Orchestrating Winning Performance
Get ready to shape a better future at OWP 2026
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 align your business success with the well-being of people and the planet. You will build the vision and capabilities needed to create forward-thinking, globally integrated organizations that drive prosperity, sustainability, and inclusivity.
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 trends and what these mean for you as a leader. You learn how to make your organization better and grow as a leader. You benefit from latest insights, research and case studies to drive renewal and growth for you and your business. Your week is divided into highly interactive streams, insight sessions and special topics.
Get a taste of some of exciting sessions from Lausanne 2025 below.
Simon Evenett and Carlos Cordon
Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy / Professor of Strategy and Supply Chain Management
Stefan Michel
Professor of Management and Dean of Faculty and Research
Goutam Challagalla and Simon Evenett
Professor of Strategy and Marketing / Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy
Amit Joshi
Professor of AI, Analytics and Marketing Strategy
Anand Narasimhan
Professor of Global Leadership and Dean of Research
Carlos Cordon
Professor of Strategy and Supply Chain Management
Niccolò Pisani
Professor of Strategy and International Business
Simon Evenett
Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy
Carlos Cordon
Professor of Strategy and Supply Chain Management
Niccolò Pisani
Professor of Strategy and International Business
Frédéric Dalsace & Goutam Challagalla
Professors of Marketing and Strategy
Öykü Isik & guest speaker
Professor of Digital Strategy and Cybersecurity
Alyson Meister & Anand Narasimhan
Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior; and Professor of Global Leadership and Dean of Research
Patrick Reinmoeller
Professor of Strategy and Innovation
Katharina Lange & José Parra Moyano
Affiliate Professor of Leadership; and Professor of Digital Strategy
Albrecht Enders & Andreas König
Professor of Strategy and Innovation; and Professor of Strategic Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Florian Hoos & Guido Palazzo
Professor of Sustainability and ESG Accounting; and Professor of business ethics
Simon Evenett & Katharina Lange
Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy; and Affiliate Professor of Leadership
Zhike Lei & José Parra Moyano
Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior; and Professor of Digital Strategy
Salvatore Cantale & Sameh Abadir
Professor of Finance; and Adjunct Professor of Leadership and Negotiation
Patrick Reinmoeller
Professor of Strategy and Innovation
Julia Binder
Professor of Sustainable Innovation and Business Transformation
Simon Evenett & Cristian Rodriguez-Chiffelle, Partner at BCG
Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy
Amit Joshi
Professor of AI, Analytics and Marketing Strategy
Peter Vogel
Professor of Family Business and Entrepreneurship
Stéphane JG Girod
Professor of Strategy and Organizational Innovation
Heather Cairns-Lee & Eugene Sadler-Smith
Affiliate Professor of Leadership; and Professor of Organizational Behaviour
Michael Watkins
Professor of Leadership 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:
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.
Global HR Division, Deputy Head of Training & Development, TDK Corporation, France
I got great insights on how to manage our environmental impact as a company. Super interesting learning with very dynamic professors and participants from a wide diversity of
industries.
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