IMD Business School – Executive Education
Ch. de Bellerive 23
P.O. Box 915
CH-1001
Lausanne
Switzerland
Full School Profile
The Courses
IMD offers programs for individuals and teams - including Degrees, Open Programs, Executive Certificates and Diplomas - as well as tailored solutions for organizations designed to address their unique challenges and drive lasting impact.
The Business School
IMD is an independent academic institute that develops leaders to transform organizations for a more prosperous, sustainable, and inclusive world - combining deep human insight with pioneering approaches to technology, AI, and impactful learning.
The Faculty
At IMD participants can benefit from a wide spectrum of teaching experts with diverse backgrounds, talents and cultures.
Location: Lausanne.
Negotiating for Value Creation is designed for leaders and executives who face complex negotiations. This program enables you to master value creation techniques through the use of multiple frameworks and specific simulations.
Location: Lausanne.
High Performance Boards examines issues related to supervisory board performance and effectiveness. The program draws on more than 40 years of research and board education experience,
Location: Lausanne.
Finance for Boards provides you with an essential foundation in finance from a board-level perspective, enabling you to better understand what drives a company’s performance and make decisions that create long-term value.
Location: Lausanne.
Stakeholder Management for Boards equips you with practical tools to work effectively on stakeholder engagement for organizational and social benefit.
Location: Lausanne.
Strategy Governance for Boards enables you to play a meaningful, advisory role in the governance of your firm’s strategy within the context of an increasingly complex business landscape.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading your Family Business is designed to empower you with practical strategies and governance structures to manage, grow and innovate your family business for multi-generational success.
Location: Lausanne.
AI Strategy and Implementation gives you the tools to turn AI potential into real business impact. In just five days, you’ll learn to align AI with your strategy, navigate implementation challenges, and build data-driven solutions that create lasting value.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Digital Execution equips you with the leadership, organizational, and digital skills needed to turn your digital vision into reality. Over five days, you’ll build agility, lead cultural change, and gain practical tools to drive successful transformation in a fast-moving, tech-driven world.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading High-Performance Teams equips you with practical tools to build trust, foster inclusive leadership, and unlock your team’s talent and innovation to drive performance and growth.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Digital and AI Transformation helps you cut through complexity to drive successful, AI-enabled change. You'll explore key trends, learn from real cases, and leave with a clear, customized roadmap to lead your organization’s digital transformation.
Location: Lausanne.
Team Dynamics for Boards empowers you to drive positive dynamics in your board through a deeper awareness of what happens below the surface when groups interact.
Location: Lausanne.
Team Dynamics for Boards empowers you to drive positive dynamics in your board through a deeper awareness of what happens below the surface when groups interact.
Location: Lausanne.
Boards and Risks enables you to benchmark best risk practices and update your risk thinking.
Location: Gstaad.
The program enables High Performance Leadership and Inspirational Leadership alumni to step back, reflect, and refocus - renewing their energy and perspective to lead themselves and others more effectively.
Location: Lausanne.
High Performance Boards examines issues related to supervisory board performance and effectiveness. The program draws on more than 40 years of research and board education experience,
Location: Lausanne.
Innovate with AI and Tech empowers you to harness emerging technologies like AI, robotics, and quantum computing to drive business innovation and growth. In partnership with EPFL, this program helps you identify high-impact opportunities, develop an innovator’s mindset, and make confident, strategic tech decisions.
Location: Lausanne.
Breakthrough Forum for Senior Executives is a dynamic three-day event where senior leaders explore breakthroughs at the intersection of geopolitics, technology, the economy, and leadership. Through thought-provoking discussions and real-world case studies, you’ll gain strategic insights to anticipate trends, embrace innovation, and lead transformative change in a complex global environment.
Location: Lausanne.
Strategy for Future-Readiness demystifies the concept of being future-ready, offering you concrete ways to rejuvenate, reinvent, and optimize your core business, while creating new sources of competitive advantage.
Location: Lausanne.
Building Digital Ecosystems helps you drive strategic growth by leveraging AI, digital networks, and strategic partnerships. In this hands-on program, you’ll craft your own ecosystem strategy, gaining the tools and insights needed to scale innovation, deepen customer value, and lead in the digital age.
Location: Lausanne.
Strategic Finance explores the latest economic and financial trends, and highlights solutions to some of today’s key financial challenges, including value creation, digital transformation in finance, and sustainable finance.
Location: Lausanne.
Driving Sustainability from the Boardroom enables you to fulfill your role of influencing and steering the integration of sustainability into your company's strategy. In collaboration with WBSCD.
Location: Lausanne.
Women on Boards will help you, a female executive, secure a board mandate that fits your profile by enabling you to set realistic expectations, raise your visibility and bolster your leadership presence.
Location: Lausanne.
AI Strategy and Implementation gives you the tools to turn AI potential into real business impact. In just five days, you’ll learn to align AI with your strategy, navigate implementation challenges, and build data-driven solutions that create lasting value.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading your Family Office is designed to guide families through the complexities of establishing and overseeing a Single-Family Office, and preserving and transferring their wealth, values and heritage to future generations.
Location: Lausanne.
Role of the Chair gives you a deep understanding of how impactful board chairs fulfil their role and responsibilities, and the practices and behaviors they adopt when holding the board to its highest standard as it serves its governance mission.
Location: Lausanne.
Stakeholder Management for Boards equips you with practical tools to work effectively on stakeholder engagement for organizational and social benefit.
Location: Lausanne.
Finance for Boards provides you with an essential foundation in finance from a board-level perspective, enabling you to better understand what drives a company’s performance and make decisions that create long-term value.
Location: Lausanne.
Strategy Governance for Boards enables you to play a meaningful, advisory role in the governance of your firm’s strategy within the context of an increasingly complex business landscape.
Location: Lausanne.
High Performance Boards examines issues related to supervisory board performance and effectiveness. The program draws on more than 40 years of research and board education experience,
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Digital and AI Transformation helps you cut through complexity to drive successful, AI-enabled change. You'll explore key trends, learn from real cases, and leave with a clear, customized roadmap to lead your organization’s digital transformation.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Digital Execution equips you with the leadership, organizational, and digital skills needed to turn your digital vision into reality. Over five days, you’ll build agility, lead cultural change, and gain practical tools to drive successful transformation in a fast-moving, tech-driven world.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading High-Performance Teams equips you with practical tools to build trust, foster inclusive leadership, and unlock your team’s talent and innovation to drive performance and growth.
Location: Lausanne.
AI Strategy and Implementation gives you the tools to turn AI potential into real business impact. In just five days, you’ll learn to align AI with your strategy, navigate implementation challenges, and build data-driven solutions that create lasting value.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading your Family Business is designed to empower you with practical strategies and governance structures to manage, grow and innovate your family business for multi-generational success.
Location: Lausanne.
Strategies for Leadership is a highly experiential and immersive leadership program that empowers senior women executives to navigate the unique challenges they face, overcome limiting biases, and lead with greater confidence, impact, and influence.
Location: Lausanne.
Women on Boards will help you, a female executive, secure a board mandate that fits your profile by enabling you to set realistic expectations, raise your visibility and bolster your leadership presence.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Digital and AI Transformation helps you cut through complexity to drive successful, AI-enabled change. You'll explore key trends, learn from real cases, and leave with a clear, customized roadmap to lead your organization’s digital transformation.
