The Advanced Management Program

The Advanced Management Program (AMP)
Chicago Booth's flagship program for senior executives combines flexibility, a tailored curriculum, and immediate real-world application to enhance leadership excellence. AMP participants earn Chicago Booth alumni status upon successful completion.

Key Benefits:

• Flexible Format: Start the program at any point during the year, making it easier to integrate into your busy schedule.
• Customized Curriculum: The program features three core leadership-focused sessions and three elective courses, allowing you to tailor your experience to your unique goals and interests.
• Immediate Application: Gain practical frameworks, personalized coaching, and a supportive community to drive impactful change in your organization and beyond.
• Executive Coaching: Data-driven coaching sessions between modules help you refine your leadership skills, apply classroom learnings to your workplace, and receive valuable feedback for continuous growth.

Learning Outcomes:

By completing AMP, you will:

• Develop a structured approach to learning from experience and generating actionable insights.
• Gain fresh perspectives on your organization, industry, and challenges.
• Cultivate reflective and critical thinking skills and inspire the same in your colleagues.
• Learn to position your organization for growth in a rapidly evolving business environment.
• Strengthen your leadership agility, self-awareness, and relationship-building skills for a competitive edge.
• Balance your responsibilities as a leader representing your organization, profession, and community.

Program Structure:

• Core Sessions: Three week-long sessions focused on different aspects of enterprise leadership.
• Elective Courses: Choose three electives to customize your learning journey, available throughout the year.
• Coaching: Engage in personalized coaching sessions to reinforce classroom learnings and support your leadership growth.

The AMP’s unique structure empowers senior executives to refine their leadership capabilities and create lasting impact within their organizations.

AMP is designed for senior-level executives who have achieved rapid advancement in their careers and are looking for a customized, flexible program to lead their organizations more effectively.

Participants are senior-level executives who hold leadership positions one or two levels away from the CEO in large organizations, or hold C-suite-level positions at midsize companies with significant opportunities for growth. Participants have often been identified as central to the company’s succession plan and serve as members of executive committees, heads of major business units, senior heads of functions, and senior members of the operating group. Positions include senior vice president, vice president, executive director, general manager, managing director, and C-suite.

Proficiency in written and spoken English is required for successful participation in the program.

Upon successful completion of the program, you will be granted Chicago Booth alumni status. With more than 56,000 alumni living and leading in 120 countries, Booth’s MBA alumni community extends around the globe and into every industry and function. You'll join an elite network of senior leaders, as countless Booth alumni are in C-suite and senior leadership roles within their organizations.

In addition to alumni status, you'll receive select Chicago Booth alumni benefits, gaining access to professional growth and lifelong learning opportunities.

Furthermore, you'll earn a Chicago Booth Executive Education certificate upon successful completion of this program. You'll join Booth's Executive Education network, which represents 31,000+ executives across 140 countries. You will also receive a digital badge that can be shared among your social networks, including LinkedIn.

Choose Three Electives

• The Executive Development Program for Private Companies—Five days in Chicago, offered once a year 
• The Executive Program for Prospective CFOs —Five days in Chicago, offered twice a year
• The Executive Finance Program—Five days in Chicago, offered twice a year
• The Accelerated Valuation Program—Five days in Chicago, offered twice a year
• Portfolio Management—Five days in Chicago, London or Hong Kong
• The Chicago Booth Approach to Finance—Workshop — Three days in Chicago, offered once a year
• Digital Innovation Strategy and Management—Five days in Chicago, offered twice a year
• Executive Program in Corporate Strategy—Five days in Chicago, offered three times a year
• Pricing for Profitability—Five days in Chicago, offered twice a year
• Mergers and Acquisitions —Five days in Chicago, offered three times a year
• High-Performance Leadership—Five days In Chicago, offered three times a year
• Executive Decision-Making and Negotiations—Five days in Chicago, offered once a year
• Strategic Organizational Management—Five days in Chicago, offered twice a year 
• Negotiations: Strategies and Processes for Impactful Outcomes—Two days In Hong Kong, offered once a year
• Leading High-Performing Organizations—Two days In Hong Kong, offered once a year

