Diversity and Inclusion at Wharton Executive Education

Executives walking on Penn's Locust Walk Wharton Executive Education seeks to deliver open, inclusive, and accessible means for leadership development and advanced management practice. Our mission is to provide timely, relevant business education to executives and organizations worldwide. An essential element in realizing this mission is our commitment to promoting diversity, equality, and inclusion in our educational programming and through our employment practices. We seek to accomplish this by reflecting on how this ideal is currently realized, and how actualizing this ideal may be strengthened going forward in the future.

Each year over 13,000 executive participants representing over 153 countries attend a Wharton Executive Education program.

Learn more about diversity, inclusion, and policies and practices at the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania.

Here are some of our past participants’ stories:

Everything that was covered in Wharton’s Customer Analytics for Growth program — from understanding baseline decisions about data to different types of analytics — is relevant for my company. When I came back and presented some of what we learned, my boss said the program already paid for itself several times over.

I’ve been through many training programs, but this program was by far the best. The interactions with the professors, all of whom I got to know, and the rest of the class made for a lot of opportunities to learn more, make connections, and network. My company will be sending more people next year."

Crystal Bray, PhD Product Management, Uber Freight
As a Wharton alum taking this class, I almost forgot what it would be like to be back at Wharton. It was a reminder of the quality and style of the faculty, and I realized I missed that environment very much: an environment where you get to access the intellect and rigor of those researchers. I also enjoyed being around the staff members and of course the students who come to take the courses.

So it was great to be surrounded by the kind of place where you can appreciate what academia has achieved over many years, where you can access resources to really understand what’s happening around you, in your own way and on your own terms. I really want that kind of message to be sent out there: for people to understand what it’s like to be back in school once in a while.”

Takashi Yoshizaki Founder, Takashi Yoshizaki Consulting, New York City
Quite simply, it’s life transforming. It allows you — and equips you with the tools — to become the best version of yourself.”

Josephine Nguyen White House Fellow, Executive Office of the President
Inside of a classroom setting where you're challenged with peers… you arrive at a better solution. You learn more from others than you do on your own.”

Ernest D. Haynes III VP & General Manager, Sonoco