and manage business transformation will be the key to delivering sustained success for many organisations.”  
The future of lifelong learning and executive education, May 2024, CarringtonCrisp

Co-creation: learning built around your needs

Custom programmes are co-created in partnership with you, marrying your vision, knowledge and experience with the multifaceted, flexible learning expertise that we have developed over 35 years.

We will:

  • Collaborate with you from the outset, understanding your ambitions, challenges, culture and requirements.
  • Focus on identifying your current situation, underlying context and desired outcomes through a process of Discussion, Exploration, Prioritisation, Co-creation, Refinement, Delivery and Evaluation.
  • Craft the optimal blend of industry expertise and pioneering research to solve your business challenges and embed lasting impact in your organisation.
  • Engage expert tutors and facilitators to develop and deliver your learning.
  • Ensure a welcoming and safe learning environment be it online or in person.
  • Seek to review and fine tune your learning experience as your programme progresses to ensure your objectives are met.

Our expertise

With over 200 academics, an extensive network of external associates and several decades experience in delivering flexible learning to professionals, the University of Leicester School of Business is well-placed to address your priorities.

You may require learning around general management such as Leadership or Change Management, or a focus on functional areas or specialisms such as Strategic Marketing, AI for Decision Making or Negotiation, or a combination of both.

Designed for all levels of management

Our programmes can be tailored to different levels of management within your organisation and we work to support commercial, public and third sector organisations throughout the UK and overseas:

  • Board members
  • Senior leadership teams
  • Future leaders
  • Line managers
  • Aspiring managers
  • Specialist roles

Flexible delivery

Delivery is customised to match your requirements, preferences and desired programme intensity:

  • Online, in-person or hybrid
  • On campus, at your premises or at another location
  • Single-day masterclasses to multiple workshops with flexible frequency and duration
  • Scalable cohort sizes to suit your workforce

Real world impact is our priority and assessments are embedded in our programmes as standard. We recommend considering in-work projects, self-reflection, personal or team development tasks, and optional coaching or mentoring, to enable individuals, teams and organisations to operationalise their learning.

Research inspired teaching

As a research-intensive University, our Executive Education programmes are informed by the latest academic insights and analysis drawn from our Research Centres and the wider University research community including Space Park Leicester.

The School of Business works to create globally-minded leaders who are socially responsible, agile and resilient and want to make a difference in the world. We are driven by a commitment to asking challenging questions and taking creative and socially responsible approaches to business, management and economics. We are here to listen and support you in navigating a positive future direction for your business.

About us

The University of Leicester School of Business holds Small Business Charter accreditation and is part of the University of Leicester, a top 30 UK University awarded Daily Mail University of the Year 2025 and Shortlisted for The Times and Sunday Times University of the Year 2025. You can read more about our reputation and standing on our Rankings page.

Our Custom Programme team is led by Professor Paul Baines, Head of Executive Education. Paul has extensive management development programme expertise, having devised programmes for government departments, local authorities, the NHS, public sector agencies, large corporates and SMEs in countries around the world. He works with our dedicated executive education management team to produce high quality and effective programmes.

Our approach isn’t to deliver off the shelf solutions – it’s about listening to clients and driving results that matter. We take pride in the collaborative relationships we’ve built with organisations through our transformative custom programmes. Please see two case studies below providing an insight in to how we work with our clients.

          

Next steps

If your organisation is looking to upskill its employees to equip them to face new challenges and opportunities and embed practically relevant knowledge that has real long-term impact then why not get in touch to explore the possibilities.

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