Reinvigorate your professional journey and evolve as a person and a leader with our flagship program for senior executives. Stanford Executive Program is offered in two formats to meet your needs: in-person begins in June, and hybrid (in-person and live online) begins in October.
Think differently, push your boundaries, and grow as a leader and a person.
Experience a transformative journey in SEP, blending innovation, personal growth, rigorous academics, and global connections to unlock your full potential as a leader. SEP is multidimensional, offering:
The Spirit of Innovation in Silicon ValleyÂ
SEP’s dynamic environment inspires innovation, leading to personal growth and lasting professional impact.
A Transformational Journey
SEP guides you through a multidimensional curriculum that integrates both personal growth using our Whole You approach and a rigorous academic curriculum for professional growth.
Global Connections
Build lifelong connections and discover new perspectives with fellow leaders from diverse industries, experiences, and cultures.
Executive Coaching
Benefit from a year of unlimited one-on-one executive coaching designed to help you increase your personal and organizational performance.
GSB Alumni Status
Earn Stanford GSB alumni status upon completion of the program, beginning your lifelong learning journey at Stanford.
The SEP curriculum features three key themes: leading people, leading organizations, and leading global systems. As an SEP participant, you will deepen your knowledge on how to:
Lead People
Become a stronger and more effective leader by gaining a deeper understanding of how to influence and impact organizational performance.
Build your communication skills and emotional intelligence to understand how to better motivate and drive high-performing teams and individuals.
Understand how to leverage and harness your power as a leader to inspire and build strong mutual-influence relationships within your organization.
Lead Organizations
Discover leading trends and insights on AI, innovation, and digital transformation that you can implement immediately at work.
Make sound executive decisions by improving core analytical skills required for approaching business challenges holistically.
Make strong strategic financial decisions and build value for shareholders.
Build your ability to influence with advanced techniques on negotiation, value creation, and persuasion to ensure your strategy.
Solve business problems using design thinking to design teams, business operations, change management initiatives, and organizational structures and cultures.
Lead Global Systems
Navigate challenges at a global scale through exploration of macroeconomics, political risks, and crisis.
Navigate complex business landscapes with strategic and ethical acumen.
Understand how to leverage new technologies like AI
Stanford Executive Program is designed for senior leaders. SEP seeks individuals ready to think differently, push boundaries, and transform and grow as a leader and a person.
Senior executives who are responsible for their organization’s performance and are in a position to impact change.
Executives in roles that are equivalent to C-suite levels, executive vice president, or managing director.
C-suite level executives at small to midsize and organizations that have significant growth opportunities.
SEP is offered in two formats: in-person and hybrid. Both formats feature the same content and opportunities to learn, interact, and grow, but are structured differently to accommodate your availability and work-life demands.
SEP Full Time (In-Person)
This in-person format offers 6 consecutive weeks on campus at Stanford University.
Program Dates:
June 19, 2026 – August 1, 2026 (on campus)
SEP Flex (Hybrid)
This hybrid format offers 2 weeks on campus, 10 weeks live online, and 2 additional weeks on campus.
Program Dates:
October 25, 2025 – February 14, 2026
October 25 – November 8, 2025 (on campus)
November 10, 2025 – January 30, 2026 (live online)
February 1–14, 2026 (on campus)
What (SEP) did for me was widen the realm of what’s possible.
Rachel Taulelei
Chief Executive Officer
Kono
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SEP gave me brilliant knowledge to transform our organization, while establishing a worldwide network of connections.
Arsen Tomsky
Founder and CEO
inDrive
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I have the opportunity to apply what I learned to further develop industry-leading teams.
Tricia Smith
Executive Vice President of Women’s Clothing
Nordstrom
Meet the Faculty Leadership
This program is developed by William Barnett and taught by a team of tenured, strategically focused, cross-disciplinary faculty who are experts in their fields. Together, they bring cutting-edge research, thought leadership, and experiential learning to your program experience.
William Barnett
The Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations
Director, Stanford Executive Program: Be a Leader Who Matters
Earn GSB Alumni Status and a Professional Certificate
Upon completion of SEP, you will earn a Professional Certificate and GSB Alumni status, which includes the following benefits:
Alumni Network – Access the GSB alumni directory, online groups, and events calendar for alumni of the MBA, PhD, Master’s (MSx), and SEP programs
Invitation to annual Alumni Weekend
15% discount on open-enrollment Executive Education programs (excluding SEP) and Stanford Continuing Studies courses
