Welcome

Marshall Young, Programme Director of the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme
At the level of senior management, most executives have already absorbed and practised all that a conventional leadership programme might contain. As an experienced leader, you do not need any more
toolkits or skill-sets. But you would value the chance to stand back from the constant need for action, encounter new ideas and different viewpoints, and to be able to resume your role with a greater clarity of thought and vision. This is what the Oxford Strategic Leadership approach provides.

Through the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme, and its accompanying portfolio of study, reflection and networking options, we help to open up new horizons on leadership and ways of leading. We expose participants to a broad range of leadership models, ideas and experiences, inviting you to reflect on the key issue of leadership and your own approaches to it.

Oxford has been a hub for intellectual debate for centuries. Attracting thinkers from all corners of the globe, the University has fostered the exchange of ideas, and sent their exponents or their influence spiralling out again to change the world. Likewise, the Oxford Strategic Leadership network attracts leaders from all industries, sectors and countries and draws together a group of world-class faculty. If you are a leader at, or very close to, the top of your organisation we can help you to use your experience, often by looking at it from a completely different perspective, to draw out a new understanding of yourself, your capabilities and your responsibilities as a leader.

If you think you or your organisation might benefit from the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme, and the lifelong networking opportunities through one of the world’s greatest universities, we would like to hear from you.

Please feel free to contact me directly if you have questions about the programme.

Marshall Young
leadership@sbs.ox.ac.uk

Read more about the OSLP 25 years and 50th programme, November 2007

Marshall Young’s career has spanned teaching, operations research consultancy, strategy consultancy and business development for large and small companies. After a DPhil in Management Studies at New College, Oxford, and commercial experience with Scicon (BP), CAV (Lucas Industries) and The Boston Consulting Group, he joined Templeton College, Oxford in 1976 as Fellow in Business Policy and Quantitative Methods. In 1979 he became a Director of the strategy consultants BKA. He joined Thorn EMI Home Electronics International, then the largest division in Thorn EMI, as Business Development Director in 1985 and subsequently led a management buyout in 1990 to establish a specialist, multimedia publishing company, of which he remains Chairman. He returned to Templeton in 1995 after two years advising an international bank on its strategy development programme in Asia.

At Saïd Business School he has taught and examined the University MPhil and MBA graduate programmes, but his main focus has been on the senior executive programmes. As well as directing and teaching on The Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme, he is a former Dean and current Vice Chairman of Templeton College. He also directs and teaches on board level seminars and workshops for individual companies and continues to consult widely with companies on leadership and strategy development.