IMD Annual Report 2021

103 Regional spotlight

Dean of IMD South East Asia and Oceania Misiek Piskorski

Changing the footprint To accommodate this continued growth, the team welcomed Professor Greeven, who will split his time equally between South East Asia and Switzerland, a new head of marketing, a number of client engagement associates, as well as additional program coordinators. IMD SEA also signed a lease for a new flexible campus in Singapore1, which starts in the middle of 2022 and will boost the team’s ability to offer large face-to-face courses, without the concomitant cost.

In addition, IMD continued to deliver impactful engagements for Asian divisions of global players such as UBS, Bayer and Johnson & Johnson. Although they started as regional deliveries, many of these interactions expanded into large global programs delivered virtually out of the South East Asia base. Deeper marketing IMD continued to engage learning and HR leaders in the region through the Learning & Development Forum Asia series, dedicating this year’s series to introducing new strategic talent management offerings, which resulted in new commercial engagements. This year also saw the introduction of the Industry Dialogue Series, which engages CXOs from a particular industry in the region in conversation with faculty members who are exerts on that industry. Professor Mark Greeven, who recently co-authored a book with Professor Winter Nie on the future of retail, kicked off the series with executives from that sector. These engagements allowed IMD to broaden its customer base and its impact. The team expects to continue them in the future, focused on retail and many other industries.

Professor of Innovation and Strategy Mark Greeven