Executive Development Shaping Leaders, Driving Results

Apply What You Learn Immediately

Expand your business perspective while you develop new skills and gain valuable tools you can apply immediately.  

Delivering Innovative Solutions for 50 Years

UNC has a long history collaborating with partners to develop their top talent while solving real business challenges.  

Valuable Peer Network of Business Leaders

Collaborate with executives from a range of industries around the world for a unique perspective on global business.  

Combining Knowledge and Experience

UNC Faculty have a strong foundation in academic research with deep industry knowledge and real-world experience.  

Open Enrollment Overview

Our executive development open enrollment program offerings combine powerful continuing business education content with real-world work experiences. Whether you attend a two-day or two-week session, you can choose from a variety of executive development programs, including:

  • General Business Management
  • Business Communications
  • Effective Leadership
  • Human Resource Management
  • Financial Management and Reporting
  • Strategic Innovation
  • Global Business
  • Managerial Negotiation Skills
  • Marketing and Social Media
  • Operations Management
  • Corporate Sustainability
  • Change Management
  • Sales Management
  • Strategic Planning and Business Decision Making

With our executive development programs you will learn from top-ranked faculty who have experience teaching executive education and who are experts in their fields. Many serve on company boards and as industry consultants. They also teach in the Kenan-Flagler Business School MBA, MBA for Executives and PhD programs. Our faculty understands the corporate environment and the adult learner, so participants get the most out of their time spent in these unique executive education programs.

All of our executive development open enrollment programs and seminars embrace The Power of Experience by providing the participant with memorable, unique and transformational learning experiences. In addition, there are multiple discount and scholarship opportunities available for our executive development open enrollment programs and interested applicants are encouraged to apply early.

When attending one of our open enrollment programs, you will have the opportunity to work and learn with participants from a variety of industries and countries. This diversity enables our participants to learn from different perspectives and leverage the experiences of others as well as their own to grow their professional acumen.

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Nina Polando, UNC Executive Development Participant

Learning with a Lasting Impact

In this video, UNC Executive Development faculty members and program participants talk about the lasting impact of their educational experience at UNC.

Dave Roberts - UNC Kenan-Flagler

Faculty Engaged in the Business World

A professor describes his fellow faculty members as very active, engaged scholars who remain actively engaged with the business world and executives
in it.

An Experience That Exceeds Expectations

An Experience That Exceeds Expectations

In this video, an open enrollment program participant discusses how the UNC program he attended exceeded his expectations.