Location: Lausanne.
Strategy Governance for Boards enables you to play a meaningful, advisory role in the governance of your firm’s strategy within the context of an increasingly complex business landscape.
Location: Lausanne.
Boards and Risks enables you to benchmark best risk practices and update your risk thinking.
Location: Singapore.
Future-Proofing your Business Family is IMD Asia’s flagship program dedicated to helping business families prepare for the future through strengthening their business and family governance.
Location: Lausanne.
Team Dynamics for Boards empowers you to drive positive dynamics in your board through a deeper awareness of what happens below the surface when groups interact.
Location: Lausanne.
Innovate with AI and Tech empowers you to harness emerging technologies like AI, robotics, and quantum computing to drive business innovation and growth. In partnership with EPFL, this program helps you identify high-impact opportunities, develop an innovator’s mindset, and make confident, strategic tech decisions.
Location: Lausanne.
High Performance Boards examines issues related to supervisory board performance and effectiveness. The program draws on more than 40 years of research and board education experience,
Location: Lausanne.
Innovate with AI and Tech empowers you to harness emerging technologies like AI, robotics, and quantum computing to drive business innovation and growth. In partnership with EPFL, this program helps you identify high-impact opportunities, develop an innovator’s mindset, and make confident, strategic tech decisions.
Location: Gstaad.
The program enables High Performance Leadership and Inspirational Leadership alumni to step back, reflect, and refocus - renewing their energy and perspective to lead themselves and others more effectively.
Location: Lausanne.
Negotiating for Value Creation is designed for leaders and executives who face complex negotiations. This program enables you to master value creation techniques through the use of multiple frameworks and specific simulations.
Location: Lausanne.
Strategic Finance explores the latest economic and financial trends, and highlights solutions to some of today’s key financial challenges, including value creation, digital transformation in finance, and sustainable finance.
Location: Lausanne.
AI Strategy and Implementation gives you the tools to turn AI potential into real business impact. In just five days, you’ll learn to align AI with your strategy, navigate implementation challenges, and build data-driven solutions that create lasting value.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading High-Performance Teams equips you with practical tools to build trust, foster inclusive leadership, and unlock your team’s talent and innovation to drive performance and growth.
Location: Lausanne.
Reinventing Luxury Lab is an experiment-driven strategy program that enables you, an executive or professional from the luxury industry, to prototype and field-proof the key elements you need to make your brand resilient and enduring.
Location: Lausanne.
Driving Sustainability from the Boardroom enables you to fulfill your role of influencing and steering the integration of sustainability into your company's strategy. In collaboration with WBSCD.
Location: Lausanne.
Role of the Chair gives you a deep understanding of how impactful board chairs fulfil their role and responsibilities, and the practices and behaviors they adopt when holding the board to its highest standard as it serves its governance mission.
Location: Singapore.
Digital and AI Accelerator Program fast-tracks your path to digital leadership with immersive, hands-on learning led by top experts. In just five days, you'll gain cutting-edge strategies, practical tools, and a strong peer network to confidently drive digital and AI transformation in your organization.
Location: Lausanne.
Stakeholder Management for Boards equips you with practical tools to work effectively on stakeholder engagement for organizational and social benefit.
Location: Lausanne.
Team Dynamics for Boards empowers you to drive positive dynamics in your board through a deeper awareness of what happens below the surface when groups interact.
Location: Lausanne.
Finance for Boards provides you with an essential foundation in finance from a board-level perspective, enabling you to better understand what drives a company’s performance and make decisions that create long-term value.
Location: Lausanne.
Building Digital Ecosystems helps you drive strategic growth by leveraging AI, digital networks, and strategic partnerships. In this hands-on program, you’ll craft your own ecosystem strategy, gaining the tools and insights needed to scale innovation, deepen customer value, and lead in the digital age.
Location: Lausanne.
High Performance Boards examines issues related to supervisory board performance and effectiveness. The program draws on more than 40 years of research and board education experience,
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Digital and AI Transformation helps you cut through complexity to drive successful, AI-enabled change. You'll explore key trends, learn from real cases, and leave with a clear, customized roadmap to lead your organization’s digital transformation.
Location: Lausanne.
Strategy for Future-Readiness demystifies the concept of being future-ready, offering you concrete ways to rejuvenate, reinvent, and optimize your core business, while creating new sources of competitive advantage.
Location: Riyadh.
Leading Digital and AI Transformation helps you cut through complexity to drive successful, AI-enabled change. You'll explore key trends, learn from real cases, and leave with a clear, customized roadmap to lead your organization’s digital transformation.
Location: Lausanne.
AI Strategy and Implementation gives you the tools to turn AI potential into real business impact. In just five days, you’ll learn to align AI with your strategy, navigate implementation challenges, and build data-driven solutions that create lasting value.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Digital and AI Transformation helps you cut through complexity to drive successful, AI-enabled change. You'll explore key trends, learn from real cases, and leave with a clear, customized roadmap to lead your organization’s digital transformation.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Digital Execution equips you with the leadership, organizational, and digital skills needed to turn your digital vision into reality. Over five days, you’ll build agility, lead cultural change, and gain practical tools to drive successful transformation in a fast-moving, tech-driven world.
Location: Lausanne.
AI Strategy and Implementation gives you the tools to turn AI potential into real business impact. In just five days, you’ll learn to align AI with your strategy, navigate implementation challenges, and build data-driven solutions that create lasting value.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Digital and AI Transformation helps you cut through complexity to drive successful, AI-enabled change. You'll explore key trends, learn from real cases, and leave with a clear, customized roadmap to lead your organization’s digital transformation.
Location: Lausanne.
Innovate with AI and Tech empowers you to harness emerging technologies like AI, robotics, and quantum computing to drive business innovation and growth. In partnership with EPFL, this program helps you identify high-impact opportunities, develop an innovator’s mindset, and make confident, strategic tech decisions.
Location: Lausanne.
Building Digital Ecosystems helps you drive strategic growth by leveraging AI, digital networks, and strategic partnerships. In this hands-on program, you’ll craft your own ecosystem strategy, gaining the tools and insights needed to scale innovation, deepen customer value, and lead in the digital age.
Location: Lausanne.
AI Strategy and Implementation gives you the tools to turn AI potential into real business impact. In just five days, you’ll learn to align AI with your strategy, navigate implementation challenges, and build data-driven solutions that create lasting value.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading your Family Office is designed to guide families through the complexities of establishing and overseeing a Single-Family Office, and preserving and transferring their wealth, values and heritage to future generations.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Digital and AI Transformation helps you cut through complexity to drive successful, AI-enabled change. You'll explore key trends, learn from real cases, and leave with a clear, customized roadmap to lead your organization’s digital transformation.
Location: Lausanne.
AI Strategy and Implementation gives you the tools to turn AI potential into real business impact. In just five days, you’ll learn to align AI with your strategy, navigate implementation challenges, and build data-driven solutions that create lasting value.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Digital and AI Transformation helps you cut through complexity to drive successful, AI-enabled change. You'll explore key trends, learn from real cases, and leave with a clear, customized roadmap to lead your organization’s digital transformation.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Digital Execution equips you with the leadership, organizational, and digital skills needed to turn your digital vision into reality. Over five days, you’ll build agility, lead cultural change, and gain practical tools to drive successful transformation in a fast-moving, tech-driven world.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Digital Execution equips you with the leadership, organizational, and digital skills needed to turn your digital vision into reality. Over five days, you’ll build agility, lead cultural change, and gain practical tools to drive successful transformation in a fast-moving, tech-driven world.
