Professional Education

Enhance your career with expert knowledge and skills

Our Professional Education offer

We run courses that are open to all business professionals, as well as bespoke programmes for organisations. You will benefit from expert knowledge, skills and insights that will help you tackle todays challenges and shape tomorrows solutions.

Our new programme of one day courses are for busy professionals who would like to upskill in a particular area, or for those who want to gain an introduction to the subject ahead of enrolling on one of our short courses.

Our short courses run for 4 or 5 days, usually spread out over several months. At present we offer 'Implementing Strategy' and 'Leader as Coach' as short courses, and will be growing this offer in the coming year.

We have the ability to offer certification on the courses we run including ILM qualifications and Masters Level CATS points.


One day courses

Our one day courses are aimed at upskilling business professionals through exploring the latest thinking and practice in key areas for business success. All one day courses take place on a Wednesday and run from 9am to 5pm on campus.

Bespoke courses

We have expertise in running leadership development programmes that deliver discernible behavioural change to support individual, team and organisational goals. We draw upon the latest research and development methods, and work with you to build a programme tailored to the specific needs of your employees and your business, focussing on the issues that currently affect you and that may have an impact in the future.

By developing an understanding of the company’s vision and objectives and how collectively they can affect growth, we help to develop programmes that utilise managers and leaders their own capabilities in motivating, empowering and developing staff.

Typically, programmes will involve psychometric and 360 degree feedback, action learning and peer coaching to enable the application of learning back in the workplace.

We also deliver in a cross cultural and virtual context, providing blended solutions, established through the Developing Leadership Capability module of our online supported Global MBA and through working with clients worldwide.

“The Leadership Programme is helping us to create leaders of the future. The impact on our business has been significant. It has provided people with a framework to have the positive and the difficult conversations, helped to support behavioural change around responsibility and empowerment and improved the quality of decision making through coaching.”

Sarah Taylor, Managing Director, Brita UK

Recent clients include

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Contact us

OBBS Business & External Engagement

+44 (0) 1865 534800 (OBBS Reception > Option 4 > Option 1)

obbs-bee@brookes.ac.uk