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    High-impact results for your career

    High-impact results for your career

    High-impact results for your business

    The numbers speak for themselves. IMD programs are making a significant improvement to your personal and business performance. See the results from our latest surveys.

    40%
    of participants promoted within 18 months after PED.

    84% promoted within company.

    63% promoted within functional area.

    81%
    of participants say they have become a more effective leader & successfully applied the new learnings to their job.
    What our participants say
    - IMD Business School
    Didier Chan-Voc-Chun

    Managing Director & Head of Multi-Management, UBP, Switzerland

    Could I have achieved a good career without the Program for Executive Development? Perhaps – but the acceleration this program gives you is extremely helpful. It’s about not wasting your time.

    - IMD Business School
    Chandra Kumar

    Chandra Kumar, President of Bakery Sweets, Nestlé, USA

    The Program for Executive Development is a key building block for your development as a leader. I discovered an excellent, high-quality learning environment, excellent faculty, and content.

    Thomas Flarup

    Head of Center for Cyber Security (CFCS), Denmark

    IMD’s Program for Executive Development has really delivered on my high expectations, transforming me from a functional manager into a true business leader of cross-functional teams.

    Rahul Vashistha

    Executive Officer – Group Head, Procurement Group, Nestlé Japan Ltd, Japan

    Program for Executive Development will help you make a smooth transition from ‘specialist’ to ‘generalist’ by developing innovative and courageous business leadership skills.

    Discover Program for Executive Development’s impact on individuals and teams
    - IMD Business School
    How to lead during a major transformation

    Rogerio Lopes from Nestlé tells how the program got him ready to lead change

    Program for Executive Development prepared Rogerio Lopes to lead change within his organization and shift his business unit’s culture.

    Learn more
    - IMD Business School
    Interview with Paul Bulcke, member of Nestlé Board of Directors, former Nestlé CEO

    Hear about his Program for Executive Development experience

    Watch a video interview excerpt where he talks about his Program for Executive Development experience.

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    Trusted by leading global companies for management acceleration

    Each session of IMD’s Program for Executive Development attracts participants from the world’s leading companies.

    Selection of Forbes Global 2000 companies who trust PED

     A.P. MØLLER – MAERSK

    NESTLE

    ABB

    NOVARTIS

    APPLIED MATERIALS

    NOVO NORDISK

    ARM HOLDINGS

    SCHINDLER HOLDING

    AXA GROUP

    SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC

    BUNGE

    SHARP

    CARLSBERG

    STORA ENSO

    COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY

    SUNCOR ENERGY

     ROCHE HOLDING

    TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FOX

    GALENICA

    UBS

    MITSUBISHI CORPORATION

     ZURICH INSURANCE GROUP

    MITSUI & CO