Design

The program is founded on reality-based learning, which involves constantly building on the challenges you and your company face today and will encounter in the future. The program is centered around three dimensions sharing common components, such as our learning philosophy, a close-knit team of educators and a variety of assignments integrating various business aspects.

An intensive part-time program over 15 months

Leading IMPACT is an intensive, part-time executive management and leadership program that takes 15 months, meeting in a stimulating environment three consecutive days each month (residential sessions). The design promotes networking and experience sharing in an exclusive group of high performers with extensive management experience.

We use the challenges you and your company currently face as the basis for advanced learning, which provides immediate benefits for both you and your company.

Creating impact through the program

Leading IMPACT is centered around three dimensions that together give you the tools to become an impact improver and exceed your business goals:

IMPACT Fundamentals is all about you as a person, leader and manager.
IMPACT Advanced is about the business tools you need to master creating and leading impact.
IMPACT Specialization is about applying the first two dimensions within particular areas important to you and your company.

These three dimensions share the following common components: our learning philosophy, hand-picked business educators and experts, executive coaching and the individual business project. The program is designed in a unique way to provide structure and processes to spread learning widely in the participant’s organization and create impact on home turf.

Program design

1. IMPACT Fundamentals

This part of the program is all about you and your fellow participants. We explore and develop self-awareness, how you learn, personal leadership and your key qualities for success. We lay the foundation by getting a better understanding of the models under which we each operate.
(1* 3-day module)

You and your impact
October 4-6, 2023

2. IMPACT Advanced

This block is about mastering the business tools that play a critical role in leading and developing businesses. We explore and develop theories, models, concepts and analysis as key success factors in your work to create immediate and lasting IMPACT in your organization.
(9 * 3-day modules)

Taking the lead
November 8-10, 2023

Creating foresight
December 6-8, 2023

Politics, Money markets and return on investment
January 8-10, 2024

Paths to the future
February 7-9, 2024

Navigating in a dynamic world
March 6-8, 2024

Building and reaching markets
April 10-12, 2024

Controlling what’s important
May, 15-17, 2024

Managing Structure and Culture
August, 14-16, 2024

Managing People and Learning
September, 11-13, 2024

3. IMPACT Specialization

(3 * 3-day modules from a menu)
IMPACT Specialization consists of a menu of electives and open courses where you choose what area you want to immerse yourself in and develop your skills and ability to lead IMPACT.

The program currently offers three elective specialization tracks:

A. Leading Change
October-December, 2024
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B. Making your business digital – Strategies for developing digital business models
October-December, 2024
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C. Strategic Financial Management
October-December, 2024
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The Impact Challenge

In the Leading Impact program, each participant bring an Impact Challenge into the program. We will put at large effort on the Impact Challenge throughout the program.

The impact challenge has several very important purposes:

A vehicle for learning – we believe that learning is facilitated by problem based learning. Having a hands-on challenge (problem) helps us focusing and staying motivated, it provides context for us to discuss relevance and value, it helps generating critical and constructive questions and it creates deeper insight.
An opportunity for testing – managing and leading is much more than theories and models. Developing as a leader is mostly about learning by doing. There is a huge difference in understanding a theory and being able to apply it in real life. It is often said that managing and leading is more about tacit knowledge (know-how) than explicit knowledge (know-about).
An opportunity to linking back to home organization – developing as a leader does not happen in isolation. It happens in a context. By involving the home organization in the process, you will share your new insights and experience the feedback – both are vital for learning and development.

EFL Learning Lounge

During the course you will have digital support through the EFL Learning Lounge. Course material will be continuously uploaded and available during the program. You can access your EFL Learning Lounge login via your computer or the app for mobile phones, which means that you always have access to the course material via your mobile phone or reading tablet.

Impact coach/mentor

The Impact Coach is there to give the participants someone to talk to that “knows what you are talking about”. The coach will help you define your Impact Challenge, challenge you to think outside the box, to support you when needed, to provide feedback when appropriate, to share their experience if asked. The coach is primarily focusing on the Impact Challenge but will also help you to get the most out of the program. The coach is there to help you make meaningful Impact!

Impact coach Anders Yngve Söderstjerna describes his role as an Impact coach on the Leading Impact Program:

The Impact Team

The Impact Team is there for many reasons – two are very important. Number one, the Impact Team should be able to help you (or be involved in) your Impact Challenge. Number two, the Impact Team provides a forum for you to share your new insights and a sounding board for new ideas. Nothing helps learning as being a teacher. The Impact Team could also be a way for you pay back by develop people in your organization, to create is group that might help identify other challenging issues in the organization, help develop an Impact culture, etc…

WE OFFER a new learning philosophy, program design and structure that reliably and effectively address the challenges the leaders of today and tomorrow will face.