Future-ready, now: Competitiveness in a changing world
Orchestrating Winning Performance
Future-ready, now: Competitiveness in a changing world
Successfully navigate a new era of competitiveness
Effective leadership is more essential than ever in a world navigating significant economic shifts, fragmented markets, technological disruptions, and deep political tensions. Orchestrating Winning Performance 2026 will provide the unique opportunity to navigate this more competitive world with confidence, adapting leadership models, ways of working, and structures to the new rules of competition, to be future-ready, now.
Sessions and streams are organized around key themes as follows:
Leadership – Strategy & Management – Digital & AI Transformation – Sustainability – Geopolitics & Society
Guided by IMD expert faculty you will explore these topics and more, benefiting from the latest insights and applied research. Keynote speakers will motivate you to take ambitious action with their bold, compelling stories. You will deepen your learnings across industries and geographies by learning from, and connecting with, hundreds of peer executives who will join you in high-impact, highly energizing sessions. We warmly invite you to join us at Orchestrating Winning Performance 2026.
IMD’s award-winning faculty explore the latest innovations, technology shifts, and leadership challenges shaping business today. Through cutting-edge research, real-world case studies, and highly interactive learning, you’ll strengthen your ability to lead change, drive growth, and create lasting impact – for yourself and your organisation. Your week is designed to be immersive and dynamic, delivering insight and fresh perspectives throughout the journey.
Discover what’s coming up in the 2026 schedule. Below a selection of exciting sessions:
Michael Watkins
Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change
Julia Binder
Professor of Business Transformation at IMD and Director of their Center for Sustainable and Inclusive Business
Anand Narasimhan
Shell Professor of Global Leadership and Dean of Research
Howard Yu
LEGO® Professor of Management and Innovation
Stefan Michel
Dean of Faculty and Research, Professor of Management
Niccolò Pisani
Professor of Strategy and International Business
José Parra Moyano
Professor of Digital Strategy
Jennifer Jordan
Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Cyril Bouquet
Professor of Strategy and Innovation
Anand Narasinhan
Shell Professor of Global Leadership and Dean of Research
Stefan Michel
Dean of Faculty and Research, Professor of Management
Carlos Cordon
Professor of Strategy and Supply Chain Management
Goutam Challagalla & Frédéric Dalsace
Professors of Strategy and Marketing
Francisco Szekely
Adjunct Professor of Leadership and Sustainability
Ina Toegel
Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change
Richard Balwin
Professor of International Economics
Stéphane Girod
Professor of Strategy and Organizational Innovation
Susan Goldsworthy
Affiliate Professor of Leadership, Communications, and Organizational Change
Exchange with: CEOs, CFOs, Board Members, Country Managers, Presidents, and other senior leaders from industries including Healthcare, Technology, Finance, Manufacturing, and Energy. Here’s a first look at the leaders you’ll meet at OWP:
Director of FP&A, Feedzai, Portugal
I had the privilege and responsibility to curate my own journey. That’s the brilliance of OWP. It’s not a one-size-fits-all experience. It’s a dynamic platform where you craft your learning from a wide range of world-class sessions, conversations, and perspectives. I could not have chosen a more inspiring path. Each session was an invitation to rethink how we lead, how we connect, and how we build resilient, high-impact organizations in a fractured world. Thank you for five days that will stay with me for a long time. It’s a truly iconic program. Five days. Countless insights.
Senior Program Manager Chief of Staff Office, The Adecco Group, Switzerland
OWP is an exceptional experience – uniting over 500 leaders from 60+ countries and 32 industries. What made it truly meaningful for me was how closely it aligned with my own leadership journey. We explored the forces shaping our world from the AI revolution to the fragmentation of global leadership, the power of culture and the role of mindfulness in resilient organizations. What set this week apart was not only the knowledge gained but also the engaging faculty, extraordinary peer discussions and applicable insights and frameworks.
Plant Manager Factory Bühlertal, Kärcher, Germany
Sometimes, you just walk to dinner and find yourself at a table with top faculty like Arnaud Chevallier, Albrecht Enders and Niccolò Pisani. You get strategy, sailing, music and sustainability all in one conversation. No agenda. Just curiosity and connection. This is the magic of OWP, where serendipity meets substance, and where the next breakthrough might just start over pasta and good conversation. I am grateful for the minds, the moments, and the opportunity.
