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Consortia Membership

Learn from top business leaders from around the world - in one classroom setting.

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2012 Dates: April 15-26 | June 3-14 | October 7-18 | November 4-15

Consortia Membership

International Consortia Partner Organizations

All Thunderbird International Consortia (TIC) member firms operate globally or have global competitors. Many want to expose their management teams to functional business areas outside their own specialties. Others want to sharpen the management, leadership and people skills of their leaders. Some come to the program with a specific company challenge to solve. What they all have in common, though, is an understanding of the benefits of TIC membership - to the organization and to the individual participating managers.

Recognizing that Thunderbird's Consortia program offers a global environment for information and idea exchange, a select group of individuals from each partner organization participates on a curricular advisory board with Thunderbird faculty and staff, helping to define the curriculum of each session to ensure their individual organizational challenges are addressed.

Participating consortia companies:

  • Cisco
  • Delphi Corp.
  • Dow Agro Sciences LLC
  • The Dow Chemical Co.
  • Eaton Corporation
  • Fender
  • Henkel
  • Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc.
  • McDonald’s Corp.
  • ACS, a Xerox Company
  • Parker Hannifin Corp.
  • Solar Turbines Inc.
  • Standard Bank (South Africa)
  • Vitro Corporativo S.S. de C.V.(Mexico)
  • SK Academy (Korea)
  • Fluor Corp.
  • State Farm Insurance Co.
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Top-tier Executive Participants

Exclusive, Hand-picked Participants

Unlike traditional executive “open enrollment” programs that are open to virtually all applicants with varying levels of experience, Thunderbird International Consortia members choose participant "teams" with great care and consideration. Through an internal nominating process, experienced executives are chosen to participate in the corsortium - and those given the opportunity are expected to be active participants during the two-week program, and return with applicable, solid solutions for their sponsoring organizations.

Individuals who are selected from within their companies:

  • Are recognized by management as high-potential and have strong performance records
  • Represent most regions of the world (50 percent of whom are non-U.S.)
  • Hold positions such as country manager, global marketing manager, business unit head, general manager, worldwide product manager, staff functional head, manager of regional support center, or vice president

Benefits of Membership

Benefits of Membership

Company Benefits

  • Accelerate positive change. Send waves of cross-functional teams to Thunderbird throughout the year, refreshing your company’s global business knowledge base.
  • Solve real corporate issues. Pre-assign an internal project to your participating managers that they can address during the program and continue to refine afterwards, using their new skills and knowledge.
  • Save money. Compared to the cost of custom educational programs, TIC enables participating firms to combine resources as they gain global business expertise.
  • Broaden your managers' global mindsets and skill sets. By partnering with Thunderbird’s expert faculty and executives from other high-caliber multinational corporations, TIC participants expand their intellectual and tactical skills for competing across cultures and countries.
  • Choose how you learn. TIC learning is not a “one-size-fulfills-all” approach. That’s why participating companies choose how the curriculum will fit within their learning and development frameworks.

Individual Participant Benefits

  • Learn from business leaders. Identify best practices, new ideas and global strategies from Thunderbird’s premier global faculty and business leaders from firms around the world.
  • Experience new industries, functions. Unlike typical corporate custom programs that are designed for a single industry and are targeted to internal company managers in specific functions, TIC is designed to accelerate learning by exposing participants to various functions across industries and companies.
  • Participate in practical discussions. Small discussion groups include a strategic mix of participants from different companies, allowing managers to talk freely and openly about their challenges as they brainstorm for solutions.
  • Apply new knowledge to your job. Develop your own action plan as you work alongside leadership faculty who will help you apply new knowledge to your specific job. Participate in regularly scheduled group discussions that help you apply lessons learned to your organization, as well.
  • Experience the “truly global" uniqueness of Thunderbird. Study with the most geographically diverse participants and faculty in executive education.

Contact Us

Jen Roberts
Client Director, Executive Education Programs
jen.roberts@thunderbird.edu
Tel: +1 602 978-7354
Fax: +1 602 439-4851

Thunderbird School of Global Management
1 Global Place
Glendale, AZ 85306

Thunderbird School of Global Management is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. Each TIC participant receives a maximum of 46.5 CPE after completing the TIC program.