Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London

Modular Executive MBA

From the beginning of the Modular Executive MBA, the Careers and Professional Development team will be on hand to support you throughout your journey at Bayes. Through one-to-one coaching, career management workshops and the Achieving Your Potential weekend, we will work with you to test your capabilities and bring your goals within reach.

Our team brings invaluable expertise to your journey, drawing from their real-world experience in diverse commercial backgrounds such as recruitment, occupational psychology, coaching, and leadership across various industries.

Our support is tailored to your individual needs and career aspirations. Through our self-assessment sessions, we help you evaluate your strengths, motivations, and values, aligning them with your professional development objectives.

Based on this assessment and your interests, you can select from a variety of workshops, sector overviews, online resources, and coaching sessions to tailor your experience and develop key skills. Additionally, you can meet with our career coaches and industry specialists to refine your future career plans.

Career management workshops

Our wide range of workshops forms the backbone of any serious career strategy. Each workshop provides opportunities to develop invaluable employability skills in a highly focused and professional environment.

Some of the career management workshops you can expect on the Modular Executive MBA course include:

Increasing executive presence

Positive executive presence is essential for success. As the key to thriving in your career, fostering teamwork and driving business growth, it’s a quality that will set you apart. In this session, you will unlock the secrets to standing out and making a lasting impression in any professional setting. You will learn to elevate your personal impact and master the art of managing your impressions and relationships through effective communication with words, voice and body. Delving into strategies for navigating status and power dynamics will provide experience in implementing all you have learned.

Achieving Your Potential programme

Our off-campus programme allows you to escape the typical work or study environment and explore the ‘Science of Happiness at Work’, discovering strategies to boost your performance and productivity. It will enable you to align your energy, strengths and motivations with your career aspirations while gaining insights into defining your purpose, understanding your calling and ‘job crafting’. Reflecting on past experiences, and considering where you want to be and how to manage the journey, will equip you with essential insights into potential career transitions.

Deploying strengths for career and team success

Achieving your career goals takes focus, patience and the skilful use of your natural resources. This workshop will enable you to build productive habits and maximise personal performance. Learning to focus on adopting a more positive, solutions-based mindset will help you learn faster, and feel more engaged and energised at work. You will also develop a deeper understanding of the attributes of your project team, learning how to effectively use team strengths while mitigating potential risks.

Advanced presentation skills

Excellent communication skills lie at the heart of effective teamwork and leadership. During this workshop, you will explore a range of techniques designed to increase your confidence and elevate your presentation skills. Having explored the psychology of ‘profiling’ an audience and methods to maximise attention, you will receive personalised voice coaching and develop an understanding of key messaging concepts such as content cascade, burden of proof, use of advocacy, and subliminal messaging to enhance persuasion.

Leading with emotional intelligence

Positive emotion produces amazing results in the workplace and emotionally intelligent leaders know how to get the best out of others, even in the toughest situations. The challenge is to understand the difference between reaction and response. This session will develop your emotional literacy, agility and ability to cope with demanding people and contexts. You will learn to understand and analyse components of emotional intelligence such as self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills.

A high-touch programme offering an immersive experience focused on blended and experiential learning. The modular format is delivered through a distinct combination of online preparation, in-person teaching and live synchronous sessions.

• The online materials are designed to prepare you for your in-class teaching. You can set your own pace and allow you to work flexibly so you are ready for your on-campus sessions.
• On-campus teaching focuses on a combination of theory, class-based discussions, case studies and group work. It is also an opportunity to develop your connections and network with your and other cohorts.
• The live synchronous sessions are designed to give you an additional touchpoint with faculty and your classmates while you work on coursework with your study group.

The Executive MBA curriculum is current and reflective of today’s rapidly changing technological landscape. It’s designed to build on your current expertise, to develop new skills in management and core business principles, empowering you to lead with confidence and make informed, strategic decisions.

We place a strong emphasis on enhancing self-awareness and professional skills needed for senior leadership through workshops and one-to-one support. Throughout the two years, you will benefit from our careers and professional development curriculum specially tailored for seasoned executives and professionals.

Course objectives

Bayes Executive MBA will equip you with advanced leadership skills, strategic thinking, and a global perspective, enabling you to navigate complex business challenges and drive meaningful immediate impact in your organisation.

Apply new theories, frameworks, and skills to your current role immediately and witness the direct impact your learning can have on both your organisation and the broader business landscape. The programme will help you understand the bigger picture and drive impactful change.

Engaging in continuous learning and development through career-enhancing opportunities on the Executive MBA will prepare you with the skills and knowledge needed to advance professionally, stay competitive, lead effectively, and navigate complex business environments.

Offered in a three-day (Friday – Sunday) monthly format that allows you to balance your career. personal commitments and studies.

If this format isn’t right for you, why not consider the evening format? Delivered primarily in person, allowing you to take advantage of London's spirit of innovation and creativity.

Pre-course

January: Pre-programme activities

Once you have accepted your offer this is the first step that officially makes you part of the Bayes Business School Community.

