Certified Expert in Business Development

The Certified Expert in Business Development is a flexible blended learning management certificate programme dispensing great opportunity for professionals to develop their key Business Development and Leadership skills to excel in their executive positions while pursuing their career.

A prerequisite to finish the Certified Expert in Business Development is to attend this one week programmes at the Frankfurt School campus.

• Enhance essential Business Development and Communication skills
• Quality materials with an up-to-date learning platform and environment 
• Flexibility in time and learning while working
• Competency Skills Assessment and Personal Development Plan
• Personal and professional networking opportunities
• Be awarded prestigious “Certified Expert in Business Development” 
• Earn 10 ECTS credit points from top-ranked German business school with triple crown accreditation

Learn how to identify, develop and implement growth opportunities

Business Development is about identifying, developing and implementing growth opportunities in an organization. People who partake in Business Development may come from various professional backgrounds working in different areas or departments of an organization. But what they all have in common is their entrepreneurial task or function of identifying market opportunities, designing new products or businesses and bringing them successfully to the market. Therefore Business Development may be considered as cross functional. It requires key skills from Strategy and Business Design, Innovation and Product Development, Market and Customer Development as well as from Leadership, Finance and Operations.

The Certified Expert in Business Development is designed for middle and senior managers from banks and corporates or other organizations as well as entrepreneurs who seek to enhance their Business Development and Leadership skills in a time efficient manner. For more information contact us

Make Certified Expert in Business Development programme suit your company’s Management Development strategy. This programme can be customized to your company’s needs and requirements. Candidates can select a company specific topic as their final assignment. In addition; if you have a bigger group of candidates, we can also customize the in-class part in terms of content and duration as well as the final assignment.

This course will enhance your knowledge in the following SDGs. The SWA offers professional and executive courses dedicated to the advancement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).