Global Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) Programme
Redefine strategic leadership to drive transformational business growth
- 18 modules of core courses and 2 mandatory electives
- Online + Live Sessions with NUS Business School faculty
- 1-day campus experience and networking opportunity at NUS campus (optional)
- Digital certificate by NUS Business School upon programme completion
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Programme Highlights
This impactful programme offers a unique blend of components that provide the skill sets and knowledge you need to help your organisation invest for future growth. Along with distinguished peers, you will participate in interactive sessions with eminent faculty and share insights with industry experts. During this comprehensive learning journey, you will acquire the tools, techniques, and principles needed to drive strategic change.
Interactive sessions
Leverage interactive sessions with Industry experts/faculty and networking sessions with peers
Flexible learning
Pre-Recorded Video Lectures* from NUS Business School faculty for self-paced learning interspersed with live lectures from renowned NUS faculty and industry practitioners
Executive Accelerators
Learn relevant topical courses to gain skill sets specific to your career goals
Strategic Focus on AI & Digital
The programme features dedicated focus on AI for Strategic Advantage, Digital Strategy, and Financial Acumen for a CSO
Success coach
You will be assigned a success coach who will help craft your learning journey in line with your career goals
Real-world applications
Learn from real-world case studies and business challenges during the programme, and apply the learnings to your job immediately
Comprehensive curriculum
Immerse in an 8-month learning journey that includes in-depth sessions in the latest trends and strategies
Peer interaction
Interact with and learn from high-achieving peers and build your network
Post programme benefits
Following successful completion of the Global CSO programme and subject to further qualification criteria, you have a pathway to become eligible for select post programme benefits
The CSO Playbook
Develop a strategic playbook for yourself through series of excercises
Note:-*This is a majorly self-paced online programme with some live sessions with programme faculty. Post- session video recordings will be available for up to 12 months after programme completion. We have a curated panel of industry practitioners who will be conducting weekly live sessions for participants to clarify doubts.-Assignments are reviewed either by success coach who is available to support participants in their learning journey and/or by the Emeritus grading team. The final number of quizzes, assignments and discussions will be confirmed closer to the programme start.-For the on-campus networking session, participants will be responsible for making their own travel and accommodation arrangements.
Who Should Attend?
The Chief Strategy Officer Programme is designed for the:
Functional and Business Heads: Working towards formulating strategy for your organisation, managing alliances and corporate development
Senior Leaders: Focusing on executing growth initiatives, introducing innovations in different markets, leading business/ functions/ business development in a region
Eligibility Criteria: This programme is designed for business professionals with a minimum 10 years of work experience.
Key designations include: CSO, Vice President, Managing partner, Director, Executive director, Chief Business development officer, Strategy Consultant
Eligibility Criteria: This programme is designed for business professionals with a minimum of 10 years of work experience, with 5 or more years of management experience, and who have fluency in written and spoken English
Some key designations include: CSO, Vice President, Managing Partner, Director, Executive Director, Chief Business Development Officer, Strategy Consultant, etc.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will hone their knowledge and skills in strategy formation and implementation to address the organisational challenges of tomorrow.
Evaluate strategic initiatives
Strategise growth opportunities for the business
Formulate a corporate strategy
Successfully implement a corporate strategy
Examine organisational performance factors to affect strategic direction
Apply strategic objectives across different organisation functions in support of growth, profitability, and viability
Testimonials from Past Participants
Customised design for your success
The Chief Strategy Officer programme is designed with the needs of busy executives in mind. You will learn through online and interactive sessions and guest lectures from global industry leaders. The flexible nature of the programme allows you to customise your learning journey for maximum career and business impact.
Flexible
The self-paced modules provide the flexibility to accommodate learning around your busy work schedule. The programme can be completed in 9 to 10 months as your schedule and programme selections demand.
Interactive
A community learning experience with a limited cohort size facilitates interactive discussions with peers, programme coaches, faculty, industry speakers, and career advisors — allowing you to implement programme learnings in real-world scenarios.
Transformative
The multimodular learning journey experience, including the executive reflection, allows you to learn and grow as an executive while enabling you to develop business strategies to improve your personal and organisational goals.
Participant Pathway
Throughout the learning journey of 8 months, the Global Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) programme will inform you through a mix of in-depth Strategic Leadership Tracks and Executive Accelerators, providing you with solutions to business challenges your organisation confronts on a daily basis. The Strategic Leadership Tracks will focus on key areas such as Global Strategy, Executive Growth Strategies & Global Leadership.
After completing the Strategic Leadership Tracks, you will indulge in Executive Accelerators to dive deeper into how senior leaders can use their knowledge and skills in strategy implementation and execution, financial decision making, and AI transformation to address the organisational challenges of tomorrow.
