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Open-enrollment programs
Enterprise-ready learning solutions, personalized for impact
Open-enrollment programs

Enterprise-ready learning solutions, personalized for impact

IMD’s open-enrollment programs position your organization to address evolving needs from succession planning and leadership transitions to holistic leadership development and targeted upskilling in specific business areas. They can be deployed as stand-alone offerings or integrated into customized learning journeys. Expect world-class education that drives measurable business impact.

All open programs are designed and delivered by our faculty, globally recognized experts in their fields, who combine teaching, research, and hands-on experience working with senior leaders across industries. This ensures our programs reflect the latest thinking and the practical realities of leadership. As a result, your executives benefit from relevant, forward-looking experiences, grounded in real business challenges. The impact of their learning is tracked and measured, enabling you to  demonstrate internally how your investment translates into tangible organizational benefits.

Rapid, scalable capability building

Short, high-impact programs build critical capabilities across cohorts, enabling your organization to upskill at speed and at scale.

Personalized learning with expert coaching

One-on-one coaching, tailored to each participant’s role and challenges, helps turn insight into decisive action, accelerating performance on real business priorities.

Outside‑in perspectives

Learning and networking with peers from different industries and geographies sparks fresh thinking, helping leaders reframe challenges and uncover new business opportunities.

Immediate business impact

Practical assignments and proven frameworks are applied to live initiatives throughout the programs, ensuring learning translate into impact back at work.

Shared language and alignment

Enrolling a group of leaders in the same program ensures they build a common vocabulary and mindset, strengthening cross-functional collaboration to accelerate implementation.

Featured programs

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For individuals and teams
Orchestrating Winning Performance program

Boost your leader’s performance, broaden their perspectives, and get ready to seize new business opportunities. This program brings the latest research and insights from IMD’s world-class faculty.

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Sprint format
Sprint programs. Scale, speed, impact.

Training solutions from one employee to 20,000. Sprint programs ensure you drive results for your organization in ways that are innovative, time-effective and scalable.

  • General Management
  • Leadership
  • Digital, AI & Innovation
  • Sustainability
  • Board & Governance
  • Role Transitions
  • General Management programs

    General management programs allow participants to broaden their cross-functional knowledge and develop essential new leadership capabilities.

    Leadership

    A wide variety of leadership programs which allow executives and teams to develop their strengths, build awareness, inspire and mobilize their teams, steer organizational change, and restore confidence in these challenging times.

    Digital, AI & Innovation

    IMD’s digital & AI transformation and innovation courses are designed to ensure that your organization stays ahead in the digital age while establishing strategic innovation as an integral part of your leaders’ style. Equip your talent with the latest tools, knowledge and skills to understand data, harness digital disruption, and lead your organization through its transformation.

    Sustainable Business Programs

    IMD’s sustainable business programs support executives and organizations in their entire sustainability journey. From setting the foundations of change, to building a long-term roadmap to embrace sustainable business models, those programs will help you future-proof your organization and benefit socie

    Board & Governance Programs

    A broad portfolio of board and governance programs for leaders to develop essential governance skills and prepare the company’s board to face the challenges of a complex world.

    The Absa-IMD experience

    Absa’s learning journeys are customized experiences built primarily on open programs. They provide the organization’s leaders with personalized development solutions that integrate valuable external perspectives.

    Not sure what are the best programs for your organizational needs?

    Whether choosing an on-campus, liVe Virtual or online program, it’s essential to choose the right one to support your organization’s objectives. Join us for a masterclass or a program information session and experience for yourself what IMD has to offer and how we can best serve your organization.

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