On campus program
Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives

Renew motivation and purpose by reframing your vision

On campus program

Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives

Renew motivation and purpose by reframing your vision

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

Would you like to unlock new motivation, inspiration, and confidence as a senior executive to solve your most complex challenges and deliver more impact? The key to success lies in your ability to reframe what you see and do.

Unique to IMD, the Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives is designed to accelerate your path to new breakthroughs. Guided by thought-leading faculty and experienced coaches and faculty, you will identify the different lenses you currently apply at work, at home, and in your relationships. You will gain tools to reframe and optimize these lenses for success. You will connect with other senior executives from around the world to refresh your professional network and gain further insights and inspiration.

This intense 10-day program provides senior leaders with concrete tools to reignite their ambition and achieve breakthroughs in both their personal and professional lives. Through engaging sessions, participants will discover strategies to enhance well-being, unlock their full potential, and drive greater success.

Recharge your inner ambition

Identify your key drivers of your personal motivation and restore confidence to make your next-level breakthrough. Unlock fresh ideas and new sources of inspiration.

Reset the strategic agenda

Reframe your organization’s strategy to tackle the most critical and difficult-to-solve issues that may be limiting you and your business.

Accelerate breakthrough with executive coaching

Experience a profound transformation with the support of professional executive coaches, faculty, and peer executives who will champion you all the way to breakthrough by challenging what is and inspiring what could be

Create a high-performance culture

Through your leadership, create a strong, high-performing and healthy culture, capable of producing breakthroughs within your organization.

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

Find out from program director, Professor Stefan Michel.

You and your class

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

2024 class profile (average data)

24

years of experience

80%

Senior & C-level

18

nationalities

50

average age

Information Session
25 February 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 5pm (CET).

Information Session

25 February 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 5pm (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.

While breakthroughs may appear sudden, they are not random. They stem from seeing things differently, interpreting experiences in new ways and ultimately changing how we act. It’s a skill that can be learned.

 

Stefan Michel 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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9 Sep – 18 Sep 2025
Location
Lausanne
Length
10 days
Price
CHF 25,500
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25 Nov – 4 Dec 2025
Location
Lausanne
Length
10 days
Price
CHF 25,500