Your People Are Your Best Investment
CUSTOM PROGRAMS & GROUP TRAINING
We connect your team to industry leaders and top faculty to enhance your employees’ professional development and growth. We work with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations to empower them to exceed their missions.
Whether you represent a large multi-national corporation or a small not-for-profit organization, our program development team has the experience and expertise to build an impactful program to achieve your desired outcome.
Experience the TEXAS Advantage
The Extended Campus Custom Training team's approach to customized training begins with listening to and understanding your needs. To fulfill those needs and create lasting impact, we employ a highly collaborative process that blends cutting-edge research, industry experts, and a focus on you—your priorities, preferences, and expectations—to achieve your desired outcome.
Schedule a Consultation
If you are ready to transform your team, we are ready to work with you. Whether you already know the specific issues you want to focus on or just want to have an exploratory conversation, we are happy to speak with you.
Liliya Spinazzola
Senior Director, Extended Campus Custom Training
(512) 471-8053
ecct@austin.utexas.edu
Our Proven Process
Expertise Across Industries
We collaborate with organizations of all sizes and across all industries. Whether you aim to sharpen technical capabilities, enhance human-centered skills, or integrate both, UT Austin's Extended Campus draws on expertise from a diverse spectrum of disciplines—including business, engineering, liberal arts and beyond—to boost your team’s skills and advance your organizational goals.
CORPORATE
We have worked with family-owned small businesses and international conglomerates alike to build empowering, employee-centered programs that address real-world problems.
GOVERNMENT
From local government to federal agencies, we can design and deliver programs to meet the specific learning objectives of your agency or department.
MILITARY
To meet the unique needs of military branches, we have developed programs of all sizes and types, focused on active duty service members, reservists and veterans.
NON-PROFIT
Our team works with nonprofit organizations to create programs that enable you to pursue your important work in a more effective and efficient manner.
Explore our course catalog to see the offerings we have ready to bring to your organization today! Not seeing what you're looking for? Ask us about it!
INSTRUCTOR EXPERTISE
Our services include consulting, speaking engagements, professional coaching, training on technical areas of study—all delivered by our highly-skilled instructors with real-world experience. Our services are customized to fit your needs - a series of classes, individual classes, certificate programs, lunch-and- learns and boot camps.
WE WORK WITH THE BEST
What Our Clients Are Saying
See how some of our previous clients describe the value and impact of our customized training experiences.
INSIGHTFUL INNOVATION
Training by: Human Dimensions of Organizations (HDO)
“HDO created a custom program on innovation and culture change for our senior management team. The faculty and staff listened to our needs and delivered a series of engaging courses that provided useful and insightful information on how to instill and reinforce innovative thinking in the workplace.”
- Richard J. Gergasko, President & CEO, Texas Mutual Insurance Company
NURTURING NONPROFITS
Training by: Center for Professional Education (CPE)
“It has been a wonderful experience to share alongside our grantees the opportunities and the challenges of the nonprofit world. We all share a common goal … These classes have created a wonderful network of people that will stand together … We are all able to work as a team and become stronger together.”
- Destiny Rojo, Special Projects Assistant, Peyton Yates Foundation
PRODUCTIVE PARTNERSHIP
Training by: McCombs Texas Executive Education (TEE)
"The relationship we've formed with TEE over the last ten years of this program is truly special. You know us. You know our culture. Your professors understand our issues, and connect on a powerful level with our management team. Anyone can hire outside experts, but our partnership with TEE goes much further than that - you anticipate our needs and bring ideas that really generate forward thinking."
- Jeff Olin, Directory of Leadership & Employee Development, BBVA Compass
Empower Your Team
These sample programs demonstrate our areas of expertise and serve as a starting point for clients considering custom solutions. Our offerings are highly adaptable to suit organizations of all sizes and structures. Whether you're a startup or a large corporation, our expert faculty can tailor content, delivery methods, and exercises to maximize relevance and impact for your team. Let's collaborate to create a program that addresses your unique organizational needs and goals!
Scroll to view our sample programs. If you’re interested in discussing your ideas with us, just click the “Schedule a Consultation” link.
Enhance Team Dynamics
Emotional Intelligence for Organizational Excellence
Themes: Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Team Dynamics, Organizational Culture
This program helps organizations harness the power of emotional intelligence to enhance leadership effectiveness, improve team dynamics, and drive organizational success. Teams will learn to recognize and understand emotions, creating a more positive and productive work environment. The program covers key aspects of emotional intelligence, including self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, and empathy, and how these can be applied to improve communication, decision-making, and conflict resolution.
