Accelerate your leadership journey
Future Leaders
Accelerate your leadership journey
Are you ready to step up to senior leadership?
Have you been recognized as a rising leader and want to accelerate your growth and career? IMD’s Future Leaders expands your potential by building capabilities across three essential pillars: strategy, innovation, and leadership. Throughout this immersive and transformative journey, you will:
- Sharpen your strategic thinking working on a real business challenge.
- Develop innovative solutions you can apply immediately.
- Build the leadership presence needed to inspire and influence at the highest levels.
Your experience is further enriched by AI and innovation tools, enabling you to test ideas and shape solutions relevant to your context and industry. Intensive leadership development (including a weekend Alpine experience) builds the self-awareness, resilience and agility needed to transition to higher levels of leadership. Faculty, coaches and your peer cohort support you every step of the way, fostering continuous learning and reflection. Discover the program content.
For HR leaders developing and accelerating high-potential talent.
If you are an HR professional responsible for nurturing your organization’s future leaders, discover how partnering with IMD’s Future Leaders program can develop business acumen and deliver measurable business impact through a value creation project. Find out more here.
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“Whether you are a functional manager, a team leader or want to start your own business, you will leave this program feeling inspired, transformed as a leader, and with the confidence to create change.”
What recent participants stated after attending an IMD program.
As we bid farewell to 2025, the team at IMD is taking a short break and will be out of the office until January 5, 2026. We look forward to connecting with you in the new year. Until then, we send you our warmest wishes. Here’s to a wonderful 2026! 🌟
Experience IMD for yourself
Join a complementary masterclass of information session and dive into topics such as leadership, AI, strategy, and more. You’ll discover more about how we teach and explore our executive programs along the way. See all upcoming IMD events.
Learn more about impact here.
Head of Control Center, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, Germany
The program gives very valuable access and a starting point for a deeper dive into leadership and general management topics. I feel I have gained a 360-degree insight into what is important today and in the future, and I really appreciate that many leadership learnings are science-based
Head of Recruitment & HR Systems, Micarna SA (part of Migros Industry), Switzerland
If someone had told me how inspired and full of energy I would leave the program, I would probably have shrugged it off as good salesmanship. The faculty support and commitment made the program unforgettable. My executive coach, and working group, gave me valuable insights that enabled me to develop. In addition to the impressive learning content, it was the personal connection and network with participants that made these 10 days so special.
Strategic Business Leader – Retail
Germany
Faculty really make the topic of leadership approachable. The resilience and recovery piece was new and refreshing. I’m feeling grateful to have shared with this incredible cohort of Future Leaders at IMD, and to have met and learned from so many esteemed professors.
Senior Early Stage Development Scientist, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Belgium
Advice from program mentors was key. I never realized before that mentors can really help you in furthering your career.
Chief Commercial Officer, Executive Committee Member, Aon, Switzerland
I gained a lot of useful theory which I could apply and test right away. My horizons have expanded in so many ways and made me a better leader. I’ve become much more self-aware. Also, I did not know the importance of breathing as part of an overall resilience strategy. The program has been invaluable. All the faculty and team at IMD are absolutely outstanding!
Head of M&A, LEXR, Switzerland
Inspirational. Impactful. This program empowers you to transform the way you work and the way you develop your career.
Head of Sales, Global FMCG, BT, Switzerland
It’s an incredible, transformative journey, providing deeper insights that turn conventional concepts of strategy, finance, marketing and leadership completely on their heads. More than this Future Leaders shines a brighter light on the importance of finding opportunities to contribute to broader society and making a positive impact beyond ourselves.
Length: 2 days liVe virtual + 8 weeks online + 10 days on campus.