Location: Lausanne.
Innovate with AI and Tech empowers you to harness emerging technologies like AI, robotics, and quantum computing to drive business innovation and growth. In partnership with EPFL, this program helps you identify high-impact opportunities, develop an innovator’s mindset, and make confident, strategic tech decisions.
Location: Lausanne.
AI Strategy and Implementation gives you the tools to turn AI potential into real business impact. In just five days, you’ll learn to align AI with your strategy, navigate implementation challenges, and build data-driven solutions that create lasting value.
Location: Singapore.
Digital and AI Accelerator Program fast-tracks your path to digital leadership with immersive, hands-on learning led by top experts. In just five days, you'll gain cutting-edge strategies, practical tools, and a strong peer network to confidently drive digital and AI transformation in your organization.
Location: Lausanne.
Building Digital Ecosystems helps you drive strategic growth by leveraging AI, digital networks, and strategic partnerships. In this hands-on program, you’ll craft your own ecosystem strategy, gaining the tools and insights needed to scale innovation, deepen customer value, and lead in the digital age.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading your Family Office is designed to guide families through the complexities of establishing and overseeing a Single-Family Office, and preserving and transferring their wealth, values and heritage to future generations.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Digital and AI Transformation helps you cut through complexity to drive successful, AI-enabled change. You'll explore key trends, learn from real cases, and leave with a clear, customized roadmap to lead your organization’s digital transformation.
Location: Lausanne.
High Performance Leadership puts you at the center of the learning journey - using your own leadership as the case study - to uncover deep-rooted patterns, build mental focus, and unlock the self-mastery needed to lead with purpose, courage, and impact.
Location: Lausanne.
Driving Strategic Innovation empowers you to explore your own approach and style to innovation and leave with a roadmap which supports your company’s strategic goals and accelerates change.
Location: Singapore.
High Performance Leadership puts you at the center of the learning journey - using your own leadership as the case study - to uncover deep-rooted patterns, build mental focus, and unlock the self-mastery needed to lead with purpose, courage, and impact.
Location: Lausanne.
Foundations for Business Leadership helps you master core business functions and how they integrate, navigate emerging trends like AI and ESG, and apply your learning directly to your business context. You'll gain the skills and confidence to lead through complexity and deliver lasting value for your organization.
Location: Lausanne.
Mobilizing People is a deeply experiential leadership program for seasoned executives, combining self-discovery, team dynamics, learning-by-doing, and intensive coaching to transform how you lead yourself and others.
Location: Lausanne.
Strategies for Leadership is a highly experiential and immersive leadership program that empowers senior women executives to navigate the unique challenges they face, overcome limiting biases, and lead with greater confidence, impact, and influence.
Location: Lausanne.
High Performance Leadership puts you at the center of the learning journey - using your own leadership as the case study - to uncover deep-rooted patterns, build mental focus, and unlock the self-mastery needed to lead with purpose, courage, and impact.
Location: Lausanne.
Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives is an intense 10-day experience designed to help you reframe your mindset, overcome complex challenges, and achieve lasting impact. Through expert guidance and peer exchange, you’ll gain fresh insights, renewed energy, and practical tools to unlock breakthroughs in both your personal and professional life.
Location: Lausanne.
IMD’s signature program, Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP), is a one-of-a-kind learning experience that combines world-class faculty, visionary keynotes, cutting-edge insights, and a global network. It runs twice a year, face-to-face in Lausanne and in Singapore, and it brings together hundreds of global executives for 5 intensive days to address today’s critical issues such as economic shifts, market fragmentation, and rapid tech disruption. Customize your journey by choosing the topics that matter most to you, and build lasting connections within a powerful international network.
Location: Lausanne.
Mobilizing People is a deeply experiential leadership program for seasoned executives, combining self-discovery, team dynamics, learning-by-doing, and intensive coaching to transform how you lead yourself and others.
Location: Lausanne.
Foundations for Business Leadership helps you master core business functions and how they integrate, navigate emerging trends like AI and ESG, and apply your learning directly to your business context. You'll gain the skills and confidence to lead through complexity and deliver lasting value for your organization.
Location: Lausanne.
Mobilizing People is a deeply experiential leadership program for seasoned executives, combining self-discovery, team dynamics, learning-by-doing, and intensive coaching to transform how you lead yourself and others.
Location: Lausanne.
High Performance Leadership puts you at the center of the learning journey - using your own leadership as the case study - to uncover deep-rooted patterns, build mental focus, and unlock the self-mastery needed to lead with purpose, courage, and impact.
Location: Lausanne.
Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives is an intense 10-day experience designed to help you reframe your mindset, overcome complex challenges, and achieve lasting impact. Through expert guidance and peer exchange, you’ll gain fresh insights, renewed energy, and practical tools to unlock breakthroughs in both your personal and professional life.
Location: Boston, US.
Driving Strategic Innovation empowers you to explore your own approach and style to innovation and leave with a roadmap which supports your company’s strategic goals and accelerates change.
Location: Lausanne.
High Performance Leadership puts you at the center of the learning journey - using your own leadership as the case study - to uncover deep-rooted patterns, build mental focus, and unlock the self-mastery needed to lead with purpose, courage, and impact.
Location: Lausanne.
Mobilizing People is a deeply experiential leadership program for seasoned executives, combining self-discovery, team dynamics, learning-by-doing, and intensive coaching to transform how you lead yourself and others.
Location: Singapore.
IMD’s signature program, Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP), is a one-of-a-kind learning experience that combines world-class faculty, visionary keynotes, cutting-edge insights, and a global network. It runs twice a year, face-to-face in Lausanne and in Singapore, and it brings together hundreds of global executives for 5 intensive days to address today’s critical issues such as economic shifts, market fragmentation, and rapid tech disruption. Customize your journey by choosing the topics that matter most to you, and build lasting connections within a powerful international network.
Location: Singapore.
High Performance Leadership puts you at the center of the learning journey - using your own leadership as the case study - to uncover deep-rooted patterns, build mental focus, and unlock the self-mastery needed to lead with purpose, courage, and impact.
Location: Lausanne.
Foundations for Business Leadership helps you master core business functions and how they integrate, navigate emerging trends like AI and ESG, and apply your learning directly to your business context. You'll gain the skills and confidence to lead through complexity and deliver lasting value for your organization.
Location: Lausanne.
Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives is an intense 10-day experience designed to help you reframe your mindset, overcome complex challenges, and achieve lasting impact. Through expert guidance and peer exchange, you’ll gain fresh insights, renewed energy, and practical tools to unlock breakthroughs in both your personal and professional life.
Location: Lausanne.
High Performance Leadership puts you at the center of the learning journey - using your own leadership as the case study - to uncover deep-rooted patterns, build mental focus, and unlock the self-mastery needed to lead with purpose, courage, and impact.
Location: Lausanne.
Transition to Business Leadership prepares you to step up from functional expertise to enterprise-wide leadership, building the confidence and influence to lead at the highest levels. You'll develop strategic vision, strengthen your leadership presence, and learn to drive change across your organization and beyond.
