Our mission

The IMD CEO Learning Center aims to explore, understand and develop the capacity for learning among CEOs and senior executives. The Center creates a safe space for leaders to discover deeper learnings from their experiences in a confidential community of peers. Its mission is to help CEOs transform, both their organizations and themselves.

"In today's society of rapid transformation, CEOs and senior executives have to shape and adapt their own leadership. Transformation is no longer a choice and leadership is the enabler. Leaders who think learning is something other people do are destined to repeat history, not shape it."

Ben Bryant
Director

Reflections

Competence is critical for great leadership but not sufficient. Great leaders connect and empower. This requires a high level of self-awareness and constant learning.

Damien O'Brien

Chairman
Egon Zehnder Ltd.
Switzerland

Damien O'Brien

Chairman
Egon Zehnder Ltd.
Switzerland

Competence is critical for great leadership but not sufficient. Great leaders connect and empower. This requires a high level of self-awareness and constant learning.

A CEO can learn – and should learn, because every day we have to be able to develop ourselves as human beings and as leaders. The problem is that our daily lives are so filled with long agendas, difficult tasks, and the challenge of keeping your distance and acting as if you have all the answers. At the end of the day, that prohibits you from learning. if you don’t think about this constantly, if you don’t concentrate on it, then you can go through a long time in your job as CEO without actually learning anything.

Hrund Rudolfsdottir

Chief Executive Officer
Veritas
Iceland

Hrund Rudolfsdottir

Chief Executive Officer
Veritas
Iceland

The learning CEO and leader is absolutely essential to the long-term survival of any organization.

Werner Geissler

Operating Partner
Advent International Corporation
United States

Retired Vice Chairman
The Procter & Gamble Company

Werner Geissler

Operating Partner
Advent International Corporation
United States

Retired Vice Chairman
The Procter & Gamble Company

The learning CEO and leader is absolutely essential to the long-term survival of any organization.

IMD CEO Learning Center
Chemin de Bellerive 23,
P.O. 915, CH-1001 Lausanne
Switzerland