Online program offered with GetSmarter
Organizational Leadership: Driving Culture and Performance

Build a Leadership Operating System that drives results

Online program offered with GetSmarter

Organizational Leadership: Driving Culture and Performance

Build a Leadership Operating System that drives results

Location
Online
Length
5 weeks
Fee
CHF 1,950
Next program starts
24 September 2025

Design an organizational environment that powers performance

As you advance in your leadership journey, your role becomes less about individual decisions and more about shaping the environment where others can succeed. IMD’s Organizational Leadership online program empowers you to lead in this new reality where success depends on the culture and systems you create.

The program challenges traditional leadership models and introduces a practical framework to help you build a high-performance culture. You’ll explore how to maximize your impact by improving and adapting the working environment at both the team and organizational levels so your employees can thrive.

At the heart of the program is the concept of a Leadership Operating System (OS), which you design to guide how your team functions, aligns, and performs. Your OS becomes your impact as a leader and the foundation of your legacy.

Through research insights, tools, and case studies, you’ll learn how to create the conditions for sustained performance by focusing on three critical elements – trust, clarity, and momentum.

You’ll gain a new lens on leadership, and a practical system you can apply immediately to elevate culture and drive results.

Drive trust, clarity, and momentum

Master the three key elements that underpin a high-performance culture and learn how to influence each through practical levers.

Develop agility

Develop agile leadership skills that allow you to quickly adapt as the context changes.

Know where to focus

Understand where your leadership input is most valuable, and where it has the most impact.

Gain applicable insights

Learn from leadership development experts, and draw insights from real-life case studies.

Create your action plan

Build a Leadership OS action plan specific to your organization that is ready for immediate implementation.

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You and your class

This program is designed for:

  • Mid- to senior-level leaders or managers who want to move beyond individual decision-making and build high-performance cultures that drive results across their organizations.
  • HR professionals and organizational development experts who needs practical frameworks to shape trust, clarity, and momentum in today’s evolving workplace.
  • Emerging leaders ready to scale their impact seeking tools to create the right organizational conditions for success in bigger roles.

 

Program content

Your learning journey takes 5 weeks. Each week requires a time commitment of 4–6 hours and includes clear learning objectives and deliverables. You will be accompanied by a dedicated executive coach who provides weekly feedback and support, helping you apply what you learn to your own context.

Module 1: The Leadership Operating System
  • Uncover the limitations of traditional leadership models and engage with a transformative new approach that redefines what leadership truly means in today’s complex environments.
  • Examine the concept of Leadership Operating Systems (OS) and understand why conventional leadership models fall short.
  • Recognize the importance of a Leadership OS in navigating contextual, cultural, and organizational dynamics.
  • Break down the three essential components that make up a Leadership OS and how they interconnect.
Module 2: Building trust
  • Understand the role of trust in the Leadership OS and why it’s crucial to build and sustain it.
  • Examine key principles and practical approaches for developing trust as a leader.
  • Learn how a sense of being cared for influences employee performance and job satisfaction.
  • Recognize the importance of fostering psychological safety to empower employees to take initiative and make decisions.
  • Discover strategies to help employees feel supported, valued, and psychologically safe.
Module 3: Creating clarity
  • Understand why clarity is essential for minimizing confusion and increasing organizational focus and impact.
  • Explore key elements and practical methods leaders can use to create clarity.
  • Examine how accountability drives concentrated effort, shared ownership, and ethical behavior.
  • Discover how fostering a strong sense of purpose boosts employee motivation, satisfaction, and teamwork.
  • Identify effective strategies for building both accountability and purpose to strengthen clarity within your organization.
Module 4: Generating momentum
  • Understand why generating momentum is essential for sustaining energy and overcoming cultural challenges.
  • Explore the key elements and leadership techniques that help create and maintain momentum.
  • Learn how empowering employees enhances motivation, sparks innovation, and encourages collaboration.
  • Consider the role of confidence in driving improved individual and team performance.
  • Identify practical strategies to foster confidence and empowerment among employees to build lasting momentum within your organization.
Module 5: Making it happen – leaving your leadership imprint
  • Identify the specific behaviors and actions required to create a meaningful leadership legacy.
  • Examine the challenges and nuances of leading in times of uncertainty.
  • Build a clear, actionable plan for rolling out your Leadership OS within your organization.
  • Reflect on your key insights and learnings from the program to guide your next steps.
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Our research found that leaders of high-performing companies create the environment -the operating system- in which trust, clarity and momentum flourish.

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Shlomo Ben-Hur Program Co-Director
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Leadership is less about personally driving results and more about creating the right conditions for others to deliver. Impact that leaders have is the environment, or operating system, they create for their team and business.

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Nik Kinley Program Co-Director
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Next start & fee

Length: 5 weeks (6–8 hours per week).

Dates
24 Sep – 4 Nov 2025
Location
Online
Length
5 weeks
Price
CHF 1,950

For more information and FAQ on this program contact us.

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