Location: Lausanne.
Transition to Business Leadership prepares you to step up from functional expertise to enterprise-wide leadership, building the confidence and influence to lead at the highest levels. You'll develop strategic vision, strengthen your leadership presence, and learn to drive change across your organization and beyond.
Location: Lausanne.
Transition to Business Leadership prepares you to step up from functional expertise to enterprise-wide leadership, building the confidence and influence to lead at the highest levels. You'll develop strategic vision, strengthen your leadership presence, and learn to drive change across your organization and beyond.
Inspirational Leadership empowers you to accelerate your leadership impact by deepening self-awareness, building resilience, managing conflict, and shaping a culture of high performance.
Strategic Thinking empowers you with the tools and confidence to tackle key challenges, make impactful strategic decisions, and design strategies aligned with your organizational culture.
Strategy Execution equips you with the tools and skills to pilot and steer strategic initiatives - aligning people, processes, and priorities to turn vision into action.
Advanced Leadership equips you with next-level skills to share power, influence strategically, and lead with impact across complex systems and stakeholders.
Leadership Essentials enables you to discover what drives your leadership effectiveness and gain the essential tools to influence others, handle difficult conversations, and understand what makes teams work well.
Mastering Board Governance equips you with a deep understanding of the principles and practices of good governance, and the roles and responsibilities of a board.
Change Management is designed to help you successfully manage your organizational change initiatives – from envisioning the change to mobilizing the people and processes that will bring the change to life.
Complex Problem Solving equips you with a practical three-step approach - Frame, Explore, Decide (FrED) - to analyze complex challenges, think strategically, and make better decisions as a leader.
Crisis Management equips you with practical insights to lead through disruption - overcome biases, communicate with clarity, restore trust, and prepare your organization for future crises.
Developing Digital Transformation Strategies equips you with the strategic insight and frameworks to design and lead successful digital transformation across your organization.
Disruptive Innovation equips you with concrete techniques to help you nurture a culture of innovation within a team or organization by maximizing the talent and creativity of those around you.
Organizational Leadership equips you with practical tools to shape organizational culture and drive sustained performance through agile, focused leadership.
Digital Transformation Sprint helps you turn digital disruption into opportunity by mastering how to create value and agility in a fast-changing world. In this short, high-impact program, you’ll learn from digital pioneers, study real-world cases, and leave with a clear, actionable roadmap for leading successful digital transformation.
Cut through the hype and discover how generative AI can create real value for your business with IMD Generative AI for Business Sprint. This program explores practical applications, common implementation pitfalls, and key ethical issues through real-world business examples.
Unlock your creative potential and turn ideas into impactful solutions with this two-week Sprint program. Drawing on insights from innovators across business, design, sports, and science, you'll learn practical tools to boost creativity, generate better ideas, and confidently drive innovation in your own context.
Business Analytics for Leaders provides you with a high-level understanding of big data and digital analytics, along with practical tools to shape and drive your data strategy.
Business Finance boosts your financial confidence and equips you with a clear understanding of your own company's financials - and the impact you can make on them.
Digital Transformation in Practice equips you with best practices, real-world insights, and proven tools to overcome common pitfalls and successfully implement your organization’s digital transformation.
Marketing Strategy in the Digital Age enables you to rethink your marketing strategy and value creation through the lens of digital.
Designed to help you discover stress-busting strategies and tools that enable you to quickly recover, create healthy and sustainable workplaces and practices and to boost your resilience so that you and your teams can thrive at work and beyond.
Changing Employee Behavior equips you with practical tools grounded in behavioral science to better understand what drives your people, ignite performance, and foster a culture of motivation, growth, and sustainable change.
Inspirational Leadership empowers you to accelerate your leadership impact by deepening self-awareness, building resilience, managing conflict, and shaping a culture of high performance.
IMD’s Leading Behavioral Change program provides you with science-based tools and techniques to help your teams grow, perform, and adapt in a fast-changing world.
Strategic Thinking empowers you with the tools and confidence to tackle key challenges, make impactful strategic decisions, and design strategies aligned with your organizational culture.
Strategy Execution equips you with the tools and skills to pilot and steer strategic initiatives - aligning people, processes, and priorities to turn vision into action.
Location: liVe Virtual.
The First 90 Days® equips you with a proven framework to avoid common leadership transition traps, define must-win battles, and accelerate your impact in the first 90 days of a new role.
Cut through the hype and discover how generative AI can create real value for your business with IMD Generative AI for Business Sprint. This program explores practical applications, common implementation pitfalls, and key ethical issues through real-world business examples.
Advanced Leadership equips you with next-level skills to share power, influence strategically, and lead with impact across complex systems and stakeholders.
Cut through the hype and discover how generative AI can create real value for your business with IMD Generative AI for Business Sprint. This program explores practical applications, common implementation pitfalls, and key ethical issues through real-world business examples.
Leadership Essentials enables you to discover what drives your leadership effectiveness and gain the essential tools to influence others, handle difficult conversations, and understand what makes teams work well.
Mastering Board Governance equips you with a deep understanding of the principles and practices of good governance, and the roles and responsibilities of a board.
Organizational Leadership equips you with practical tools to shape organizational culture and drive sustained performance through agile, focused leadership.
Winning Sustainability Strategies is designed to help you integrate sustainability into your strategy, ensuring your business remains competitive, resilient, and future-fit amidst a shifting regulatory landscape.
Inspirational Leadership empowers you to accelerate your leadership impact by deepening self-awareness, building resilience, managing conflict, and shaping a culture of high performance.
Strategic Thinking empowers you with the tools and confidence to tackle key challenges, make impactful strategic decisions, and design strategies aligned with your organizational culture.
Advanced Leadership equips you with next-level skills to share power, influence strategically, and lead with impact across complex systems and stakeholders.
Business Finance boosts your financial confidence and equips you with a clear understanding of your own company's financials - and the impact you can make on them.
Complex Problem Solving equips you with a practical three-step approach - Frame, Explore, Decide (FrED) - to analyze complex challenges, think strategically, and make better decisions as a leader.
Digital Transformation Sprint helps you turn digital disruption into opportunity by mastering how to create value and agility in a fast-changing world. In this short, high-impact program, you’ll learn from digital pioneers, study real-world cases, and leave with a clear, actionable roadmap for leading successful digital transformation.
Leadership Essentials enables you to discover what drives your leadership effectiveness and gain the essential tools to influence others, handle difficult conversations, and understand what makes teams work well.
Change Management is designed to help you successfully manage your organizational change initiatives – from envisioning the change to mobilizing the people and processes that will bring the change to life.
Crisis Management equips you with practical insights to lead through disruption - overcome biases, communicate with clarity, restore trust, and prepare your organization for future crises.
Location: liVe Virtual.
The First 90 Days® equips you with a proven framework to avoid common leadership transition traps, define must-win battles, and accelerate your impact in the first 90 days of a new role.
Unlock your creative potential and turn ideas into impactful solutions with this two-week Sprint program. Drawing on insights from innovators across business, design, sports, and science, you'll learn practical tools to boost creativity, generate better ideas, and confidently drive innovation in your own context.
Developing Digital Transformation Strategies equips you with the strategic insight and frameworks to design and lead successful digital transformation across your organization.
Marketing Strategy in the Digital Age enables you to rethink your marketing strategy and value creation through the lens of digital.
