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Senior Management Program

Senior Management Program - The Executive Gamechanger (EGP.2)

Module 1
Duration: 3 Days
Berlin
Dates: 10. - 12. Sep 2025
Module 2
Duration: 3 Days
Milan, Italy
Dates: 29. Sep - 1. Oct 2025
12,000 €

The Executive Gamechanger

Executive education program in English

Joint program with:

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If you are a senior executive in a general management or C-suite position, your ability to navigate your organization through the challenges of the market demands that you take the time to fill gaps in your knowledge, acquire fresh perspectives and understand new ideas or innovations. 

The Senior Management Program from ESMT Berlin offers those at the height of their careers an opportunity to broaden their horizons and improve their effectiveness as leaders and strategists: 

  • Master strategy-making by anticipating trends and outside forces

  • Take time to explore and understand both the external forces and internal trends that influence your organization 

  • Understand the impact of non-market related trends and events on your business 

  • Build a lasting network of fellow senior executives. 

Senior Management Program - The Executive Gamechanger (EGP.2)

Module 1
Duration: 3 Days
Berlin
Dates: 10. - 12. Sep 2025
Module 2
Duration: 3 Days
Milan, Italy
Dates: 29. Sep - 1. Oct 2025
12,000 €

Your profile

  • Senior executives and leaders with 15+ years of experience who want to break open the possibilities of their career and discover new perspectives to better fulfill their role. This includes Chief Executive Officers, Managing Directors, Business Unit Leaders, Country Managers, C-level executives, plant managers, or heads of functions, business or product divisions.

Benefits

  • Master strategy-making in a complex world by anticipating trends and outside forces. 
  • Manage stakeholders' expectations. 
  • Recognize macro-trends and other environmental factors that will likely affect businesses in the near future. 
  • Reflect on your role as senior leader and executive in a company. 
  • Drive innovation and creative thinking. 
  • Gain the opportunity to discuss current challenges with a diverse group of senior leaders. 

Topics

  • Module 1: Macro-trends, external factors and the wider context of your organization 
     
    ESMT Berlin 
    Non-market strategies 
    Trends in the energy field 
    Trends in the domain of financial market 
    Macro-trends 
    Sustainability 
    Dealing with complexity 
     
  • Module 2: Individual leadership within your organization 
     
    SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy 
    Defensive strategies 
    Market-driven and market driving innovation 
    Setting the stage for effective leadership: leading self 
    The new psychology of leadership: leading with social identity 
    How unethical behavior creeps into your organization and what you can do to prevent it 

Downloads

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An introduction to the Senior Management Program

In this video, the program director Urs Müller walks you through the curriculum and showcases the skills and knowledge that you will gain.

Anticipating trends

How can senior managers anticipate what is outside of their control?

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How can unethical behavior impact your organization and what can you do to create a culture of integrity?

Meet our teaching staff

The programs have been 
designed – and will be led –
by ESMT faculty members 
and ESMT visiting faculty. 
They will also guide and 
advise you throughout 
your studies.

Ulf Schäfer

Visiting Lecturer, ESMT Berlin and Associate Professor of Practice, SDA Bocconi

Urs Müller

Visiting Lecturer, ESMT Berlin and Associate Professor of Practice, SDA Bocconi

Lars-Hendrik Röller

Professor of Economics, ESMT Berlin

Former chief economic advisor to German Federal Chancellor Merkel and G7 and G20 Sherpa

Postgraduate Diploma in Management

Participate in multiple programs and earn ESMT's postgraduate diploma in management — a university-level certificate that formally recognizes your professional development.

Your Program Advisor

Your program advisor

​​​​​​​Beatrix Becker
Head of Business Development, ESMT Berlin

Phone: +49 30 21231 6205

Request a call back

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