Schulich ExecEd

🚨 Can we effectively lead through a digital disruption?

That's the question at the heart of the Digital Risk Tabletop Exercise (TTX), a standout component of Schulich ExecEd's Certificate in Digital Risk. It caps off a 6-part journey (Identify → Assess → Govern → Respond → Recover → Test) grounded in the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

Participants are dropped into a realistic disruption scenario that challenges organizational preparedness and resilience, applying risk-informed decision-making in a dynamic, rapidly evolving environment. Think fast decisions, clear communication, and real accountability under pressure, not in theory.

Walk away having:
✅ Practiced coordinating actions across leadership, operational, and stakeholder groups
✅ Applied risk-informed decision-making in real time
✅ Demonstrated effective communication and accountability under pressure
✅ Evaluated response effectiveness, identified gaps, and developed actions to strengthen organizational resilience

📅 Next session runs May 12 – June 16, 2027 | Online | 18 hours of study

👉 Learn more: https://execed.schulich.yorku.ca/program/certificate-in-digital-risk/

Canada's municipalities are navigating aging infrastructure, rising community expectations, and constant change.

Schulich ExecEd's Masters Certificate in Municipal Leadership is designed to help public sector professionals lead through it. It builds strategic agility, coaching ability, political acuity, and resilience, while teaching leaders to apply data to real decision-making.

Ready to lead your community's next chapter? Learn more: https://execed.schulich.yorku.ca/program/masters-certificate-in-municipal-leadership/

There's a specific moment every senior leader eventually hits: the strategy is sound, the team is capable, and yet ex*****on still stalls. That gap between having good judgment and actually mobilizing an organization around it is exactly what Leadership 2: Advanced Leadership for Senior Managers and Directors is built to close.

The program moves through five areas that rarely get taught together: defining your own leadership identity, shaping culture deliberately rather than by accident, making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty, designing organizations that function well, and mobilizing teams to actually execute strategy.

Taught by Jordan Berman, Kristina Riis, Stephen Friedman, and Thomas Medcof, PhD, this 5-day program runs November 23 to 27, 2026, 9AM to 4PM.

Learn more: https://execed.schulich.yorku.ca/program/leadership-2-advanced-leadership-for-senior-managers-and-directors/

You've hit the level where technical skill alone doesn't move you further. What separates the executives who break through from those who plateau isn't more knowledge, but how precisely they execute under pressure.

Schulich ExecEd's Elite Performance Program for Executives puts that idea to the test. Participants study the "Magnus Effect" to understand how minor behavioural adjustments produce major performance gains, build the followership needed to actually get teams moving, treat AI as a working partner rather than a rival, and train change intelligence so they can act fast when conditions shift underneath them.

Learn more about the program: https://execed.schulich.yorku.ca/program/elite-performance-program-for-executives/

Great ideas rarely die from lack of imagination. They die because nobody built the conditions for them to survive contact with an organization. Schulich ExecEd's Unleashing Innovative Momentum, a 3-day hybrid program, is designed for leaders who've watched good ideas stall out and want to understand why.

The program moves through how trust and influence create real team traction, how disruptive trends and AI are reshaping creative work and the neuroscience behind why change gets stuck and how to accelerate momentum once it starts. It's less about generating more ideas and more about building the climate that lets the ones you already have actually go somewhere.

The program is taught by Andrew Maxwell, Jim Harris, Lee-Anne McAlear, and Megan Mitchell, and can be combined with Strategic Innovation and Creative Leadership and Futureproof Your Organization toward a Masters Certificate in Innovation Leadership.

If you've ever led a great initiative that quietly ran out of steam, this program is worth a look: https://execed.schulich.yorku.ca/program/unleashing-innovative-momentum/

Most people are promoted into management because they were good at their previous job, not because anyone taught them how to lead. Schulich ExecEd's Management 2: The Advanced Managers Course is for the managers who felt that gap and are ready to close it.

This program tackles the parts of management that rarely get taught directly: leading through change, building teams that actually perform, managing with emotional intelligence, and making sound decisions under pressure. It's led by a faculty team that brings both academic depth and real industry experience: Haniyeh Yousofpour, PhD; Kristina Riis; Michelle Saba, CPIR, VP of Communications at Cineplex; and Stephen Friedman, MA Psych. It can be paired with Management 1: The New Managers Course toward a Masters Certificate in Management.

Learn more: https://execed.schulich.yorku.ca/program/management-2-the-advanced-managers-course/

Futureproof Your Organization is a 3-day program from Schulich ExecEd designed to help leaders anticipate change, influence adoption, and build innovation traction before disruption forces their hand.

Across 3 days, you'll build strategic foresight to spot emerging trends and risks, develop an entrepreneurial mindset paired with the persuasion skills to win support for new ideas, and learn to turn great ideas into action through storytelling and data visualization that drives real organizational impact.

📅 Start Date: November 12, 2026
💻 Format: Online
⏱️ Length: 3 Days of Study

Organizations that survive a cyberattack aren't always the ones with the most sophisticated technology. They're the ones where accountability and response protocols were established before the crisis began.

Schulich ExecEd's new program, Certificate in Digital Risk, is built to close that gap. Delivered online over 18 hours, it equips professionals to treat digital risk as a matter of governance and organizational resilience, not solely a technical concern.

Participants examine today's threat landscape, including ransomware, AI-enabled attacks, and third-party vendor exposure, and work through building governance structures with clear accountability, developing incident response plans, and leading a live disruption simulation that replicates the coordination demands of a real crisis.

The program culminates in a Digital Risk Tabletop Exercise (TTX), where participants apply risk-informed decision-making, coordinate across leadership and stakeholder groups, evaluate response effectiveness, identify gaps and develop actions to strengthen organizational resilience.

Learn more: https://execed.schulich.yorku.ca/program/certificate-in-digital-risk/

Managing in a unionized environment means making decisions that are fair, consistent and grounded in a clear understanding of the rules.

Schulich ExecEd’s Managing in a Unionized Work Environment program helps managers navigate the realities of labour relations with greater confidence. Participants explore the legislation, collective-agreement provisions and management practices that shape day-to-day workplace decisions.

From performance conversations and attendance issues to discipline, harassment, grievances and employee relations, the program focuses on how to address concerns early, communicate clearly and maintain constructive working relationships.

Online | October 22 to 23, 2026 | 9 AM to 4 PM

Learn more: https://execed.schulich.yorku.ca/program/managing-in-a-unionized-work-environment/

Ever walked away from a negotiation wishing you'd said something differently?

Schulich ExecEd's Certificate in Advanced Negotiations helps you turn that hindsight into foresight, building the practical skills to negotiate and influence with confidence in any setting.

You'll discover your personal negotiation style through self-assessment and facilitator feedback, learn when to apply competitive versus collaborative approaches for better outcomes, and practice through simulated role-plays, case studies, and group breakout activities. The focus throughout is on building influence, not just authority, so you can get what you want at any level of an organization.

Learn more and enrol: https://execed.schulich.yorku.ca/program/certificate-in-advanced-negotiations/