IMD Annual Report 2019

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IMD ANNUAL REPORT 2019

IMD CEO LEARNING CENTER

The IMD CEO Learning Center explores and understands the context, motivation and capacity for learning of CEOs, senior executives and their organizations. The CEO role is one of the most challenging roles in the 21st century. Mounting pressures for real-time transparency and accountability and increasing globalization mean CEOs are open to frequent criticism from multiple stakeholders around the world. It creates learning spaces for CEOs to explore and maximize their learning from their experiences though dialogue, narrative and experimentation.

In today’s society of rapid transformation, CEOs and senior executives have to shape and adapt their own leadership. Transformation is no longer a choice and leadership is the enabler. Leaders who think that learning is for others are destined to repeat history, not shape it.” Ben Bryant Director, CEO Learning Center Professor of Leadership and Organization

HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2019

• CEO interviews to study the impact of CEO learning on outcomes, exploring how learning is triggered by dissonant or uncomfortable experiences, how it may be limited by specific facets of the role, and how it is enabled. • Delivery of custom programs focusing on leadership in top teams.