Pre-study modules covering mathematics and statistics will be available to you prior to the start of the programme. This ensures all students have the basic knowledge and skills required for the start of the program.

There is also a range of pre-programme activities for you to complete including pre-reading and other useful information to help you prepare for student life.

March: Induction

You want to make the most of every moment of your Modular Executive MBA. We have designed induction to fit over a long weekend, similar to how you will be taught over the next year.

You will spend the time getting to know your fellow classmates and engaging in team-building activities. You will meet your Course Director, and faculty and start to get to grips with the case method – a core learning tool in your Modular Executive MBA. You will also focus on careers and professional development activities such as increasing your executive presence.

Induction sets you up for the academic challenges that lie ahead and ensures that you and your classmates have a strong and shared knowledge base.

Career accelerator course

The online career accelerator course provides early access to insights and resources, preparing you to maximise the careers and professional development curriculum once you start the programme.

Core modules

• April: Organisational Behaviour
• April: Strategic Leadership
• May: Analytics for Business
• April: Accounting & Financial Reporting
• June: Financial Markets and Instruments
• June: Digital Technologies & Business Innovation
• October: Human Resource Management
• October: Business Economics
• November: Corporate Finance
• November: Corporate Strategy
• December / Jan: Principles of Marketing
• December / Jan: New Venture Creation
• March: Operations Management
• March: Corporate Social Responsibility
• April / March: Leadership and Performance

International consultancy week

This module is the integrating element of the Modular Executive MBA core teaching, bringing together the theoretical elements of the programme so far in a practical experience, enabling you to draw out the principles from the core modules. You will be asked to apply your classroom learning to some very demanding problems often in a challenging business consultancy environment.

Consultancy is undertaken to bring added value to the client and the temporary nature of the field trip projects stands in contrast with classroom teaching and as such requires the development of distinct research skills, organisation and interpersonal skills.

The projects typically focus on developing solutions for business development strategies, marketing, HR, finance or operational challenges. Throughout the data collection and analysis stages you will have the opportunity to test your MBA learning in the real world by applying it to real business problems as well as reflect on your own skills as a consultant, leader and team player in a new market, unfamiliar industry and culture.

You have one week to work with the company face-to-face and then a further four weeks to provide a full set of recommendations to the company which is assessed.

Electives

You can choose to study a wide range of electives or focus on a concentration in one specific area. These modules are offered from across our Executive and Full-time MBA portfolio of classes, some electives will run in the evenings and over weekends as well as during the day.

This list of electives is only an indication of the range of subjects on offer and is subject to change. Note that international electives are subject to a specific allocation process, which will be explained during the programme.

You can choose to study a wide range of electives or focus on a concentration in one specific area.

These modules are offered from across our Executive and Full-time MBA portfolio of classes, some electives will run in the evenings and over weekends as well as during the day.

This list of electives is only an indication of the range of subjects on offer and is subject to change. Note that international electives are subject to a specific allocation process, which will be explained during the programme.

Elective modules

• Advanced Analytics for Business
• Leading Strategy Execution
• Advanced Corporate Finance
• Advanced Corporate Strategy for a Globalising World
• Applied Corporate Finance
• Applied Financial Analysis for Managers & Investors
• Advanced Strategy and Business Models
• Behavioural Finance
• Branding & Advertising
• Capturing Value from Technological Innovation
• Bayes Entrepreneurship Fund Project
• Competitive Edge with Digital Technologies
• Consulting to Management
• Design Thinking
• Digital Marketing and Social Media
• FinTech’s Disruption or Synthesis
• Forecasting
• Innovation & Entrepreneurship
• International Financial Management
• Intrapreneurship
• Investment Strategy & Practice
• Leading Al and Industry 4.0
• Leading Digital Transformations
• Leading in Challenging Situations
• Leadership
• Managerial Decision Making
• Managing Strategic Change
• Managing Value Creation
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• The New Strategic Landscape
• New Venture Creation
• Private Equity
• Storytelling in Business
• Strategies of Fast Track Venturing
• Succeeding in Professional & Financial Services
• Supply Chain, Finance and Risk
• The Wealth Management Industry

International electives

Please note that the destination and content of international electives are indicative, based on what has previously run and are subject to change. Some additional costs are required to cover items such as flights and any travel visas.

• The Netherlands - Sustainability: Business Challenges and Opportunities
• South Korea - Innovation and Technology
• UAE - International Study Tour
• UK - The London Symposium
• Italy - Strategic Marketing in Action: Exploring Location Brands
• USA - Silicon Valley - Digital Innovation in Action

Business Mastery Project

During the second year, you will draw on the many elements of the programme in the Business Mastery Project, a major piece of self-managed work. It is an opportunity to demonstrate expertise and a skill set gained during the programme and transition into the next stage of your career.

It can be presented in multiple ways; a research project on your organisation; addressing a strategic problem for a specific industry; or a business plan. All geared towards you taking the next positive step in your career path, you tap into the Bayes Business expertise from our faculty over 9-12 months and deliver an industry-specific project.