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Implats and Duke CE Partner to Help Leaders Develop and Innovate in Their Roles

Implats, a prominent player in the mining industry, recognized the need to cultivate effective leadership within its ranks and turned to Duke CE to craft…

dentsu: Modern Leadership

In order to achieve its corporate philosophy, dentsu partnered with Duke CE on a co-created program, Leading a Profitable Business, for high-potential senior executives…

Caterpillar: Bolstering Profitable Growth Through Leadership

Caterpillar’s leadership development program was designed to bolster Caterpillar’s enterprise strategy for sustained profitable growth by targeting 25 influential leaders…

Jacobs Amplif(i)3 Program

Jacobs has redefined its strategy to better compete in a complex and fast-changing marketplace. The Jacobs-Duke CE team…

Global Financial Services Company: Virtualizing VP Development

A leading financial services institution in partnership with Duke CE rapidly pivoted an annual six-month face-to-face program…

AstraZeneca: Leading Business

Global pharmaceutical AstraZeneca and Duke CE are preparing senior leaders with the cutting-edge knowledge, skills and mindset to…

Engaging Challenges through Sensemaking

A large technology company wanted to equip 100 directors with processes and tools to better navigate their volatile,…

Leadership Summit: Painting a Roadmap for the Future

A large telecom firm worked with Duke Corporate Education to design their annual Leadership Summit to be a catalytic event for their top 500 leaders….

Scaling Learning in a Multinational Bank

The transformation that leadership development can deliver is more valuable now than ever, especially as every company and industry faces unprecedented change and disruption…

Asian Insurance Firm: Elevating Purpose to Catalyze Change

The firm used visceral experiences to bring to life the power of their new purpose. They cultivated a Growth Mindset and an experimental approach in their leaders…

Creating Catalysts of Transformation: Merck

Merck collaborated with Duke CE on the General Management Acceleration Program to develop leaders who could see, understand and manage…

International Pharmaceutical: Challenging Orthodoxies

For this international pharmaceutical, leaders need to adopt a global mindset and an enterprise-wide view of the company, while challenging their thinking…

Global Steel Manufacturer: Activating Future Leaders

This firm sees leaders as a lever to drive profit, growth and operational excellence. They are‘”future-proofing” their organization in a changing world to build resilience…

African Bank: Gearing New Grads with Innovative Learning

To attract young talent and differentiate themselves in the marketplace, this firm focuses on gearing GEN Y and GEN Z talent through a new graduate solution…

Indian Conglomerate: Keeping Pace in a Fast Changing World

A large Indian conglomerate wanted to ensure its business unit heads were prepared to encounter new challenges and ready to execute stretch goals fast….

Deutsche Telekom: Enabling Digital Transformation

Deutsche Telekom, a global telecom provider based in Germany, turned to Duke Corporate Education to advance the digital skills and mindset of its managers…

Infusing Creativity to Solve Thorny Problems

Design thinking opens the gateway to innovation that solves problems for internal and external stakeholders. Nedbank South Africa discovered…

Industry Organization: Engaging Global Markets

Leaders learn world-class practices in strategy and apply new leadership principles to enhance their company’s future and that of Norway’s…

Align Technology: Preparing for the Future

Many organizations are so busy running and growing the business that they spend insufficient time thinking creatively about alternative futures…

Sun Life Financial: Lessons that Last

Financial services giant Sun Life shows how leaders can put classroom learning into practice….

ANZ: Thinking Outside the Banker Mindset

ANZ Banking Group is rethinking hierarchy and leadership for a new world. Executives went to Guangzhou, China to explore a new mindset…

Experiential Learning Energizes a Company

BBA needed their leaders to be more adept at leading in a volatile environment. This program incorporated experiential learning in several ways to drive results…

Asian Conglomerate: Center Leaders Drive Growth

Teams worked on a 160-day project to identify opportunities for growth that would engage employees and return the business to top line growth…

Statoil: Creating a Team of Special Forces

Statoil, the Norwegian energy giant, invested in developing the leadership capabilities of 10 of its top leaders as part…

Novartis: Building the Female Talent Pipeline

Novartis’s Claudia Bidwell explains why fostering female talent is a cornerstone of her company’s development strategy – and how they do such a good job at it…

Edrington: Bottling Motivational Spirit

As the Scotch whisky company Edrington grew more global, it has been faced with the challenge of spreading its signature psychological work contract to its locations around the world…

Global Pharmaceutical: Driving Growth In Multi-Speed Markets

Duke CE partnered with a global pharmaceutical company to take its senior executives through a program to explore…

BMW: Millennials Get a Foot in the Door in South Africa

In a country rated by the International Labour Organisation as the sixth highest in terms of youth unemployment in 2015, it is rare to find a company that actively prioritises the placement…

Formula for the Future – AstraZeneca’s Innovative Leadership Development Program

AstraZeneca has benefited from an innovative leadership development program created and run by
Duke Corporate Education….

Etisalat Develops Future Leaders

Etisalat Group has initiated a program for their senior management executives in cooperation with Duke University. Specially selected employees from across the Etisalat Group are being…

You Cannot Buy Leadership Competence

One of the leading financial institutions in the UAE has experienced change and rapid growth. They commissioned Duke…

Compasses, Clues, and Camels: Metals & Mining Firm

Outfitted with clues, compasses, and cell phones—the camels would come later—32 men and women set out across the…