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Emerging Leaders Program

Executive education program in English

Emerging Leaders Program (ELP.21)

Module 1
Duration 4 Days
Berlin
Dates 22. - 25. Oct 2024
Module 2
Duration 3 Days
Milan, Italy
Dates 27. - 29. Nov 2024
9,500 €

Preparing talents for effective and responsible leadership

 

Joint program with:

Logo SDA Bocconi

High-potentials assigned to their first significant leadership role need to prove themselves to their superiors, their teams, and peers. Succeeding requires a profound change in both skills and mindset: from a talent who delivers value individually to a leader who creates value with and through others. The Emerging Leaders Program is designed to enable you to manage this critical transition and realize your full leadership potential.

In the first module, you will develop insights and acquire tools to help you deal with the multifaceted context in which leadership plays out when effective leadership requires actively managing up, down, and laterally. In the second module, you will reflect on the responsibilities you have accepted as a future leader. Through intense interactions with faculty and peers, you will explore the psychological and ethical foundations of leadership and work on preparing a foundation for your own individual path to leadership. In addition to the two modules, faculty led online sessions (announced during module 1) and peer coaching will enhance learning, exchange, and the development of a network that will become a useful resource beyond your Emerging Leaders Program sessions.

Emerging Leaders Program (ELP.21)

Module 1
Duration 4 Days
Berlin
Dates 22. - 25. Oct 2024
Module 2
Duration 3 Days
Milan, Italy
Dates 27. - 29. Nov 2024
9,500 €

Your profile

  • Managers who have recently been appointed to their first significant leadership position.
  • High potentials in preparation of their first significant leadership role.
  • The program is designed to embrace participants with diverse professional and personal backgrounds across regions, sectors, and industries.

Benefits

  • Acquire knowledge, mindset, and tools needed to successfully transition into a leadership role.
  • Gain awareness of the challenges and responsibilities that come with leadership.
  • Learn how to create value for yourself and your organization by fostering productive working relationships with your collaborators, peers, and superiors.
  • Benefit from our post-program support which will provide you with a source of state-of-the-art business knowledge and a thriving global community of emerging leaders.

Topics

Module 1: The context of leadership
ESMT Berlin

  • Understand the company behind the organization chart
  • Build an effective network
  • Create value through downward, upward, and lateral management
  • Motivate yourself and others
  • Lead teams with social identity

Module 2: Personal leadership skills
SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy

  • Understand organizational culture and shape team culture
  • Communicate as a leader
  • Leadership transitions and self­-development
  • Ethical and psychological foundations of leadership

Downloads

ELP Participant - 2021
SDA Bocconi
Companies Represented
2021 Edition

Our participants attending the Emerging Leaders Program at SDA Bocconi in 2021

SDA Bocconi

Our Partner's campus in the heart of Milan, Italy

Companies

Companies represented in the program

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

Gianluca Carnabuci

Professor of Organizational Behavior and Ingrid and Manfred Gentz Chair in Business and Society, ESMT Berlin

Testimonials

Emerging Leaders Program equipped me with a fair amount of leadership concepts and real world examples to take on challenges in my profession and beyond.
My talented and energetic cohort has a positive influence on me and it is a privilege to join them in the classroom.” 

Abhinav Gupta, Program Manager, Allianz Technology

"With 25 participants, the program was the largest, youngest and also most international that I have been able to attend so far as part of the ESMT Postgraduate Diploma. For me, the exchange within the group was very special and inspiring. Many contacts would not have been made in everyday life and I am grateful to have had this experience.

"Not anybody is alike and we like it" - this quote describes the course well!"

 Niklas Löhr, Head of Sales Footwear, FOND OF GmbH

 

“It was a program that taught me a lot of leadership concepts and real examples on how to deal with challenges in my professional career.”

Bárbara Pereira, Head of OT Cyber Resilience, Galp

Participant's voice

We had a perfect mix of business cases, lectures, and outstanding activities. In addition, you feel welcome from the first moment.

Adolfo Galán, Operations Director, ThyssenKrupp Encasa

Postgraduate Diploma in Management

Postgraduate Diploma in Management

This program can also be taken as part of the Postgraduate Diploma in Management curriculum. Bring your career to the next level and gain the formal recognition of your professional development with this university-level certificate.

Earn your certificate

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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