Blended program
Future Leaders

Accelerating the next generation of emerging leaders.

Blended program

Future Leaders

Accelerating the next generation of emerging leaders.

Location Blended

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

Fee CHF 19,900

Next program starts 19 March 2024

Build your core business leadership skills

IMD’s Future Leaders program is an immersive experience designed for you, an emerging leader, to harness your full professional potential and accelerate your career.

If you are at the beginning of your leadership career, this program will ensure you have the tools you need to succeed in senior or general management roles by developing the skills to lead yourself, others, and your organization. You will be equipped with the business acumen and fresh mindsets to become a successful leader.

The program is structured around two key pillars:
Leading self and others: grow your personal and team leadership skillset to successfully drive the organization forward.
Leading the business: hone your business acumen, enabling you to achieve your organization’s strategic goals.

As an emerging leader with around 5 to 10 years of professional experience, Future Leaders will help you make your mark on your career, your team, and your organization.

Become a better leader

Build your self-awareness and learn to lead yourself and others to make a difference.

Build your business acumen

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

Create sustainable impact

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

Join a lifelong network

Join a community of peers, coaches, mentors, and alumni, who will support you as you work on your business project from start to finish.

Jumpstart towards IMD’s EMBA

Fast-track your progress towards IMD’s Executive MBA (EMBA) and go straight to Step 2.

Enhance cross-functional synergies

Come as a team and maximize impact on your organization through a collective in-company business project.

future leader program
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.

2022 class profile (average data)

9

years of experience

34

average age

50/50

male/female

14

nationalities

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.

Conor Quinn Head of Sales, Global FMCG, BT, Switzerland

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

Elie Bourdilloud Head of M&A, LEXR, Switzerland
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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
Location
Blended
Length
2 days liVe virtual, 8 weeks online & 10 days on campus
Price
CHF 19,900
Dates
20 Aug – 4 Dec 2024
Location
Blended
Length
2 days liVe virtual, 8 weeks online & 10 days on campus
Price
CHF 19,900
Dates
13 Nov 2024 – 5 Mar 2025
Location
Blended
Length
2 days liVe virtual, 8 weeks online & 10 days on campus
Price
CHF 19,900
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