Digital Transformation for Senior Executives Program
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Customized design for your success
The Digital Transformation for Senior Executives Program is designed with the needs of busy executives in mind. You will learn through immersive online sessions and guest lectures from global industry leaders. The flexible nature of the program allows you to customize your learning journey for maximum career and business impact.
Flexible
The self-paced modules provide the flexibility to accommodate learning around your busy work schedule. The program can be completed in 9 to 12 months as your schedule and program selections demand.
Interactive
A community learning experience with a limited cohort size facilitates interactive discussions with peers, program coaches, faculty, industry speakers, and career advisors — allowing you to implement program learnings in real-world scenarios.
Transformative
The multimodular learning journey experience, including the capstone project, allows you to learn and grow as an executive while enabling you to lead digital transformation in your organization.
Program highlights
Customize your learning journey with a choice of electives.
Learn at your own pace with a weekly commitment of just three to five hours.
Glean insights from global industry experts who are leading cutting-edge innovative practices.
Network with accomplished peers from around the globe and gain new approaches to leadership.
Engage with your success coach to craft your learning journey through regular check-in sessions.
Benefit from experiential sessions combining theory with real-world case studies and apply the knowledge to your organization.
Meet your peers, industry experts, and faculty during two days of in-person networking on the Wharton campus.
Following successful completion of the program and subsequent open-enrollment programs, subject to further qualification criteria and additional tuition, you have a pathway to apply for Wharton alumni status.
What will you learn from the program?
Recognize the disruptive trends around digital technologies and plan to leverage them to transform an organization through innovation and long-term sustainable growth
Determine the strategy, organization, and leadership perspectives required for sustaining digital transformation
Assess the role of leadership in moving the organization from disruption to transformation
Determine strategies that enhance the vigilance and agility of the organization
Evaluate an organization’s readiness and the preparedness required to transform and sustain long-term growth and gain a competitive advantage
Build a perspective on the future with insights from case studies of digital leaders like Adobe, Deloitte, and Microsoft
Propose a plan for leveraging new technologies, innovation, and customer insights to disrupt old business models
Curriculum
The program's core modules will enable you to leverage emerging technologies, forge customer-centric digital strategies that drive growth, and build innovative digital solutions to sustain transformation. Designed with your demanding schedule in mind, this immersive program comprises 18 weeks of core modules followed by three six-week online electives.
Capstone project
The capstone project provides a deeper dive into all that you have learned during the program. While leveraging concepts studied throughout the journey, it provides additional engagement with faculty and peers as well as an opportunity for further reflection on the challenges and opportunities you face in moving the organization from disruption to transformation. As part of the capstone project, you will apply core concepts of digital transformation to your organization. You will work on an executive reflection journal that applies program insights to evaluate opportunities for driving transformation and to address challenges to innovation.
Testimonials
Meet the faculty
Tapping into a rich reservoir of groundbreaking research and practical business acumen, Wharton’s renowned faculty offer you an invaluable learning experience that carries beyond the classroom into the real world. Recognized for their extensive breadth and depth of knowledge in business, technology, digital transformation, and entrepreneurship, Wharton’s thought leaders and a group of hand-picked industry experts work together to enlighten you about cutting-edge approaches to global business challenges. They share unique and novel perspectives about industry breakthroughs and encourage you to experiment with new ways of confronting digital disruptions.
Academic Director for the Digital Transformation for Senior Executives Program; David W. Hauck Professor; Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Simon and Midge Palley Professor, Professor of Management, Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship, The Wharton School
Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor Emeritus, The Wharton School
Miers-Busch, W’1885 Professor, The Wharton School
Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, The Wharton School
CIBC Endowed Professor, The Wharton School
Associate Professor of Management,The Wharton School
Who is it for?
Whether you are directly responsible for ensuring digital infrastructure and strategic readiness at your organization or tasked with driving innovation and growth for various business verticals, you will benefit from this comprehensive program. You will emerge from the program with the strategy, organization, and leadership perspectives and capabilities for leveraging new technologies and staying ahead of digital disruptions.
Program eligibility criteria include:
A minimum of 10 years of work experience
Fluency in written and spoken English
International exposure (preferred)
Pathway to Wharton alumni status
For more than 135 years, Wharton has been the place where visionaries, inventors, and trailblazers get their start. Subject to further qualification criteria and additional tuition, the completion of the Digital Transformation for Senior Executives Program and subsequent open-enrollment programs puts you on a pathway to apply for Wharton alumni status. Executives who successfully complete the program have the option of applying to the General Management Program (GMP), which offers further opportunities to enhance your leadership skills and business acumen with a flexible curriculum. The program provides one credit towards the six required to complete the GMP and earn alumni status. More details on the GMP are available at Wharton Executive Education.
Upon qualifying for Wharton alumni status, you will be eligible to receive:
Full access to become a member of 77+ Wharton alumni clubs
Invitations to attend future Wharton global alumni forums
A Wharton email address
Certificate
Earn a Wharton Executive Education digital certificate upon successful completion of the program. Alumni of the program get exclusive access to a wide range of professionals, events, and networking opportunities. Furthermore, you can also benefit from additional tuition assistance upon enrolling in further online programs from Wharton Executive Education.
Note: After successful completion of the program, your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you in the name you used when registering for the program. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of the Wharton School.
Please also note that participation in the Digital Transformation for Senior Executives Program (a) will not result in a degree from, alumni status with, or earned credit at the University of Pennsylvania or the Wharton School (or, to Wharton’s knowledge, any other institution), (b) will not be recorded on a University of Pennsylvania or Wharton transcript, and (c) does not guarantee or suggest that a participant will be admitted to the University of Pennsylvania, the Wharton School, or to any other university or institution.
FAQs
Connect with a Program Advisor for a 1:1 Session
Our program advisors have helped senior executives across the world choose the right program for their career goals. Schedule a 1:1 to get a deeper understanding on why the Digital Transformation for Senior Executives Program is the right fit for you.
Email: wharton_dtse@emeritus.org
Phone: +1 561 486 7448 (U.S.) / +44 1135 191350 (U.K.) / +971 80 0088601095 (U.A.E.) / +52 55970 90243 (LATAM)
Early registrations are encouraged. Seats fill up quickly!
Flexible payment options available.
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