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MS Finance
Vanderbilt MS Finance

Leadership Development Program

Vanderbilt’s MS Finance program includes leadership and professional development designed to prepare you for a successful career.

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Leadership Development at Owen

Leadership development is designed to complement your academic work and help you develop as a more capable, well-rounded business professional.

The way leadership development is approached in the MS Finance program is highly individualized, with a focus on helping you better understand yourself and how you operate in team and professional environments.

How It Works

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How will you differentiate yourself from your peers? How will you become your boss’ go-to person? Employ a leadership assessment used to develop leaders in more than half of the Fortune 500. Add a competitive advantage to your career by understanding your talents more fully and identifying underdeveloped areas that may need bolstering to achieve your future goals.

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The way we approach leadership development in the MS Finance program.

The Student Experience

Vanderbilt’s MS Finance program includes leadership and professional development designed to prepare you for a successful career.

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    FAQ

    • Q: Is the Leadership Development Program part of the curriculum?

      A: No, LDP is not part of any curriculum at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management. By design, LDP supplements your academic work to help you develop as a more capable, well-rounded business professional. Just like in business—when your company offers you access to resources dedicated to high-potential leaders—your level of initiative, openness to new challenges, and drive for success are demonstrated by how you leverage those resources.

    • Q. If MS Finance LDP is not part of the curriculum, why should I participate?

      A. What you learn about yourself through LDP can shape how you tackle your job search, how you respond to interview questions, how you lead or contribute to high-functioning student and work teams and how you build your career.

    • Q. What is the Hogan Assessment?

      A. Hogan is a personality-based assessment used by more than half of the Fortune 500 companies, including companies like Bank of America, Citi, and HSBC. Hogan was developed to improve workplace performance and is used among companies globally.

    • Q. Who are the executive coaches?

      A. Our executive coaches in the Owen Coaching Network are a carefully vetted, high-performing set of independent coaches whose full-time job is to coach executives, leaders and future leaders in industry. Their primary clients are corporate leaders, and they take on as many Owen student coaching clients as their schedules will allow in a given year. Our coaches are qualified and certified by the International Coach Federation, and the coaches who work with MS Finance students are a specific subset of the larger network. Our MS Finance coaches have extensive experience working as a finance professional, working with finance professionals, and/or coaching finance and early career stage professionals.

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