The future of executive education

I help business schools and their clients design programmes as an advisor, a contributor and a programme director. If any of this strikes a chord, I would love to talk.

John Dore

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www.waveyourarms.com
john@waveyourarms.com

In a brand-new memorandum, John argues that executive education must shift from delivering content to designing coherent conditions for leader transformation. As AI makes knowledge abundant, business schools can no longer rely on prestige, faculty expertise, or information scarcity alone. Their distinctive value lies in purposeful learning design: carefully composed cohorts, discovery experiences that broaden judgement, simulations that reveal behaviour, and reflection that turns experience into change. The memorandum introduces Coherent Learning Design, supported by two practical models: EDIFY for discovery learning and PROMPT for experiential learning. Its central claim is that the future belongs not to institutions with the most impressive ingredients, but to those that integrate purpose, people, place, experience, reflection, and technology so leaders genuinely think, act, and become different. You can download a copy of the report here.

“In a world of confusion, discord and uncertainty, leadership development that builds and emboldens leaders matters more than ever. Designing coherent programmes that change individuals and their organisations is the work worth doing.”