The Vanderbilt Advantage
The Vanderbilt Executive Development Institute enables individuals and organizations to improve their performance in flexible, targeted ways. Through a variety of Open Enrollment Programs for individuals, as well as Custom Programs for teams and organizations, participants can gain critical business knowledge and practical skills from Vanderbilt’s world-class business faculty, without the investment of time required for a degree.
Here are 12 reasons why business participants say the Vanderbilt Executive Development Institute is an advantageous choice.
- It’s a convenient, proven way to achieve your goals. Whether those goals involve your own professional development or improving your organization (or both), the Vanderbilt Executive Development Institute offers programs to help you reach them.
- One size does not fit all. The Institute provides both Open Enrollment Programs to help individual managers build critical knowledge and skills as well as Custom Programs for teams and organizations to develop their employees and management teams (and even their organizational strategy if needed). You choose the option that best meets your needs.
- You’ll interact with and learn from the same renowned faculty stars who teach in the Vanderbilt master's degree programs. They bring a practical, real-world orientation to their work and many have consulted with or even led their own companies.
Open Enrollment Programs for Individuals
Vanderbilt Executive Development Institute offers compact, focused two-and three-day programs to help working professionals develop and strengthen critical business skills and learn new techniques and frameworks that can be applied immediately on the job, without the commitment of obtaining a degree.
- You’re in control of your professional development. Pick the programs that will help you achieve your goals. Take just one or a combination of many. Complete any four programs within a 36-month period and you'll earn a customized Vanderbilt Executive Development Institute Certificate in Business Excellence.
- If you need more focused leadership development, the Institute offers a specialized Vanderbilt Certificate in Leadership Excellence to help you focus on the specific set of leadership skills you need to excel in managing people, teams and organizations.
- You can have a Vanderbilt experience without the commitment of a degree. Access the same resources without attending full-time. Programs are open to the public with no lengthy admissions process. Enroll online in an instant.
- You’ll learn among and network with professional peers from well-known organizations and with diverse backgrounds. Peers who will become part of your extended business network.
- You’ll appreciate the central, convenient location of Vanderbilt’s campus—just minutes from downtown Nashville and a short trip from many outlying cities by car or plane.
Custom Programs for Organizations
Vanderbilt Executive Development Institute offers Custom Programs to help your organization achieve strategic goals and reap immediate results. Each custom program is uniquely created and constructed around your culture and strategies based on in-depth interviews with you and your management team. Even the structure and delivery format are tailored to your needs and preferences.
- First, we listen. Our five-step design process starts with an extensive interview about your organization and goals. Then working with you, we design a program, built around your strategy and your culture, to help you achieve those goals.
- Our programs are extremely flexible. You can convene your team at Vanderbilt. We can come to you at your office, at a company retreat or over the World Wide Web. We can deliver a consolidated program or a multi-session program that is strategically staged and sequenced over time. Whatever suits your needs, we aim to deliver.
- You’ll get immediate ROI and build “bench strength.” You’ll see results right away that will also continue to pay dividends over time. Organizations realize a much higher and quicker return on their educational investment in a shared learning environment where an entire team of executives can agree on how to implement what they’ve learned together.
- You’ll be in good company. Many high-profile companies have looked to our Custom Programs for solutions. Among them (to name just a few) are Nissan, Cisco, Bridgestone Firestone, Tennessee Valley Authority, AutoZone, Louisiana Pacific, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
- You’ll be happy with the results. Our programs have a strong track record of client satisfaction, as evidenced by a high volume of repeat business from client companies.