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Online program
Leadership Essentials

Jumpstart your journey to top leadership

Online program

Leadership Essentials

Jumpstart your journey to top leadership

Location
Online
Length
5 weeks
Fee
CHF 1,950
Next program starts
08 September 2025

Unleash your leadership potential

Leadership Essentials is designed to help you excel in your current or next leadership role. You’ll gain valuable insights into your personality, values, and leadership style, while identifying your strengths and areas for growth. As you progress, you’ll build key competencies for managing power, influencing others, fostering creativity, and developing high-performance teams. You’ll also master motivation techniques and practical skills for having difficult conversations and giving feedback.

Supported by an experienced executive coach, you’ll gain actionable insights for overcoming your leadership challenges and driving lasting impact in your organization.

Maximize your influence

Understand where your power comes from and how to influence and persuade others.

Lead with impact

Be a more effective leader through understanding how to manage others.

Foster innovation

Enhance the creativity and innovation of your teams.

Ignite self-discovery

Know yourself and identify the core values that guide your life.

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You and your class

You are a new manager or emerging leader with some team management experience, looking to elevate your performance and shape a unique leadership approach. You are eager to enhance your communication skills, build on your emotional intelligence, and inspire others to achieve organizational objectives.

2024 class profile (average data)

14

Years of experience

38

Average age

30

Nationalities

13

Industries

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Online information session
Join us on 24 June 2025

Interested in an IMD online program? Don’t miss this opportunity to get all your questions answered by our Program Advisors at 12:00 (CEST).

Online information session

Join us on 24 June 2025

Interested in an IMD online program? Don’t miss this opportunity to get all your questions answered by our Program Advisors at 12:00 (CEST).

Experience the program
Leadership Essentials: Program highlights
“The impact of the program was really positive.” – participant Xavier Mombrand
Turning power into leadership: Program excerpt
What our participants say
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Elisabet Font

Learning and Development Consultant, Roca Group, Spain

It was enlightening

Leadership Essentials allows you to go deeper into the fundamentals of leadership and get to know yourself much better. You discover your personal leadership style, your strengths, and your areas for improvement. It was enlightening to work on the different types of power that exist and learn how to use them to negotiate better. I highly recommend this program.

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Pasion Suma

Production Manager, Sharrcem (Titan Group), Kosovo

Exactly what I needed

Leadership Essentials was exactly what I needed and gave me a path to follow for my career. I was able to implement, step by step, the very useful leadership methods, and develop my skills and knowledge. IMD can make you a leader and, if you are already one, you will learn to lead better!

Real learning. Real impact.

When we say “real impact”, we mean it. After attending an IMD online program in 2024, 98% of participants stated:

“I gained fresh knowledge and insights.”

“I gained practical tools and ideas.”

“I could better choose and focus on priorities.”

“I felt more confident about myself.”

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The IMD difference

Designed for impact and delivered for you, IMD’s online programs help you achieve your aspirations wherever you are in your career or the world. Here’s what makes the IMD online program experience exceptional.

Access to thought leadership

Tap into the expertise of IMD’s faculty – globally recognized experts in their fields – wherever you are.

Personalized coaching

Benefit from one-on-one support from an experienced executive coach who helps you apply new insights to your own context.

Global peer interaction

Collaborate with participants from around the world through group and pair work that challenges your thinking and broadens your perspective.

Flexible format

Engage in a structured yet flexible learning experience that enables you to progress at your own pace and complete weekly assignments around your busy schedule.

Applied learning for real impact

Apply what you learn right away through practical assignments designed to make a direct impact on your work.

Next start & fee

Length: 5 weeks (4-6 hours per week)
Application deadline closes 7 days before the session starts.

Dates
8 Sep – 12 Oct 2025
Location
Online
Length
5 weeks
Price
CHF 1,950
Dates
3 Nov – 7 Dec 2025
Location
Online
Length
5 weeks
Price
CHF 1,950
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Advance your career with IMD’s Online Executive Certificates

Ready to elevate your career and personal development? IMD’s Online Executive Certificates deliver immersive, fully online experiences designed to deepen your expertise and sharpen your skills in key business areas.

Choose between three certificate options – Leadership, Strategy, or Digital Acceleration – to take charge of your growth and propel your executive career to new heights. The Online Executive Certificate is an accredited Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) and grants you access to IMD’s dynamic global alumni community.

Start your journey today.