Past Participant Profiles
Engaging and Enriching Experience
Practitioner Stream
Participants will be invited to engage with executive-level practitioners, who will provide you with various perspectives and insights, based on their own experiences, as to how they had navigated personal and business challenges.
Project Stream
The success coach will drive programme engagement, addressing participant questions or concerns for assignments during the core programme, and coaching participants to apply the ideas to their own experience.
Community Stream
Engagement sessions for participants to give them opportunities within the session to learn, interact and collaborate with programme peers from various industries and regions.
The CSO Playbook
Throughout this programme, participants will complete a series of exercises as part of a CSO playbook. These exercises will prompt students to introspect on their role within a strategy domain and reimagine the application of strategic initiatives for their own organisation.
Programme Curriculum - Strategic Leadership Tracks
Throughout the learning journey of 8 months, the Global CSO programme will focus on core areas such as Global Strategy, Executing Growth Strategies & Global Leadership, followed by focused executive accelerators.
Executive Accelerators
After completing the Strategic Leadership Tracks, you will have to undergo all short courses (mandatory). Within the executive accelerator modules, you will dive deeper into how senior leaders can use their knowledge and skills in strategy implementation and execution, financial decision making, and AI transformation to address the organisational challenges of tomorrow.
After completing the core modules, you will have to complete two mandatory electives. During the elective period, you will dive deeper into how senior leaders can use their knowledge and skills in strategy formation and implementation to address the organisational challenges of tomorrow.
Course 1: Digital Marketing: Strategies, Models and Frameworks
Course 2: Transforming Customer Experience: Strategies for Service Industry
The modules/topics/courses are indicative and may change as per course requirements without prior notice.
1-day Campus Experience andNetworking Event (optional)*
Participants will be invited to attend a 1- Day Campus Immersion and Networking Event* (optional) at the end of the 9-month journey at NUS Business School. During this event, participants will have the opportunity to network with fellow global leaders and interact with programme faculty/directors.
Note:
-*The campus experience date will be confirmed closer to the end of the programme based on the confirmation from school and relevant stakeholders.
-This is a majorly self-paced online programme with some live sessions with programme faculty. Post- session video recordings will be available for up to 12 months after programme completion. We have a curated panel of industry practitioners who will be conducting weekly live sessions for participants to clarify doubts.
-Assignments are reviewed either by success coach who is available to support participants in their learning journey and/orby the Emeritus grading team. The final number of quizzes, assignments and discussions will be confirmed closer to the programme start.
-For the on-campus networking session, participants will be responsible for making their own travel and accommodation arrangements.
Programme Completion Benefits
Access to NUS Business School Executive Education newsletters and selected electronic publications
10% savings on selected NUS Business School Executive Education programmes
Invitations to selected NUS Business School Executive Education events
Note: All benefits are subject to changes.
Programme Completion Benefits
Access to NUS Business School Executive Education newsletters and selected electronic publications
10% savings on selected NUS Business School Executive Education programmes
Invitations to selected NUS Business School Executive Education events
NUS BSEE 10% past participants savings on following non-funded programme:
Climate Change and Sustainability: Leveraging Carbon Market Initiatives for Business
Driving Strategic Innovation
General Management Programme
Leadership Development Programme
Strategic Management in Disruptive Times
*Above list is subject to change
Programme Faculty
Professor, Strategy & Policy
Dr Andrew Delios is Professor and Vice-Dean MSc Programmes at NUS Business School. He has also been a Professor in the Department of Strategy and Policy at NUS Business School...
Associate Professor, Strategy & Policy
Dr Nitin Pangarkar received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1993. He teaches strategy and international business courses at the NUS Business School, National Univer...
Professor, Strategy & Policy
Dr Lawrence Loh is Director, Centre for Governance and Sustainability at the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also Professor of Strategy and ...
Former Associate Professor, Strategy & Policy
Dr Chung Yuen Kay, Former Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore Business School’s Department of Strategy and Policy, is a sociologist by training, and ob...
Senior Lecturer, Management & Organisation
Prior to joining the university, Usa worked as a Consultant/Trainer with Mercuri International, an international business and sales consulting firm. Currently a senior lecture...
Professor, Analytics and Operations
Jussi Samuli Keppo teaches risk management and analytics courses, and directs analytics executive education programmes at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business S...
Senior Lecturer, Analytics and Operations
Tan Hong Ming is the Deputy Head and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Analytics and Operations at the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. In this capaci...
Associate Professor, Finance
Alminas Žaldokas is currently an Associate Professor in Finance at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He has received his PhD in Finance at INSEAD in 2012. His previo...
Note: Programme Faculty for the live sessions might change due to unavoidable circumstances, and revised details will be shared closer to the programme start date.
Certificate
Upon successful completion of the programme, participants will be awarded a verified digital certificate by NUS Business School.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Flexible payment options are available.
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