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INSEAD Lead the Future
INSEAD Lead the Future is a 12-month online learning journey designed to maximise depth of understanding, actionable learning, flexibility and impact.
Built on three core pillars, the programme combines carefully selected core and elective modules to provide you with a well-rounded, integrative perspective on effective leadership today:
- Sensing Value: Scan the environment, identify the real trends and shifts affecting business and assess what really matters strategically to you
- Delivering Value: Reconnect structures and systems within the organisation, to be able to adapt quickly to changes in the environment
- Sustaining Value: Evaluate and identify what brings real long-term value and meaningful impact to your stakeholders
Lead the Future integrates four mandatory core topics and three elective tracks, allowing you to tailor your learning to your needs and objectives. Each core module is enriched by an Action Learning Practice (ALP), where you apply new ideas to a real-world business problem. You will also work on a core project of your choice, presenting your insights and key takeaways to fellow participants at the end of the core phase.
The learning journey is further enhanced by a mandatory live virtual (synchronous) session on Effective Decision Making for Leaders.
The programme concludes with a Capstone module—three days of in-person workshops and classes, bringing together insights from your entire learning experience.
Please note: For certain segments of this programme, you will engage with AI-powered tools designed to enhance your learning experience, enabling more practical, personalised, and immersive exploration of the concepts covered.
Learning Journey
Lead the Future is a rigorous programme that requires active participation and commitment. Beyond individual learning, it emphasises collaboration through group work and peer exchanges. You will engage in live sessions, contribute to team projects, and share insights with a cohort of leaders. This collaborative approach enhances learning and fosters lasting connections. Success in the programme depends on your dedication to fully engaging with the material, your peers, and applied learning opportunities.
** Upon completion of the programme graduates will gain alumni status for a period of three years. Following which a minimum annual membership fee will be required to maintain the status thereafter.
Core Modules: Overview
Module 1
Fostering Innovation in the Age of Disruption
How to leverage innovation to respond to change, especially when driven by digital disruption?
- Understand the meaning of innovation and disruption, and learn about what kind of people lead innovation
- Acquire the tools and frameworks to develop a process for innovation and successfully translate your ideas into action
- Help your organisation foster innovation to forge ahead of competitors
Module 2
Strategy in Turbulent Times
Explore the latest tools, concepts and frameworks to turn digital threats into opportunities.
- Leverage digital to develop compelling value propositions and turn threats into an opportunity
- Execute on digital strategies by aligning key activities across your organisation with new value propositions and by balancing strategic agility with longer-term sustainability
- Gain a clear understanding of AI and its value creation power and explore key challenges in executing AI strategies
Module 3
Leading in Disruptive Times
Understand the challenges facing senior leaders — from fair decision-making to enabling organisations to navigate.
- Learn practical tools to help teams make critical decisions
- Build the capability to discern your organisation’s real culture and intentionally shape it
- Strengthen your ability to lead amid competing demands and uncertainty in dynamic environments
Module 4
Mastering Financial Analysis
Accelerate your understanding of the core financial dimensions of business.
- Elevate your understanding of the tie between financial reporting and sustainable value creation
- Access tools, techniques and frameworks to assess the financial health of your organisation
- Accelerate your strategic decision making skills
- Build authority and fluency in the language of finance and develop a more holistic leadership approach
Electives: Customise Your Journey
Customise your knowledge and skills by choosing three elective courses, delivered online and on-demand, to fit your most pressing business issues.
You select the courses that best map to your objectives and needs. Each elective features exercises and reflections.
Simply choose any three electives from the below streams - within or across streams.
Please note: electives may be subject to change so that we may offer an impactful programme experience.
