Elevate your career with the Executive Leadership Academy’s COO Accelerated Program—a premier executive development experience designed to prepare senior operations leaders for the challenges of tomorrow. This 21-month hybrid program is built to transform your leadership, operational strategy, and executive decision-making skills with cutting-edge methodologies and real-world simulations.
Learn directly from top C-suite executives.
Master cross-industry operations at a global scale.
Leverage AI, automation, and data analytics.
Solve complex operational challenges.
The Chief Operating Officer Accelerated Program is a transformative leadership development experience designed to prepare senior operations leaders for tomorrow’s challenges. With a focus on global leadership, emerging technologies, and operational excellence, this program accelerates the capabilities of future COOs by combining industry-specific strategies, cross-cultural leadership, and cutting-edge simulation tools.
Objective: Develop the mindset and skills to lead in a global, technology-driven world.
Managing Across Cultures: Gain critical insight into leading diverse teams and organizations across regions, countries, and industries.
Emerging Technologies in Operations: Leverage AI and data-driven solutions for operational decision-making and performance improvement.
Global Operations Strategy: Learn how to align operational practices with corporate vision in multinational organizations.
Objective: Master AI, automation, and data analytics for driving operational transformation.
AI-Driven Operations: Apply AI tools for predictive analytics and process optimization in operations.
Tech-Enabled Lean Operations: Integrate AI and other cutting-edge technologies into Lean methodologies to improve efficiency.
Enterprise Simulation: Use real-time, simulated scenarios to test AI-driven strategies and solve operational challenges.
Objective: Equip participants with strategies to lead across complex, cross-functional teams and multiple reporting lines.
Navigating Cross-Functional Leadership: Build collaboration across departments and geographies.
Influencing Without Authority: Use persuasive leadership to align teams toward common goals.
Managing Conflicting Priorities: Balance the needs of different stakeholders while driving operational excellence.
Decision-Making in Complex Structures: Manage ambiguity and make impactful decisions in a matrixed structure.
CLO Business Simulation: Matrix Leadership Challenge—participants solve a multi-departmental crisis while balancing competing stakeholder demands.
Objective: Develop strategies for navigating and managing in multi-industry and multi-market settings.
Navigating Cross-Industry Complexities: Build frameworks to lead operations across diverse sectors like healthcare, finance, and technology.
Leading Mergers & Acquisitions: Simulate post-merger integration, combining different corporate cultures and operational systems.
Global Risk Management: Learn to assess and mitigate risks in international operations.
Objective: Develop the frameworks and structures necessary to establish a high-performing Project Management Office and Centers of Excellence to drive strategic outcomes.
Building a PMO: Establish a PMO to oversee project execution, manage risk, and ensure alignment with organizational strategy.
Creating Centers of Excellence: Develop Centers of Excellence to standardize best practices, enhance capabilities, and ensure continuous improvement across departments.
Leadership Alignment: Integrate PMO and CoE into organizational culture and executive leadership strategy.
Business Simulation: Participants design and present an implementation plan for a PMO and a Center of Excellence tailored to their organization’s needs.
Objective: Drive continuous improvement, cost efficiency, and sustainability.
Operations & Supply Chain Optimization: Master global supply chain strategies and efficiency models.
KPI & ROI Measurement: Learn to measure operational effectiveness through dynamic KPIs, ensuring constant improvement.
Enterprise Simulator: Continue real-time operational scenario work, focusing on optimizing ROI and meeting operational goals.
Objective: Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and accountability to drive sustained high performance.
Building Trust and Engagement: Create a culture of trust, transparency, and employee engagement across teams.
Leadership Development: Develop leadership pipelines at all levels to maintain long-term organizational performance.
Incentivizing Excellence: Implement recognition and reward systems that reinforce high-performance behaviors.
Business Simulation: Participants design a high-performance culture action plan, incorporating strategies for engagement, recognition, and leadership development.
Objective: Demonstrate readiness for C-suite leadership through real-world applications.
Capstone Project: Develop and present a comprehensive operations strategy to a panel of executives.
Cross-Cultural Leadership Challenge: Use knowledge from earlier phases to solve complex global operations challenges.
Executive Coaching: Personalized mentorship to hone leadership skills for the boardroom.