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    Your learning journey

    Your learning journey

    Experience the program

    Foundations for Business Leadership, takes you on a three-stage, intensive journey to equip you with the expanded skillset, knowledge, and confidence to successfully lead your business through complexity and into the future. This combined skillset is essential for effective general management.

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    Your priorities to deliver the most value for your business

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    Practice while you learn with integrative exercises
    Two-day business simulation

    Two weeks through the program, you take part in a two-day business simulation which integrates your learning and gives you greater insight into your business performance.

    During this dynamic, integrative exercise, you bring together all the new general management skills you have learned on Foundations for Business Leadership and put them into practice by simulating the running and growing of a company. You improve your decision-making skills and overall performance as you see how your decisions impact company results over two years.

    Two-day integration and assessment

    For the last two days of the program, you prepare an integrative team exercise to bring all the threads of the program together. You present your learning to a panel of judges of  alumni and receive your final evaluation.

    Chart your progress

    Throughout the program, you receive feedback as you develop as an effective individual and team member. You will be challenged by the work, by the faculty, and by your peers to ensure that you reach the high standards set by IMD.

    Executive Certificate – Program for Executive Development (PED)

    Foundations for Business Leadership is the first stage of IMD’s Program for Executive Development (PED). To complete PED, your second step is to take IMD’s Transition to Business Leadership program. Successful completion of both programs and exams leads to the Program for Executive Development (PED) Executive Certificate.

    Comparing Foundations for Business Leadership with Global Management Foundations

    As you transition from functional expertise to general management responsibility, IMD offers you different development options. Foundations for Business Leadership and Global Management Foundations programs represent two approaches to talent progression, each supporting your move toward broader leadership impact. You can compare both programs here.

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