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QuantumShift

Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI

Accelerate growth and expand leadership networks

Drive your business to the next level with this invitation-only learning and networking collaboration between KPMG Private Enterprise and the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Sharpen your leadership skills, optimize your team’s performance, and build lasting relationships with a select group of high-performing CEOs, founders, and leaders like you. 

What Is QuantumShift?

QuantumShift is an exclusive four-day peer-to-peer learning experience for the top decision-makers of fast-growing private companies.

  • Learn from and work with the top professors from the University of Michigan’s world renowned Stephen M. Ross School of Business, consistently ranked one of the top business schools in the world by the Financial Times, Princeton Review and U.S. News & World Report
  • Engage and collaborate with other leading CEOs from around the country, establishing relationships that will last a lifetime
  • Gain new knowledge and perspectives that will help you transform and grow your business
  • Step out of your day-to-day business environment, challenge your assumptions and embrace new ideas

The opportunity to reflect and learn with my peer group was invaluable. We were able to share our successes and failures and leverage each other's experiences. It is an opportunity that many in our position do not often receive.

Geoff Bloss

CEO, BCM One

Who Will Be Your Peers?

It doesn’t have to be lonely at the top. QuantumShift brings together the best and brightest founders, entrepreneurs, and CEOs of high-growth companies.

Four days that impact a lifetime
  • Open to private U.S. company founders, owners, and/or CEOs who are the key decision makers in a growth business and whose personal net worths are substantially tied to their companies
  • Participating companies will be in growth mode, with a clear objective of additional growth
  • Your peers will be high-performing entrepreneurs committed to leading their business to the next level of success and eager to develop with other similar leaders
  • Participants should be willing to join the QuantumShift alumni network to form part of a longer-term peer community

Peer Alumni Network

QuantumShift doesn’t end when the four days are up. It’s an entry into an exceptional professional network of influential peers who can support you on your upward journey.

QuantumShift Benefits

You’ve built your springboard for success—now learn how to get the most out of it. QuantumShift is tailor made for leaders of companies that have achieved a certain scale and are looking to accelerate and optimize for future growth.

Transform

Transform

Transform your team and grow your business by working with the top professors from the world-renowned Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Connect

Connect

Connect with other leaders of growth companies from around the country, establishing relationships with genuine peers that will last a lifetime through our alumni network. Networking events include dinner at Michigan Stadium and more.

Discuss

Discuss

Discuss issues, challenges, and solutions around leadership, strategy, innovation, and culture that only someone in a similar decision-making position can fully appreciate.

Gain

Gain

Gain a fresh perspective together with other problem-solving CEOs from across the US.

Carving a week out of your schedule when you are running a company is no easy task for a CEO. I can attest QuantumShift was quite worth the investment.

Tim Wallace

CEO, iPipeline

How Do I Apply?

QuantumShift will accept 25 of America’s top entrepreneurs for the class of 2024.

  • March 22: Deadline to complete the online application
  • April 5: The admissions committee reviews all applications and notifies candidates
  • June 10-14: Join us for QuantumShift
  • Subsidized tuition: The cost of the program is $4,000, including all materials, meals, and accommodations but not travel expenses. The value of the program is over $10,000, which is subsidized by Michigan Ross and KPMG Private Enterprise as a benefit to participants.
    Similar executive development programs can cost upwards of $50,000.

Are you ready to step out of your comfort zone, push your boundaries and shift your mindset?

Join the QuantumShift class of 2024.

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KPMG Private Enterprise & University of Michigan

You know KPMG, but you might not know KPMG Private Enterprise. We’re dedicated to working with businesses like yours. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, family business, or a fast-growing company, we understand what is important to you. By providing industry perspectives and proactive guidance, our advisers help private companies achieve their strategic objectives throughout each stage of the business life cycle. Through the QuantumShift program, KPMG Private Enterprise lends real life application to the latest academic thinking.

The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan is a vibrant and distinctive learning community grounded in the principle that business can be an extraordinary vehicle for positive change. Through thought and action, members of the Ross community drive change and innovation that improves business and society. Housed within Michigan Ross, the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies is a leading center for entrepreneurial thought leadership and engagement.

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