Executive Education Launches Pop-Up Programs

The Walton College Executive Education now offers Business Foundations, a program designed to develop business the skills needed to run organizations in leaders who lack business backgrounds. The customizable program, which can be delivered in various locations, is ideal for organizations who looking to broaden their business acumen and enhance their decision making skills.

Walton College Executive Education has launched pop-up programs throughout Arkansas. After positive reception in Little Rock to open enrollment programs, executive education began providing open enrollment programs that deliver interesting and exciting topics statewide.

For each program, Walton College Executive Education worked alongside academics, business experts and local community leaders to build programs around intriguing topics and a community story.

The first program, A Change Story: Location Matters, took place on Nov. 21 at TheatreSquared in Fayetteville. Executive director Martin Miller highlighted the incredible change management story of TheatreSquared. Walton College Executive Education change management expert Chris Case talked with Miller about his experience of transforming a vision into a building. Miller emphasized that having supporters feel connected to the theater’s new location brought stakeholders into the process and helped a team of artists and community members execute their dream. Miller explained how to get people to support an overwhelming transition. Case pointed out key change management practices that helped the audience understand how they could recreate TheatreSquared’s successful change story.

Walton College Executive Education also hosted A Strategy Story: Intentionally growing communities in unique ways on Dec. 3 at Haxton Road Studios in Bentonville. The program focused on how Graham Cobb, president and chief executive officer of the Greater Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce, employed strategic planning within the chamber organization. Walton College Executive Education provider Blake Woolsey asked Cobb about tactics and innovative methods he used to build Bentonville’s national brand. Through humorous and interesting stories, Woolsey and Cobb told how disruptive ideas can make an inventive vision a reality. Woolsey also provided the audience with strategic planning methods to implement in their workplaces.

Each program provided local connection and excitement for what is happening throughout Arkansas. This spring, executive education will continue to provide innovative professional development for the community and offer a reminder that business ideas and concepts are not only for the business world. Visit Walton College Executive Education’s website to see other open enrollment opportunities as they become available.