Program Topics

Strategy and International Business

• Global energy systems, industry issues, trends, opportunities and challenges
• Formulating and implementing value-creating strategies
• Strategic innovation in the energy industry
• Managing international partnerships and alliances

Leadership

• Motivating yourself, your team and your organization
• Managing across cultures and borders
• Leading through periods of change
• Effective negotiation and decision making

Finance and Accounting

• Fundamentals of natural resource accounting, investment and financing
• Capital project analysis and budgeting
• Managing shareholder value through commodity cycles
• Commodity risk management

Economics

• Understanding resource economics and industry structures
• Analyzing commodity and currency market dynamics
• Linking resource development to economic development
• Natural resource fiscal regimes

Marketing

• The marketing and branding of energy products
• Customer analysis and relationship management

Industry Operations

• Extraction and process industry operations
• Leading capital projects for successful execution
• Maximizing supply chain efficiencies

Policy, Technology and The Environment

• Understanding climate change and sustainability issues
• Environmental management, stewardship and legal issues
• NGOs and setting the stakeholder agenda
• Renewable and alternative energy opportunities and challenges
• Renewable and alternative energy technology and innovation