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Custom Executive Education Programs

Your partner in upskilling your organization

Learning and Development is one of an organizations’ most important strategic assets. Yet, asking companies to optimize this function alone is a daunting and unnecessary task. With over one-hundred years of experience educating business leaders, Bentley has the knowledge and tools to be your strategic partner in creating a high-performing learning organization. 

Our Approach

Customized Programs for Tangible Results

Our custom programs systematically develop skills while strategically addressing your organization's specific challenges. By aligning curriculum with your unique business context and culture, we ensure targeted talent development that drives measurable business results with learning you can apply on Monday!

Blend of Business with the Arts and Sciences

With over 200 faculty members blending expertise across business and arts and sciences, our approach is grounded in practicality and innovation. Our faculty aren't just academics—they're practitioners, drawing from real-world experiences to enrich every module they deliver.

Skills-Based, Relevant Programs

Our Executive Education programs foster innovation through durable skill development and lead to success by focusing on practical applications tailored to your business challenge.

We leverage the science of learning to breathe innovation into every custom program.

  • Personalized Learning: co-create content is relevant  and applicable to participants' contexts
  • Active Learning: integrate teaching strategies that foster engagement, spark critical thinking, and ignite motivation
  • Solutions-oriented: diagnose business problems, engage in deliberate practice, demonstrate new knowledge
  • Experiential Learning: engineer hands-on experiences and personal reflection to enhance engagement and relevancy
  • Inclusive Teaching: build programs that  support numerous learning modalities and stimulate community
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Featured Faculty

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Paul Tesluk, PhD

As the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Bentley, Paul Tesluk is a national expert in leadership development, team design and effectiveness, and organizational change.

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Susan Vroman, EdD

Susan Vroman is an organizational effectiveness and leadership development specialist. With experience working as an internal and external resource, Susan’s passion and expertise lie in values-based leadership and culture development.

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Veronica Barber, EdD

Veronica Barber has a doctorate in executive leadership with a research focus on organizational change, a master’s in health services management and a bachelor’s in mathematics.

Iris Berdrow

Iris Bedrow, PhD

Iris Berdrow holds an MBA and Ph.D. with a concentration in Organizational Behavior and International Management. Her research interests are in cross-border innovation, cross-cultural effectiveness, global alliances, employee competencies and competency based education.

Areas of Focus

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Data Analytics and AI Transformation

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Catalyzing Sustainable Business Opportunities for Business Leaders

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Leading Business Transformation in Healthcare Management

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Design Thinking and Innovation

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Effective Sales and Emerging Trends in Marketing

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The Future of Fintech and Reshaping Financial Services

Campus Leadership

Strategic Leadership: Planning and Implementation for Competitive Advantage

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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Justice

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Corporate Governance, ESG, and the Digital World

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Strategic Change Management for Growth, Innovation, and Disruption

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Corporate Entrepreneurship for Competitive Advantage

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Customer Based Innovation: Human Factors, Research, & Evidence-based Leadership

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Case Study: Transforming Engineering Leadership (SVP & C-Suite) with Business Fundamentals

A Boston-based technology company approached Bentley about crafting a program that would sharpen the business skills of their engineering leadership team. Working with the company, Bentley crafted a 7-week, on-site weekly program at a company location. Thirty senior leaders from across the organization participated. 

Read the case study

 

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