How You Learn
The Smith Executive MBA brings together accomplished professionals from across Canada, creating a distinctly national learning experience. You’ll learn alongside peers from diverse industries, organizations, and regions, broadening your perspective and building a powerful network that extends across the country.
You Work as a Team. You Should Learn as One Too.
The Smith Executive MBA uses a team-based learning approach to create a highly collaborative and supportive experience, both inside and outside the classroom.
Learning Teams are formed at the beginning of the program, bringing together five to seven participants with diverse professional backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Working closely with your team, you’ll learn from one another, challenge assumptions, and develop the skills to collaborate effectively with different leadership styles and points of view.
Real-Time Connectivity from your Home City
The Smith Executive MBA offers a hybrid delivery model based on your location. In select Canadian markets, you’ll attend classes in person with your peers in a dedicated boardroom learning environment. From other locations, or when work-related travel takes you away from your home boardroom, you can participate virtually from your home or office, staying fully connected to the classroom experience.
Boardroom Learning Centres
Availability: Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver
If you live in one of these cities, most of your class time will be spent in a dedicated Boardroom Learning Centre conveniently located in your home city. Classes are held every other week, all day Friday and Saturday morning, and delivered through Smith’s real-time, interactive learning technology.
Faculty lead classes from purpose-built studios at Queen’s, connecting participants across Canada in a highly interactive learning environment. You’ll engage directly with faculty and classmates in other locations, creating a shared classroom experience that extends across the country.
Virtual Teams
Availability: Anywhere in Canada outside markets with a Smith Boardroom Learning Centre
If you live outside Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, or Vancouver, you’ll join classes from your home or office as part of a virtual learning team with participants from across Canada. You’ll experience the same live classes and engage in real time with faculty, classmates, and other learning teams across the country.
Smith provides the technology, tools, and team coaching needed to support an engaging and collaborative virtual learning experience.
World-Class Remote Learning
Smith School of Business has a long history of innovation in technology-enabled learning, creating a live, highly interactive classroom experience that connects participants across Canada.
Faculty teach from purpose-built broadcast studios at Smith, using advanced technology designed specifically for real-time teaching, discussion, and collaboration. Whether you participate from a Boardroom Learning Centre or remotely from your home or office, you’ll engage directly with faculty and classmates as part of the same connected learning experience.
This flexibility makes it possible to complete your Executive MBA from virtually anywhere in Canada, without stepping away from your career or relocating.
“The program’s emphasis on teamwork and practical, real-world learning continues to shape how I lead today. From leveraging frameworks in finance, marketing, and operations to embracing resilience techniques, the program equipped me for senior leadership. My advice to future cohorts: Be clear on your “why”; you’ll need that clarity for the more challenging times. Be willing to show up authentically; the connections you build and the personal and professional growth you’ll experience are invaluable. Your time in the program is an incredible opportunity to broaden your perspective and truly elevate your leadership.”
On-Site Sessions to Strengthen
Your Learning and Your Network
Immersive in-person sessions provide dedicated opportunities to deepen your learning, strengthen relationships with classmates and faculty, and build connections across your cohort.
Two on-site sessions in Canada (in Kingston and Toronto) combined with two Global Study Tours to Europe and Asia bring the cohort together for focused academic learning, collaboration, and networking, creating important moments of connection throughout the Executive MBA experience.
