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Advanced Management Program

Strategically rethink your business today to stay ahead tomorrow

Blended program

Advanced Management Program

Strategically rethink your business today to stay ahead tomorrow

Location
Blended
Length
4 half-days liVe virtual over 1 week + 15 days on campus
Fee
CHF 32,500
Next program starts
28 March 2025

Advanced Management Program: strategically secure continued success

Today, navigating organizational uncertainty is one of the biggest challenges facing senior leaders. Modern business means operating in a context of global economic turmoil, amidst the threat of disruption, shifts in technology, changing customer behavior, increased scrutiny and regulation – all with evolving workforces and fewer resources.

Transformation, digital disruption, sustainability, and data analytics have become dominant themes in the ever-changing business landscape. To make sense of this landscape, senior leaders must embrace a growth mindset, a willingness to learn. The ability to reassess and renovate today’s business while seeding capabilities and opportunities for continued growth tomorrow is key to long-term business survival and competitiveness.

Start your comprehensive Advanced Management Program journey and build your strategy to successfully renovate your business today, and capture tomorrow’s opportunities for continued business growth, resilience, and competitiveness.

Tailored to you, with your business challenge as a red thread throughout the program, you will leave with the strategic and leadership skills to lead your organization with a concrete strategic action plan.

Take an outside-in perspective

Make sense of and think critically about the impact and potential opportunities presented by disruptive market forces on your business.

Adopt a growth mindset

Embrace an open-minded approach and a willingness to keep learning to build a business culture of experimentation, exploration, innovation, and prototyping across your organization.

Design your strategy

Develop a concrete plan to nurture your core business while building the capabilities, and capturing promising new opportunities that are critical for the future success.

Lead and inspire your organization

Strengthen the key leadership capabilities to effectively convince key stakeholders and your organization to contribute to the strategic direction of the business going forward.

Come with your business challenge

Work with an executive coach on your personal business challenge throughout the program, ensuring a real-world impact on your business.

 

Want to know what’s unique about the Advanced Management Program from IMD?

Program director, Prof. Goutam Challagalla explains in this short video.

You and your class

Are you an experienced senior manager, C-level executive, or business owner with solid general management experience? Are you responsible for multiple geographical areas?

Then join other senior executives from different industries, cultures, and nationalities on this world-leading Advanced Management Program for an enriching learning experience that will broaden your perspectives. This diverse group of global peers will become a trusted resource and network as you design a forward-thinking strategy and action plan for your business. Read more about the admission criteria.

2023 class profile (average data)

20

years of experience

73 %

mid to senior level

27 %

C-level

19

nationalities

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).

Experience IMD’s Advanced Management Program
“It’s just so impactful.” – Hear more about past participants’ experiences.
Learn what it takes to be a successful General Manager nowadays.
More participant perspectives
Anne-Laure Hussenot-Bouvet

Head of Global Quality Management System and Digital Transformation, Sanofi, Germany

See through the lens of transformation and AI

You deep dive into foundational topics such as strategy, innovation, marketing, and finance through the lens of transformation and agility, digital disruption, AI, sustainability, and data-driven decision making. It’s a fantastic networking opportunity with senior executives from diverse backgrounds. After more than 20 years’ experience, it’s a real refresher.

James Jackson

Co-Head Markets Product Control, Corporate and Investment Banking, Absa, South Africa

Relevant, up-to-date examples

Fully relatable and relevant with up-to-date examples, constantly thinking about how business is changing and what’s working vs not working. I really enjoyed this program.

Jeroen Thijs Meijers

Director, NN GROUP, The Netherlands

I’ve become a better person

I was genuinely inspired; not only by the content, also the way the Advanced Management Program was structured. The time working together with other participants, listening, reflecting, opened up my thinking, and I’ve become a better person because of it.

Michael Kessler

Head Asset Management Nuclear, Axpo Group, Switzerland

Impressive intercultural mix

Very high-level, professional program. Intensive 15 days with an impressive intercultural mixture of participants! Thank you.

Jun Maria Tan Abdullah

Senior Director, Group CEO Office, PayNet, Malaysia

Phenomenal, inspiring

So many aha moments. Clarity, precision, depth and putting all the pieces together, inspiring us to see things through a different lens. A phenomenal and inspiring program!

A visionary and agile approach, rooted in a solid understanding of disruptive market forces, is vital for any general manager seeking to secure the success of a business.

Read more

Goutam Challagalla Program Director, Professor of Strategy and Marketing
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