Leadership Essentials
Unlock your leadership potential
Leadership Essentials equips you with the self-awareness, people skills, and practical frameworks to lead more effectively, whether you’re stepping into a new leadership role or looking to sharpen your impact.
Through work around self-awareness and personality, you’ll gain powerful insights into your leadership style, enabling you to recognize your strengths and identify opportunities for growth. As you move through the program, you’ll strengthen your ability to manage power dynamics, influence others using proven psychological principles, and lead with intention.
You’ll master techniques for navigating difficult conversations, giving effective feedback, and building high-performing teams.
With the support of an experienced executive coach, you’ll turn insights into action as you tackle your own leadership challenges and apply new ideas to your professional context.
You’ll leave the program with a deeper understanding of yourself as a leader and a practical toolbox to lead with clarity, confidence, and skill.
Join us on 26 August 2025
Senior Clinical Research Associate, AbbVie, Switzerland
Leadership Essentials was a truly enriching experience that allowed me to gain deep insights into my strengths and weaknesses to know where to focus. It equipped me with practical, immediately applicable tools to elevate my leadership style and was a unique opportunity to connect and exchange ideas with a diverse group of accomplished professionals.
Learning and Development Consultant, Roca Group, Spain
Leadership Essentials allows you to go deeper into the fundamentals of leadership and get to know yourself much better. You discover your personal leadership style, your strengths, and your areas for improvement. It was enlightening to work on the different types of power that exist and learn how to use them to negotiate better. I highly recommend this program.
Deputy Managing Director, UZIN UTZ, Switzerland
Leadership Essentials provided me with the insights and tools I needed to grow personally, understand the bases of power in various contexts, how to influence in a benevolent way, and make a lasting impact in my organization. This transformative program prompted me to delve deeper, to reflect more carefully, and to take responsibility as a leader.
Production Manager, Sharrcem (Titan Group), Kosovo
Leadership Essentials was exactly what I needed and gave me a path to follow for my career. I was able to implement, step by step, the very useful leadership methods, and develop my skills and knowledge. IMD can make you a leader and, if you are already one, you will learn to lead better!
When we say “real impact”, we mean it. After attending an IMD online program in 2024, 98% of participants stated:
“I gained fresh knowledge and insights.”
“I gained practical tools and ideas.”
“I could better choose and focus on priorities.”
“I felt more confident about myself.”
Designed for impact and delivered for you, IMD’s online programs help you achieve your aspirations wherever you are in your career or the world. Here’s what makes the IMD online program experience exceptional.
Length: 5 weeks (4-6 hours per week)
Application deadline closes 7 days before the session starts.
