High-impact results for your career
High Performance Boards gives you an in-depth understanding of the fundamental factors that make boards successful. You will refine your boardroom skills and take away practical tools for best-in-class practice.
*Survey of 2024 program participants.
Vice-Chair Board of Directors, Vontobel Swiss Financial Advisers AG, Switzerland
The program increased my effectiveness and awareness around governance and risk. The knowledge, the people, the chance to exchange and learn core board skills, especially through role play, were phenomenal.
Chairman, Seplat Petroleum, Nigeria
Board Advisor, Non-Executive Director, Strategic Human Capital, Italy
The program shows you how to turn risks into opportunities and future-proof your board, empowering you to lead instead of follow. The quality of the interactions with the other participants and speakers was excellent.
Board Member, Hong Leong Financial Group, Malaysia
This program has given me a process and a structure to up my game and jump the S-curve, not just for myself, but for my business as well.
Participants from all over the world join IMD’s High Performance Board to build their essential governance skills – hear some of their stories.
Francois Farjallah, Board Member, YPO Europe One
The experience was, in Francois’s words, “mind blowing.” It revealed that governance is deeply rooted in human dynamics.
Laura Meyer, CEO, Hotelplan Group
Laura reflects on her experience at IMD, highlighting the program’s engaging formats, global peer exchange, impactful self-assessments, and practical insights grounded in real boardroom scenarios.
Roberto Eggs, Chief Business Strategy & Global Market Officer, Moncler
Francois shares how the program challenged his assumptions, emphasized human dynamics in governance, and delivered a transformative blend of deep insights and real-world leadership application.
Andrea Stürmer, Former CEO Zurich, Insurance Austria
Andrea reflects on IMD’s rich and intense program, praising its practical depth, diverse learning formats, and focus on board effectiveness in today’s complex, fast-changing business environment.
Hanne de Mora, Board Member, a-connect, Microcaps AG, Nestlé, IMD & Volvo, Switzerland
Hanne de Mora talks about the benefits of IMD’s High Performance Boards program. She has since become one of the speakers on the program.
