Our Executive & Custom Programs Office offers customized professional development programs specifically designed to build capacity, promote leadership, and identify solutions across professional sectors.

Tailored for Your Success

We design customized professional development programs that build the skills and knowledge needed to navigate complex global environments. From cybersecurity and organizational leadership to trade compliance, disaster communication, and field-specific language  and intercultural training, these offerings represent just a sampling of what we provide. Each program is custom-built in close collaboration with our clients and partners to ensure direct and lasting value for the participants and their organization. 

Expert Facilitators and Collaborative Approach

Learn from seasoned professionals who are actively shaping their fields. Our collaborative model fosters close partnerships between your organization’s leadership and our subject-matter experts. The result is a highly focused learning experience designed to strengthen your team’s capabilities and drive meaningful outcomes.

Explore the Possibilities

Sample the breadth of our customized program content areas, including:

Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence

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    Strengthen your team’s capacity to clearly articulate cyber risks, resilience strategies, and incident response protocols. In collaboration with instructors from the MIIS Master’s in Cybersecurity program, this training equips participants with essential terminology, communication frameworks, and tools for stakeholder engagement.
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    Advance your ability to produce high-quality cyber threat intelligence (CTI) reports tailored for executive decision-makers and operational teams. Ideal for professionals working in cybersecurity intelligence and analysis.
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    Explore the evolving landscape of cybercrime involving cryptocurrency and digital assets. Topics include investigative techniques, tracing illicit transactions, ransomware operations, blockchain technology, and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT).
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    Delve into the complexities of geographic risk assessment with an emphasis on financial crime, including money laundering, corruption, sanctions evasion, terrorism financing, and proliferation financing.
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    Explore the various ways terrorists, weapons proliferators, and criminals finance their misdeeds and how governments and the private sector counter illicit financing by criminal networks.
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    Engage in practical learnings on how to conduct comprehensive open source intelligence investigations against bad actors.
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    Discover how the private sector leverages intelligence to protect their interests - including facilities,  personnel, and reputation.

Organizational Leadership

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    Explore the core drivers of effective teamwork, including trust, accountability, and psychological safety, to enhance collaboration and performance. Participants will apply proven strategies to strengthen communication, foster mutual support, and build resilient, high-functioning teams.
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    Examine how organizational culture shapes behavior, decision-making, and performance—and how leaders can intentionally influence it to support strategic goals. Participants will gain practical tools to assess, align, and transform culture in dynamic organizational contexts.
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    Explore the principles, tools, and processes that empower leaders to design and guide strategic planning efforts that produce clarity, alignment, and actionable goals. Through practical frameworks participants will learn to navigate uncertainty, foster collaboration, and translate vision into meaningful organizational outcomes.
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    Examine what drives or derails organizational change and offers practical frameworks to design and lead effective change initiatives. Through case studies, tools, and systems thinking, participants will learn to navigate resistance, build momentum, and lead with empathy to create sustainable impact.

Communication and Intercultural Competency

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    Enhance your language proficiency within industry-specific contexts to foster purposeful communication and strategic partnerships. We offer a diverse range of language and intercultural training opportunities tailored for government agencies, global enterprises, and professionals across various sectors. Read more about this program.
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    Strengthen strategic communication, negotiation, and cross-cultural competencies of diplomats. This course is built around real-world diplomatic challenges, it emphasizes the practical use of English in high-stakes international contexts. Participants will refine the language, leadership, and analytical skills needed to represent one’s country’s interests effectively, manage conflict diplomatically, and engage confidently on the global stage.
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    Strengthen the communication, persuasion, and negotiation skills of professionals operating in complex international environments. Participants engage in interactive workshops, simulations, and scenario-based role plays tailored to real-world contexts. The curriculum emphasizes cross-cultural communication, effective speech delivery, and strategic negotiation techniques to build confidence and clarity in high-stakes cross-cultural interactions.
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    Transform your bilingual skills into a rewarding career with our Spanish Community Interpreting Certificate Program, specializing in medical, education, and legal interpreting. Learn more here
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    Quickly develop and refine a systematic approach to handwritten note-taking for consecutive interpretation with this online, self-paced course. Register Here.

Trade, Investment, and Economic Diplomacy

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    Gain an understanding of core commercial laws governing international trade, with a focus on strategic export controls, regulatory frameworks, and compliance practices.
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    Develop practical skills in drafting clear, persuasive policy documents and strategic negotiation memos tailored to trade and economic issues. Participants will also learn to write op-eds, public testimonies, and speeches that effectively communicate trade positions to diverse audiences. The course emphasizes clarity, audience awareness, and the ability to translate complex trade topics into impactful written communication.
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    Learn the fundamentals of strategic negotiation and dispute resolution in bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade contexts, emphasizing public policy and diplomatic engagement.
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    Analyze key trade instruments such as tariffs, non-tariff measures, export controls, anti-dumping duties, countervailing duties, safeguard measures, national security provisions, and currency policy tools.
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    Investigate the underlying factors and global implications of the trade conflict between the United States and China.

Sustainability

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    Gain foundational knowledge in ocean accounting, sustainable financing mechanisms for ocean conservation, and the interdisciplinary challenges of managing social and economic systems in marine environments. Read more about this program.
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    Enhance communication effectiveness across stakeholders and partner organizations through a structured approach to disaster-related contexts. Topics span all phases of disaster management, from prevention, mitigation, and preparedness, to response, recovery, and reconstruction.

International Education Management for Global Professionals

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    Analyze current trends in international education, focusing on the role of U.S. higher education within global systems of policy, trade, economics, technology, and human mobility.

Contact Us

Reach out to us today to initiate a conversation on customizing a professional development program to suit your organization’s unique needs.