
Leadership in the new world requires a fresh set of skills that empower leaders and managers to face disruption head-on and lead in a world of increasing volatility and complexity. Cornell CXO Leadership Program (CXO) is designed to empower senior leaders to lead through these complex and uncertain times. You get access to the best of Ivy League education facilitated by award-winning faculty from Cornell University.
Start Date
10 January 2026
Duration
6 Months
Fee
USD 4,800
The session helps in building strategies for competitive advantage and generating superior value for customers.
This session focuses on the best practices applicable to several product and service designs; business model transformation, and sales transformation templates to devise ideas for new products and services.
The session helps formulate business models and develop processes to maximize entrepreneurial abilities. It also helps you to adopt design thinking and innovation as a strategy in your organization and helps you apply design thinking frameworks and strategies to develop innovative solutions for complex business problems.
This session is designed around a set of levers interleaved into a larger framework for ‘Getting Things Done. The framework will drive your performance by making your implicit skills explicit, and help you implement ideas back into your work world.
In this session, you will learn to integrate systems thinking concepts, principles, and practices to improve existing processes, operations, and thinking patterns, ultimately developing a more three-dimensional mindset toward problem-solving.
The session helps gain insights into how the brain learns, how to learn more quickly, why we frequently make terrible judgments, and how to learn from both successes and failures. Learn to make more deliberate and informed decisions while potentially doubling your learning capacity.
This session takes you through an in-depth understanding of disruption, innovation, and disruptive innovation’s impact on business. Learn more about various methodologies and approaches in innovation and real-world use cases that provide deeper insights into the state of innovation and disruption today. Explore best practices in innovation, human-centric design, lean methodologies, and a multi-horizon portfolio approach to innovation.
The session helps in building strategies for competitive advantage and generating superior value for customers.
This session focuses on the best practices applicable to several product and service designs; business model transformation, and sales transformation templates to devise ideas for new products and services.
The session helps formulate business models and develop processes to maximize entrepreneurial abilities. It also helps you to adopt design thinking and innovation as a strategy in your organization and helps you apply design thinking frameworks and strategies to develop innovative solutions for complex business problems.
This session is designed around a set of levers interleaved into a larger framework for ‘Getting Things Done. The framework will drive your performance by making your implicit skills explicit, and help you implement ideas back into your work world.
In this session, you will learn to integrate systems thinking concepts, principles, and practices to improve existing processes, operations, and thinking patterns, ultimately developing a more three-dimensional mindset toward problem-solving.
The session helps gain insights into how the brain learns, how to learn more quickly, why we frequently make terrible judgments, and how to learn from both successes and failures. Learn to make more deliberate and informed decisions while potentially doubling your learning capacity.
This session takes you through an in-depth understanding of disruption, innovation, and disruptive innovation’s impact on business. Learn more about various methodologies and approaches in innovation and real-world use cases that provide deeper insights into the state of innovation and disruption today. Explore best practices in innovation, human-centric design, lean methodologies, and a multi-horizon portfolio approach to innovation.
The session helps to understand the importance of credibility. Learn through shared examples of leaders who created a better organizational culture by demonstrating credibility. Learn why we need to consider integrity as a personal discipline.
The session teaches you, new skills in reading others and framing your interactions more effectively. It also helps in becoming more adept at speaking to the mood around you.
Learn to effectively navigate interactions with others, build trust, and engage with differences to achieve impactful outcomes that surpass individual capabilities. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of how others respond to their actions, gain insights into how others perceive them, and refine their responses in moments of difference. This enhanced awareness and skill in managing interpersonal dynamics will empower leaders to foster a more collaborative and innovative organizational environment.
The session helps in assessing social capital and enhancing it to achieve goals. It also teaches you the art and science of power and influence in organizations.
The session attempts to help you project confidence and competence when communicating at the workplace, by helping you gain better awareness of your communication behaviors that build or hinder leadership presence.
The session improves the negotiation abilities with the help of relevant tools, terminology, and practical negotiation tactics.
The session helps in harnessing key financial strategies for success. Also, it helps in the use of financial frameworks to enhance investment choices.
The session demonstrates how you as leaders must understand and counteract the impacts of the VUCA world to lead more effectively.
Choose from over 2000+ courses that will enhance your knowledge and skills across business functions. With unlimited access to Cornell’s resource library, you will have the opportunity to learn something new, every day.
Post-work assignments/tasks will be given after each session to enhance your skills on each topic taught during the LIVE session. The leaderboard scores you against your peers in the learning journey.
Learn from high-achieving peers from around the globe and build your network. The cohort will be divided into triads. You will get a chance to interact, share and exchange ideas with your peers.

Average Work Experience: 21 Years
Financial Services
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Healthcare
Real Estate
Oil & Gas
Consulting
Hospitality
Edtech
Construction
Telecommunication
Retail
Entertainment
FMCG and Others
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Partner
Managing Director
Executive Director
Director
Group Chief Financial Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Information Officer
Chief Experience Officer
President
Senior Vice President
General Manager
Business Heads

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Upon successful completion of the program, participants will be awarded a digitally verifiable certificate by Cornell University

Note: Certificate image is for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of Cornell University.
The Cornell CXO Leadership Program caters to senior executives and leaders from diverse geographical locations, functional backgrounds, and industries, aiming to elevate their professional growth and excel in the ever-changing business landscape. This program is tailored for individuals seeking to enhance their strategic and leadership skills, providing a transformative experience that equips them to propel their organizations to new heights of accomplishment.
10+ years of work experience and proven success in leading high performing teams / impactful projects
Have at least a Bachelor's degree
Country of residence at the time of enrolling must be Latin America, Europe, South Asia, Middle East, Africa, Far East