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ETP class 2023-2024
#1
Business school in Germany

At ESMT Berlin, we offer a diverse range of executive education programs designed to elevate your professional skills, prepare you for future leadership roles, and expand your network. As Germany's top business school, our programs combine cutting-edge insights with real-world challenges, empowering you to make a tangible impact in your organization. 

Whether you're seeking to sharpen specific management or leadership skills, or acquire new tools to transform your business, our programs are crafted to deliver immediate, practical value. 

  • Tailored learning: Choose from a spectrum of courses designed to enhance leadership and management skills, selecting the ones most relevant to you.
  • Practical impact: Gain the latest thinking paired with actionable strategies and solutions for real business challenges.
  • Network enhancement: Grow your professional circle through collaborative group work and peer interactions.
  • Peer-to-peer learning: Learn, collaborate, and exchange ideas with like-minded professionals, enriching your experience. 

Which area would you like to focus your professional development on?

General management
General management and corporate governance

These programs integrate cutting-edge leadership frameworks with practical, real-world insights, preparing you to thrive in today’s complex business environments. Stepping into or preparing for top leadership roles requires not just mastering new skills, but also consciously un-learning habits and approaches that no longer serve you. Our transformative programs will guide you through both, enhancing your strategic, operational, and leadership abilities for long-term success. 

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Leadership
Leadership

Maximize your leadership potential with programs built to expand your vision, broaden your approaches, and sharpen your influence. Through interactive discussions, reflections, coaching, and experiential learning, you’ll uncover new insights about yourself and how you can enhance your effectiveness. This deeper self-awareness, combined with a versatile toolkit, will empower you to navigate leadership challenges and lead more effectively. 

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Strategy
Strategy

Designed for leaders aiming to drive growth, these programs offer actionable strategies to tackle real business challenges. Learn from the latest research and industry experts on how to craft winning strategies in marketing, sales, and business planning to stay ahead.

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Innovation
Innovation

Propel your innovation journey with insights and frameworks that turn ideas into actionable business opportunities and enhance your organization’s innovation capacity. These programs focus on strategies, methods, and tools you can immediately apply, ensuring your organization stays competitive and future-ready. 

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Analytics and AI
Analytics and AI

Analytics and AI offer organizations a wealth of new possibilities but there are significant challenges that can limit their effectiveness. These programs demystify the complex technologies and teach you how to leverage them for your business’s success. You’ll learn how to integrate them into your strategic toolkit and take your organization to the next level. 

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Sustainability
Sustainability

Sustainability is more than a buzzword—it’s key to future business success. Our programs will help you navigate the evolving sustainability landscape and turn challenges into opportunities that benefit your organization—both in the short- and long-term.

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Finance
Finance

Strengthen your financial expertise in the context of strategic decisions. Our programs will equip you with the skills to navigate the complexities of finance with confidence, blending financial acumen with broader strategic insights.

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Negotiation

Refine your negotiation and interpersonal skills and get an opportunity to practice new techniques and receive vital feedback. Prepare to handle complex negotiations and foster connections with confidence, backed by our expert-driven, participant-focused approach. 

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Choose from a variety of programs across topics

Leadership

Participants at ESMT campus

Leading Change - Understanding and Shaping Transformations

Initiating and implementing change in organizations

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Gianluca Carnabuci ESMT faculty

Leading People and Teams

Unlock the skills, mindset and behaviors of effective leadership

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General management and corporate governance

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Executive Transition Program

Succeed in the transition to general management

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Senior Management Program

Enhance your skills and become a successful senior leader

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Analytics and AI

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AI for Managers

Embrace the potential of AI

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Professor Catalina Stefanescu-Cuntze in the classroom

Data Analytics

Convert data insights into business value

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Online
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Strategy

Professor Olaf Plötner in the classroom

Bringing Technology to Market

Three modules across the major business regions of the world

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Solid Growth - Winning with Business Strategies

Become an effective strategist

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Innovation

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Design Thinking and Corporate Change

In cooperation with HPI Academy (Hasso Plattner Institute)

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Participants of the Leading Digital Transformation Program

Leading Digital Transformation

Get ahead of digital disruption

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Sustainability

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Leading Sustainable Business Transformation

Drive sustainable business transformation at your organization

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Booster Program: Sustainable Transformation

How to lead sustainable business transformation with scientific knowledge, practical implementation tools, and best practices from the industry

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English

Finance

Jörg Rocholl in the classroom

Finance for Executives

Boost your financial literacy

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Face-to-face
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English

Negotiation

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Mastering Negotiations

Learn the essentials of conducting successful negotiations

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Persuasion, Power, and Politics

Maximize your influence

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Online and blended programs

Some of our programs blend online and face-to-face learning or offer completely online learning experiences for those that cannot make it to our campus in Berlin. Browse through our courses below.

Explore our portfolio of programs for individuals

Postgraduate Diploma in Management

Take your professional development to the next level and combine multiple programs to create a personalized learning path that results in the ESMT Postgraduate Diploma in Management.

This university-level certificate represents a formal recognition of your professional development. Find out how you build your own learning journey to management excellence.

Female leaders on panel

In order to address the lack of gender equality in global business, ESMT Berlin is offering several executive education scholarships to support women in leadership positions.

Explore ESMT women's scholarships

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General terms and conditions

Our general terms and conditions for programs for individuals and information about application and cancellation policy can be found here.

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Customized solutions for organizations

We provide your company with effective measures to transform corporate culture as well as business processes.

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