- Suggested Length: Three to Five Days
- Intended Audience: Cross-functional teams, departments, or entire organizations
Build Collaborative Teams
Conflict Management
Themes: Interpersonal Communication, Conflict Resolution, Team Dynamics
This program equips participants with effective conflict management techniques crucial for maintaining healthy professional relationships. Participants will assess their typical conflict responses and learn strategies to address and overcome interpersonal conflicts. The course covers techniques for getting to the root of conflicts, managing emotions during disagreements, and fostering constructive dialogue to resolve disputes.
- Suggested Length: Half-Day to Two Days
- Intended Audience: Managers, supervisors, facilitators, team leaders, project managers, and team members
Craft Compelling Narratives
Strategic Communication and Storytelling
Themes: Organizational Communication, Brand Storytelling, Internal and External Messaging
Focusing on advanced communication strategies, this program helps organizations craft compelling narratives that drive business objectives and enhance reputation. Participants will learn to tailor messages for different stakeholders, use data and anecdotes effectively, and leverage various communication channels. The program covers techniques for creating memorable presentations, writing persuasive business proposals, and using storytelling to inspire and motivate across the organization.
- Suggested Length: Two to Four Days
- Intended Audience: Marketing and communications teams, leadership teams, cross-departmental groups
Build an Innovation Culture
Creating Space for Innovation: From Busy Work to Breakthrough Thinking
Themes: Innovation, Creativity, Organizational Design, Leadership
Every leader knows their organization needs to innovate, but most struggle to move beyond good intentions. Your teams are stretched thin, creativity gets crowded out by urgent tasks, and "innovation time" feels like a luxury you can't afford. This program changes that reality by tackling the root challenge: making creativity and innovation genuinely achievable, not just aspirational.
Through hands-on practice with safe-to-fail experimentation, participants discover how to build organizational structures that foster breakthrough ideas. The result? Teams that consistently generate innovative solutions, even under pressure, because creativity is part of their workflow.
Suggested Length: Four to Six Days
Intended Audience: Leadership teams, innovation teams, R&D departments, entire organizations seeking to build creative capacity
Accelerate Project Success
Agile Project Management and Business Analysis
Themes: Organizational Agility, Cross-functional Collaboration, Process Improvement
This program combines agile project management principles with business analysis techniques to improve project outcomes and organizational efficiency. Participants will learn to apply agile frameworks, conduct effective stakeholder analysis, and manage project risks in an agile environment. The course also covers requirement gathering, user story creation, and strategies for fostering cross-departmental collaboration.
- Suggested Length: Four to Six Days
- Intended Audience: Project teams, IT departments, cross-functional groups
Lead Digital Transformation
AI for Decision Makers
Themes: Artificial Intelligence, Strategic Leadership, Technology Implementation, Organizational Change
This program equips business leaders with essential frameworks for evaluating and implementing AI solutions in their organizations. Participants will learn to create an "AI-ready" culture, develop strategic integration plans, and maintain ethical considerations throughout the implementation process. The program covers AI evaluation frameworks, implementation strategies, and techniques for fostering innovation while managing organizational change. Through UT Austin's "AI Forward - AI Responsible" approach, leaders will develop the skills needed to drive more effective decision-making and create sustainable competitive advantages.
- Suggested Length: Two to Four Days
- Intended Audience: Business leaders, executive teams, decision-makers across departments, technology strategy teams
Thrive Through Disruption
Strategic Resilience: Leading Organizations Through Change and Uncertainty
Themes: Organizational Resilience, Change Management, Strategic Leadership, Adaptive Culture
This program equips leaders with evidence-based strategies to shift their organizations from change-resistant to change-ready. Participants will develop the skills to anticipate disruption, lead through uncertainty, and leverage change as a competitive advantage.
Through a blend of academic research and practical application, leaders will learn to build organizational systems that not only withstand disruption but thrive during change. The program covers three essential dimensions of organizational resilience: strategic foresight, human-centered change management, and adaptable structures.
- Suggested Length: Three to Five Days
- Intended Audience: Executive teams, departmental leaders, change management professionals, organizational development specialists
Bridge Generational Gaps
The Generational Advantage: Building Bridges, Not Walls
Themes: Generational Diversity, Leadership, Communication, Emotional Intelligence
Tired of hearing about "generational challenges" in your workplace? While most organizations struggle to manage generational friction, the strongest teams have learned to leverage the unique strengths that each generation brings to the table.
Through evidence-based strategies and practical communication tools, this program will help your organization learn how to build teams that leverage generational differences to drive innovation and creative solutions. The outcome? Teams that work better together precisely because they span generations, not in spite of it.
- Suggested Length: Two to Four Days
- Intended Audience: HR teams, leadership groups, managers, entire organizations, cross-functional teams
