High-impact results for your career

Refresh, refocus and re-energize your leadership.

High-impact results for your career

Refresh, refocus and re-energize your leadership.

Give yourself an edge

When we say “real impact”, we mean it. After attending IMD’s Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives, participants stated:

97%
“I gained fresh knowledge and insights.”
100%
“I have become a more effective executive.”
85%
“I have experienced a significant impact for myself and my organization..”
100%
“I recommend IMD to a peer or a colleague.”

*Survey of 2023 program participants.

What our participants say
João Günther Amaral

Non-Executive Board Member, Musti Group, Finland

This comprehensive program is a deep-dive into your true self. Insightful frameworks from faculty, self-reflection with expert coaches and like-minded peers empower breakthrough changes.

Minke Bijl

Senior Vice President Global Communications & External Affairs, Royal DSM, The Netherlands

The program provided me with profound insights and inspiration. Impressive faculty on topics such as technology disruption, culture, and decision-making, and the coaching in small groups enabled me to use my preferences, needs and strengths in my day-to-day decisions.

Alexander Grunwald

Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey, Switzerland

Learning to sustain a unique culture and growth mindset was critical for me to engage my team and lead my organization through change.

Noor Hassan Shabib

VP of Strategy & Business Development, Saudi Industrial Development Fund, Saudi Arabia

Your personal and professional lives are examined as a whole in the program, as you grow with like-minded, highly accomplished peers on the way to your next breakthrough.

Liam Butterworth

CEO, GKN Automotive, UK

Six months after the program, I led a major reorganization of the division I oversee, dealing head-on with key technological changes in our markets. IMD helped me translate the theme of breakthrough into my business. It was very powerful.

Be inspired by the program’s impact

Participants from cutting-edge companies all over the world join this highest-level management and leadership program to re-energize their ambition – hear some of their stories.

“This program is for senior leaders who want to have a breakthrough in their performance and career lives.”

Bhupender Suhag, Area Sourcing Director, KONE, Finland

Bhupender talks about why he wanted to have a breakthrough in his career and how getting to know himself better is helping him to deliver improved results.   

“Holistic, provocative and inspiring.”

Carole Massanes, Global Account Director, Publicis Groupe, Switzerland

Carole explains how she’s been inspired to make a real impact on her life, company and team members – and is sharing what she has learned.  

“Stimulating, exciting and repurposing.”

Saed Arar, Head of Infrastructure, Mubadala Real Estate and Infrastructure, Saudi Arabia

Saed describes how he was enabled to become a better version of himself and stay ahead of the curve from a financial, cultural and leadership perspective.   

“I learned to put my energy to work for the benefits of business and society.”

Simon Haerdi, Head of Development, Innovation Pre-Projects, Helbling Technik AG, Switzerland

IMD alumnus Simon describes how he gained fresh insights and inspiration from his international peers and coaches that made him more aware of himself.  

“Provocative, life-changing and future ready.”

Francis Shun Leung, Director, Hong Kong Police College, Hong Kong

IMD alumnus Francis discusses how this program provoked him to get “future ready by exchanging views with participants with different perspectives and thinking about what to do going forward.