Organizational Leadership equips you with practical tools to shape organizational culture and drive sustained performance through agile, focused leadership.
Designed to help you discover stress-busting strategies and tools that enable you to quickly recover, create healthy and sustainable workplaces and practices and to boost your resilience so that you and your teams can thrive at work and beyond.
IMD’s Leading Behavioral Change program provides you with science-based tools and techniques to help your teams grow, perform, and adapt in a fast-changing world.
Business Analytics for Leaders provides you with a high-level understanding of big data and digital analytics, along with practical tools to shape and drive your data strategy.
Changing Employee Behavior equips you with practical tools grounded in behavioral science to better understand what drives your people, ignite performance, and foster a culture of motivation, growth, and sustainable change.
Cut through the hype and discover how generative AI can create real value for your business with IMD Generative AI for Business Sprint. This program explores practical applications, common implementation pitfalls, and key ethical issues through real-world business examples.
Cut through the hype and discover how generative AI can create real value for your business with IMD Generative AI for Business Sprint. This program explores practical applications, common implementation pitfalls, and key ethical issues through real-world business examples.
IMD’s Leading Behavioral Change program provides you with science-based tools and techniques to help your teams grow, perform, and adapt in a fast-changing world.
Strategy Execution equips you with the tools and skills to pilot and steer strategic initiatives - aligning people, processes, and priorities to turn vision into action.
Inspirational Leadership empowers you to accelerate your leadership impact by deepening self-awareness, building resilience, managing conflict, and shaping a culture of high performance.
Strategic Thinking empowers you with the tools and confidence to tackle key challenges, make impactful strategic decisions, and design strategies aligned with your organizational culture.
Digital Transformation in Practice equips you with best practices, real-world insights, and proven tools to overcome common pitfalls and successfully implement your organization’s digital transformation.
Disruptive Innovation equips you with concrete techniques to help you nurture a culture of innovation within a team or organization by maximizing the talent and creativity of those around you.
Mastering Board Governance equips you with a deep understanding of the principles and practices of good governance, and the roles and responsibilities of a board.
Advanced Leadership equips you with next-level skills to share power, influence strategically, and lead with impact across complex systems and stakeholders.
Change Management is designed to help you successfully manage your organizational change initiatives – from envisioning the change to mobilizing the people and processes that will bring the change to life.
Leadership Essentials enables you to discover what drives your leadership effectiveness and gain the essential tools to influence others, handle difficult conversations, and understand what makes teams work well.
Winning Sustainability Strategies is designed to help you integrate sustainability into your strategy, ensuring your business remains competitive, resilient, and future-fit amidst a shifting regulatory landscape.
Digital Transformation Sprint helps you turn digital disruption into opportunity by mastering how to create value and agility in a fast-changing world. In this short, high-impact program, you’ll learn from digital pioneers, study real-world cases, and leave with a clear, actionable roadmap for leading successful digital transformation.
Location: live virtual
The First 90 Days® equips you with a proven framework to avoid common leadership transition traps, define must-win battles, and accelerate your impact in the first 90 days of a new role.
Inspirational Leadership empowers you to accelerate your leadership impact by deepening self-awareness, building resilience, managing conflict, and shaping a culture of high performance.
Strategic Thinking empowers you with the tools and confidence to tackle key challenges, make impactful strategic decisions, and design strategies aligned with your organizational culture.
Strategy Execution equips you with the tools and skills to pilot and steer strategic initiatives - aligning people, processes, and priorities to turn vision into action.
Advanced Leadership equips you with next-level skills to share power, influence strategically, and lead with impact across complex systems and stakeholders.
Leadership Essentials enables you to discover what drives your leadership effectiveness and gain the essential tools to influence others, handle difficult conversations, and understand what makes teams work well.
Mastering Board Governance equips you with a deep understanding of the principles and practices of good governance, and the roles and responsibilities of a board.
Complex Problem Solving equips you with a practical three-step approach - Frame, Explore, Decide (FrED) - to analyze complex challenges, think strategically, and make better decisions as a leader.
Disruptive Innovation equips you with concrete techniques to help you nurture a culture of innovation within a team or organization by maximizing the talent and creativity of those around you.
Organizational Leadership equips you with practical tools to shape organizational culture and drive sustained performance through agile, focused leadership.
Business Analytics for Leaders provides you with a high-level understanding of big data and digital analytics, along with practical tools to shape and drive your data strategy.
Marketing Strategy in the Digital Age enables you to rethink your marketing strategy and value creation through the lens of digital.
Business Finance boosts your financial confidence and equips you with a clear understanding of your own company's financials - and the impact you can make on them.
Digital Transformation in Practice equips you with best practices, real-world insights, and proven tools to overcome common pitfalls and successfully implement your organization’s digital transformation.
Inspirational Leadership empowers you to accelerate your leadership impact by deepening self-awareness, building resilience, managing conflict, and shaping a culture of high performance.
IMD’s Leading Behavioral Change program provides you with science-based tools and techniques to help your teams grow, perform, and adapt in a fast-changing world.
Strategic Thinking empowers you with the tools and confidence to tackle key challenges, make impactful strategic decisions, and design strategies aligned with your organizational culture.
Strategy Execution equips you with the tools and skills to pilot and steer strategic initiatives - aligning people, processes, and priorities to turn vision into action.
Advanced Leadership equips you with next-level skills to share power, influence strategically, and lead with impact across complex systems and stakeholders.
Leadership Essentials enables you to discover what drives your leadership effectiveness and gain the essential tools to influence others, handle difficult conversations, and understand what makes teams work well.
Mastering Board Governance equips you with a deep understanding of the principles and practices of good governance, and the roles and responsibilities of a board.
Organizational Leadership equips you with practical tools to shape organizational culture and drive sustained performance through agile, focused leadership.
Winning Sustainability Strategies is designed to help you integrate sustainability into your strategy, ensuring your business remains competitive, resilient, and future-fit amidst a shifting regulatory landscape.
Inspirational Leadership empowers you to accelerate your leadership impact by deepening self-awareness, building resilience, managing conflict, and shaping a culture of high performance.
Strategic Thinking empowers you with the tools and confidence to tackle key challenges, make impactful strategic decisions, and design strategies aligned with your organizational culture.
Advanced Leadership equips you with next-level skills to share power, influence strategically, and lead with impact across complex systems and stakeholders.
Business Finance boosts your financial confidence and equips you with a clear understanding of your own company's financials - and the impact you can make on them.
Complex Problem Solving equips you with a practical three-step approach - Frame, Explore, Decide (FrED) - to analyze complex challenges, think strategically, and make better decisions as a leader.
Leadership Essentials enables you to discover what drives your leadership effectiveness and gain the essential tools to influence others, handle difficult conversations, and understand what makes teams work well.
Marketing Strategy in the Digital Age enables you to rethink your marketing strategy and value creation through the lens of digital.
Organizational Leadership equips you with practical tools to shape organizational culture and drive sustained performance through agile, focused leadership.
Business Analytics for Leaders provides you with a high-level understanding of big data and digital analytics, along with practical tools to shape and drive your data strategy.
Strategy Execution equips you with the tools and skills to pilot and steer strategic initiatives - aligning people, processes, and priorities to turn vision into action.
