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    Future Leaders

    Excel as a leader. Accelerate your general management journey

    Blended program

    Future Leaders

    Excel as a leader. Accelerate your general management journey

    Location Blended

    Length 2 days liVe virtual, 8 weeks online & 10 days on campus

    Fee CHF 19,900

    Next program starts 19 March 2024

    Accelerate your general management journey

    You want to demonstrate your abilities to lead at senior levels. You may already be identified as a rising leader in your organization and don’t want to miss out on opportunities to maximize your bigger potential.

    Based around three success pillars, Future Leaders rapidly elevates you in three critical areas: leading self and others, building organization-wide business acumen, and developing fresh mindsets.

    The program takes you on an immersive and highly experiential journey of discovery. You will understand your wider business through different lenses of innovation, marketing, finance, and more. You will explore fresh ways to approach important problems to make better business decisions. Intensive leadership development (including a weekend alpine experience) will unlock deep self-awareness, resilience, and adaptability to lead yourself and others with clear purpose. You will become the leader who envisions a sustainable future and sees how to capture new long-term value for your business.

    Accompanied by world-class faculty, coaches, mentors, and your peer cohort, you will liberate the greater leader within, ensuring your biggest impact for your career, team, and organization.

    Develop the right leadership mindsets to deliver real impact

    Develop future-thinking mindsets that foster innovation, growth and responsible leadership.

    Build your business acumen

    Learn the fundamentals of business management, grounded in today’s complex realities.

    Create tangible value for your organization

    Through your in-company business project, create tangible value for your career, your team, and your organization.

    Become part of a powerful leadership community

    Join a community of peers, coaches, mentors, and alumni to support you during your leadership journey and beyond.

    Join as a team to boost cross-functional synergies

    Maximize impact in your organization through a team, in-company business project.

    Earn credits towards IMD’s EMBA

    Fast-track your progress towards IMD’s Executive MBA with credits to directly access step two of the Executive MBA.

    Discover the learning journey
    You and your class

    Are you a functional expert, or manager of a function or project with around 5 to 10 years of professional experience and ready to take on greater leadership responsibilities?

    Then join other like-minded executives from across different industries, cultures, and nationalities for an enriching learning experience. Your class will become a trusted network as you move upwards through your career. Read more about the admission criteria.

    2022 class profile (average data)

    9

    years of experience

    34

    average age

    50/50

    male/female

    14

    nationalities

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    What participants say about this program

    Learn more about impact here.

    Conor Quinn

    Head of Sales, Global FMCG, BT, Switzerland

    An incredible, transformative journey

    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.

    Elie Bourdilloud

    Head of M&A, LEXR, Switzerland

    Future Leaders empowers you to transform

    Inspirational. Impactful. This program empowers you to transform the way you work and the way you develop your career.

    Liesbeth Haspeslagh

    Senior Early Stage Development Scientist, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Belgium

    Advice from program mentors was key

    Advice from program mentors was key. I never realized before that mentors can really help you in furthering your career.

    Experience the program
    Make your mark on your career, your team, and your organization – Discover the program highlights.
    “Eye-opening, challenging, and insightful.” – Hear more about past participant experience.
    “We are connected for life.” – Future Leaders alumni speak about the importance of their community and the impact of the program.

    Future leaders want to challenge themselves to experience transformative personal change and development and, at the same time, accelerate their careers, their potential to make a real impact in their organizations and beyond.

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    Alyson Meister Program Director, Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior
    Next start & fee

    Length: 2 days liVe virtual + 8 weeks online + 10 days on campus.

    Dates
    19 Mar – 3 Jul 2024
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    2 days liVe virtual, 8 weeks online & 10 days on campus
    Price
    CHF 19,900
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    20 Aug – 4 Dec 2024
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    Dates
    13 Nov 2024 – 5 Mar 2025
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