AMP had a profound impact on my professional development. The core courses significantly enhanced my self-awareness as a leader, enabling me to refine my leadership style to be more effective in my interactions with my team, the board, and other industry stakeholders. The program equipped me with a diverse set of frameworks that have been invaluable in navigating complex challenges, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic when our business had to rapidly adapt to a new reality. Additionally, the experience has been instrumental in preparing me to thrive in an environment where AI is poised to play a critical role in shaping market strategies. I highly recommend the AMP to anyone looking to accelerate their growth and become a more impactful leader.

—Luis Masroua, President and CEO at H J Baker & Bro., LLC

Healthgrades recently ranked us #1 in Maryland for Orthopedic Surgery and Spine Surgery. I truly believe we wouldn't have achieved this without my participation in the AMP course. Our center has seen significant growth; it was fully built about a year and a half ago. We successfully merged three practices and are now planning to expand our footprint by another 50%. Additionally, we are recruiting more surgeons, neurologists, and pain specialists into our center.

—P. Justin Tortolani, MD, Director at the Spine Institute University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center and Clinical Professor at the University of Maryland Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. 

My AMP experience has been a personally transformative journey marked by deep self-reflection and introspection. As a result, I have discovered auto-imposed boundaries I was unaware of and practical tools to eliminate or shift them. After this program, I feel better positioned to be a better leader and hopefully a better person.

—Maria Gomez Barea, Chief Operations Officer, Servihabitat 

For me, the AMP program provided three things: The first, and perhaps the most expected, was the curriculum, content, access to academic experts, and healthy discussions around various relevant leadership topics.

The second, and perhaps the most meaningful, was an amazing cohort of global leaders with a vast degree of experience and expertise. These have become both personal and professional relationships that I am confident I will lean into for many, many years.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the program offers a moment of pause and reflection. Harry Davis described this as “time on the balcony,” upon which I was able to access my core self, my alignment with my visible self, and the pursuit of my best self. It was a truly rewarding experience.”

—Blair deVerteuil, President, Life Sciences, ATS Corporation 

What I enjoyed most about the program was how it got me to think about leadership differently. Often with learning, I expect to take away a tool or a learned skill, and this program felt more thought-provoking. I truly feel like I am accessing different parts of my brain when thinking through complex leadership challenges, which makes me a better leader. For that, I will be forever grateful. Thank you! 

—Matt Lyons, Executive Vice President, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.

This program has been life-changing in various ways. It inspired me to keep learning about myself, my role as a leader, and my purpose as a human being. I am impressed with the quality of the content, the faculty, the students, and even the food. I’ve been able to apply many of the things I’ve learned, the "LfE" is a powerful approach to self-development, the best I’ve experienced in my 20+ years as a business leader.

—Eugenio Calderon, Vice President, Illinois Tool Works Inc.

I really liked the group activities that were exercises to engage the whole team. This group worked well at being open and transparent, so I learned a lot from others to help myself. I am excited that I have all of these great resources in the form of a network and classwork to practice as I continue to rise in my company. I would tell a colleague that this is a great course to help reflect on oneself to become a better leader.

—Joe Newhart, Head of Value Added Sales & Marketing, JBS USA Holdings, LLC

Dividing the program into three sections was a great format. The sessions with the most interaction were more meaningful to me. The closeness of our group surprised me the most.

I’m taking many lessons and experimenting with the social/psychological behavioral elements, which I find fascinating. I would recommend this program to any company interested in investing in their senior leaders to create broader perspectives in all aspects of leadership.

—Heidi DeBenedetti, Chief Administrative Officer and Regional President, Gilbane Building Company 

AMP is highly interactive, and you don’t feel lost but part of the class from Day 1. The collegial relationships I made were genuine, with an avid learning spirit shared by all participants. It’s the best interactive and lively program with collaborative group work that offers real solutions to real-life corporate issues. It’s a must for any serious business leader to attend and be a recipient of the many learning processes.

