Research
Studying how executive learning evolves, tracking emerging leadership competencies, and identifying gaps between educational supply and organizational demand.
About the Institute
We exist to improve executive education itself.
Executive education has never been more important, or more fragmented. The Institute helps leaders find the right learning experience while helping the field understand what leaders need to learn next.
Our Mission
Bridging educational supply and organizational demand.
Around the world, universities, business schools, consulting firms, professional societies, corporations, and independent experts develop extraordinary programs for today's leaders. Yet executives often struggle to discover the learning experience that best fits their organization's unique challenges.
At the same time, educators have limited visibility into emerging demand. They know what programs they offer; they rarely know what thousands of executives wish existed.
The Institute exists to bridge that gap through research, AI-assisted discovery, and collaboration with educational providers across sectors.
Every inquiry tells a story. Every conversation contributes to a deeper understanding of executive learning.
Executive Director
Meet Our Executive Director
Russ W. Rosenzweig
In 2026, Russ W. Rosenzweig was named Executive Director of the Institute for Executive Education. Russ has more than thirty years of experience as an executive, educator, entrepreneur, and advisor, and has spent his career at the intersection of education, expertise, and commerce.
Russ served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Chicago, where he directed the New Entrepreneurs' Program and advised department chairs through the Provost's Office. He also served as an adjunct faculty member at the IIT Institute of Design, where he taught Business Frameworks.
Russ is the founder and CEO of Round Table Group, which connects professors and other experts with law firms for expert witness engagements. Through that work, he has built relationships across a wide network of professors, deans, provosts, department chairs, professional experts, and institutional leaders.
At the Institute, Russ is focused on helping professionals locate continuing education options more efficiently and helping organizations create custom learning programs when no existing program fully fits the challenge. He holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MBA from the University of Chicago, and is the author of The Scholars' Treasure: The Secret Origins of the Expert Witness Industry.
Public profile sources: YPO AIChE Round Table Group
Our Role
Four ways the Institute advances the field.
Discovery
Helping leaders identify existing programs that fit their objectives, industry, experience level, and organizational context. Not ranking prestige. Matching people to learning.
Innovation
When no existing program adequately addresses a need, convening faculty, practitioners, researchers, and experts to design custom learning experiences.
Community
Providing a neutral forum where educators, researchers, corporate learning leaders, and executive education professionals can identify trends and advance best practices.
Opportunity
Creating paid engagements for professors, coaches, practitioners, speakers, advisors, and domain experts when their expertise is the right fit for a learning or AI-era project.
The Data Mission
Studying the demand for learning.
When the Institute publishes patterns from inquiries, it intends to remove identifying details and report only sufficiently aggregated trends. Those trends can illuminate where executive education is succeeding, where unmet needs remain, and where new educational opportunities may emerge.
- What subjects are leaders asking about that are not yet well served?
- Which industries face the fastest changing educational needs?
- What combinations of expertise are increasingly requested?
- Which leadership capabilities are becoming obsolete?
- Which new competencies are emerging because of AI?
Future Research
State of Executive Learning
The Institute can publish annual reports on executive learning trends, emerging curricula, underserved capabilities, and interdisciplinary combinations that matter next. The goal is not merely to catalog programs, but to help the executive education ecosystem continuously learn from its own learners.
Independent discovery requires visible rules. Read the Institute's methodology, independence, correction, and concierge-data standards.
Custom Programs
Convening expertise when the right program does not yet exist.
Occasionally an organization's educational objectives extend beyond the scope of any existing program. In those cases, the Institute may help convene faculty, practitioners, researchers, and industry experts to design a customized executive learning experience.
Every custom engagement becomes an opportunity to deepen our understanding of how executives learn, how organizations evolve, and how interdisciplinary expertise can be combined to address complex leadership challenges. Those lessons, appropriately generalized and anonymized, help inform future research, improve the AI concierge, identify emerging educational needs, and strengthen executive education for the broader community.