On campus program
Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives

Do what matters

On campus program

Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives

Do what matters

Location
Lausanne
Length
10 days
Fee
CHF 25,500
Next program starts
10 June 2025
Senior executive training program to develop breakthrough ideas

You are a seasoned senior executive at the top of your game. Your job is to think big and to make the decisions that really count. But do you find yourself asking what drives you forward? Are you looking for new sources of inspiration to re-energize your ambition and to discover what ultimately matters to you?

IMD’s Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives is a 10-day intense and deeply engaging senior executive training program.

You will connect with senior executives from around the world to refresh your professional network and gain fresh insights and inspiration. Guided by experienced coaches and faculty, you will uncover the breakthrough insights you need to confidently tackle the most critical and difficult-to-solve issues that are limiting you and your organization. You will leave with a clear plan to respond to the big issues that matter.

Resilient leadership

Restore your confidence, energy, and motivation to make your next-level impact – discover fresh ideas and new inspiration.

Insights to action

Find critical breakthrough insights and develop concrete plans to turn those insights into actionable outcomes.

Global mindset

Evaluate what global change, digitalization and other external sources of disruption mean for you and your business.

Lasting impact

Tackle the most critical and difficult-to-solve issues that are limiting you and your organization.

 

How can you create breakthroughs for you, your team and organization?

Find out from program director, Prof. Robert Hooijberg.

You and your class

Are you a senior executive, at or near the top of your company and recognized as a key business influencer within your organization? Are you involved in all-important business and strategy decisions?

Then join other senior executives from different industries, cultures, and nationalities for an enriching learning experience that will re-fresh your ambition. This diverse group of global peers will become a trusted resource and network as you go through your breakthrough learning journey. Read more about the admission criteria.

2023 class profile (average data)

24

years of experience

63%

c-level

16

nationalities

49

average age

Information Session
21 January 2025

Interested in an IMD business management & strategy program? Don’t miss this opportunity to get all your questions answered by our Program Advisors at 9am (CET).

Information Session

21 January 2025

Interested in an IMD business management & strategy program? Don’t miss this opportunity to get all your questions answered by our Program Advisors at 9am (CET).

Coaches and participants share their perspectives
Get inside the program – Learn more from the coaches’ perspectives.
“Holistic, provocative and inspiring.” – Hear more about past participants’ experiences.
What our participants say
Laura Brandes

General Manager Europe, Victorinox, Switzerland

Wonderful breakthroughs thanks to coaching

So many takeaways. I learned how to be future ready, for my organization and my own career. I have great frameworks to develop my team and for digital transformation. I can see challenges in my organization from a different perspective. I learned a lot from all the cases and other participants. I had wonderful breakthroughs in the coaching session. I also learn from the ESG session and how I might be pushing weak performance without realizing it. Fabulous and insightful 10 days – I love this program.

Delphine Traore

Regional CEO, Allianz Africa, Ivory Coast

Re-energized for my next challenge

I joined IMD’s Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives at a crossroads in my career. From the cutting-edge content that shapes your decision-making to the executive and peer coaching, combined with powerful networking, I came out re-energized and ready to take on the next challenge.

Elisa Riboldi

CMO Nestlé Iberia, Spain

Inspiration to look beyond

The group work and coach managed to get us deeply into our human stories, giving inspiration on how to look beyond “the next assignment”. It was like a collective therapy with friends, with implications professionally and across all life’s spectrum. It got me thinking further on how to live this decade (the Fabulous Forty). The case studies exceeded my expectations.

What senior leaders really want is inspiration. Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives gives you new perspectives and engagement with different kinds of people from all over the world to discover what you can do that really matters.

Read more

Robert Hooijberg Program Director
Next start & fee

Length: 10 days on campus. Throughout the program, you engage with a Professional Learning Coach who helps you frame your learning experiences and apply them to your challenges.

Dates
10 Jun – 19 Jun 2025
Location
Lausanne
Length
10 days
Price
CHF 25,500
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Lausanne
Length
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Price
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Location
Lausanne
Length
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Price
CHF 25,500