Participants of IMD's open-enrollment program Orchestrating for Winning Performance - IMD Business School Participants of IMD's open-enrollment program Orchestrating Winning Performance - IMD Business School Participants of IMD's open-enrollment program Orchestrating Winning Performance - IMD Business School
Open-enrollment programs
Build the capabilities your organization needs next
Open-enrollment programs

Build the capabilities your organization needs next

IMD’s open-enrollment programs

For HR leaders and L&D professionals, today’s business environment brings unprecedented challenges. As external forces and new technologies reshape how organizations compete and grow, you have to juggle evolving strategic priorities with executive learning needs, while still ensuring that robust leadership pipelines are in place.

More than 75 IMD open-enrollment programs help you address these challenges, flexibly, rapidly, and at scale.

Whether you’re strengthening succession planning, preparing executives for transitions, or building expertise in key business areas, you’ll find programs aligned with your organization’s most pressing development needs.

Programs can serve as stand-alone development opportunities or be integrated into broader learning journeys.

All open-enrollment programs are designed and delivered by our faculty, globally recognized experts in their fields, who combine teaching, research, and hands-on experience working with senior leaders across industries. This ensures our programs reflect the latest thinking and the practical realities of leadership. As a result, your executives benefit from relevant, forward-looking experiences, grounded in real business challenges. The impact of their learning is tracked and measured, enabling you to demonstrate internally how your investment translates into tangible organizational benefits.

Rapid, scalable capability building

Short, high-impact programs build critical capabilities across cohorts, enabling your organization to upskill at speed and at scale.

Personalized learning with expert coaching

One-on-one coaching, tailored to each participant’s role and challenges, helps turn insight into decisive action, accelerating performance on real business priorities.

Outside‑in perspectives

Learning and networking with peers from different industries and geographies sparks fresh thinking, helping leaders reframe challenges and uncover new business opportunities.

Immediate business impact

Practical assignments and proven frameworks are applied to live initiatives throughout the programs, ensuring learning translate into impact back at work.

Shared language and alignment

Enrolling a group of leaders in the same program ensures they build a common vocabulary and mindset, strengthening cross-functional collaboration to accelerate implementation.

Featured programs

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For individuals and teams
Orchestrating Winning Performance program

Boost your leader’s performance, broaden their perspectives, and get ready to seize new business opportunities. This program brings the latest research and insights from IMD’s world-class faculty.

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Sprint format
Sprint programs. Scale, speed, impact.

Training solutions from one employee to 20,000. Sprint programs ensure you drive results for your organization in ways that are innovative, time-effective and scalable.

  • AI, digital & innovation
  • Business management
  • People leadership
  • Transitions
  • Sustainability
  • Board & Governance
  • AI, digital & innovation

    IMD’s AI and digital transformation programs combine the latest research with practical frameworks and real-world business insights to help leaders identify where AI can create the greatest value and how to implement it effectively. Our innovation programs cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset and equip participants with the frameworks and tools to drive sustained growth and competitive advantage.

    Business management programs

    IMD’s business management programs prepare executives to lead across the whole organization by developing strategic decision-making skills and cross-functional thinking.

    People leadership

    IMD’s leadership programs build the human foundations of performance – self-awareness, people leadership, and organizational influence–and translate them directly into measurable impact on your teams.

    Role transitions

    Leadership transitions demand fundamentally new ways of thinking and leading. IMD’s career transition programs accelerate that shift, giving participants the business acumen, strategic confidence, and leadership presence to succeed at the level they are stepping into.

    Looking to build your succession pipeline? Explore corporate succession planning and talent management.

    Sustainable business programs

    Through expert guidance, practical tools, and research-based insights, IMD’s sustainable business programs equip your leaders to embed sustainability into the core of how your organization operates, innovates and grows, unlocking new markets, building brand trust, and delivering measurable impact.

    Board & Governance programs

    IMD’s board and governance portfolio develops the directors, chairs, and executives who make boards more effective: sharper in the questions they ask, sounder in the decisions they make, and better equipped to steer through change. Programs range from preparing executives for their first board mandate to deepening directors’ and chairs’ expertise across focused topics – from strategy to finance, risk, AI, and sustainability.

    The Absa-IMD experience

    Absa’s learning journeys are customized experiences built primarily on open programs. They provide the organization’s leaders with personalized development solutions that integrate valuable external perspectives.

    Not sure which programs fit your organizational needs?

    Join an IMD masterclass or information session to discover firsthand what we offer and how we can best serve your organization.

    Faculty Session "Ambidextrous leaders" stream by Rick Roi, taught by Mark Greeven, on the second day  of the OWP days on June 28, 2022 at IMD Campus in Lausanne, Switzerland. (Mark Henley/IMD) - IMD Business School
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    In the meantime if you have any immediate questions regarding IMD’s programs, please do not hesitate to contact our Program Advisor team on +41 21 618 0700












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