Executive Education & Lifelong Learning For Corporations

Corporations & Associations

Darden is a trusted partner of Fortune 500 companies and world-class professional associations. Our award-winning custom programs are proven to deliver results and a transformational learning experience.

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Programs Designed for Measurable ROI

Darden’s #1 ranked faculty and client solutions team offer a high-touch, collaborative partnership that delivers personalized learning experiences aligned with your strategic objectives and develops high-impact leaders.

Kohler leadership and participants from the inaugural Kohler Capability Accelerator (KCA) share insights on what was most impactful about the program.

We start with the end in mind – what is the company trying to achieve strategically? What are the results they are aiming for around profitability, growth, innovation, strategy, etc.? Whatever we do has to be rooted in the results they are trying to achieve.

Scott Snell

Frank M. Sands Sr. Professor of Business Administration

A Proven Process

Designing the Solution

Darden follows a proven, focused process to design and deliver learning journeys to meet the strategic objectives of your organization.

DISCOVERY
Determine objectives, success metrics, and high-level learning journey

DESIGN
Identify themes, faculty, and learning modalities to develop core knowledge, skills and abilities

DEVELOPMENT
Develop detailed curriculum with tools/frameworks/experiences to integrate themes and enhance learning

DELIVERY
Map learning impact for individual, team, and organization with plan to apply insights to the business

DEMONSTRATION
Review success metrics with client and revise design to maximize impact for future cohorts
Evidence-Based Design

Designed to Meet Your Goals

Darden’s #1 ranked faculty are both thought leaders and industry experts. They work alongside our client solutions team to be a learning and development partner that truly understands what is required for leaders and organizations to succeed in a fast-changing, disruptive environment.

Learning Impact

We focus on four critical elements of learning impact to ensure every participant gains the advanced leadership skills and data-backed perspectives that spark behavioral change and unlock long-term participant and organizational success.
Measurable Outcomes
Transformation at Every Level

Whether you are looking for high personal impact with a small audience or broad organizational or industry impact with a large audience, every program is designed to bolster succession planning and foster high-performing, sustainable teams that ultimately improve your bottom line — led by Darden's world-renowned faculty.

OPEN ENROLLMENT PROGRAMS
with group discounts

CUSTOM CONTENT & WORKSHOPS

IN-PERSON, ONLINE, AND HYBRID FORMATS

Here are just a few examples of initiatives we can help your organization or association address:

Develop a culture of innovation to support expansion into new products and markets

Leverage technology in new ways to support internal efficiencies and customer retention and growth

Take informed risks with data and use digital marketing to be more entrepreneurial and targeted

Prepare leaders for broader responsibility to support growth agenda

Build culture of inclusion to improve firm-wide hiring and retention
Enterprise Perspective
Developing the Total Leader

Transformational change requires leaders who are more than the sum of their skills. Darden’s custom solutions focus on building mindsets as well as skill sets of managers and executives that lead across businesses, functions and teams. Our programs integrate insights across core capabilities within the context of current and emerging business issues, including areas such as:

Leadership

Strategy

Innovation

General Management

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Digital Transformation & Disruption

Sustainability

Business & Data Analytics

And many more

Designing the Solution

Darden follows a proven, focused process to design and deliver learning journeys to meet the strategic objectives of your organization.

Discovery

DISCOVERY
Determine objectives, success metrics, and high-level learning journey

Design

DESIGN
Identify themes, faculty, and learning modalities to develop core knowledge, skills and abilities

Development

DEVELOPMENT
Develop detailed curriculum with tools/frameworks/experiences to integrate themes and enhance learning

Delivery

DELIVERY
Map learning impact for individual, team, and organization with plan to apply insights to the business

Demonstration

DEMONSTRATION
Review success metrics with client and revise design to maximize impact for future cohorts

Designed to Meet Your Goals

Darden’s #1 ranked faculty are both thought leaders and industry experts. They work alongside our client solutions team to be a learning and development partner that truly understands what is required for leaders and organizations to succeed in a fast-changing, disruptive environment.

Learning Impact

We focus on four critical elements of learning impact to ensure every participant gains the advanced leadership skills and data-backed perspectives that spark behavioral change and unlock long-term participant and organizational success.

Transformation at Every Level

Whether you are looking for high personal impact with a small audience or broad organizational or industry impact with a large audience, every program is designed to bolster succession planning and foster high-performing, sustainable teams that ultimately improve your bottom line — led by Darden's world-renowned faculty.

OPEN ENROLLMENT PROGRAMS
with group discounts

CUSTOM CONTENT & WORKSHOPS

IN-PERSON, ONLINE, AND HYBRID FORMATS

Here are just a few examples of initiatives we can help your organization or association address:

Develop a culture of innovation to support expansion into new products and markets
Leverage technology in new ways to support internal efficiencies and customer retention and growth
Take informed risks with data and use digital marketing to be more entrepreneurial and targeted
Prepare leaders for broader responsibility to support growth agenda
Build culture of inclusion to improve firm-wide hiring and retention

Developing the Total Leader

Transformational change requires leaders who are more than the sum of their skills. Darden’s custom solutions focus on building mindsets as well as skill sets of managers and executives that lead across businesses, functions and teams. Our programs integrate insights across core capabilities within the context of current and emerging business issues, including areas such as:

Leadership
Strategy
Innovation
General Management
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Digital Transformation & Disruption
Sustainability
Business & Data Analytics
And many more

Leadership Development & Enterprise Perspective

For 20 years, NAMIC's Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP) has been a go-to program for nurturing high-potential executives and supporting industry companies’ efforts to retain and advance executives of color.

Rhonda Crichlow

Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at Charter Communications (Visionary Sponsor of ELDP)

Client Success

We work with some of the world’s leading organizations and professional associations including:

Client Case Study Samples

Fortune 100 Insurance Company Case Study

"It was one of the first times I've been able to learn with leaders across the organizational spectrum. It opened my eyes to the complexities of digital transformation, as well as reaffirmed the passion we all share to improve and lead into the future."

- Program Participant

Learn from Anywhere

**Online, Live Virtual and Blended Solutions**
Our fully integrated online learning environment

**Your Location**
Bring Darden direct to your leadership with custom-built day- or week-long workshops or multi-module engagements.

**Washington, D.C., Area**
Our state-of-the-art UVA Darden DC Metro facility in Rosslyn, VA.

UVA Darden Charlottesville — **Charlottesville, VA**
The Darden School of Business’s main Grounds within minutes of the historic University of Virginia Grounds.

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Programs Designed for Measurable ROI

Designing the Solution

Designing the Solution

Client Success

Client Case Study Samples

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