The EMBA Elective-flex
Lead your legacy with the skills to shape its future
When you grow up around a family business, you learn a lot by osmosis. But earning your place as a leader on your own terms takes more than legacy.
The IMD EMBA with Elective-flex is designed for people stepping into bigger roles in the businesses they know best; where personal ties and professional stakes are closely linked.
- Learn alongside peers who bring fresh perspective to inherited challenges
- Choose elective topics that matter for governance, growth, and succession
- Apply ideas in real time, with support from faculty who understand the dynamics of family firms
- Grow your confidence and credibility as a next-generation leader
This is your time to step forward with intent.
Leading your family business comes with unique challenges
Get the perspective, peer support, and practical tools to help you grow your business and yourself. Here’s what the IMD EMBA Elective-flex helps you access:
What makes the EMBA Elective-flex stand out is how it combines rigorous leadership development with real-world application, international exposure, and a format that works with your life.
Your three-part learning journey, built for direct career impact
In a family business, there’s rarely a clean line between work and life. The Elective-flex format is designed with that in mind, helping you build the strategic skills, confidence, and business acumen to lead with impact, while staying connected to the day-to-day of your role.
You’ll strengthen your leadership, grow your perspective, and apply what you learn directly to your business. Your journey is shaped around your timing, goals, and responsibilities.
Build core strategy, leadership, and finance skills alongside your cohort.
Format: 3 x four-week online modules + 2 x one-week on-campus modules in Lausanne
Locations: Online and Lausanne, Switzerland
Tackle high-stakes business problems, apply theory in real-world settings.
Format: 2 x five-week online modules + 2 x one-week face-to-face modules
Locations: Online, Singapore and a destination of your choice via the Global Network of Advanced Management (GNAM), a collaboration of top business schools that offers exposure to new markets, faculty, and peer groups.
Tailor your path with up to 5 electives in the format, focus, and timing that suits you.
Where can EMBA Elective-flex take you?
“When we challenge ourselves, that’s when we grow. And it’s this growth that I want to take back and apply in my organization.”
IMD: Where your EMBA connects you to real-world opportunity.
At IMD you join a global ecosystem built to actively move careers forward.
From day one, you’ll be learning with and from ambitious, experienced peers across industries and continents. You’ll tap into faculty who advise organizations each day. And you’ll walk away with the tools, clarity and connections to take your next big step with confidence.
Step into leadership on your terms.
Grow the confidence, credibility, and perspective to lead your family business forward , while staying true to its values and ready for what’s next.