Masters Elite Business Leadership

Many lessons can be learned from the elite in the world of sport, particularly those who have performed, delivered, and achieved the highest honours in their game. This unique Masters degree programme will provide an insight into proven performance principles. It will give you the knowledge, strategies and skill set to apply such world-leading practices to your own business environment. You will engage directly with legends from professional sports alongside leading academics, who will share with you how the strongest minds can emerge triumphant on the world’s biggest and most pressured stages. An unprecedented educational and career-defining experience to take you to the very top in your chosen career


This course is packed with vital information and cutting-edge thinking for top executives, but what makes the experience unique among educational offerings in this space is our boot camp where you can interact directly and personally with top names in sport. Of course, there are plenty of events and media products which feature personalities giving talks, but we go way beyond that one-way communication to create a dynamic, interactive environment where you can dig deep inside career experiences, work processes, key learning moments, challenges and get to the heart of their winning mentality and consistent success.
This isn’t the sportsman’s dinner approach; it isn’t a figurehead putting a name to a product nor is it the basic conference Q and A that too often leads to predictable responses. This is a rare chance, in an off-the-record, personal setting, over two full days, to really question and interact, in an intensive way. To find out the ‘how’ and ‘why’? And get concrete answers that you can apply to your context.


The course and in particular the residential offer a unique opportunity to understand how top people in sport prepare to win, how they manage up, down and across, how to work with multi-disciplinary teams and departments, and how to interpret and act upon data, how to initiate or deal with organisational or overarching directional change and how to manage both teams and the teams behind the teams and develop multi-layered yet efficient leadership approaches to create a winning team and maintain a constant high-performance approach throughout their organisations.


With access to Mike Phelan, Karen Carney, David Horrocks and Jürgen Klinsmann, among others and guided by leading academics, you will turn the theory into practice and relate this quickly to your workplace.
Business is now following top-level sport faster than ever, careers are more diverse and shorter, demands are greater, pressures are magnified and public, results and data are more regular and transparent, change is inevitable, and the 24/7 switched-on world has never been more present than right now. This is a course for those with drive, ambition, expectation, humility, and a growth mindset to grow. It is a course for the leaders of tomorrow. Don’t get left behind.