CEO, Farinia Group, France
The sessions and concrete cases fuel inspiration and motivation for the work ahead. It’s great to see different team members get energized by the experience to help others in the organization get up to speed. Read full team story below.
VP Global Marketing, Lego Group, Denmark
What a pleasure to learn from executives across industries and geographies, so different yet solving similar issues. As a leader I learnt that my team and I need to be making the right decisions quickly to avoid an iceberg situation.
Senior Data Analyst , Global Markets, ABSA, South Africa
OWP is a phenomenal, immersive experience filled with relevant concepts. Having conversations with different people across the world and understanding their challenges is preparing us to become better future leaders.
Procurement Director, G2 Ocean, Norway
I learned a practical way to set up an AI tool and use my knowledge of the company to fine tune and improve it. I can now see how to use AI in our company to be more competitive in our marketplace.
Organization Design Manager, SEVEN, Saudi Entertainment Ventures
OWP has changed my perspective of leadership. It’s what you decide, do, and how you react on a regular basis – this is what makes a leader.
Director, Structured Commodities Finance, ING, Switzerland
In these very uncertain times, it is extremely valuable to be able to network with such smart, brilliant people from all over the world, to interact with the faculty, and to learn the latest on what’s happening out there.
CEO, Schouw & Co, Denmark
OWP is a learning pallet for business leaders to discover the latest management thinking, as well as an opportunity for the broader executive team to connect in person.
Senior General Manager, NWC, Saudi Arabia
OWP Lausanne is fantastic. It developed my leadership in terms of leading myself, leading others, leading strategy and how to contribute more to my organization and country.
Returning to OWP for the 10th time, Jean-Frederic Guinot, CEO of Farinia Group, explains how the yearly learning boost helps keep his firm fit for the future.
The nature of IMD’s OWP, a week-long customizable program that takes place in Lausanne every June and in Singapore every November, is that it is always evolving. This means that repeat participants like Jean-Frederic Guinot – who is back for his tenth edition – are always exposed to the latest management thinking.
“I love to learn, and they say it’s a lifelong learning journey,” says Guinot, who is CEO of Paris-based Farinia Group, an industrial holding company that specializes in forging and machining, developing cast iron counterweights and ballast solutions, and digital transformation. Guinot first came to OWP 15 years ago after he had just founded the company. This year he is attending with 14 of his top engineers from across the different companies. “I don’t bring the same people every year, but we spread the thinking across the group and that helps us to get better. We are profitable, and we operate in the commodities business, which is a tough area. So, I tend to think that the fact we are profitable is thanks to education,” he explains.
Once the week is over, the learning doesn’t stop. Guinot makes sure that the ideas that have been ignited in Lausanne are implemented and ingrained across the business by holding workshops. “We cannot bring everyone to Lausanne, but what we learn we dispatch to others,” he says. Sometimes this involves having follow-up sessions with IMD professors back in the organization.
Top of mind for Guinot this year is artificial intelligence (AI) and how to best harness data and build business cases. Farinia has plans to invest between EUR 300,000-400,000 annually in the technology over the next three years and is using OWP to dive deep into AI and how it works before he sets the direction.
Another area of interest is pricing strategy and how to create more value with customers and communicate and capture this value. “These are the two topics I am trying to push in the group, so it helps to come to OWP to make that happen.”
While Guinot himself is a repeat participant, he enjoys seeing his different team members get energized by the experience. “I am confident that they will help others in the organization catch up on these topics. Over the next five years, our ambition is to become a significant force in smart factory.” This year’s OWP is on the theme of “Mastering future readiness”. Guinot says the sessions and concrete use cases fuel inspiration and motivation for the work ahead. “We are not going to discover everything that we need to do in one week; it’s a long journey.”
Join us for a masterclass or an information session and experience for yourself what IMD OWP program has to offer you, your career, and your future. You will get the opportunity to virtually meet faculty and discuss your professional challenges and aspirations with a program advisor who will help you to find the best path forward.
Duration: 5 days at IMD Campus in Lausanne
Special team offer: every 5th participant joins OWP for free. This offer is non-cumulative and may not be combined with other IMD offers.
Early bird offer ends 28 February 2026