Open Programs for Individuals

Analyze key issues facing today’s global oil and gas firms and discover solutions that can be applied to the very issues facing your own organization as you engage with global and national oil companies, oilfield services companies and state-owned enterprises.

Discover the hidden value that effective strategy can play in your organization and maximize your influence and leadership by developing the skills and confidence to establish strategic alignment in all phases of your company’s activities.

Take a strategic approach to selecting, establishing and reinforcing communication links to achieve optimal outreach before, during and after a crisis event. Decipher the C-suite and boardroom dynamics during crises and prepare an appropriate social media crisis response.

The Dynamic Crisis Management program delivers up-to-the minute, real-world guidance on crisis management, drawing on the challenges and successes of global organizations to position you to maintain your company’s resilience during crisis and emergent situations.

Understanding the Global Business program provides an in-depth overview of the global oil and gas industry from a business perspective

Thunderbird’s Global Marketing & Growth Strategy Series is a one-of-a-kind educational experience that will position you to accelerate your company’s brand image, leverage worldwide growth opportunities and drive innovation through effective marketing strategy.

Enhance your strategic global leadership perspectives and capabilities for increased influence across cultures and greater overall success with global responsibilities.

Make stale, dead-end products and services a thing of the past as you immerse yourself in hands-on classroom discussion and instruction on modern and effective methods for designing, developing, commercializing and selling innovative new solutions using today’s social tools and social approach.

Develop sophisticated and relevant skills for managing people and projects across cultures and time zones in a business environment characterized by less time, smaller budgets and fewer resources.

Effective crisis management plans and preparations are customized to external stakeholders’ concerns and needs, and they keep all employees informed. Participants will learn to take a strategic approach to selecting, establishing and reinforcing communication links, customizing the timing of information flow and working with communication experts to achieve optimal outreach before, during and after crises.

Take your next product offering to the global arena with confidence and results. Market at the right time to the right customers by gaining a nuanced understanding of opportunities and challenges in emerging markets, change management and big data.

Become a proven leader in strategic innovation as you gain the language and the perspective to transform your colleagues into your teammates, cultivate synergy in cross-functional teams, and bring products and services to life in collaborative ways.

Discover how to identify crisis situations and raise awareness early as you explore global trends and your organization’s vulnerability from a terrorism perspective while developing protocols and practices to minimize potential occurrences and maintain stakeholder confidence.

Discover techniques to successfully and comfortably influence and negotiate with diverse customers, suppliers, business partners, stakeholders and employees to produce transformational and high-impact results.

Strategizing for Crisis Leadership is an A-to-Z crisis leadership boot camp. Learn and apply crisis management principles and set the foundation for organizational continuity. Explore how key stakeholders could affect or be affected by crises in their organizations.

One thing companies commonly fail at – is failure. Instead of studying the lessons presented and using them to build toward success, companies tend to punish failure or sweep it under the rug and pretend it didn’t happen.

How can your organization turn failure into a growth opportunity? This one-day workshop can help you do just that. 

Composed of four multi-day programs exploring leadership competencies, this series offers access to networking opportunities with business leaders from around the world, content-rich lectures, intensive, experiential learning through immersion activities and personal assessment and development tools.

The business realities of today hardly resemble the competitive environment of just 10 years ago. Beat out your competitors by understanding the new realities of the global marketplace.