- The Oxford Leading Disruptive Growth Programme is for people who are trying to innovate, trying to change, trying to grow their businesses. This is, you know, a combination of introspective leadership programme kinds of elements, like how do you become a better leader and a better change agent, but also how do you come up with plans to drive a business forward and grow? So it's a combination of individual as well as organisational leadership principles which I think is quite a unique combination.

- The whole process, the coherence of the content that is being generated so you can really tell that there are stepping stones that you're following and every content builds upon the previous content, right? So you you can really tell that what you're learning is a kind of a consistent learning path, the whole dynamics of the programme, right? The quality of discussions and the way the professors engage in discussions with their students is really outstanding.

- And the way that we sort of think about it is a learning journey over the course of the five days of the programme. And so we start with you as an individual. We start with thinking about the environment that you are in. We'll look at as many different sort of examples and case studies as we possibly can look at so that no matter what industry you're in or frankly, whether you come from the private sector or the public sector, you've got inspiration. And then what we do is move into bringing this into reality. So putting it all together because the goal is at the end of the week you leave with an action plan.

- There's so many broad things that are being introduced or kind of reminded of, I suppose. And I think the way that they've been brought together throughout the duration of the week has taken us all on this sort of journey of looking individually, then looking externally and then looking kind of back into the organisation and there's been a really clear process of thinking that have been taken along.

- Driving and leading disruptive growth in any type of organisation, in any, you know, country or different sectors around the world requires practicality. So we start with big picture stuff. Then we inspire you to think innovatively and come up with lots of new ideas. And then we, towards the end of the week, spend a lot of time work shopping the ideas that you have to kind of mould it into something that is the makings of a new plan and new strategy that you can take back. And to do that we work with faculty, we work with guest speakers from industry and we work with each other as a sort of a group of like-minded but very diverse and different peers to help make all of this happen.

- I love how inclusive and diverse our cohort has been especially strong female leaders. I mean, I was really impressed to see the diversity that we get here. Not just the culture but the gender diversity because I'm so used to like going to different conferences and programmes like, you're like one of the two or three women in the entire conference. And this has just been great.

- We are in the world's leading research university so that means everything we talk about in the classrooms is going to have an evidence base behind it. And I think that's important when we are thinking about the future and we're thinking about how to tackle some big challenges in the future because we don't want to place bets just on intuition and gut instinct alone or what someone's nice opinion is. We want to place bets in preparing and moving into the future by actually having some evidence and science behind it. We bring in leading experts in their field to work with you. So there's real value in tapping into their knowledge and their expertise, but then also that's part of your network. These then become more colleagues that you can tap into into the future as alumni of executive education here at Oxford. What's happened recently in the world is obviously very salient to all of us and that's truly disruptive. If we think about the pandemic over the last few years, if we think about social unrest and social injustice, if we think about the growing climate crisis and many, many other big macro forces that are on top of leaders' minds in business and in government. These are disruptive forces. There's always been disruption, though. So this programme is very much about preparation and being proactive instead of reacting to everything that comes along as a crisis, because that's exhausting and that's not a sustainable way to run a business.

- It has far exceeded my expectations. The environment, the city, the faculty, the infrastructure really creates the right kind of environment that fosters, you know, your desire to learn and grow.