We partner with HR and L&D leaders to co-create custom executive programs with proven ROI. Each program is designed from scratch around what your organization needs to achieve.
Custom programs: fully tailored learning solutions for organizations
We partner with HR and L&D leaders to co-create custom executive programs with proven ROI. Each program is designed from scratch around what your organization needs to achieve.
Executive education designed around your organization
When we partner with you to co-create a leadership development program, we start by understanding your strategic priorities, culture, and challenges, then work with you to define goals, agree on design principles, and set clear measures of impact.
That means working closely with your teams, involving senior leaders and key business units where it matters, and drawing on the IMD faculty, research, and resources that fit your context.
The result is an executive education program or enterprise-wide leadership initiative where impact is built in from the start and easy for you to demonstrate internally.
The program design evolves through a creative, iterate process, incorporating all our learning innovation to achieve your desired organizational transformation.
Types of engagement
Custom programs can many forms. Every engagement is different and shaped by what your organization needs to achieve.
We work with executive teams as a sparring partner, asking hard questions, challenging assumptions, and drawing on IMD’s expertise to unlock innovative thinking.
We work with executive teams to explore pathways to address a strategic question or accelerate execution. IMD topic expertise is combined with fast exploration and ideation cycles, as teams work on opportunity definition, prototyping, experimentation, and roadmapping or on execution acceleration.
Leveraging IMD Pathfinder®, our corporate transformation approach, we empower senior teams and their organizations to remove barriers and identify compelling opportunities for growth and transformation.
Absa: Measuring the real return on leadership development
When Absa Group – one of Africa’s largest financial services companies – partnered with IMD, it wanted to nurture leadership excellence that translated into meaningful societal impact. It was important for the company to ensure that program outcomes could be demonstrated credibly and systematically.
What IMD did:
- Co-created the Leadership, Enterprise, Agility, and Performance (LEAP) program, a blended 12-month development experience combining structured learning modules, an applied enterprise business project, pre-and post-competence assessments,and a follow-up evaluation conducted one year after program start.
- Implemented the ROI Methodology® to assess the impact of the program through the measurable results of the enterprise projects, improved retention, and observable behavioral shifts across eight leadership competencies.
The impact:
- 89% ROI – three and a half times the projected return
- $572,000 in retention benefits in alone
- $131,000 in business value generated by participant-led enterprise projects
- $702,000 in total benefits against a fully loaded program cost of $372,000
Beyond the numbers, 36% of LEAP participants have since advanced into promoted roles, a clear signal that the program is building the bench strength Absa needs to lead through complexity. Participants also reported signficant intangible benefits such as collaboration (96% significant or very significant impact), team effectiveness (86%), innovation (96%), intrapreneurship (86%), agility (71%), loyalty and commitment to Absa (86%), as well as contributions to society (86%).
We partner with organizations around the world to deliver cutting-edge programs that deliver impact.
