Advanced High Performance Leadership

Developing your leadership capabilities is a lifelong journey. Since completing IMD’s High Performance Leadership or Inspirational Leadership program, changes have inevitably occurred in your professional and personal life, giving rise to new challenges and self-reflection. Advanced High Performance Leadership offers you a unique opportunity to spend five days in an Alpine village in Switzerland to reflect, refocus, and recharge.

After reconnecting with the key pillars of high-performance leadership and analyzing how you have embedded them into your work and life, you will define what you want to achieve during the week and develop a clear path to explore. The program’s experiential approach invites you to bring your own challenges to the table and participate in practical exercises guided by expert guest speakers. You will examine the role of emotions in leadership, how to bring to life the secure base leadership principles, and how to deal with conflict more skillfully. You will also tap into neuroscience and learn how to activate the right side of your brain to break through self-limiting patterns.

The program offers a highly interactive and immersive experience. You will engage in deep, meaningful connections within smaller groups, take part in guided meditation and reflective walks in nature, and have personalized one-on-one coaching to tackle specific issues that are holding you back. By the end of the week, you will have a clearer vision of how to continue your leadership journey and inspire the people you lead.

Refocus your mind’s eye on your renewed goals and ensure that you are playing to win rather than playing not to lose.

Engage in experiential exercises to understand the mind-body-heart connection. Experience how emotions manifest physically in leadership and explore how they influence the way you connect with others.

Bring the characteristics of secure base leadership alive through powerful exercises that will strengthen your ability to create a psychologically safe environment where your team can thrive.

Bring your own experience of difficult conversations into the program and develop your negotiation and conflict resolution skills with expert guidance and feedback.

Shape your leadership vision and leave with an action plan to guide your next steps. You will be empowered to fulfill your aspirations and help others achieve theirs.

This program is part of our broader portfolio of leadership programs for executives , designed to strengthen how you lead people, teams, and yourself, and build the kind of leadership that makes organizations perform.