Executive programmes for organisations

Prepare your organisation for future challenges

Our Public Leaders Programmes allow those heading public organisations, or those likely to hold similar leadership positions in future, to learn from world-renowned scholars, leading practitioners, and one another.

The programmes engage participants through a mixture of classroom discussion, simulations, practical exercises and group work. Your leaders will develop a strong grounding in communicating effectively both internally and externally, harnessing digital technology, decision-making under pressure, strengthening public organisations, negotiation, and integrity in public life.

Every senior leader you send on a Public Leaders Programme returns to their post prepared to raise not only their own performance but the effectiveness of dozens of their colleagues.

Skills and frameworks

Participants practice techniques for mitigating bias in group decision-making, navigating ethical challenges, and negotiating outcomes that benefit all parties. They leave the programme ready to apply these skills in practice and spread them throughout your organisation.

Latest research

Your staff will be exposed to the latest research with immediate implications for policy and government operations. Participants bring back concrete examples and analytic frameworks designed to be shared with their colleagues.

Global perspectives

Each programme offers an opportunity for your leaders/staff to build trusting relationships with other senior officials from across the globe. Participants leave with a strong global network they can use to benchmark new initiatives, strengthen international collaboration, and gather intelligence from trusted sources.

Public Leaders Programmes

Tailor-made leadership programmes for public service organisations

Executive

Executive Public Leaders Programme

Our flagship programme brings the heads of public organisations to Oxford to learn from world-renowned scholars, leading practitioners, and one another.

Applications for 2025 are now open.

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Group of female RPLP participants talk during a breakout session

Executive

Rising Public Leaders Programme

A version of the Executive Public Leaders Programme for those likely to be leading organisations within the next three to seven years.

Applications for 2025 are now open.

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Executive

In-country Public Leaders Programme

This programme brings our Rising Public Leaders Programme curriculum in-country for a wider range of professionals, training large cohorts of talented, mid-career public servants in their own countries.

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An investment in the Public Leaders Programmes generates high returns, not just for the participants themselves, but for their teams, their departments, and the entire public service.

Christopher Stone, Professor of Practice of Public Integrity

In-person and online short courses

Find the right programme for your organisation’s needs

From natural resource management to ethics, economics in public policy to cybersecurity, our programmes cover a wide range of public service talent development needs.

Browse our selection of programmes or contact our advisors to find the best fit for your requirements.

Chris Stone addressing a workshop session

Executive

Public Corruption Turnarounds

This three-day, intensive programme provides practical strategies for leading the transformation of a public-sector institution with a new culture of integrity.

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Executive

Leading Cross-Sector Partnerships

This innovative, three-day programme, is designed to equip public leaders with the tools and frameworks to foster impactful collaborations and drive positive change.

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Professor Paul Collier addresses a class

Executive

Managing Mining, Oil and Gas for National Development

An intensive five-day course for senior policymakers and industry leaders who are managing natural resource wealth in ways that benefit current and future generations and avoid economic instability, social conflict, and lasting environmental damage.

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Online

Evidence in public policy

All around the world, the demand for evidence-based policy has never been higher.

This intensive eight-week online course will teach you how to use evidence when you design and evaluate policies.

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Online

Values and public policy

Public policy is not just technical: it involves fundamental values, and conflicts between different values.

This intensive eight-week online course will teach you the skills to understand the key moral and ethical concepts that should inform public policy.

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Integrity

Online

Economics for Public Policy

If you are involved in public policy, you are likely to encounter professional economists and/or their reports. This course aims to introduce you to the language and concepts of economics for public policy and encourage you to become a critical consumer of economic analysis.

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Economy

Online

Cyber Security for Public Leadership

Aimed at public sector leaders, or those leading organisations that handle vast amounts of public data, this eight-week online course will teach you the basics of cyber security so you can better plan for and respond to potential threats.

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Digital, Cyber and AI

Public Leaders Programme for Organisations

Find out what impact sending your staff to Oxford on the Public Leaders Programmes can have for your organisation.

You already have the right talent to lead your organisation.

Unlock their potential with minimal time away from the office.

Email us

Email us at executive.admissions@bsg.ox.ac.uk to learn more about how we can work with your organisation.