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<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/leadership-programme-roi>

![Leadership Programme ROI: Useful Fact or Mythical Fiction?](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/Leadership%20Programme%20ROI%20blog%20banner.png)

By [Dr Wendy Shepherd](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/author/dr-wendy-shepherd)

## [Leadership Programme ROI: Useful Fact or Mythical Fiction?](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/leadership-programme-roi)

##### Why we should abandon ROI as the Holy Grail in leadership development impact measurement.

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 Tags: [executive development](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/executive-development), [article](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/article), [customised](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/customised)

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/the-decade-ahead-part-5>

![The Decade Ahead Part 5: Insights into the future of work, leadership, and executive education](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/D4i%20triangle%20shot.png)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/Cranfield%20Live%20Online/Mark%20threfall.jpg) By [Mark Threlfall](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/author/mark-threlfall)

## [The Decade Ahead Part 5: Insights into the future of work, leadership, and executive education](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/the-decade-ahead-part-5)

##### “We don't offer traditional business school executive education, and we’re not a consultancy that creates dependencies to feed...

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 Tags: [executive development](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/executive-development), [article](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/article)

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/the-decade-ahead-part-4>

![The Decade Ahead Part 4: Insights into the future of work, leadership, and executive education](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/D4i%20triangle%20shot.png)

By [Graham Bell](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/author/graham-bell)

## [The Decade Ahead Part 4: Insights into the future of work, leadership, and executive education](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/the-decade-ahead-part-4)

##### “There’s always been a concern that technology is going to come along and unseat traditional education, but I don’t see that...

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 Tags: [executive development](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/executive-development), [article](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/article)

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![The Decade Ahead Part 3: Insights into the future of work, leadership, and executive education](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/D4i%20triangle%20shot.png)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/Camilla%20white.jpg) By [Camilla Jonsson](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/author/camilla-jonsson)

## [The Decade Ahead Part 3: Insights into the future of work, leadership, and executive education](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/the-decade-ahead-part-3)

##### “The challenges for us in the decade ahead are to match our vision, capability and rhetoric with the resources available to...

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 Tags: [executive development](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/executive-development), [article](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/article)

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![The Decade Ahead Part 2: Insights into the future of work, leadership, and executive education](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/D4i%20triangle%20shot.png)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/David%20Deegan.jpg) By [David Deegan](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/author/david-deegan)

## [The Decade Ahead Part 2: Insights into the future of work, leadership, and executive education](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/the-decade-ahead-part-2)

##### “The pandemic proved that you don’t have to be in an office to be effective, and that people can be trusted to work outside of...

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 Tags: [executive development](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/executive-development), [article](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/article)

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![The Decade Ahead Part 1: Preparing people and organisations for the decade ahead](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/D4i%20triangle%20shot.png)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/CED%20Logo%20-%20space%20-%20no%20wording.png) By [Cranfield Executive Development](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/author/cranfield-executive-development)

## [The Decade Ahead Part 1: Preparing people and organisations for the decade ahead](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/the-decade-ahead-part-1)

##### At Cranfield Executive Development, we take pride in being part of an organisation's transformational change.

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 Tags: [executive development](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/executive-development), [article](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/article)

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/its-time-to-think-about-the-impact-of-development>

![It's time to update our thinking about the impact of executive development](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/AdobeStock_172134924%20%281%29.jpeg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/wendy.png) By [Wendy Shepherd](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/author/wendy-shepherd)

## [It's time to update our thinking about the impact of executive development](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/its-time-to-think-about-the-impact-of-development)

##### Exploring the practical outcomes of unique Cranfield research that offers a cost-effective process for both managing and...

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 Tags: [executive development](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/executive-development), [article](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/article)

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/annual-impact-report-2021-highlights>

![Annual Impact Report 2021 - highlights](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/Annual%20Impact%20Report%20-%20D4I/AdobeStock_172134924.jpeg)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/wendy.png) By [Wendy Shepherd](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/author/wendy-shepherd)

## [Annual Impact Report 2021 - highlights](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/annual-impact-report-2021-highlights)

##### Measuring return on investment for executive development can be a challenge.

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 Tags: [executive development](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/executive-development), [article](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/article)

<https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/impact-drivers-vs-impact-destroyers>

![Impact drivers vs. impact destroyers](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/Canva%20images/KH-blog-impact%20drivers%20vs%20destroyers.png)

![](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/hubfs/CED%20Logo%20-%20space%20-%20no%20wording.png) By [Cranfield Executive Development](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/author/cranfield-executive-development)

## [Impact drivers vs. impact destroyers](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/impact-drivers-vs-impact-destroyers)

##### In revisiting HBR’s challenging 2016 article ‘The Great Training Robbery’, Cranfield University experts Wendy Shepherd and Mark...

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 Tags: [leadership](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/leadership), [executive development](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/executive-development), [article](https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/knowledge/tag/article)

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