Inspirational Leadership empowers you to accelerate your leadership impact by deepening self-awareness, building resilience, managing conflict, and shaping a culture of high performance.
Strategic Thinking empowers you with the tools and confidence to tackle key challenges, make impactful strategic decisions, and design strategies aligned with your organizational culture.
Digital Transformation in Practice equips you with best practices, real-world insights, and proven tools to overcome common pitfalls and successfully implement your organization’s digital transformation.
Disruptive Innovation equips you with concrete techniques to help you nurture a culture of innovation within a team or organization by maximizing the talent and creativity of those around you.
Mastering Board Governance equips you with a deep understanding of the principles and practices of good governance, and the roles and responsibilities of a board.
Leadership Essentials enables you to discover what drives your leadership effectiveness and gain the essential tools to influence others, handle difficult conversations, and understand what makes teams work well.
Winning Sustainability Strategies is designed to help you integrate sustainability into your strategy, ensuring your business remains competitive, resilient, and future-fit amidst a shifting regulatory landscape.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Sustainable Business Transformation equips you to embed sustainability into strategy, operations, and culture, using a three-lens approach that integrates strategic foresight (head), leadership qualities (heart) & practical action (hands).
Future Leaders is an intensive, experiential program designed to accelerate the development of rising leaders by strengthening their leadership capabilities, business acumen, and innovative thinking. Through immersive activities, including a transformative Alpine weekend, it builds self-awareness, resilience, and strategic insight to lead with purpose and drive long-term value.
The program equips you with essential general management skills through deep dives into topics like strategy, finance, marketing, and negotiation, combined with real-world consulting projects. With a flexible blended format, it fosters personal leadership growth, peer collaboration, and practical application to ensure participants drive high performance and lasting organizational impact.
Integrating Sustainability into Strategy empowers you to revisit your business strategy through a sustainability lens to maximize value for customers, drive growth, and deliver both economic and environmental impact.
Location: Lausanne.
Transformational Leader takes you on a powerful four-stage journey - mindful, resilient, adaptive, and evolving - to unlock your full leadership potential through deep self-exploration and ongoing growth.
Creating Value in the Circular Economy turns circular economy theory into actionable strategies to build a more resilient, regenerative, and competitive business.
Location: Lausanne & Singapore.
IMD C-Suite Program is a five-month journey designed to help senior leaders master the transition to C-level roles. Through immersive modules, executive coaching, and tailored mentoring, you’ll gain the strategic skills, confidence, and clarity to lead effectively, navigate complex stakeholder dynamics, and deliver impact at the top.
Advanced Management Program (AMP) empowers senior leaders to navigate uncertainty, rethink strategy, and lead boldly in a rapidly evolving business landscape. Centered around your own business challenge, the program equips you with the strategic insight and leadership skills to drive transformation, build resilience, and secure long-term growth.
Leading Sustainable Change equips you with the leadership skills to drive meaningful and lasting sustainability transformation within your organization.
Managing and Measuring Sustainability Impact provides a comprehensive view of sustainability measurement, equipping you with the insights to not only meet regulatory mandates but also leverage sustainability as a strategic advantage.
Location: Lausanne.
This program addresses the challenges created by today's hyper-competitive, omni-channel environment and explores your opportunities to develop a digital supply chain that is resilient, sustainable, customer responsive and profitable.
Advanced Management Program (AMP) empowers senior leaders to navigate uncertainty, rethink strategy, and lead boldly in a rapidly evolving business landscape. Centered around your own business challenge, the program equips you with the strategic insight and leadership skills to drive transformation, build resilience, and secure long-term growth.
Future Leaders is an intensive, experiential program designed to accelerate the development of rising leaders by strengthening their leadership capabilities, business acumen, and innovative thinking. Through immersive activities, including a transformative Alpine weekend, it builds self-awareness, resilience, and strategic insight to lead with purpose and drive long-term value.
Location: IMD campus, UEFA and IOC Headquarters.
Innovation in Action helps put your entrepreneurial thinking into practice with a real-world innovation challenge. Bolster your leadership skills and apply what you have learned to your own business with a concrete action plan. In collaboration with IOC & UEFA.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Sustainable Business Transformation equips you to embed sustainability into strategy, operations, and culture, using a three-lens approach that integrates strategic foresight (head), leadership qualities (heart) & practical action (hands).
The program equips you with essential general management skills through deep dives into topics like strategy, finance, marketing, and negotiation, combined with real-world consulting projects. With a flexible blended format, it fosters personal leadership growth, peer collaboration, and practical application to ensure participants drive high performance and lasting organizational impact.
Location: Lausanne.
Transformational Leader takes you on a powerful four-stage journey - mindful, resilient, adaptive, and evolving - to unlock your full leadership potential through deep self-exploration and ongoing growth.
Integrating Sustainability into Strategy empowers you to revisit your business strategy through a sustainability lens to maximize value for customers, drive growth, and deliver both economic and environmental impact.
Creating Value in the Circular Economy turns circular economy theory into actionable strategies to build a more resilient, regenerative, and competitive business.
Advanced Management Program (AMP) empowers senior leaders to navigate uncertainty, rethink strategy, and lead boldly in a rapidly evolving business landscape. Centered around your own business challenge, the program equips you with the strategic insight and leadership skills to drive transformation, build resilience, and secure long-term growth.
Leading Sustainable Change equips you with the leadership skills to drive meaningful and lasting sustainability transformation within your organization.
Managing and Measuring Sustainability Impact provides a comprehensive view of sustainability measurement, equipping you with the insights to not only meet regulatory mandates but also leverage sustainability as a strategic advantage.
Location: Lausanne.
This program addresses the challenges created by today's hyper-competitive, omni-channel environment and explores your opportunities to develop a digital supply chain that is resilient, sustainable, customer responsive and profitable.
Organizational Learning in Action empowers you and your teams to develop and implement successful learning strategies across your organization, and drive business growth as a result.
Location: Lausanne.
This program addresses the challenges created by today's hyper-competitive, omni-channel environment and explores your opportunities to develop a digital supply chain that is resilient, sustainable, customer responsive and profitable.
Location: Lausanne & Singapore.
IMD C-Suite Program is a five-month journey designed to help senior leaders master the transition to C-level roles. Through immersive modules, executive coaching, and tailored mentoring, you’ll gain the strategic skills, confidence, and clarity to lead effectively, navigate complex stakeholder dynamics, and deliver impact at the top.
Location: IMD campus and liVe.
The IMD Executive Coaching Certificate prepares you to become a skilled, high-impact executive coach - grounded in the Secure Base Coach philosophy, ready for ICF credentialing, and connected to a global community of top coaches and business leaders.
Location: Lausanne.
This program addresses the challenges created by today's hyper-competitive, omni-channel environment and explores your opportunities to develop a digital supply chain that is resilient, sustainable, customer responsive and profitable.
Location: Lausanne.
This program addresses the challenges created by today's hyper-competitive, omni-channel environment and explores your opportunities to develop a digital supply chain that is resilient, sustainable, customer responsive and profitable.
Executive Education at IMD
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Location: Lausanne.
AI Strategy and Implementation gives you the tools to turn AI potential into real business impact. In just five days, you’ll learn to align AI with your strategy, navigate implementation challenges, and build data-driven solutions that create lasting value.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Digital and AI Transformation helps you cut through complexity to drive successful, AI-enabled change. You'll explore key trends, learn from real cases, and leave with a clear, customized roadmap to lead your organization’s digital transformation.
