2002 News Release
Center For Creative Leadership Ranked Among Best In Financial Times Annual Executive Education Survey

Greensboro, N.C. - The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL^®) has been ranked seventh overall among the Top 35 international providers of non-degree executive education programs in the Financial Times annual survey. The Center is the only non-business school ranked among prestigious business schools, including Columbia, Harvard, Duke, University of Pennsylvania's Wharton, IMD (Switzerland) and INSEAD (France). This is the first year CCL has been listed in the Financial Times survey.

In addition to the overall ranking, CCL was ranked 6th of the Top 45 selected in the open-enrollment program category and 12th of the Top 45 in the custom program category. CCL's Custom Program faculty was ranked number one for the quality of teaching and cohesiveness of staff. In the Custom Program training category, CCL shared the number one spot with IMD and Duke Corporate Education.

"We are thrilled with our rankings in the Financial Times survey, " said CCL President John Alexander. "Because our educational mission is to advance the understanding, practice, and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide, it is extremely gratifying to be included in this prestigious international listing. My thanks go out to our alumni and to the organizations surveyed who expressed such high regard for the Center's leadership development programs."

The Financial Times ranking is based on questionnaire responses of executive education course participants or corporate purchasers, and a survey of business schools. The overall ranking is compiled by taking the average rank positions of schools that are in both the open-enrollment and custom rankings. Open-enrollment programs are courses open to all executives; custom programs are tailor-made for companies who wish to put their executives through specific training or development.

The rankings appeared in the Financial Times UK and European editions on May 27 and the U.S. and Asian editions on May 28.

In October, BusinessWeek rated the Center #1 in leadership development for the second consecutive time. The Center was also 13th among the Top 20 providers of non-degree programs for executives in the BusinessWeek report, and again, was the only non-business school ranked among prominent business schools, including Harvard, Michigan and Wharton (Pennsylvania).

About the Center for Creative Leadership
The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL^®) is a top-ranked, global provider of executive education that accelerates strategy and business results by unlocking the leadership potential of individuals and organizations. Founded in 1970 as a nonprofit educational institution focused exclusively on leadership education and research, CCL helps clients worldwide cultivate creative leadership — the capacity to achieve more than imagined by thinking and acting beyond boundaries — through an array of programs, products and other services. Ranked among the world's Top 10 providers of executive education by Bloomberg BusinessWeek and the Financial Times, CCL is headquartered in Greensboro, N.C., with campuses in Colorado Springs, Colo.; San Diego, Calif.; Brussels; Moscow; Singapore; Pune, India and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Its work is supported by 500 faculty members and staff.

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