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Program Overview
To confront challenges in today’s fast-changing world, executives need a strategic perspective, informed and ethical judgement, and a global vision. Experience the most comprehensive advanced management and succession planning program, featuring the world's #1 ranked faculty, coaching, integrated wellness program, industry guest speakers, business challenge project and a network of international peers.
Prepare yourself — or your high-performing senior executives — to lead at the highest level of risk and reward. Through TEP's holistic approach to advanced management development, new and potential C-suite leaders hone their capabilities to lead ethically and with purpose, manage across the enterprise, articulate and execute on a vision, and incorporate experiential knowledge and peer perspectives to pursue a differentiated, agile strategy in an ever-changing global business environment.
Program Details
Program Dates
January 15, 2025
Format
In-Person, Charlottesville,
VA, Washington, D.C., Area
Program Duration
6 months
Program Fee
$58,685.00
Experience & Impact
Your TEP experience is a shared one, connecting with engaged faculty who combine case method, experiential learning and insights from their research and proximity to practice to drive transformational learning that builds on the experience and expertise of everyone in the room. Our proven immersive approach allows you to take a step back and focus on the whole leader to discover what inspires and drives you from the inside out and beyond.
Key Topics & Themes
Executive Perspective
- Strategic Positioning
- Brand Positioning
- Leadership Roles
Enterprise & Global Perspective
- Corporate Governance
- Leading Change
- Global Economy & Growth
Entrepreneurial Perspective
- Disruption & Innovation
- Digital Transformation, AI
- Launching New Ventures
Strategic Perspective
- Emerging Markets
- Fintech
- Cybersecurity
- Scenario Planning
Energy Management & Wellness
Program Outcomes
This program will help you and your organization:
- More effectively lead from purpose, vision and values
- Skillfully envision and communicate an enterprise strategy and desired future
- Leverage an enterprise perspective to integrate across functions and foster a results orientation throughout your organization
- Demonstrate a global perspective to decision making and systems thinking
- Enhance personal well-being by more effectively balancing mental and physical demands with organizational imperatives
- Enhance strategy through insights and lessons from industry giants such as Apple, Disney, Coca-Cola, AmEx, and Saks 5th Ave
- Build your global network of peer leaders to connect with throughout your career
- Strengthen recruitment, see higher retention, and accelerate development of your company’s high-potential, high-performing team members
Alumni Benefits
In addition to networking with a diverse group of leaders during your TEP experience, TEP graduates are also connected to the 17,000+ Darden alumni in over 90 countries around the world. As such, you receive many of the same benefits, including:
- Alumni Directory (alumni.darden.edu)
- Lifetime Darden email address
- Monthly webinars with faculty
- Alumni chapter events around the world (excluding MBA alumni/admissions receptions)
- Access to Darden's case collection
- Alumni Career Services online toolkit
- Alumni newsletters and messages from the School
- Executive Education - 20% discount on all programs (with exception of TEP)
- The Darden Report magazine (semi-annually)
Earn Your TEP Advanced Management Certificate
Completion of The Executive Program (TEP) will meet the full criteria to earn Darden's noncredit The Executive Program: Advanced Management Certificate. You will receive a framed certificate, a certified digital credential and a certificate badge to share with your social network.
Faculty
Elena Loutskina
Professor of Business Administration, Peter M. Grant II Bicentennial Foundation Chair in Business Administration, Academic Director of Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management
Martin N. Davidson
Johnson and Higgins Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean and Global Chief Diversity Officer
Doug Thomas
Academic Director of the Sands Institute for Lifelong Learning, Henry E. McWane Professor of Business Administration
Sankaran Venkataraman
MasterCard Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research
Kimberly A. Whitler
Frank M. Sands Sr. Associate Professor of Business Administration
Jodi Harris
TEP Wellness Program Coordinator
Who Is This Program For?
This program is designed for senior-level leaders inspired to lead from a position of purpose, perspective, vision and values who want to develop a strategic mindset and new ways of thinking. Participants typically have more than twelve years of management experience and are new to or preparing for C-suite roles.
The diverse and dynamic TEP cohorts provide a lifelong global network, as participants share cross-industry and cultural insights during the program and ongoing support and engagement for years beyond.
Of the 4,000+ executives who have completed this program, many represent Fortune 100 companies. Approximately 60% of TEP participants also have advanced degrees.
In order to be awarded full credit hours, you must be present for the entirety of the program.