Short courses

We offer several exciting programmes which enable you to gain new perspectives on a variety of business and management issues.

As a research-led institution, you can be assured that our teaching is derived from the very latest thinking. It is delivered through a variety of different methods, case studies, simulations and practical applications, to ensure effective knowledge transfer.

We offer a range of short courses as well as our core programmes.

Doing Business in the Circular Economy

This executive short course is designed for business leaders and decision-makers seeking to understand and apply circular economy principles within their organisations.

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Building a Brand: Bilingual Digital Marketing

Building a bilingual brand in Wales demonstrates your modern, outward-looking approach, respecting Welsh culture and connecting with its people. It boosts your market reach, strengthens customer relationships, and enhances brand visibility and perception.

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AI, Innovation and Responsible Leadership (Full Programme)

Strengthen your organisation for an AI‑enabled future with this strategic executive programme. Explore how to lead responsibly in a rapidly evolving technological landscape, balancing innovation, governance and public value while shaping the long‑term direction of AI in your organisation.

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Help to Grow: Management

This programme supports senior managers of small and medium-sized businesses to boost their businesses’ performance resilience and long-term growth. Business leaders can take part in this 12-module Help to Grow: Management Course around existing work commitments, accessing learning through practical, fully face-to-face workshops. The programme is 90% subsidised by the UK Government, costing business owners only £750 (less than £65 per week) for the full programme.

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Service Design

This 1-day course will provide you with an understanding of the core concepts of Service Design. Facilitated by Sarah Lethbridge, you will learn tools which help you to better understand your customers so that you can reorient your services to better deliver what your customers want and need.

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Customer Insights and Analytics with Generative AI

Gain practical tools to turn customer data into business growth, no coding required. Using Excel, ChatGPT, and real-world case studies, this immersive workshop will help you create data-driven strategies, predict customer behaviour, and improve marketing performance.

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Wealth Planning for Your Future and Retirement

Learn the fundamentals of investing, retirement planning, and wealth management through hands-on training with Bloomberg Terminals – the financial platform used by firms including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase.

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Lean Six Sigma Fast Track Yellow and Green Belt training

This five-day programme that will give you the tools and techniques you need to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your business processes. The Yellow Belt and Green Belt training is accredited by the Lean Competency System (LCS) at Level 1a and Level 1c, respectively.

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Expert LEAN Programme

This immersive 5-day programme combines the waste reduction power of data-driven Lean Six Sigma with Industry 4.0 technologies. It will equip you with the tools and techniques for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of operations and unlock transformative improvements within your organisation and its supply chain. It has the potential to deliver a bottom-line impact of over £30k within 3-4 months of Green Belt project completion.

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Core programmes

Our core programmes form the basis of our Executive Education offering and include a focus on leadership, innovation and efficiency in business.

These programmes are held intermittently throughout the year and will be advertised through our events pages when available.

For further information, contact the team at executive-education@cardiff.ac.uk.

Realising the Potential of Women Leaders

Building on the success of the National Assembly’s Women in Public Life Development scheme, facilitated by us and development agency Chwarae Teg, this programme will help organisations to redress inequality within their senior leadership team.

This will be achieved through reflection, coaching and group evaluation of the findings from our academic research. A transformative development programme, critically aimed at both men and women, this initiative will help organisations keen to achieve 50:50 representation by 2020.

Leadership and Business Administration

In line with our new School strategy, this leadership programme will assist you to appreciate the benefits of an ethical approach to business, one that understands the importance of contributing to society as well as generating profit.

You will be invited to investigate and discuss the grand challenges facing society and, in partnership with some of the leading lights within leadership, public management and governance, start to raise and respond to these challenges.

The Cardiff Innovation Programme

This programme brings together Professor Robert Morgan and Dr Joe O’Mahoney, thought leaders in their field, who will work with organisations to: assess their current innovative capability and develop the innovation capability of participants so as to effectively harness and increase their innovation potential.

Our Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water case study will give you a better understanding of how this programme can work for your organisation.

Service Improvement Innovations

We offer organisations and individuals a unique perspective on service improvement thanks to our prestigious improvement heritage. This course discusses different types of service innovation and improvement methodologies.

It assists you to understand and practice a range of techniques, whilst considering the practicalities of how to deploy these tactics within your organisation, winning hearts and minds.

Lean Six Sigma

This five-day Lean Six Sigma Yellow and Green Belt training is a practical programme that enables you to start applying the tools and techniques to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes, irrespective of the size or type of industry.