Advanced Management

Unlock your leadership potential: This immersive experience enables you to take advantage of cutting-edge theories and best practices to lead your own transformational change. Through hands-on exploration of networked leadership, transformational leadership, and the dynamics of power and influence, you will elevate your crucial leadership readiness.

During this intensive 3-day program for experienced professionals, you will gain profound insights into your leadership approach, investigating critical team dynamics to grasp the strategic impact of leadership at the organizational level.

Through 360-degree feedback, interactive exercises, role-playing, computer simulations, real-world case studies, peer coaching, and dynamic discussions, you will refine your core leadership strengths.

The WHU Advanced Management for Senior Leaders Program is designed for experienced leaders with significant strategic responsibility in their organization. During the program, your focus will be on strategizing during periods of transformation, executive decision-making, and boosting your impact in your organization and a globalized economy. The two in-person modules (3 days each) are designed to challenge your views on strategic thinking and acting, innovation, and leadership through a mixture of methodological elements. This in-class experience is complemented by short online sessions in between the modules. Online sessions are facilitated by Executive Coaches and C-Suite Executives. Enhance your strategic decision-making skills, boost your individual leadership style, and create a valuable impact on your company’s strategy.

Crises are unexpected events that are characterized by high levels of ambiguity of cause, effect, and means of resolution. When faced with a crisis, leadership gains a special momentum. WHU’s Crisis Leadership Program prepares you to successfully navigate your organization through the storm of economic, political, climate, and societal crises.

This intense 3-day executive program designed specifically for experienced leaders enhances your crisis leadership skills as after all, crisis seems to be the new normal. This course offers you practical, hands-on learning and advice through exercises, role-plays, computer simulation, real-world case studies, and dynamic discussions.

Become a confident and strategic leader, equipped to drive growth, and to navigate complex business landscapes. Designed for experienced professionals, the Management Acceleration Program provides a highly immersive and customizable learning experience aimed at developing the skills and knowledge needed to excel in leadership and strategic decision-making. Choose 3 out of 5 comprehensive modules, to deep dive into financial literacy, strategic decision-making, strategy execution, advanced leadership, or crisis leadership.

This program is offered by Leadership Choices and WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. You will learn how to add coaching to your leadership signature authentically.

You will primarily learn how coaching as a leader works from a practical perspective. Using the Leadership Choices coaching model, you will be given insights into powerful questions and levels of listening. Moreover, you will learn to apply coaching interventions that have proven successful in a leadership context. Plenty of practical coaching work will take place in the classroom. During the program, you will also be asked to work with real coachees, i.e., coaching clients.