Location: Lausanne.
AI Strategy and Implementation gives you the tools to turn AI potential into real business impact. In just five days, you’ll learn to align AI with your strategy, navigate implementation challenges, and build data-driven solutions that create lasting value.
Location: Riyadh.
Leading Digital and AI Transformation helps you cut through complexity to drive successful, AI-enabled change. You'll explore key trends, learn from real cases, and leave with a clear, customized roadmap to lead your organization’s digital transformation.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Digital and AI Transformation helps you cut through complexity to drive successful, AI-enabled change. You'll explore key trends, learn from real cases, and leave with a clear, customized roadmap to lead your organization’s digital transformation.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading your Family Office is designed to guide families through the complexities of establishing and overseeing a Single-Family Office, and preserving and transferring their wealth, values and heritage to future generations.
Location: Lausanne.
AI Strategy and Implementation gives you the tools to turn AI potential into real business impact. In just five days, you’ll learn to align AI with your strategy, navigate implementation challenges, and build data-driven solutions that create lasting value.
Location: Lausanne.
Building Digital Ecosystems helps you drive strategic growth by leveraging AI, digital networks, and strategic partnerships. In this hands-on program, you’ll craft your own ecosystem strategy, gaining the tools and insights needed to scale innovation, deepen customer value, and lead in the digital age.
Location: Lausanne.
High Performance Boards examines issues related to supervisory board performance and effectiveness. The program draws on more than 40 years of research and board education experience,
Location: Lausanne.
Finance for Boards provides you with an essential foundation in finance from a board-level perspective, enabling you to better understand what drives a company’s performance and make decisions that create long-term value.
Location: Lausanne.
Team Dynamics for Boards empowers you to drive positive dynamics in your board through a deeper awareness of what happens below the surface when groups interact.
Location: Lausanne.
Stakeholder Management for Boards equips you with practical tools to work effectively on stakeholder engagement for organizational and social benefit.
Location: Lausanne.
Role of the Chair gives you a deep understanding of how impactful board chairs fulfil their role and responsibilities, and the practices and behaviors they adopt when holding the board to its highest standard as it serves its governance mission.
Location: Lausanne.
Breakthrough Forum for Senior Executives is a dynamic three-day event where senior leaders explore breakthroughs at the intersection of geopolitics, technology, the economy, and leadership. Through thought-provoking discussions and real-world case studies, you’ll gain strategic insights to anticipate trends, embrace innovation, and lead transformative change in a complex global environment.
Location: Lausanne.
Reinventing Luxury Lab is an experiment-driven strategy program that enables you, an executive or professional from the luxury industry, to prototype and field-proof the key elements you need to make your brand resilient and enduring.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading High-Performance Teams equips you with practical tools to build trust, foster inclusive leadership, and unlock your team’s talent and innovation to drive performance and growth.
Location: Gstaad.
The program enables High Performance Leadership and Inspirational Leadership alumni to step back, reflect, and refocus - renewing their energy and perspective to lead themselves and others more effectively.
Location: Lausanne.
Driving Sustainability from the Boardroom enables you to fulfill your role of influencing and steering the integration of sustainability into your company's strategy. In collaboration with WBSCD.
Location: Lausanne.
Strategic Finance explores the latest economic and financial trends, and highlights solutions to some of today’s key financial challenges, including value creation, digital transformation in finance, and sustainable finance.
Location: Lausanne.
Innovate with AI and Tech empowers you to harness emerging technologies like AI, robotics, and quantum computing to drive business innovation and growth. In partnership with EPFL, this program helps you identify high-impact opportunities, develop an innovator’s mindset, and make confident, strategic tech decisions.
Location: IMD (Singapore) & MIT (Boston).
Future-Ready Enteprise is an immersive program, jointly delivered by MIT (Boston) and IMD (Singapore), that equips you with the strategies, frameworks and leadership mindset to design and execute business strategy and lead your organization with agility.
Location: Lausanne.
Foundations for Business Leadership helps you master core business functions and how they integrate, navigate emerging trends like AI and ESG, and apply your learning directly to your business context. You'll gain the skills and confidence to lead through complexity and deliver lasting value for your organization.
Location: Lausanne.
High Performance Leadership puts you at the center of the learning journey - using your own leadership as the case study - to uncover deep-rooted patterns, build mental focus, and unlock the self-mastery needed to lead with purpose, courage, and impact.
Location: Lausanne.
High Performance Leadership puts you at the center of the learning journey - using your own leadership as the case study - to uncover deep-rooted patterns, build mental focus, and unlock the self-mastery needed to lead with purpose, courage, and impact.
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland; Courses taught at UNIL, IMD & EPFL campuses.
The Master of Science in Sustianable Management and Technology aims at building competences along three dimensions: technology and innovation, economics and management, and sustainability. While it builds on theory and real-life applications, the program is committed to enhance personal and social skills by encouraging interdisciplinary team work on practical projects.
Location: Lausanne.
Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives is an intense 10-day experience designed to help you reframe your mindset, overcome complex challenges, and achieve lasting impact. Through expert guidance and peer exchange, you’ll gain fresh insights, renewed energy, and practical tools to unlock breakthroughs in both your personal and professional life.
Location: Lausanne.
Foundations for Business Leadership helps you master core business functions and how they integrate, navigate emerging trends like AI and ESG, and apply your learning directly to your business context. You'll gain the skills and confidence to lead through complexity and deliver lasting value for your organization.
Location: Lausanne.
High Performance Leadership puts you at the center of the learning journey - using your own leadership as the case study - to uncover deep-rooted patterns, build mental focus, and unlock the self-mastery needed to lead with purpose, courage, and impact.
Location: Lausanne.
Mobilizing People is a deeply experiential leadership program for seasoned executives, combining self-discovery, team dynamics, learning-by-doing, and intensive coaching to transform how you lead yourself and others.
Location: Singapore.
IMD’s signature program, Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP), is a one-of-a-kind learning experience that combines world-class faculty, visionary keynotes, cutting-edge insights, and a global network. It runs twice a year, face-to-face in Lausanne and in Singapore, and it brings together hundreds of global executives for 5 intensive days to address today’s critical issues such as economic shifts, market fragmentation, and rapid tech disruption. Customize your journey by choosing the topics that matter most to you, and build lasting connections within a powerful international network.
Location: Singapore.
High Performance Leadership puts you at the center of the learning journey - using your own leadership as the case study - to uncover deep-rooted patterns, build mental focus, and unlock the self-mastery needed to lead with purpose, courage, and impact.
Location: Lausanne.
The IMD Program for Executive Development is a two-stage journey that helps you transition first from functional expert to general manager, and then from general manager to enterprise leader. Through flexible learning, coaching, and a recognized executive certificate, you’ll build the strategic vision, leadership presence, and cross-functional capabilities needed to lead at the top.
Location: Lausanne, online.
The IMD Executive Certificate in AI and Digital Business Excellence is a flexible, accredited Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) worth 10 ECTS credits. It equips you with the skills, tools, and strategic frameworks to lead AI and digital transformation.
Location: Lausanne, Online.
The IMD Executive Certificate in Sustainable Business is a flexible, accredited Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) worth 14 ECTS credits. It equips you with the skills, knowledge, and strategic mindset to drive sustainable transformation.
