The Ogilvie Business School
Business education taught by people who've built businesses.
The Ogilvie Business School is an independent business school based in Dundee, Scotland. We teach you how to build and scale your own businesses, fast-track your career, and strengthen your leadership capability.
We provide specialist professional qualifications, executive education, leadership mentoring, and strategic advice, along with our flagship entrepreneur programme, where every student builds, launches, and graduates with their own business.
Every programme is designed for immediate real-world application and delivered by experienced and expert business professionals.
A Different Approach
Most business schools teach people about business.
The Ogilvie Business School helps people build real businesses.
Our specialist professional qualifications are designed around practical application. We guide participants through creating and running their own real business, or to develop the commercial knowledge, confidence, and leadership capability needed to accelerate careers and make an immediate impact within existing organisations.
Our executive education programmes help business owners, managers and senior leaders strengthen their commercial capability through immersive learning delivered by people who have built organisations, led transformations and handled challenging business situations.
Our entrepreneur programme offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience building and running businesses, and to graduate with your own business already operating.
Our Business Education
Professional Qualifications
Year-long specialist programmes that combine practical business education with real-world application, helping participants develop the skills and confidence to build their own businesses, transition careers and lead organisations.
Duration: One academic year
Executive Education
Immersive programmes for executives, business owners and leadership teams seeking fresh thinking, experienced knowledge, practical tools and commercial insight. These programmes are taught by experts. CPD certifications provided.
Duration: Two Consecutive Days
Entrepreneur Programme
Our flagship four-year undergraduate programme where every student runs real businesses from the outset, then builds and launches their own enterprise, whilst learning from experienced business leaders and industry specialists.
Duration: Four academic years
Business education should change the way you think.
Knowledge tells you what to do. Experience teaches you when, why and how to do it.
That's why every Ogilvie Business School programme combines practical business experience with structured learning, helping you develop the commercial judgement, confidence and leadership capability that only comes through applying ideas in the real world.
Professional Qualifications 2026/27
Executive Education 2026/27
Executive Mentoring & Support
Practical guidance from expert leaders.
Alongside the Ogilvie Business School education programmes, we offer a limited number of executive mentoring and strategic advisory sessions each month.
Designed for founders, business owners and leadership teams, these confidential sessions provide practical commercial insight, independent thinking and experienced support when you need it most.
Delivered through online video conferencing, choose from a complimentary introduction call, one-to-one executive mentoring or a strategic advisory session for up to three participants.
Decades of Experience
The Ogilvie Business School was founded on one simple belief: Business should be taught by people who've built real businesses.
After more than 30 years of leading, growing and transforming organisations across the UK and internationally, Heather Ogilvie developed a clear vision for a different kind of business education.
One where practical experience sits alongside theory, commercial judgement is developed through real-world application, and learning is shaped by people who have built businesses, led organisations, and navigated complex decisions.
The Ogilvie Business School brings together experienced entrepreneurs, leading executives, and industry specialists to help participants develop the confidence, capability and commercial thinking needed to succeed in today's business world.
Business Insights
Explore Education
Professional Qualifications
Year-long specialist programmes that combine practical business education with real-world application, helping participants develop the skills and confidence to build their own businesses, transition careers and lead organisations.
Duration: One academic year
Executive Education
Immersive programmes for executives, business owners and leadership teams seeking fresh thinking, experienced knowledge, practical tools and commercial insight. These programmes are taught by experts. CPD certifications provided.
Duration: Two Consecutive Days
Entrepreneur Programme
Our flagship four-year undergraduate programme where every student runs real businesses from the outset, then builds and launches their own enterprise, whilst learning from experienced business leaders and industry specialists.
Duration: Four academic years
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