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University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, R3T 2N2
We provide executive training and professional development programs designed to enhance your skills in areas including leadership, marketing and business development, communication, management, business acumen and project management.
Starting May 1st, masks on campus will be encouraged but not required. Masks will continue to be made available upon request.
Please check the UM COVID-19 response webpage prior to your program for the most recent protocols. If you have any questions, please contact us.
Take your project management skills to the next level. Understand the importance of clear objectives and knowing what steps to take to execute a project successfully.
Location: James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
Negotiation and Consensus Building
Learn practical strategies to strengthen your negotiating skills, ultimately leading to improved productivity, job satisfaction and greater overall success.
Location: James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
Enhance your speaking abilities, and learn to speak like a leader, projecting strength and confidence in every interaction.
Location: James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
Understanding Your Roles and Responsibilities in the Work of Reconciliation
Deepen your knowledge and understanding about reconciliation, reflect on your workplace practices, values, and policies, and make a commitment to action.
Location: James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
Fundamentals of Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Manager
Become more confident making financial decisions and increase your leadership effectiveness with a better understanding of the fundamentals of finance and accounting.
Location: James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
Project Oversight for Executives
Drive project success with a scalable project governance framework that clearly defines roles and responsibilities, engages stakeholders, and optimizes the decision-making process. Learn about the integral role that the project’s executive sponsor plays in providing oversight of the project management function and how this impacts project outcomes.
Location: James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) - Rotman Directors Education Program (DEP)
Jointly developed by the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, and delivered by the James W. Burns Executive Education Centre, this program is the gold standard for directors’ education in Canada, and is a necessary step toward receiving ICD accreditation as a certified corporate director.
Location: James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
Take your project management skills to the next level. Understand the importance of clear objectives and knowing what steps to take to execute a project successfully.
Location: James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
This program will help you create an inclusive workforce culture to meet the demand for diverse strategies to maximize team performance and innovate your organization to address challenges and missed opportunities.
Location: James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
Advanced Program in Management, Leadership and Strategy
Become a more effective leader in just 10 days. This unique experiential learning program enhances your leadership skills and introduces you to best practices in strategy and management.
Location: James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
Taking the Stage®: Achieving a Leadership Presence
Taking the Stage® is a ground-breaking program that enables women to view leadership through the lens of communication - supporting them to develop the skills needed to be seen as strong, confident leaders.
Location: James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
Anti-Racism: From Knowledge to Action
Build your knowledge and skills around race and racism so you can recognize and dismantle racially oppressive practices that may exist in your workplace.
Location: James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
Take your project management skills to the next level. Understand the importance of clear objectives and knowing what steps to take to execute a project successfully.
Location: James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
Enhance your speaking abilities, and learn to speak like a leader, projecting strength and confidence in every interaction.
Location: James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
Negotiation and Consensus Building
Learn practical strategies to strengthen your negotiating skills, ultimately leading to improved productivity, job satisfaction and greater overall success.
Location: James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
Project Oversight for Executives
Drive project success with a scalable project governance framework that clearly defines roles and responsibilities, engages stakeholders, and optimizes the decision-making process. Learn about the integral role that the project’s executive sponsor plays in providing oversight of the project management function and how this impacts project outcomes.
Location: James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
Fundamentals of Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Manager
Become more confident making financial decisions and increase your leadership effectiveness with a better understanding of the fundamentals of finance and accounting.
Location: James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
Any of our programs can be delivered exclusively to your organization in their current format, or customized specifically for your company.
Do you staff in multiple locations? Most of our programs have the option of being offered virtually.
To set up a custom program, call us at 204-946-0232 or email us at ExecEdInfo@umanitoba.ca.
Browse our executive programs by category below.
Interested in a program not listed here? Call us at 204-946-0232 or email us at ExecEdInfo@umanitoba.ca.
The Canada-Manitoba Job Grant provides funding to employers to help cover the cost of training their new and existing employees to meet business needs, and to provide Manitobans with the skills they need for available jobs.
Up to $10,000 per new or existing employee and will not exceed $100,000 per employer
The Job Grant application is for training that occurs in the current fiscal year. The fiscal year is April 1 to March 31.
Training must be delivered by an external training provider such as the James W. Burns Executive Education Centre. We have many programs to choose from.
Please note that the application intake for this grant is now closed but will reopen in August, 2023.
Learn more about this Job Grant
The Asper MBA is a life-changing experience that helps you think differently, increase your earning power, grow as a leader, and realize your career goals.
Completing the Advanced Program in Management, Leadership and Strategy provides you with an automatic exemption from the Leadership module of the Asper MBA program core when you register for the Asper MBA. That’s 4.5 credit hours toward your MBA degree, before you even start the program!
This exemption applies retroactively to any offering of the Advanced Program in Management, Leadership and Strategy within the last five years.
The James W. Burns Executive Education Centre is located on the 2nd floor of 177 Lombard Avenue in the heart of downtown Winnipeg. Officially opened in 1911 as the new head office for the Great-West Life Assurance Company, this architectural gem was designated a provincial heritage site in 1985.
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James W. Burns Executive Education Centre
2nd floor
177 Lombard Ave.
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 0W5
