Executive Certificates

Fortify your corporate management and leadership knowledge through master level teaching and network - at your own pace.

Choose your own learning path and build your skills through your choice of one or more of our Executive Certificates.

We understand that executives have demanding lives with competing priorities. The CBS Executive Certificates make it possible to fit high level education around a busy lifestyle to make sure to keep ambitious executives updated on the business demands of a dynamic and unpredictable globalized market.

Each Executive Certificate stands alone as a business qualification and offers its own focus providing you with tools and knowledge to: understand your own organization and how to optimize within (EC in General Management), how to power growth and secure a good understanding of the competitive landscape (EC in Business Potentials), dig deep into an area of specialization, with the choice between studying for the Executive Certificate in Entrepreneurship, the Executive Certificate in Digitalisation & AI or the Executive Certificate in Governance and Sustainability. The final step will include 4 months of strategic courses, concluding with a capstone thesis designed to be applied in to your own organisation, which will earn you the exclusive MBA degree from CBS. You will find value in studying each certificate individually, as well as one after the other, at your preferred pace.

Executive Certificate in General Management

This four-month module will give you the tools to develop a deeper understanding of the fundamentals governing organisational behaviour.

Executive Certificate in Exploring Business potentials

This four-month module develops your knowledge and analytical skills leading to understanding how to create growth.

Executive Certificate in a Concentration of Your Choice

During this two-month module you will be invited to dive deeper into an area of interest that will benefit your career aspirations as well as your organisation.

Managing Strategic Execution + Integrated Strategy Project

The final module encourages you to use your newly acquired MBA tools to develop a strategy for your organisation.

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The duration of the Executive Certificates varies from certificate to certificate, but all are designed to be part time studies alongside a full time job. Each Certificate lasts between 2-9 months with monthly modules lasting 4-7 days.

The Executive Certificates can be combined so that you, after successful completion of 4 executive certificates within 5 years, will obtain the CBS EMBA degree. Each Executive Certificate stands alone as a business qualification and every certificate offers different focus and provides you with relevant tools within a specific area. The majority of our participants end up taking more certificates over time, very often completing the full EMBA journey with us via the certificate path.

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Stay cutting-edge

In today’s competitive and volatile business environment, organisations need executives and board members with the insights, tools and expertise to guide them towards new heights.

As a leading educational player on the global business stage, CBS is uniquely positioned to offer Accredited certifications at Executive Master level that meet the evolving needs of today's executives and directors.

Personal & professional development

We are offering a world-class teaching experience together with the EMBA participants, in an intimate setting where the focus is on combining your personal development with the development of your workplace. You will become a confident multi-faceted leader, able to thrive across many different fields and equipped for a volatile and uncertain global economy.

Hone your skills

In today’s volatile business environment, organisations need board members with the expertise to guide them towards sustainable value creation. As a leading educational player on the global business stage, CBS is uniquely positioned to help executives hone their skills and enable more effective corporate governance to meet the demands of an increasingly fast-changing world.

Stay business relevant

Executive Certificates will secure that you get a global understanding and expertise in many different business areas. They are part of the MBA programme of CBS whereby we secure that all learning and teaching is delivered at an accredited Master level. Executive Certificate participants have classes together with the Executive MBA participants, which is why our application process and stringent admission criteria is the same for both the Executive Certificate path and the EMBA.

“The pursuit of Executive Certificates not only enhances my professional capabilities but also provides essential intervals for in-depth reflection, allowing me to digest and apply newfound knowledge more effectively. The business that I'm in is booming and these pauses enable me to devote dedicated time to propel the business to new heights.”

Burçin Temel McKenna

Global Head of Carbon Capture Competency Center - Ramboll

“One of the most valuable insights I gained was how to steer an organisation toward more sustainable practices. I was fascinated by how regulators direct capital towards sustainability, which extends beyond technical efficiency and touches on corporate governance, fair trade, and long-term environmental goals.”

Cláudia Alves

Third Party Data Centers Capacity Manager - EMEA at Google

From 17.00 to 19.00 we invite you to visit our campus or participate virtually to learn more about the CBS Executive Certificates and Executive MBA and what life as an EMBA at CBS is like. You will be introduced to the programme by the Associate Dean of the Executive MBA programme, Professor Jesper Rangvid, and examples from the classroom by an EMBA Professor. Additionally, an EMBA graduate will share their experience.

Executive Certificates

FLEXIBLE EXECUTIVE LEARNING

A choice of certificates

The Executive Certificate path

Why choose our Executive Certificates?

Stay cutting-edge

Personal & professional development

Hone your skills

Stay business relevant

Executive Certificates & Executive MBA Information Meeting, 26th of August 2025, 17:00 - 19:00