Your learning journey
The four levels of business leadership
IMD’s Transition to Business Leadership program consists of four, linked journeys that will powerfully develop your ability to create and sustain superior organizational performance. Integrated together, these provide you with the basis you need to excel as a transformational business leader, ready and able to lead your business into uncertain futures.
Throughout your journey, you receive intensive group and individual coaching, helping you understand and develop your leadership at all four levels.
LiVe virtual, 2-3 hours
• Connect with participants.
• Clear space for program.
• Formulate your goals.
On campus, 2 weeks
• Inner Leader
• Team Leader
LiVe virtual, 4 hours
One-to-one and group coaching
• Reflect on your leadership habits.
• Reconnect with your group and coach.
On campus, 2 weeks
• Organizational Leader
• Societal Leader
LiVe virtual, 4 hours
One-to-one and group coaching
• Work on your organizational project.
• Reconnect with your group and coach.
Work on your organizational or team project
As a participant you will work on an organizational or team initiative, helping you to accelerate change and deliver powerful impact for your business.
Below are examples of organizational challenges recently accelerated at Transition to Business Leadership:
- Dealing with disruptive innovation.
- Supporting business transformation from the HR perspective.
- Developing a new sales strategy.
- Building a new organizational structure.
- Implementing major public-private infrastructure projects.
IMD’s Program for Executive Development
The Transition to Business Leadership program is the 2nd stage of IMD’s Program for Executive Development. The first step is Foundations for Business Leadership, or the new fully virtual foundation option, Global Management Foundations. Successful completion of both stages and exams leads to the Program for Executive Development Executive Certificate.