Emerging Leaders Program

• You are a managers who has recently been appointed to your first significant leadership position.

• You are a high potential individual in preparation for your first significant leadership role.

• The program is designed to embrace participants with diverse professional and personal backgrounds across regions, sectors, and industries.

• 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.

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

• ESMT Berlin is consistently ranked as one of the best business schools in Europe for executive education
• This program can be taken as part of the ESMT Postgraduate Diploma in Management
• Diverse classes, interactive exercises, renowned faculty, peer-to-peer coaching 
• Delivered in partnership with SDA Bocconi