Transformational Change Program

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Why Foundations for Business Leadership?

Real learning, real impact

Maria Belentsova:  It's real learning and real impact.

Deep, Powerful, Exciting

Medhi Bensouda:  Deep, powerful, exciting.

Jessie Gunawan:   It's totally different.

Quality

Pablo Percelsi:  I am really impressed by the quality of the courses.

Open your mind

Medhi Bensouda:  I decided to join FBL to because I would like to develop my leadership skills and in parallel open my mind to what's happening in the world, in different industries.

Unique integrated approach

Maria Belentsova:  So it's not like just one angle, like entrepreneurship, or finance, or strategy, it's everything at once and that's really unique.

Broaden your perspective

Pablo Percelsi:  At this stage in my career I thought it was a moment to something more, to broaden my professional and personal perspective.

Learnings

Jessie Gunawan: When the first two or three day were just learning finance, it was, like, shocking, but it shakes you up.  

Get a taste of General Management

Maria Belentsova:  This program really gave you the feeling, how is it to be a general manager, because you are doing everything.

Jessie Gunawan:  You have to learn from different point of view. You cannot just learn from the marketing side or the sales side, but you have to think about other people, for example like a Super Agent.

Build your business fundamentals

Maria Belentsova:  This is fantastic because that's not actually what you're doing on a daily basis back in the office, but it really broadens your perspective.

Diversity

Medhi Bensouda:  Working with the different people from different nationalities is a really rich experience.

Cross-industries

Jessie Gunawan:  We're coming from different cultures. We're coming from different industries. None of us is the same.

Cross-cultures

Maria Belentsova:  We have Indonesians. We have Kenyans. We have Chinese. We have lots of Japanese guys and they are so diverse.

Cross-sectors

Pablo Percelsi:  What I find more interesting is meeting people from other sectors, with other functional capacities.

Impact on you

Medhi Bensouda:  Already with the FBL I see the impact on myself.

Develop your entrepreneurship skills

Jessie Gunawan:  I was so inspired by the entrepreneurship course, which was a part of a belt program.

Concrete takeaways

Pablo Percelsi:  I've learnt a lot, there are a lot of takeaways that I will bring back to my job.

Develop cross-functional skills

Jessie Gunawan:  So with this cross-functional learning from IMD I think I can try to put everything together and then move in the right direction.

Emotions

Medhi Bensouda:  A lot of excitement. A lot of emotions. So a lot of learning.

Intense

Pablo Percelsi:  It was intense.

Above expectations

Maria Belentsova:   It was above all expectations.

As these testimonials show first-hand, FBL is an excellent vehicle for change both personally and professionally. Choose a transformational change program like Foundations for Business Leadership from top-ranked IMD business school to improve your business knowledge.