Our participants

HPL is for experienced executives who want to achieve the next level of effectiveness in leading individuals, teams and large groups to their highest level of sustained performance.

Participants generally have a minimum of 10 years’ management experience and come from a wide range of industries, functional backgrounds and geographic regions.

Read the following success story: AEGON executive benefits personally and professionally from HPL

What

Your challenge:

• You need to influence with more impact
• You must be able to manage change and complexity – with conviction and authenticity
• You need to communicate a clear, playing-to-win vision for your organization
• You want to enhance and expand your leadership styles for high impact

Your solution:

High Performance Leadership. Six intensive days at IMD with the focus on you, your leadership styles, your vision, and the impact on your team, organization and customers. Explore your personal leadership patterns, learn how to leverage your strengths and how to focus your mind for success. Discover techniques that successful business leaders, world-class athletes, outstanding musicians and artists rely upon to achieve great results, and how to create and lead highly effective teams. In short, the program focuses on the core skills you need to consistently deliver outstanding performance.

Your take-away: As a participant, you will:

• Discover your leadership roots and foundations, diagnose your leadership tasks, advance your leadership skills, and develop a personal leadership path that ensures inspiration and resilience
• Develop your own leadership style: learn effective dialogue, revitalize your vision, and build on your strengths

How

You will learn through self-awareness and “mind’s eye” exercises, role play, action learning, intense interaction with other participants, working with expert coaches individually and in small groups, Faculty lectures and classroom discussions.

Our Faculty

Our Faculty members are recognized world authorities in their fields. They divide their time between teaching, research and acting as consultants to international companies. They remain on top of the latest management trends.

You can expect timely, innovative learning activities, materials and content in all IMD programs.

In this section, you will find important information on the program fee, application, invoicing, cancellation and transfer. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our program advisors.

Fee

The program fee (which is mentioned on the overview page) includes tuition, teaching materials, and lunch on weekdays. Travel or living expenses are not covered. You must settle your own hotel bills, both when in Lausanne and on off-campus assignments, as well as all dinners and lunches on weekends when applicable. IMD reserves the right to modify the program fee at any time.

Tentative reservation

To make a non-binding reservation, send us a completed tentative reservation form. This carries no obligation and is not a substitute for the formal application form.

Application & invoicing

Your application is forwarded to the program director who will evaluate it to ensure that the program corresponds to your objectives and profile. This can take approximately 1 week.

The information & registration office will notify you of the outcome of your application. If you are accepted, they will send your acceptance letter and invoice fee together by priority mail.

From this point, your enrollment will be considered firm by both you and IMD.

Please pay the program fee within 30 days of the invoice date and no later than the commencement of the program. If you register within 1 month of the start of the program, you must settle the invoice immediately without exception.
Payment can be made by bank transfer or credit card.

Up to six weeks before the program start date, a program coordinator will contact you with information on hotels and pre-program preparation. Please note that IMD reserves enough rooms for each participant on the program.

If accepted, you understand that you must be completely free of professional duties while attending this program and that you must attend all scheduled sessions and activities.

Substitution

A participant can be substituted on the same program session without incurring any fees. The substitute needs to apply and be admitted.

Note: Once you have paid the program tuition fee, if you do not attend another program within 24 months, the program fee will be forfeited.