Delivering Business Growth

An actionable framework

In a world where business landscapes shift rapidly, it’s crucial for leaders to identify emerging trends, seize new growth opportunities, and dynamically steer their organizations towards success. The traditional methods, while still relevant, need a contemporary edge to stay effective.

Recognizing that smooth sailing in business often masks underlying issues, this program emphasizes the value of embracing and learning from challenges. Understanding that growth often comes from overcoming obstacles, “Delivering Business Growth” equips you to turn setbacks into stepping stones for success.

Through this program, you’ll gain insights on expanding your business, personal growth, and team development using actionable frameworks, best practices, and engaging case studies. Our Academic Directors, with their rich blend of academic insight and real-world business acumen, will mentor you in fostering a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit within your organization, irrespective of its scale or legacy.

Engage with senior leaders from various sectors who are actively driving growth in their companies. This cross-industry exposure ensures that you leave the program with practical lessons and robust tools, empowering you to excel in today’s dynamic and unpredictable business environment.


Incentives available for groups and teams of four or more attending open enrollment programs. Learn more


 


 

VIDEO: Learn more from co-Academic Directors Sanjay Khosla and Mohanbir Sawhney.


 

VIDEO: Create a growth agenda and transform your business


 

VIDEO: Learn more from Academic Director Sanjay Khosla

Who Should Attend

  • C-level executives, division presidents
  • Business unit heads, country leads or functional leaders
  • Senior executives tasked with driving growth
  • Executives responsible for digital transformation and business restructuring
  • Leaders seeking to unleash the potential of their teams

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Key Benefits

  • Understand how to win in the New Normal
  • Identify growth opportunities in changing times
  • Realign your people and organization to the new realities
  • Leverage current strengths to pivot to new opportunities
  • Create a clear vision and strategy for focusing business growth efforts
  • Deploy resources boldly against priorities
  • Unleash your people’s creative potential as business growth champions
  • Create a culture of experimentation and strategic agility

Program Content

Context and Discovery

  • Winning in the New Normal
  • Finding opportunities for innovation across the business
  • Understanding changes in customer behaviors and priorities

Strategy

  • Focusing where you can win
  • Choosing strategy lenses (workshop)
  • Rallying cry: communicating strategy across the company

People

  • Unleash peoples’ potential by giving blank checks
  • Creating a business proposal for a blank check (workshop)
  • Reports back on blank check proposals (workshop)

Organization, Execution and Metrics

  • Creating an opportunity-focused organization
  • Organizing globally (case studies and best practices)
  • Clarifying roles and delegating responsibilities
  • Building collaborative networks for execution
  • Execution: thinking big, starting small, testing and learning, fixing and scaling fast
  • Metrics: measuring progress and communicating success through storytelling
  • Organizing and executing strategy plans (workshop)

Faculty

Sanjay Khosla - Academic Director; Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Marketing

Mohanbir Sawhney - Academic Director; Associate Dean for Digital Innovation; McCormick Foundation Chair of Technology; Clinical Professor of Marketing; Director of the Center for Research in Technology and Innovation

Personal Consultation

Please contact us to schedule an advising session

Participant Testimonials

 
VIDEO: Rick Planos talks about his experience in the program.
 
VIDEO: Pere Berkowitz talks about his experience in the program.
 
VIDEO: Justine Iverson talks about her experience in the program.
 
VIDEO: Sherine Yap talks about her experience in the program.

2025 Sessions

June 2-5, 2025

Start: June 2 at 1:00 PM

End: June 5 at 11:45 AM


Format: In-Person at Wieboldt Hall on Chicago Campus


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$9,000

Fee includes lodging and most meals

October 27-30, 2025

Start: October 27 at 1:00 PM

End: October 30 at 11:45 AM


Format: In-Person at Global Hub on Evanston Campus


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$9,000

Fee includes lodging and most meals

Kellogg School of Management

James L. Allen Center
2169 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Directions
847.467.6018