Prepare for your leadership transition and build core leadership capabilities

A confident first step into leadership depends on the right foundations. This program equips you with practical tools to lead, communicate, and collaborate more effectively as you step into leadership. Through faculty-led sessions, interactive exercises, business cases, and peer consultation, you build skills you can apply immediately in your work.

Key facts

Benefits

Gain practical tools and frameworks to apply directly in practice
Build the confidence to lead and collaborate across your working relationships
Strengthen your ability to communicate effectively and influence outcomes
Navigate the transition into leadership with greater clarity and confidence

Your profile

You are an individual contributor, project leader, or subject matter expert aspiring to move into a leadership role
You want to be prepared for the challenges of leadership transitions and build your essential leadership toolkit
The program brings together participants from diverse professional and personal backgrounds across regions, sectors, and industries

Topics

Navigating leadership transitions
Adapting your leadership style
Managing up, down, and across
Influencing without formal authority
Communicating as a leader
Leading through change

4 days

€5,200

Apply now

♡

Next start date: October 12, 2026

Leadership Foundations for New Managers

Format

Face-to-face

Price

€5,200

Location

Berlin

Duration

4 days

Language

English

Apply now See all dates

Next dates

Leadership Foundations for New Managers (LFM.1)

Location

Berlin

Next Intake

Oct 12-15, 2026

Duration

4 days

Format

Face-to-face

Tuition

€5,200

Apply now

Gianluca Carnabuci

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

Nora Grasselli

Lecturer in leadership and member of the faculty, ESMT Berlin

Ulf Schaefer

Senior Lecturer in Strategy, ESMT Berlin

Maja Mommert

Actor and Communication Coach

Kristina Vadlja

Program Director, Executive Education, ESMT Berlin

How you will learn

You will learn through a blend of faculty-led sessions, interactive exercises and simulations, business cases, peer coaching, group discussions, and individual reflection. The program is designed to help you turn ideas into action with practical tools and frameworks you can apply immediately.