—Terrence Chimanya, Managing Director, Seed Co Limited

The AMP provides the unique opportunity to learn from and collaborate with exceptional colleagues from around the world while gaining invaluable skills and insights about leadership from an incredible lineup of faculty and experts associated with the Chicago Booth School of Business. I am extremely grateful for my time in the program and proud to have participated.

—Nikki Richardson, Head of Corporate Communications, JBS USA Holdings, LLC

As a leader with a technical background and operational responsibility, the new ideas and leadership approaches were very impactful. Putting oneself in the role of a character, playwright, or director changed my perspective and allowed me to be more flexible and effective in my leadership.

—Ryan Palazzo, President, Pipelines, Primoris Energy Services Corporation

I think we all came here to work on our professional skills, but will leave as better human beings. And that’s so valuable because you will not get that elsewhere. We are so lucky to have had the opportunity to meet, observe, and learn from Harry Davis, the epitome of being ‘a good person.’

—Andres Henao, Strategic and Business Development Director, SUPER DE ALIMENTOS SAS

Over the years, I've known and engaged with several undergraduate and graduate students from Chicago Booth; therefore, I just knew the level of rigor and the caliber of the other students would be unparalleled and provide the best experience.

Being able to make connections with fellow participants from all over has been great. I think the social capital piece is a huge part of the AMP experience.

—Kelly Jin, Vice President for Community and National Initiatives at the Knight Foundation.

This program was exactly what I needed to help me transition to my new role. The lessons that I learned from AMP were immediately applicable in terms of developing strategy, evolving company culture, and driving bottom-line results. Not only have I benefited from world-class professors, I've also met an invaluable network of business leaders who have helped me to grow both personally and professionally.

—Elana Schrader, M.D., Vice President, Marketing Blue Cross and Blue Shield Florida

I had the option of attending any of the top-tier business schools, but for me, Chicago Booth was the only choice. Booth has an excellent reputation for providing students with cutting-edge information that can be immediately applied...For anyone who’s interested in remaining on the leading edge of the most current business information, and who wishes to engage in data-driven discussions with proven business leaders, Booth’s Advanced Management Program is a great program to take.

—Bill Mairson, Deputy Principal Associate Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory. 

The faculty are top-notch and really know how to connect with the vast variety of students in each class. They become part of our team over the many months of the program and are always willing to discuss specific issues, connecting the topics with our real-world situations.

—Michael McKelvy, President and CEO of Gilbane Building Company. 

Chief Learning Officer/Executive Sponsor Perspective

Kiewit has a long history of developing our leaders. You have to continuously sharpen the edge of the saw with external perspectives, methods of thinking and approaches to business. When we know that someone is going to have a senior role in our organization, we use the Advanced Management Program as a way to sharpen that saw and give them that external perspective and experience.

The people we've put through the program speak very highly that they're growing, they're being challenged, and ultimately they're able to come back and apply those skills. More importantly, as executive leaders of the business, we can see a difference in the individuals. It forces them to step outside their comfort zone, so you see a higher level of confidence. They have the ability to look at problems differently, in nontraditional ways. They've been able to interact with a different network of people and had the ability to think about work in a setting with little or no risk so that when they come back they've had the time to step out of their normal day-to-day work and can respond to it with a lot more confidence.

—Michael G., Vice President of Human Resources, Kiewit

1. A completed application.

2. A resume or CV.

3. A letter of recommendation from a member of the sponsoring organization's executive management*, describing the applicant's background and motivation for enrolling in the program, as well as why the applicant would benefit from attending.

4. Commitment form signed by the applicant and member of sponsoring organization.

Once your application has been received in full, the Booth team may schedule an interview to discuss your application and candidacy for the program.

We take a holistic approach to admissions, taking into consideration career progression and achievement, commitment to the program, appreciation for Chicago Booth's approach to business education, and ability to contribute to the Chicago Booth community.

*If self-sponsoring, equivalent professional reference.