Executive Training
Executive & Custom Programs offers customized professional development programs specifically designed to strengthen skills, promote leadership, and identify solutions across professional sectors.
Tailored for Your Success
We design custom professional development programs tailored to an organization’s goals, equipping teams with skills and knowledge needed to thrive in 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 you to ensure direct, lasting value for your team and 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.
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.
Trade and Compliance
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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 policy documents and strategic negotiation memos, as well as writing op-eds, testimonies, and speeches for trade-related issues. -
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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.
Language 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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We offer customized language programs on our campus in Monterey, California, at our location in downtown Washington DC, or internationally at your location. Participants can design a personalized program with the option of studying two languages simultaneously. Learn more here. -
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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.
Contact Us
Reach out to us today to initiate a conversation on customizing the perfect professional development program to suit your organization’s unique needs. Our comprehensive model begins by assessing your needs then crafting a tailor-made program in partnership with our subject-matter experts and highly experienced teaching professionals.