IMD Business School

Advanced Management Program

IMD Business School

General Management

About Programme

AI, shifting geopolitics and new market forces are rewriting the rules of competition. The strategies, business models and assumptions that have driven your success can no longer be taken for granted. Senior leaders need to know what still holds, what needs to change, and where the next opportunities for growth lie.

The Advanced Management Program (AMP) gives you space to step outside your organization, challenge your thinking and bring fresh perspective back to your business. It sharpens your ability to turn strategy into action and builds the ambidextrous leadership required to strengthen your core business while driving transformation at the same time.

Through exchange with faculty and peers, you will see how other leaders are tackling similar challenges, pressure-test your own assumptions, and sharpen your ability to bring your organization with you. You will leave with greater clarity on where to compete and how to win.

As you gain new insight into your own real business challenge, you will sharpen your strategic choices and build them into a concrete action plan for tangible business value. You will leave AMP ready to set the strategy and mobilize your organization.

Reframe your thinking

Challenge the assumptions behind your past success and think critically about AI, geopolitics and market disruption.

Work on your own business challenge

Anchor your learning in a real challenge from your business, sharpening your strategic choices into a concrete, actionable plan for tangible value.

Get support from peers and faculty

Exchange with experienced leaders and world-class faculty to pressure-test your thinking, gain outside perspective, and turn insight into action.

Lead and inspire your organization

Align stakeholders and build the trust needed to make your strategy happen.

This program is part of our broader General Management portfolio for ambitious executives , designed to strengthen strategic leadership, drive organizational performance, and prepare leaders to navigate complex business challenges.

Programme Content

Step 1 – Reframe your thinking

LiVe virtual, 4 half-days over 1 week

In this first step, we kick off the program together to ensure that you get the best value for yourself and your organization.

You identify the business challenge you want to work on, learn a complex problem solving framework to apply to it, and start examining internal and external factors that affect your organization. In addition to complex problem-solving, key topics you will explore include macro trends and outside-in perspectives, strategy design and execution, corporate culture, and high-performance teams.

After gathering feedback on your business challenge from your team at work, you refine it further with your personal executive coach.

These liVe sessions enable you to meet the other participants and form home learning groups.

Step 2 – Explore and design your strategy

Face-to-face, 15 days

This step allows you to gain fresh insights by deep diving into foundational business topics. You will look at strategy, innovation, marketing, and finance through the lens of transformation and agility, digital disruption, artificial intelligence, sustainability, and data-driven decision making.

On top, the immersive 3-day leadership workshop in the mountains enables you to focus on self-awareness, team dynamics, and the importance of adopting a growth mindset.

Working with a global cohort of senior executives, faculty, and your own executive coach, you design your strategy and a concrete action plan to resolve your business challenge for implementation back at work.

Step 3 – Refine and take your strategy forward

Individual follow-up

During the final step, you engage with faculty and your personal executive coach to follow up on the implementation of your strategic plan and deliver real-world impact on your business.

Testimonials

"You deep dive into foundational topics such as strategy, innovation, marketing, and finance through the lens of transformation and agility, digital disruption, AI, sustainability, and data-driven decision making. It’s a fantastic networking opportunity with senior executives from diverse backgrounds. After more than 20 years’ experience, it’s a real refresher."

Anne-Laure Hussenot-Bouvet

Head of Global Quality Management System and Digital Transformation, Sanofi, Germany

"Fully relatable and relevant with up-to-date examples, constantly thinking about how business is changing and what’s working vs not working. I really enjoyed this program."

James Jackson

Co-Head Markets Product Control, Corporate and Investment Banking, Absa, South Africa

"I was genuinely inspired; not only by the content, also the way the Advanced Management Program was structured. The time working together with other participants, listening, reflecting, opened up my thinking, and I’ve become a better person because of it."

Jeroen Thijs Meijers

Director, NN GROUP, The Netherlands

"Very high-level, professional program. Intensive 15 days with an impressive intercultural mixture of participants! Thank you."

Michael Kessler

Head Asset Management Nuclear, Axpo Group, Switzerland

"So many aha moments. Clarity, precision, depth and putting all the pieces together, inspiring us to see things through a different lens. A phenomenal and inspiring program!"

Jun Maria Tan Abdullah

Senior Director, Group CEO Office, PayNet, Malaysia

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