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Blended program
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
03 March 2025
Accelerate your general management journey

Do you want to lead at senior levels? Have you been identified as a rising leader in your organization and don’t want to miss out on maximizing your potential. Future Leaders rapidly elevates you as a leader in three key areas: leading self and others, building business acumen, and developing fresh mindsets.

This, highly experiential journey helps you understand your business through different lenses of innovation, marketing, finance, and more. You’ll explore new, effective approaches to decision-making. Intensive leadership development (including a weekend Alpine experience) will unlock deep self-awareness, resilience, and adaptability to lead with clear purpose. You’ll become a leader who envisions a sustainable future and captures long-term value for your business.

Are you an HR professional responsible for nurturing your organization’s future leaders? Find out how to build your leadership pipeline in partnership with IMD.

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.

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.

 

Who is the program for?

“Whether you are a functional manager, a team leader or want to start your own business, you will leave this program feeling inspired, transformed as a leader, and with the confidence to create change.”

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How Future Leaders accelerates your career development?
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The three success pillars of Future Leaders
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.

2023 class profile (average data)

10

years of experience

34

average age

12

industries

12

nationalities

Information Session
21 January 2025

Interested in an IMD business management & strategy program? Don’t miss this opportunity to get all your questions answered by our Program Advisors at 9am (CET).

Information Session

21 January 2025

Interested in an IMD business management & strategy program? Don’t miss this opportunity to get all your questions answered by our Program Advisors at 9am (CET).

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.

Hear from participants and alumni
“Eye-opening, challenging, and insightful.” – Hear more from participants.
“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.

Read more

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
3 Mar – 23 May 2025
Location
Blended
Length
2 days liVe virtual, 8 weeks online & 10 days on campus
Price
CHF 19,900
Dates
25 Aug – 14 Nov 2025
Location
Blended
Length
2 days liVe virtual, 8 weeks online & 10 days on campus
Price
CHF 19,900
Dates
3 Nov 2025 – 4 Mar 2026
Location
Blended
Length
2 days liVe virtual, 8 weeks online & 10 days on campus
Price
CHF 19,900