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland, online and international locations.
The Executive Master in AI and Digital Business Transformation helps you go further — faster. You’ll gain deep expertise in AI and data-driven strategy, while developing the leadership skills to guide people, projects, and organizations through complex transformation.
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland, online and international locations.
The Executive Master in Sustainable Business Transformation helps you go further — faster. You’ll deepen your expertise in sustainability strategy, systems thinking, and ESG integration, while building the strategic skills to lead enterprise-wide change.
Location: Lausanne, Online.
The IMD Board Readiness Diploma equips executive directors and aspiring board members to confidently take up a board mandate.
The IMD Online Executive Certificate in Digital Acceleration is a flexible, accredited Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) worth 10 ECTS credits. Earned fully online, it equips you with key digital capabilities that fuel growth, transformation, and innovation.
The IMD Online Executive Certificate in Leadership is a flexible, accredited Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) worth 10 ECTS credits. Earned fully online, it equips you with the skills and confidence to lead with impact and drive high performance across your organization.
The IMD Online Executive Certificate in Strategy is a flexible, accredited Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) worth 10 ECTS credits. Earned fully online, it equips you with highly sought-after strategy skills and tools for tackling complex challenges, uncovering new business opportunities, and making smart strategic choices.
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland.
The IMD Program for Executive Development is a two-stage journey that helps you transition first from functional expert to general manager, and then from general manager to enterprise leader. Through flexible learning, coaching, and a recognized executive certificate, you’ll build the strategic vision, leadership presence, and cross-functional capabilities needed to lead at the top.
Location: liVe Virtual.
The First 90 Days® equips you with a proven framework to avoid common leadership transition traps, define must-win battles, and accelerate your impact in the first 90 days of a new role.
Location: liVe Virtual.
The First 90 Days® equips you with a proven framework to avoid common leadership transition traps, define must-win battles, and accelerate your impact in the first 90 days of a new role.
Navigating America's New Direction offers a structured, four-phase approach that moves beyond analysis to action – to help you navigate the U.S. presidential transition with confidence and build proactive, long-term strategic capabilities.
Digital Transformation Sprint helps you turn digital disruption into opportunity by mastering how to create value and agility in a fast-changing world. In this short, high-impact program, you’ll learn from digital pioneers, study real-world cases, and leave with a clear, actionable roadmap for leading successful digital transformation.
Change Management is designed to help you successfully manage your organizational change initiatives – from envisioning the change to mobilizing the people and processes that will bring the change to life.
Leadership Essentials enables you to discover what drives your leadership effectiveness and gain the essential tools to influence others, handle difficult conversations, and understand what makes teams work well.
Winning Sustainability Strategies is designed to help you integrate sustainability into your strategy, ensuring your business remains competitive, resilient, and future-fit amidst a shifting regulatory landscape.
Digital Transformation in Practice equips you with best practices, real-world insights, and proven tools to overcome common pitfalls and successfully implement your organization’s digital transformation.
Disruptive Innovation equips you with concrete techniques to help you nurture a culture of innovation within a team or organization by maximizing the talent and creativity of those around you.
Inspirational Leadership empowers you to accelerate your leadership impact by deepening self-awareness, building resilience, managing conflict, and shaping a culture of high performance.
Strategic Thinking empowers you with the tools and confidence to tackle key challenges, make impactful strategic decisions, and design strategies aligned with your organizational culture.
Business Analytics for Leaders provides you with a high-level understanding of big data and digital analytics, along with practical tools to shape and drive your data strategy.
Cut through the hype and discover how generative AI can create real value for your business with IMD Generative AI for Business Sprint. This program explores practical applications, common implementation pitfalls, and key ethical issues through real-world business examples.
Location: IMD campus and liVe.
The IMD Executive Coaching Certificate prepares you to become a skilled, high-impact executive coach - grounded in the Secure Base Coach philosophy, ready for ICF credentialing, and connected to a global community of top coaches and business leaders.
Location: Lausanne & Singapore.
IMD C-Suite Program is a five-month journey designed to help senior leaders master the transition to C-level roles. Through immersive modules, executive coaching, and tailored mentoring, you’ll gain the strategic skills, confidence, and clarity to lead effectively, navigate complex stakeholder dynamics, and deliver impact at the top.
Driving Innovative Finance for Impact helps you identify high-impact value opportunities for your organization, and gain all the necessary tools and skills to successfully manage and execute innovative financing transactions.
Location: Lausanne.
Leading Sustainable Business Transformation equips you to embed sustainability into strategy, operations, and culture, using a three-lens approach that integrates strategic foresight (head), leadership qualities (heart) & practical action (hands).
Location: Lausanne.
This program addresses the challenges created by today's hyper-competitive, omni-channel environment and explores your opportunities to develop a digital supply chain that is resilient, sustainable, customer responsive and profitable.
Future Leaders is an intensive, experiential program designed to accelerate the development of rising leaders by strengthening their leadership capabilities, business acumen, and innovative thinking. Through immersive activities, including a transformative Alpine weekend, it builds self-awareness, resilience, and strategic insight to lead with purpose and drive long-term value.
Location: IMD campus and liVe.
The IMD Executive Coaching Certificate prepares you to become a skilled, high-impact executive coach - grounded in the Secure Base Coach philosophy, ready for ICF credentialing, and connected to a global community of top coaches and business leaders.
Creating Value in the Circular Economy turns circular economy theory into actionable strategies to build a more resilient, regenerative, and competitive business.
Managing and Measuring Sustainability Impact provides a comprehensive view of sustainability measurement, equipping you with the insights to not only meet regulatory mandates but also leverage sustainability as a strategic advantage.
Leading Sustainable Change equips you with the leadership skills to drive meaningful and lasting sustainability transformation within your organization.
Advanced Management Program (AMP) empowers senior leaders to navigate uncertainty, rethink strategy, and lead boldly in a rapidly evolving business landscape. Centered around your own business challenge, the program equips you with the strategic insight and leadership skills to drive transformation, build resilience, and secure long-term growth.
Integrating Sustainability into Strategy empowers you to revisit your business strategy through a sustainability lens to maximize value for customers, drive growth, and deliver both economic and environmental impact.
Integrating Sustainability into Strategy empowers you to revisit your business strategy through a sustainability lens to maximize value for customers, drive growth, and deliver both economic and environmental impact.
Integrating Sustainability into Strategy empowers you to revisit your business strategy through a sustainability lens to maximize value for customers, drive growth, and deliver both economic and environmental impact.
Integrating Sustainability into Strategy empowers you to revisit your business strategy through a sustainability lens to maximize value for customers, drive growth, and deliver both economic and environmental impact.
Organizational Learning in Action empowers you and your teams to develop and implement successful learning strategies across your organization, and drive business growth as a result.
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland and Singapore.
The IMD MBA is designed to give you the tools, network, and global perspective to accelerate your career. Through a unique AI-enabled curriculum that offers an individualized, hands-on learning approach, you'll build the essential functional, transversal, and leadership skills to succeed in today's data-intensive business world.
The IMD EMBA offers two flexible formats to help senior professionals develop the leadership skills to navigate today's complex business world. With a convenient mix of online learning, on campus sessions, global immersion experiences, and hands-on projects, you tailor the program to your needs and circumstances, ensuring the learning is most relevant and impactful.
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