ULI Partners with Maastricht University and MIT on Leadership Course for Real Estate

Program combines in-depth real estate value chain expertise with key leadership skills.

ULI has announced a new collaboration with Maastricht University Center for Real Estate and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Real Estate on the recently launched Global Real Estate Leaders program, a world-class education program aimed at developing the next generation of industry leaders.

The program offers executives with a minimum of ten year’s industry experience of real estate, asset management, finance, or the built environment the opportunity to earn a professional education certificate covering the key skills and knowledge required to lead an active real estate organization, including nationally and globally.

Leading academics and real estate industry leaders will provide in-depth insights into investment, and leadership and management skills, and address current and future industry challenges such as sustainability and climate risk, property technology, inflation, increased interest rates, talent shortages, and technological change. The leadership skills addressed by the program include negotiation, entrepreneurship, high-performing team design and management, diversity and inclusion, ethics, and cultural leadership and influencing.

Lisette van Doorn, CEO of ULI Europe, comments, “The Global Real Estate Leaders program prepares executives for the next stages of their careers, focusing on both the essential leadership skills they need and the challenges that they may face going forward. By bringing together a diverse group of industry executives, the programme emphasises the need for different disciplines to learn from each other and collaborate more closely and and more effectively to deal with society’s biggest challenges and developments, such as demographics, climate change and the use of new technologies.”

“This approach is very closely aligned with how we work at ULI where members from all kinds of backgrounds come together and share ideas and knowledge. I am really delighted that Urban Land Institute is collaborating with Maastricht University and MIT on this important program.”

Nils Kok, Professor Real Estate Finance at Maastricht University, comments, “The Global Real Estate Leaders programme offers mid-career real estate professionals the knowledge, skills, and networking opportunities required to become leaders in the real estate industry. The collaboration with ULI Europe ensures that participants receive insights into current trends and pressing global issues in the real estate industry from one of the leading think tanks in the field. We are very excited about the support from ULI and look forward to welcome members of the ULI network as participants in the program.”

The program consists of four one-week modules held throughout 2024 and 2025, with each session located either in Maastricht or Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the first taking place from April 7 at Maastricht University. Prospective participants can apply for individual modules or the full program.

As part of the collaboration with ULI Europe, all ULI members will receive a 20% discount on the cost of the Global Real Estate Leaders program.

The application deadline for the first module is March 15, 2024. For further information on fees, timelines, teaching team and course content visit https://www.globalrealestateleaders.com/ or contact the admissions team at [email protected].