TALENT ACADEMY EXECUTIVE PROGRAMME

The Talent Academy Executive Programme is more than just another training; it’s a strategic investment in your career. With a focus on globally recognised standards, our programme is locally delivered, at an affordable price, allowing you and your team to contribute to and consistently align the management of people with the business strategy. It will show you how to define talent management as a source of value creation, understand HR as a strategic activity and not just an administrative support function.

Designed by Connect-CEE to be immediately practical, the programme uses case studies, experiential tools, and group interactions to ensure that learning is both interactive and relevant. Move beyond disconnected tactics, coordinate activities for genuine impact upon performance. The 6th edition will take place between September - November 2026.

The executive programme follows a validated curriculum by The University of Buckingham – Transilvania Executive Education (TEE)’s educational partner, the institution which will issue the graduation certificate upon submitting the assignments included in the curriculum.

This programme brings together a diverse group of professionals whose results depend on the performance of others, ensuring a rich learning environment and valuable practical experience sharing throughout:

• Industry: Any industry
• Mid-level and senior specialists
• HR and Organizational Development Managers
• Entrepreneurs and Business Managers
• Team leaders and Project Coordinators
• Professionals involved in Change Management
• Aspiring leaders looking to expand their competencies in HR and strategic leadership

Strategic Contribution: Get a proven toolkit to develop an integrated approach to improving performance across your organization that is rooted in and sustains your business strategy.

Enhance Skillset for Business Growth: Elevate your capabilities, fostering your potential to contribute significantly to the success of your organization and fast-forward your career.

Overcoming Business Obstacles: Closing the Knowledge Gap: Planning is not strategy. A plan is how to structure the delivery of a strategy to create value that is informed by analytical insights. This programme provides a structured means of learning how to develop a strategy for managing people that sustains broader business strategy.

Application-Driven Learning: Participants will apply their newfound knowledge through short assignments, utilizing their workplace as a case study. This ensures that learning is not just theoretical but directly applicable and provides immediate benefits to the business.

The Talent Academy will start on Wednesday, 24th September, and will take place in Cluj-Napoca. The programme includes:

• 6 face-to-face modules delivered over 3 months
• 2 modules scheduled each month
• Each module will take place on Wednesday and Thursday (2 consecutive days)
• Teaching hours: 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM (including the lunch break)
• Assignments will be submitted after every module
• Graduation diploma from The University of Buckingham upon completion

The learning experience will be based upon an initial explanation of a theory or model, followed by group discussions, and case studies to ensure that participants both understand and can apply knowledge. Over time participants will be encouraged to join up models and ideas across modules to develop a richer and more critical approach to work. After every module, an assignment will be given to the participants. Teaching and the materials available for study will be in English.

Dr. ANDREW TAYLOR - Managing Director @CONNECT CEE, EMBA Programme Director @Transilvania Executive Education

The 6 modules are facilitated by Dr. Andrew Taylor, founder of Connect-CEE and Director of TEE Executive MBA programme. Andrew has 30 years of international business experience, as a head-hunter, management consultant, business school lecturer and learning facilitator. From Hong Kong to Toronto to Singapore his skills are valued by many companies. Most clients associate Andrew with using a charismatic and inspirational style of consulting that is demanding, motivational and effective.

Andrew has several academic publications:

• Making Sense of Digital Disruption - a practical guide for executives
• Rethinking Leadership for a Green World
• Re-Constructing the Global Network Economy: Building Pathways to Resilience in Local Economies
• People, Place and Global Order: Foundations of a Networked Political Economy
• The next book, co-authored with Raluca Bochis, All In: An Executive Guide to Complexity & Digital Disruption, is due out in September 2025.In the last four years, he contributed to the delivery of the TEE Executive MBA modules on Leadership and Organisational Change, People and Perfomance, and Complexity and Strategic Disruption.

In the last four years, he contributed to the delivery of the TEE Executive MBA modules on Leadership and Organisational Change, People and Perfomance, and Complexity and Strategic Disruption.