Developing Leaders
Developing Leaders has been designed in co-operation with senior HR executives to take your organization's leadership development to the next level. Together with ESMT faculty, you will explore the foundations, key success factors, and methods necessary to build and sustain excellent leaders. The program will give you the opportunity to assess your processes and systems against best-practice examples and the latest thinking.
Target Audience
- Human resources and organizational development professionals who wish to deepen their expertise in the field of leadership development and prepare their organizations for new challenges
- Line managers who recognize the importance of developing talent and drive the leadership development process within their organizations
Key Topics
- Approaches, principles, and key success factors of leadership development; latest thinking and insights from best practice examples
- Design and implementation of leadership development processes; real-life cases presented by HR executives
- Building a culture of excellent leadership and corporate responsibility
- Analysis of your organization’s leadership development initiatives, supported by executive coaches
Take-Home Value
- Understand the foundations, principles, and concepts of modern leadership development
- Assess your organization’s leadership development processes against best-practice examples and the latest thinking
- Evaluate different methods and tools for designing and implementing leadership development initiatives
- Exchange ideas and findings within a network of practitioners
Special Features
A selection of this year’s guest speakers and executive coaches include:- Graham Barkus, manager learning and development and head of training, Cathay Pacific Airways
- Sabine Goesch, chief human resources officer, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty
- Tony Russell, director senior executive development, L'Oréal
- Mukund Vyas, HR director, Siemens India
Meet the Faculty
Bülent Gögdün (Program Director)Bülent Gögdün has experience in strategy development, change management and executive coaching. He has previously been employed as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.
Derek F. Abell
Full biography
Derek F. Abell is the founding president and professor emeritus at ESMT. Before joining ESMT, he was a professor of strategy and marketing at IMD, as well as a professor of technology and management at the Swiss Institute of Technology. Prior to that, he spent more than 10 years as a faculty member at Harvard Business School.
Andreas Bernhardt
Andreas Bernhardt is a program director, executive coach and founding member of ESMT’s Center for Leadership Development Research and manages ESMT’s pool of executive coaches. He has about 20 years of practical leadership development and coaching experience, has been working as a leadership coach for ESMT, for the INSEAD Global Leadership Center in Fontainebleau, France and beyond and has designed and delivered executive programs for several international companies.
CB Bhattacharya
Full biography
C. B. Bhattacharya, PhD, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, is a full professor, E.ON Chair in Corporate Responsibility, and dean of international relations at ESMT. Prior to joining ESMT, he was a full professor and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Boston University.
Konstantin Korotov
Full biography
Konstantin Korotov, PhD, INSEAD, is an associate professor at ESMT. He also plays an integral role in ESMT‘s Center for Leadership Development Research. Konstantin consults companies worldwide on issues of leadership development, executive coaching, and mentoring.
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