Business Acceleration Program

Boost your Potential

The ability to pivot, innovate and envision multiple scenarios is now more critical than ever. IESE’s Business Acceleration Program (BAP) is designed for senior managers in all the areas, head of departments, directors, and team, and project leaders in the DACH region who aspire to magnify their organizational impact and enrich their professional network with other high-caliber peers. Delivered in Munich, the BAP will boost your leadership potential with minimal disruption to your current commitments. In a dynamic learning forum, you’ll future-proof your career by acquiring breakthrough insights, concepts, and frameworks and emerge with a new vision of leadership.

Learning Method

• Interactive Lectures

IESE professors are adept at harnessing collective expertise in the classroom. Through an interactive discussion-based forum, they share their expertise and experiences while encouraging others to do the same.

• Experiential Learning

You’ll stretch your limits by learning outside the classroom and typical business domain. Experiential learning activities include company visits, cultural outings, and team-building exercises, among others.

• Business Simulations

Merging theory with practice, these interactive exercises replicate real-world business situations. You’ll work with your team to resolve a strategic challenge within a realistic test environment, complete with time constraints and complex power grids.

• Executive Coaching

Working one-on-one with a seasoned executive coach, you’ll solidify learning concepts presented in the program and become better equipped to reach a concrete personal or professional goal.

• Mentoring

A personal mentor will offer you continuous feedback and career advice to ensure you get the most out of the program.

• Business Insights

Take your 100-day plan into your workplace and, CEOs and senior decision-makers from top firms will give you an up-close view of their industry and frontline experiences resolving specific management challenges.

Work and learn at the same time. Immediately impact!

Business Acceleration Program Overview:

Grow as a leader, grow as a person

The Acceleration Program for Managers delivers tangible benefits for both you and your company.

Benefits for you:

• An accelerated transition to senior roles and expansive view of leadership
• New decision-making frameworks to address current and future challenges
• Stronger confidence in your personal brand by learning in an atmosphere of trust
• Greater ability to lead mindfully, effectively, and responsibly, with or without formal authority
• A sharper focus on value creation and leading with purpose
• High-caliber network with other forward-thinking managers

Benefits for your company:

• Breakthrough performance by gaining a deeper awareness of key leadership tenets,
• core management areas and the latest global trends
• Stronger strategic, critical, and analytical thinking via a mix of proven academic methods
• Robust decision-making frameworks to anticipate and address business challenges and assess their short- and long-term impact
• Greater capacity to align and unite others around corporate priorities
• Wider field of vision through interactions with professors, practitioners, and peers outside your regular professional circle
• Immediately actionable insights and limited time away from the office