Faculty- Management Acceleration Programme

Expand your business expertise and give yourself the confidence you need to take that next step into business management. For individual contributors who aspire to – or have recently gained – management responsibilities.

Upcoming Sessions

Location

Live Virtual, Fontainebleau

Duration

Approximately 2 months

Fees

€ 15,950

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Programme Directors

Gianpiero Petriglieri

Academic Director, Initiative for Learning Innovation and Teaching Excellence

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

Gianpiero Petriglieri is Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD and an expert on leadership and learning in the workplace. He directs the Management Acceleration Programme , the school’s flagship Executive Education programme for emerging leaders, and is the Academic Director of the INSEAD Initiative for Learning Innovation and Teaching Excellence. Gianpiero's award-winning research and teaching focus on what it means, and what it takes, to become a leader. The intent of all his work is to humanise leadership, that is, to account for the complexities and contradictions within and between people and organisations, and to help leaders be grounded as well as flexible, sustainable as well as effective, soulful as well as insightful, purposeful as well as portable. He is particularly interested in the development of responsible leadership in the age of "nomadic professionalism," in which people have deep bonds to work but loose affiliations to institutions, and authenticity and mobility have replaced loyalty and advancement as hallmarks of virtue and success. Gianpiero's research has appeared in leading academic journals such as the Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Human Relations, Organization Studies, and Organization Theory. He also writes essays regularly for the Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review . His work has been featured in a range of media including the BBC, Financial Times, The Economist, The Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Le Figaro, El Pais, and he is listed among the 50 most influential management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50 . Building on this research, Gianpiero has refined a unique approach to leadership development that helps people and groups clarify their leadership intent, claim it, commit to it, and forge relationships that sustain it. He collaborates with multinationals in a variety of industries to bring this approach to life in bespoke leadership development initiatives, usually tied to a broader effort to transform the organisation. He also speaks widely on at management conferences and corporate gatherings on the value of humanising leadership at work and beyond. In the INSEAD MBA, Gianpiero teaches the core course "Ethics: Lead for Good," for which he has received the Aspen Institute "Ideas Worth Teaching" award. Prior to that, he taught the "Leading People and Groups" core course for five years. He has received the students' Outstanding Teacher Award for both courses and earned numerous Dean's Commendations for Teaching Excellence in MBA and Executive Education, as well as for mentoring and collegiality. His executive programmes have received industry-wide awards for excellence and innovation in executive education. And in 2023, Gianpiero received the Dominique Hèau Award for Inspiring Educational Excellence, a recognition for INSEAD professors whose work has strengthened the school’s institutional fabric and community. A Medical Doctor and Psychiatrist by training, Gianpiero has worked as an executive coach, practiced as a psychotherapist, and served on the staff of group relations conferences in Europe and the United States. He has held Visiting Professor positions at the Harvard Business School and at the Copenhagen Business School. You can learn more about Gianpiero's work on his webpage or connect with him on LinkedIn .

Gianpiero Petriglieri

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

Academic Director, Initiative for Learning Innovation and Teaching Excellence

Henrik Bresman

Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

Henrik Bresman is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at INSEAD and a recognized expert on leadership, high-performance teams, and organizational change. He regularly works with companies and public-sector organizations embarking on large-scale transformations. Professor Bresman’s research draws on data from multiple contexts, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, software development, healthcare, and government. His work has appeared in leading academic and practice journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Organization Science, as well as many media outlets, including the Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, the New York Times, Time, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the co-author of the book X-Teams: How to Build Teams that Lead, Innovate, and Succeed (Harvard Business Review Press, 2023), which examines how teams at all levels can take on strategic leadership roles and change the direction of their organizations. Professor Bresman’s teaching focuses on developing leaders for an exponentially changing world. He directs INSEAD’s flagship general management program for emerging leaders, the Management Acceleration Program, and the senior executive program, Leading for Results. Before entering academia, Professor Bresman worked in several roles as a manager, management consultant, and entrepreneur. He co-founded a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology businesses. He is an experienced board member and keynote speaker. Bresman holds a BS and an MS in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics and a PhD in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Fulbright scholar.