College of Business announces new School of Executive Education

Lipscomb President L. Randolph Lowry announced the establishment of the new School of Executive Education within the College of Business at the Nashville Business Breakfast event on Wednesday, March 11.

 

The School of Executive Education will continue Lipscomb’s long history of transforming theory into practice by providing short-term, intensive strategy sessions for local companies and professionals, he said.

 

“In addition to our long history of excellence in accounting, two MBA programs, the first MBA focused on sustainability in Nashville and the first master’s in conflict management in Nashville, we now add the School of Executive Education,” Lowry announced to a crowd of several hundred who attended the regular business networking event.

 

 

The School of Executive Education will launch with the Summer Executive Series in summer 2009, exposing participants to four of the nation’s leading thinkers to enhance leadership practices, create a sustainable competitive advantage and provide sophisticated negotiation skills.

 

For details and dates on all four speakers click here.

 

Among the four inaugural speakers will be Barry Posner, nationally known author of The Leadership Challenge and developer of the Leadership Practices Inventory, who will present the three essential skills needed to lead in today’s challenging economic environment on June 17.

 

In fact, all the topics for the Summer Executive Series were derived from concerns about surviving and thriving in the current economic crisis, said John Lowry, assistant dean of the School of Executive Education.

 

“As businesses face this market, they have to completely rethink their strategy,” John Lowry said. “We want them to think about how they can not only survive, but how to excel in this economy.”

 

Turney Stevens, dean of the Lipscomb College of Business, long-time Nashville entrepreneur and former CEO Harpeth Companies, LLC, and Joe Ivey, Sr. Vice President for Advancement at Lipscomb and former Fortune 500 CEO, will discuss business strategy in tough times on July 14.

 

In addition, many business leaders have expressed the observation that in good times, negotiation skills are not as critical, but now “businesspeople tell us that their people need more sophisticated negotiation skills, because the conversations are a lot tougher,” John Lowry said.

 

Lipscomb President Randy Lowry, the founder of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University, will present a session on negotiation on Aug. 4.

 

“At the School of Executive Education we’re saying, let’s take this theory, let’s package it in a way that people can come to campus for one day and when they go home they’ll have the skills that will make them better tomorrow,” said John Lowry.

 

 

 

 

In addition to one-day programs, the School of Executive Education will also provide a selection of longer-term accelerated, intensive professional development programs. The first, the Certificate of Accountancy Program (CAP), will be launched in May and will satisfy the 24 units of accounting education required to sit for the CPA exam and offer complete leveling courses for Master of Accountancy programs.

 

According to the Bureau of Labor, the job market for accountants and auditors is expected to grow faster than the average for all other occupations.

 

“The CAP provides an opportunity to, in just 13 weeks, open the doors to a whole new field that needs people right now,” said John Lowry.