The UK Design Skills Alliance has six free places for senior executives in the design industry on a pilot programme developed by Ashridge, the UK’s top business school for tailored executive education, in partnership with the Cultural Leadership Programme.

The programme has been designed to help leaders in the creative industries cope with a changing marketplace and an uncertain economic climate by working through contemporary business leadership challenges.

You’ll have the chance to hear the latest thinking in leading innovation and change, and get the perspectives of high-profile speakers working both within and outside the creative industries. You’ll be mixing with senior executives within the music and advertising industries, and given access to the same quality of support as counterparts in other areas of business.

The programme starts in March 2009 with an application deadline of 15 January 2009. For more info go to www.ukdesignskills.com .