Custom Programs
Solve organizational challenges and enhance the skills your leaders need
Partner with Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Executive Education for globally-focused, human-centric, design-led learning solutions from America’s first research university.
Custom solutions that put your people first
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School delivers practical, experiential, research-backed learning experiences for Fortune 500 and other blue chip companies, federal government agencies, and leading professional associations.
Our unique strengths-based approach puts your people at the center of a learning pathway that you co-design and we bring to life.
Partnering with the Office of Executive Education means:
- Building on your peoples’ strengths with leadership skills and practical skills. Develop a pipeline of leaders ready to solve organizational problems and bring out the best in others.
- World-renowned faculty, industry-proven practitioners and interdisciplinary expertise from a global institution located in Baltimore and Washington D.C.
- Immersive experiences, expert leadership coaching, and learning grounded in real-world challenges.
- Flexible, agile, personalized solutions that meet you where you are.
With industry-leading faculty and a collaborative approach to course development, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Executive Education has the resources you need to invest in your people and build for what's next in the business landscape.
“Before embarking on a custom Johns Hopkins Executive Education program, it’s important to consider if your company is open to disruption and shifting the way you think. By working closely with the team at Johns Hopkins, we were able to target the modules that met our company’s most pressing issues and strategic challenges.”
Randy Richardson, VP Global Training and Education Hoya Vision
The Carey Custom Difference: Strengths-based and design-led
Our unique strengths-based approach brings together human-centric expertise from across Johns Hopkins – from design thinking, coaching, leadership and communication, to the cutting-edge of healthcare, AI and public policy – to create personalized leadership development plans for each individual learner.
Our focus on human-centric leadership aligns with Carey’s world-leading research and expertise in critical interpersonal power skills:
- Business communication
- Health care
- Collaboration
- Adaptability
- Problem-solving
- Design thinking
- Strategic thinking
- Emotional intelligence
- Creativity
- Negotiating
- Resilience
- Teamwork
- Leading inclusively
- Motivating others
- Leading change
This positive, people-first approach to leadership development is central to the design of our custom programs, enabling individual leaders to be their best selves consistently, and to bring out the best in others.
“We take time up-front to understand your culture, your unique challenges and goals, and those of your stakeholders. Co-designing with your team means customizing closely to meet those needs, whether it’s transformation, innovation, leadership, change, strategy, growth – or something highly specific.”
Pamela Williams, Assistant Dean for Executive Education at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Co-designing your custom program
Discover
We gain a deep understanding of your context and needs by listening to you and your key stakeholders. Collaborate with our expert instructional team from an early stage to define goals and challenges, identifying the skills and capabilities your leaders should build to meet them.
Design
Each organization is different, and no single solution looks the same - whether you need a plug-and-play module to complement an existing strategy, or a ground-up comprehensive leadership development pathway – or anything in between.
Flex
Find your perfect format with a mix of virtual, in-person, and hybrid learning delivered at a cadence that works for your people. Build in networking sessions, immersive experiences, and pauses in the timeline to apply learning back at work.
Engage
World-renowned faculty and practitioners with diverse industry backgrounds lead a range of highly engaging learning modes: interactive classrooms, simulations, case discussions, small-group exercises, project work, site visits, and showcase capstone events.
Evaluate
Underpinned by design thinking our custom programs are continuously measured, evaluated, and iterated on with regular alignment and growth check-ins to ensure impact is achieved at the individual and organizational level.
unique organizations
engagements
repeat clients