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In spite of the fact that research suggests that managers use intuition when makingdecisions and solving problems, management education and development has largelyignored or shied away from including intuition in its curriculum. There are few, if any,reported or reported-and-evaluated attempts at the development of managers’ intuitiveawareness either in business school or in-company programs. This paper offers a justification for the inclusion of intuition in management education and goes on to report the design, implementation and evaluation of a program for the development of managers’intuitive awareness. The program used a combination of training and extended practiceemploying a variety of innovative experiential techniques. The program was evaluated bymeans of content analyses of the logs which participants compiled during the practice phase. Participants reported positively on the program and documented effects in anumber of areas related to the context for intuition (inner/outer), the intuitive process(time, place and pace) and its outcomes (sense of perspective; self-confidence; inter- and intra-personal sensitivity; meta-cognition). The implications for the further application of these approaches in management education and development, and some personalreflections on their use, are discussed