The Leadership Transition

NEW! Live Virtual session now available

The Leadership Transition is now offered via live virtual platforms, allowing you to experience the same course content and INSEAD faculty as the on-campus sessions, from anywhere in the world.

A live, engaging, interactive teaching format with virtual group discussions – INSEAD Live Virtual is a new exciting offering with an optimal learning outcome.

Why go virtual?

• Maximise the virtual learning experience with our fully interactive GO-Live platform, which play an integral part of the programme experience
• Engage live with faculty and peers just like you would in an INSEAD classroom
• Expand your networking opportunities through specially designed virtual sessions
• Alternate between class sessions and smaller group exchanges using different platforms that are specifically adapted to virtual delivery
• Additional one-on-one personalised coaching tailored to your personal action plans, specially designed for only this virtual session.

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Becoming a leader is within your reach

You have strong management experience. You’ve been told you have leadership potential. You know you can make a larger impact. You are poised to take the leap. How do you prepare yourself for the critical transition to a greater leadership role?

The Leadership Transition is an extraordinary, unconventional opportunity to invest in your professional success as a leader. Reflect on your individual leadership style and develop a plan to expand your comfort zone. Strengthen your coalition-building and influencing skills, and learn how to use power constructively. Examine the best practices for managing change. Learn about the systemic factors in your work environment and in your own behaviour that can work against your plans. Most importantly, join a vibrant, international network of aspiring leaders and discover the keys to your future impact.

How you benefit

• Gain personal insight: Gain valuable insight into your leadership style and its impact.
• Develop a leadership strategy: Develop a more constructive use of leadership power, allowing for more effective behaviour and results as a leader.
• Become a transformational change agent: Become a more effective change agent, facilitating an increase in positive results from senior-level initiatives.

Participant profile

The Leadership Transition programme is designed for mid-career professionals with strong management experience, who are preparing to take on enhanced leadership responsibilities. The programme will broaden participants’ scope of vision to prepare them to transition from functional or operational roles into roles that are more strategic. 

This group of accomplished women and men shares a wealth of functional, industry and international experience with up to 20 nationalities in class. Acceptance to the programme implies a full commitment to be present and engaged throughout both modules. Modules are not interchangeable between sessions.

This programme qualifies for the INSEAD Certificate in Global Management.