Customised Executive Education
In brief
Contact our executive education team to learn more about a partnership:
Overview
Welcome to the Smith School, the University of Oxford’s home for research and education at the intersection of enterprise, climate, nature and sustainable finance. As climate risk, regulation and stakeholder expectations reshape every sector, we help organisations become climate ready through Oxford’s world-leading research, interdisciplinary expertise and bespoke executive education.
Course Director
We appoint a senior faculty member to listen to your brief and develop a course specially crafted for your business, your learning level, and build sessions around society’s most pressing issues. Your course will benefit from our access to a wide range of expert speakers and resources within the University of Oxford and globally, including the Smith School’s Academics.
Executive Education at the Oxford Smith School
Teaching is at the heart of the Oxford Smith School. We have extensive experience designing and delivering bespoke executive education on climate, nature and sustainability for FTSE100 companies, global professional service firms and some of the world’s largest financial institutions. Our teaching combines leading research with real-world experience, industry insights and practical examples, ensuring learning is grounded in the challenges organisations face and the impact they seek to achieve. We work carefully with clients on interventions tailored to differing knowledge levels and audiences. Our programmes are rooted in academic excellence and a deep understanding of real-world impact. With research-led courses, we empower leaders and organisations with the skills, knowledge and networks to drive meaningful change. We are part of the School of Geography and the Environment where we work closely with colleagues from the Environmental Change Institute and the Transport Studies Unit. Our interdisciplinary work spans the breadth of the University of Oxford, including collaborations with the Saïd Business School, the Blavatnik School of Government, the Institute of New Economic Thinking, the Oxford Martin School, and beyond.
“Understanding nature and climate risks is extremely important to an organisation like CACEIS, so we’re helping our clients better understand those risks while enhancing their governance. The origins of our organisation go right back to the roots of our shareholder, Crédit Agricole, a major French agricultural bank, and for us it’s all about making sure that we serve the community and that society benefits from our activities. From our point of view, educational programmes like this really help us as an organisation to build closer bonds with our clients and enable them to deliver better results.”
James Parish Head of Regional Coverage, UK CACEIS
Where business drives environmental change
The Smith School brings together expertise from across enterprise, economics, finance and law to address the defining environmental challenges of our time. Our interdisciplinary research explores how organisations, markets, policy and regulation can accelerate the transition to a more sustainable and resilient future. This breadth of expertise gives executive education participants access to leading thinking that is both academically rigorous and directly relevant to the decisions they face.
Customisation
We offer four approaches to customisation, which allow participants to tailor our existing courses to various levels or to develop an entirely bespoke course.
The education partnership with the Oxford Smith School demonstrates CACEIS’ continued commitment to provide exceptional thought leadership to our clients and guests alike. CACEIS remains committed to supporting ESG principles - and as we’re part of Crédit Agricole group, it is in our DNA.
UK Branch Joe Saliba Deputy CEO of CACEIS
Standard Course If one of our standard courses meets your needs, we can run a bespoke cohort for your learners only. We are also available to offer uniquely Oxford experiences in addition to the standard curriculum.
Modified Standard Course Our executive education curriculum design team will work with you to understand your organisation’s needs and experience, and develop a course tailored to your specific priorities and goals. It is possible to mix and match approaches, for example to modify some modules and add entirely bespoke modules to the same offering.
Standard Course Plus Custom Course Using one of our standard courses as a base, we tailor modules to your needs by deepening particular points of focus, adding industry-relevant examples, geographical regional context, or bringing in academics with particularly relevant expertise for teaching and Q&A sessions. Expanding on one of our standard courses with additional modules, this option allows you to shift the base course to focus in depth on a particular theme or area. This option can be deployed both to build expert knowledge in a topic, or to add a particular sectoral focus to a broader course.
Custom Course A 100% bespoke learning experience, our custom courses allow you to select from a wide menu of topics and delivery modes to build a course with a unique thematic focus and mixture of teaching sessions and asynchronous materials to suit your unique profile.
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In brief
Contact our executive education team to learn more about a partnership: