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Transform your global leadership skills
Global business is advancing at warp speed. With our exclusive portfolio of in-person and online professional development programs for individuals and custom solutions for companies, Thunderbird delivers the training you need to lead in this fast-paced, complex environment. You understand the challenges of the global marketplace. Prepare to overcome them.

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Online Executive Certificate Programs
(Each Executive Certificate Program consists of 3 online courses)
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Thunderbird School of Global Management
Certificate Programs
Thunderbird School of Global Management
Online Courses
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Thunderbird School of Global Management
Open Programs for Individuals
MULTI-DAY ‘OPEN PROGRAMS’ IN GLENDALE, AZ OR ‘CLOSED PROGRAMS’ AT YOUR LOCATION.
- “Closed Programs” are for Your Company employees only
- 12-20 students are ideal (max 34)
- Corporate pricing available
- Global Mindset for Global Leadership
- Aligning Global Marketing and Brand Strategy
- Designing for Crisis Management
- Global Marketing and Growth Strategy
- Marketing Dark Side Crisis Management
- Transformational Global Leadership Series
- Value Creation and Winning in the Global Arena
- Innovating Brand and Social Media Sales for Global Markets
- Leading Diverse Teams and Collaborative Results
- Leading Executive Crisis Communications
- Marketing Insights and Actions for Emerging Markets
- Marketing Leadership for Global Innovation
- Strategic Global Influence and Negotiation
- Strategizing for Crisis Leaderships
- And more…
Other Programs
GLOBAL INSTITUTE OF COACHING
- Individual Executive Coaching
- Team Coaching
CONSORTIA PROGRAMS
- Members only to address global challenges
CUSTOM SOLUTIONS FOR COMPANIES
- Designed to meet your company’s needs

About Thunderbird
Stand Out in a World of Possibilities
For over 70 years, Thunderbird Global School of Management has been at the forefront of innovation, offering a unique and powerful educational experience that teaches global leaders how to manage in diverse social, economic and political environments.
Thunderbird gives you the tools to succeed with a broad portfolio of executive education programs designed to fit your comprehensive learning and development needs and ensuring that you receive a return on investment.
Since its inception in 1946, Thunderbird has focused exclusively on educating global leaders in the intricacies of international business and management. Now a unit of the Arizona State University Knowledge Enterprise, today Thunderbird is strengthened by the resources of America’s largest and most innovative public university.
Thunderbird offers a wide-range of professional development and executive education courses and certificate programs both in person and online so you can identify your own needs and interests. Whether you want to accelerate your career or make a change in it, we have the programs to help you do it and a cohort of colleagues and faculty to help you learn what you need.
Thunderbird is not for everyone. It’s for people who are driven, focused, and who are comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity. It is for adventurers who enjoy the thrill of discovery and new places. Thunderbird is for people who want a career with an international flavor.
Regardless of where you may be in your professional journey, Thunderbird can help you reach your destination.
Executive Testimonials (Students)
I found the program to be INSIGHTFUL in preparing for negotiations that involve crosscultural issues.
Roberto Valla
V.P. of International Business Development
Boeing Defense, Space & Security
A great INVESTMENT for any project-driven organization, with immediate payback.
Sammy Rashed
Head of Sourcing – Global Sites
Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland
This training OPENS YOUR MIND to the many obstacles we face daily and how they shape our decisions.
Cheryl Fischer
IT Services, DHL
I was challenged to THINK DIFFERENTLY about managing my global team.
Doug Nielson
V.P. Global Card Acceptance Services
American Express
About Thunderbird Executive Education
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Cities have hosted Thunderbird Executive Education programs.
Thunderbird Executive Education participants.
Programs delivered worldwide.
Faculty, content experts & multicultural educators worldwide.
Countries on six continents where Thunderbird Executive Education ran programs.
The Thunderbird Experience
- Hands-on, real world international projects
- Curriculum taught from a global perspective
- Internationally renowned Faculty
- Internationally ranked Alumni Network
- 148 countries
- 172 active alumni chapters
The Thunderbird Difference
The only constant in business is change. Business leadership development professionals face the ongoing challenge of how to keep up with transformation and how to cultivate talented people to drive success in their organizations.
For 70 years, Thunderbird has been at the forefront of innovation, offering a unique and powerful educational experience that teaches businesses how to manage in diverse social, economic and political environments.
Thunderbird gives you the tools to succeed with a broad portfolio of executive education programs designed to fit your comprehensive learning and development needs and ensuring that you receive a return on investment.
And …
CUSTOM LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Thunderbird works with its business and organizational partners from the first step – we help you determine and define what you need to move your team forward. With a clear goal defined, we custom-design programs for professionals in corporate, government, and social sector organizations to achieve the results you need. Participants engage with world-class educators in a two-way knowledge pipeline, which carries classroom theory to the field and real-world expertise to Thunderbird.
PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Thunderbird offers a wide-range of professional development and executive education courses and certificate programs both in person and online so you can identify your own needs and interests. Whether you want to accelerate your career or make a change in it, we have the programs to help you do it and a cohort of colleagues and faculty to help you learn what you need.
NEW PROGRAM
The 2017 Transformational Global Leadership Journey. The Journey is comprised of a series of four multi-day programs, exploring specific global leadership competencies paired with immersive executive experiences.
GLOBAL INSTITUTE OF COACHING
In 2015, recognizing the growing need to groom new business leaders, Thunderbird launched the Global Institute of Coaching. The Institute helps people become a coach, engage with a coach, or build coaching within an organization. Only Thunderbird has the capacity and diversity to deliver a high quality coaching network that can adapt to conditions and cultures anywhere in the world.
TRAINING CENTER
Our Center for Business Skills Development (CBSD) in Russia, offers executive development programs and customized training to help solve business issues and nurture strong, innovative leaders worldwide.
DID YOU KNOW?
Thunderbird has partnered with Arizona State University. ASU is one of the largest and most progressive universities in the U.S.A., and was recently ranked #1 for innovation. Under this new umbrella, we now have access to a wide panel of knowledge, resources and expertise.
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