Customized executive education was born of the limitations of generic, ‘one size fits all' learning solutions. While off-the-shelf programs can be effective tools for individual learners, they are ill-suited to developing competencies among managerial groups of a single business enterprise. Companies intent on improving their competitive posture in the global economy are looking to equip their leaders not with generic business knowledge, but with the specific business competencies required to execute their particular business strategy. This is presenting a challenge to traditional approaches to leadership and management development.

The founders of EDP have led the development of a different approach to customized executive education that has proven to generate distinct program advantages for EDP’s clients:

• Program Design is aligned with each client's business strategy, organizational needs and managerial competency requirements.
• Process is an authentic 'co-production' working closely with clients throughout each step of the creative process - from organizational needs analysis, through custom program design, to pilot program and full program rollout.
• Pedagogy combines organizational learning (the 'head') with personal development (the 'heart') to achieve sustainable managerial behavior changes.
• Faculty are drawn from EDP's Global Faculty Network comprised of professors from many of the best business schools and private practices around the world.
• Program management is delivered with both 'academic excellence' and 'commercial urgency.'
• Clients achieve seamless message consistency module-to-module globally wherever a client has operations.