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Executive Business Administration Program

A Global Partnership for Transformative Leadership

Overview

Unlock your leadership potential. Blending strategy, leadership, and functional business skills, the Executive Business Administration program equips participants with the tools to collaborate in a cross-functional environment, think critically in overseeing high-stakes projects, assess inner strengths to handle complexity, and lead confidently to make change happen.

The program is delivered in a highly interactive, hands-on learning style by senior faculty members from McGill and Zayed Universities, supported by guest VIP talks and site visits. The learning approach will focus on applying, analyzing, hands-on creating (projects, role play presenting, and exercises), cases, peer learning, site visits, and teambuilding.

Designed to meet busy schedules, it is conveniently offered over a six-month duration with two in-person modules (five-days each in Dubai and Montreal), accompanied by six microlearning sessions online.

Key Benefits and Takeaways

  • Lead teams with impact and foster cross-functional collaboration
  • Apply strategic analysis to identify growth opportunities
  • Discover value-creation opportunities using AI
  • Spark innovation and entrepreneurial thinking
  • Boost agility and operational efficiency
  • Make smarter decisions with accounting & finance insights
  • Present persuasive business cases to senior leaders
  • Design customer-focused strategies for stronger results
  • Negotiate effectively to achieve win-win outcomes
  • Integrate sustainability into business practices
  • Drive change and build a high-performance culture

This intensive 6-month leadership development program is designed for mid- to upper-level managers with 7 or more years of progressive leadership experience who are ready to expand their impact across their organizations. This includes participants from the public sector as well as for-profit changemakers leading growth in their organizations. It is a fantastic opportunity for those nominated for advancement to senior leadership roles to hone their skills and tackle problems they face in their day-to-day role with the counsel of expert professionals and peers.

The registration fee includes facilitation by our highly rated faculty members, course materials, results-oriented exercises, meal service (continental breakfast, lunch, and breaks) for the in-person modules in Dubai and Montreal, networking events, site visits, and a certificate of completion issued from McGill University and Zayed University.* To successfully complete the course and receive your certificate of completion, you will need to attend all sessions and complete the pre-work for each session.

*Travel expenses, overnight accommodations, and evening meals outside of class are not included.

Key themes covered in this program

  • Team-building & networking
  • Managing for high performance
  • Coaching & mentoring
  • Dealing with conflicts
  • Being an effective leader
  • Performing industry analysis
  • Building competitive advantage
  • Creating alignment in your organization
  • Leveraging future trends in your industry
  • Competing for the future
  • Financial statement analysis
  • Budgeting
  • Direct, indirect, fixed & variable costs
  • Break-even analysis
  • Long-term investment decisions 
  • Fundamental tools & approaches
  • Preparing for negotiations
  • Understanding the stages of negotiations
  • When & how to share information
  • Negotiating in teams
  • Clarity and confidence during change
  • Guiding the emotions of change
  • Performance behaviors & systems
  • Building ownership & excellence
  • Culture-building in times of transition
  • Optimizing & managing all processes
  • Defining your “value stream”
  • Employing effective operations strategy
  • Understanding supply chain flows
  • Agility models & tools
  • Demystifying AI trends & realities
  • Generative AI as a creative partner
  • AI for organizational effciency
  • Value-Creating AI use cases
  • Ethics & cybersecurity
  • Understanding customer needs
  • Effective differentiation
  • Brand management
  • Build market leadership
  • Digital marketing & the customer
  • Key traits of an innovation mindset
  • Tools to spot & validate opportunities
  • Entrepreneurs in business & nonprofits
  • Intrapreneurship & change from within
  • Overcoming cultural/structural barriers
  • Rethinking business models
  • Sustainable frameworks & tools
  • Life Cycle Thinking (LCA)
  • Global trends, regulation, ESG metrics
  • Building brand trust & differentiation

Applications

The McGill Executive Institute seeks to build strong positive-learning environments within which participants can flourish. Eligibility for acceptance into the program requires the following qualifications:

  1. Participants have upper- to senior-level management responsibilities;
  2. Show high interest in engaging positively with peers in a unique executive learning environment.

Candidates are encouraged to register online and supply a current resume that shows both your academic and professional experience. Email to:

executive.outreach@mcgill.ca