Executive Education

What Business Are You In?

Hailed by BusinessWeek as “the man who invented management,” Peter F. Drucker directly influenced a huge number of leaders from a wide range of organizations across all sectors of society. Among the many: General Electric, IBM, Intel, Procter & Gamble, Girl Scouts of the USA, The Salvation Army, Red Cross, United Farm Workers, and several presidential administrations.

Drucker’s 39 books, along with his countless scholarly and popular articles, predicted many of the major developments of the late 20th century, including privatization and decentralization, the rise of Japan to economic world power, the decisive importance of marketing and innovation, and the emergence of the information society with its necessity of lifelong learning.

In the late 1950s, Drucker coined the term “knowledge worker,” and he spent the rest of his life examining an age in which an unprecedented number of people use their brains more than their backs. Throughout his work, Drucker called for a healthy balance: between short-term needs and long-term sustainability, between profitability and other obligations, between the specific mission of individual organizations and the common good, and between freedom and responsibility.

A Customized Drucker Executive Education

“The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.” Peter F. Drucker

Drucker Executive Education believes the answer to effectively training top executives today requires blending classic and new learning methods, resulting in a mix that extends beyond the traditional faculty-led classroom experience.

Whether your objective is to refresh a current program or design one from scratch, our experienced team can help your organization unleash and capture the competitive advantage inherent in your people, products, and culture.

We use a variety of progressive teaching techniques that move beyond traditional lecture and case methods. With delivery in-person and online, we are making learning convenient for our clients. Learning methods are calibrated to fit each specific audience, the culture of our client companies, our faculty’s areas of expertise, and the nature of the learning material.

Several companies we have partnered with on executive education programs are – Microsoft, Amazon, Edward Jones, Verizon, and Kaiser Permanente, to name a few. Within these organizations, our touch points are senior executives who have decision-making authority, to support what Drucker believed is the best way to have an impact – to build on “islands of health and strength”—that is, to work on things that are already trying to happen. We believe that, too.

To learn more on any of these opportunities please contact: michael.kelly@cgu.edu