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Inaugural 2026 Programs

# Where Leaders Learn Judgment

Executive education for senior leaders facing decisions of consequence in business, technology, and society.

 Strategic Foresight  Operational Vitality  Stewardship Mindset

Why This Matters

## The Senior Leader & CEO Jobs have Changed.

Most executive education teaches leaders to manage better. The Rick Goings Institute helps leaders judge better. Senior executives now operate amid institutional mistrust, technological acceleration, geopolitical tension, and social scrutiny. They must make consequential decisions faster, with less certainty, in conditions that traditional business education prepared them to analyze but not always to lead. The modern CEO must lead through mistrust, not around it. That requires something no curriculum alone can build. The scarce capability now is judgment.

## A Different Kind of Executive Education

RGI is built for sitting and aspiring CEOs, senior executives, board members, entrepreneurs, and enterprise leaders whose responsibilities now exceed the tools they were trained with.

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#### Peer Learning

Serious peer exchange among leaders with real responsibility

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#### Scholar-Practitioner Faculty

Faculty-led learning grounded in business and the liberal arts

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#### AI-Integrated Throughout

Practical work on judgment, communication, AI, and institutional trust

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#### Experiential Education

A setting designed for reflection, candor, and serious conversation

## The Promise

RGI prepares leaders people trust when the easy answers fail.

Built with your team

## Custom Programs

Tailored to your organization's most pressing leadership challenges. Co-designed with your team and delivered on-site, at the Institute, or in hybrid format.

## Ideas That Advance Leadership

 ANNOUNCEMENT  Leadership  Education  Liberal Arts

## Poets&Quants for Executives Features the Rick Goings Institute's Vision for Leadership Education

Poets&Quants for Executives featured the Rick Goings Institute's vision for executive education built around judgment, liberal arts depth, and leadership under technological and institutional pressure.

 RGI Editorial Team · 2 min read

 INTERVIEW  Leadership  Executive Education  Liberal Arts  AI

### Leadership for a More Complex Age: A Conversation with Anil Menon

Anil Menon explains why executive education must return to judgment, pragmatic liberal arts, and deeper leadership thinking in a more volatile business environment.

 RGI Editorial Team · 13 min read

 INTERVIEW  Leadership  Liberal Arts  AI

### Grant Cornwell on Liberal Education, Leadership, and Judgment in the Age of AI

Grant Cornwell reflects on liberal education, institutional leadership, and why judgment matters more in an AI-powered world.

 Charlie Render · 12 min read

 ANNOUNCEMENT  Leadership  Executive Education  AI

### RGI Announces the YPO AI Executive Program

A private October 2026 program for YPO leaders focused on practical AI fluency, agent workflows, executive productivity, and responsible adoption.

 RGI Editorial Team · 2 min read

## Lead with Insight.

Research, applied insights, and event invitations every two weeks. Personalized to the topics you care about.

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