The NC State Think and Do mentality guides our approach: tailoring professional development experiences to your strategic objectives while delivering tangible results for your organization.
Watch Brad Geiger, Head of Talent Development at Martin Marietta, share how their partnership with NC State Executive Education transformed their talent strategy.
Tailored Learning and Development
Our four-step process transforms programs into targeted learning experiences that address your organization’s unique challenges while delivering measurable business impact.

Discover: Understand Your Objectives
We begin by exploring your organization’s challenges, strategic priorities, and learning goals to identify specific outcomes you want to achieve and select the most relevant program content as a starting point.
Design: Customize the Experience
Our team tailors program content to your unique context, culture, and goals, ensuring relevance and maximum impact for your specific organizational needs.
Deliver: Flexible Delivery Options
Choose from multiple delivery formats—online, in-person, at your location, on our campus, or at another venue—to best suit your team’s preferences and schedule requirements.
Develop: Measure Impact and Refine
After program completion, we evaluate effectiveness against your objectives, gathering feedback to continuously enhance the learning experience and ensure lasting value for your investment.
Strategic Capability Building
Our portfolio of customizable programs spans six critical areas of organizational development, each designed to build specific capabilities that drive performance and innovation.
The NC State Difference
Watch Professor Brad Kirkman explain how NC State’s “Think and Do” approach transforms executive education through hands-on simulations and experiential learning that you can immediately apply in your career.
“We take Think and Do and put it to practice and bring it to life in all our Executive Education programs.”
—Brad Kirkman, General (Ret.) H. Hugh Shelton Distinguished Professor of Leadership
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