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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 (AMP): rethink your strategy, lead boldly

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

Think critically about the impact and potential opportunities presented by disruptive market forces.

Adopt a growth mindset

Learn to embrace an open-minded approach and a willingness to keep learning to build a business culture of experimentation and innovation.

Design your strategy

Develop a concrete plan to nurture your core business while capturing promising new opportunities for future success.

Lead and inspire your organization

Strengthen the key leadership skills to effectively convince your key stakeholders to contribute to the strategic direction.

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.

Is this program right for you?

Answer a few quick questions to discover if this program aligns with your goals and experience.

Do you need more information?

Talk with a Program Advisor to get personalized guidance and answers to your questions.

 

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

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

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You and your class

You are an experienced senior manager, C-level executive, or business owner with solid general management experience, and are likely to have responsibility for multiple geographical areas.

Read more about the admission criteria.

2024 class profile (average data)

22

years of experience

72%

mid to senior level

28%

C-level

24

nationalities

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Information Session
29 April 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 (CEST).

Information Session

29 April 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 (CEST).

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

Learn more about impact here.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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Goutam Challagalla Program Director, Professor of Strategy and Marketing
Join our Advanced Management Program

Length: 4 half-days liVe virtual over 1 week + 15 days on campus.

Dates
28 Mar – 21 May 2025
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Length
4 half-days liVe virtual over 1 week + 15 days on campus
Price
CHF 32,500
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25 Aug – 24 Sep 2025
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21 Oct – 3 Dec 2025
Location
Blended
Length
4 half-days liVe virtual over 1 week + 15 days on campus
Price
CHF 32,500