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Sensing value
Designing and Building Digital Partnerships and Ecosystems
- Develop skills in alliance portfolio building
- Master the key elements you need to design and build future-resilient digital platforms and high performing digital ecosystems
- Position yourself as a key driver of partnerships and ecosystems within your organisation
Marketing Strategies in a Digital World
- Explore the challenges and opportunities of digital disruptions around your customers
- Learn new strategic data-driven skills to empower you to make better business decisions for future growth
- Design and deploy bold and competitive marketing strategies around the customer in the digital age
Mastering AI for Your Organisation
- Understand AI’s potential for your industry and its impact on managerial and strategic decision-making
- Work effectively with AI experts to translate business challenges into actionable insights
- Adopt AI at scale and responsibly, by addressing governance, risk, and organisational readiness
Mastering Creativity and Design Thinking
- Learn to adopt a customer-centric approach to address organisational challenges and spark creative thinking
- Develop the skills, mindset, and tools to embed and lead an innovative culture
- Apply practical methodologies to drive creativity and deliver sustained competitive advantage
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Delivering value
Leadership Excellence and Influence
- Learn how to employ soft-power strategies to draw people in and empower them
- Look at how body language ties to presence
- Understand the relative importance versus what we say across different settings, cultural contexts and groups
- Explore the critical communication tools that you need to develop, to enact both presence and influence
Communicating with Impact
- Build self-awareness to enhance authenticity and elevate your leadership communication with impact
- Craft messages that resonate, foster trust and engagement, and navigate high-stakes conversations with structure and emotional intelligence
- With AI-powered tools, practise storytelling and leadership presence to communicate with clarity, charisma, and authority across contexts
Leading Diversity and Inclusion
- Diagnose and address the key blockers that impede diverse and inclusive culture
- Develop a strategic and practical plan to accelerate progress
- Based on cutting-edge research, learn how to lead tangible and quantifiable change across your organisation
Negotiation Excellence
- Explore how to choose between win-lose or win-win, and when each strategy is most likely to be effective
- Understand how strategic negotiations can drive effective, long-term outcomes
- Accelerate your efficiency, build better relationships with fewer conflicts, drive more engagement, and gain confidence to deliver superior outcomes
Emerging Leaders Programme
- Design effective teams through meaningful collaborations within a changing
organisational landscape - Learn to continuously adapt your behaviour to foster relationships built on empathy, feedback and trust, even in difficult contexts
- Build a solid and holistic employee value proposition aligned with modern workplace trends
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Sustaining value
Management Accounting
- Explore the use of accounting information for internal planning, decision-making, and performance evaluation
- Understand, evaluate, and act upon the many financial and nonfinancial reports used in managing organisations
Building a Circular Economy
- Equip yourself to overcome obstacles to circularity in your organisation
- Unlock economic value with tailored circular business models
- Identify key challenges to circularity and strategies to address them
- Link product and market traits with suitable circular model options
- Explore the journey from design to strategy and craft a roadmap for circularity
Sustainable Finance
- How can sustainability be integrated into the financial product?
- What is the impact on financial performance?
- What is the real-world impact?
Designing and Building Digital Partnerships and Ecosystems
- Develop skills in alliance portfolio building
- Master the key elements you need to design and build future-resilient digital platforms and high performing digital ecosystems
- Position yourself as a key driver of partnerships and ecosystems within your organisation
Marketing Strategies in a Digital World
- Explore the challenges and opportunities of digital disruptions around your customers
- Learn new strategic data-driven skills to empower you to make better business decisions for future growth
- Design and deploy bold and competitive marketing strategies around the customer in the digital age
Mastering AI for Your Organisation
- Understand AI’s potential for your industry and its impact on managerial and strategic decision-making
- Work effectively with AI experts to translate business challenges into actionable insights
- Adopt AI at scale and responsibly, by addressing governance, risk, and organisational readiness
Mastering Creativity and Design Thinking
- Learn to adopt a customer-centric approach to address organisational challenges and spark creative thinking
- Develop the skills, mindset, and tools to embed and lead an innovative culture
- Apply practical methodologies to drive creativity and deliver sustained competitive advantage
Leadership Excellence and Influence
- Learn how to employ soft-power strategies to draw people in and empower them
- Look at how body language ties to presence
- Understand the relative importance versus what we say across different settings, cultural contexts and groups
- Explore the critical communication tools that you need to develop, to enact both presence and influence
Communicating with Impact
- Build self-awareness to enhance authenticity and elevate your leadership communication with impact
- Craft messages that resonate, foster trust and engagement, and navigate high-stakes conversations with structure and emotional intelligence
- With AI-powered tools, practise storytelling and leadership presence to communicate with clarity, charisma, and authority across contexts
Leading Diversity and Inclusion
- Diagnose and address the key blockers that impede diverse and inclusive culture
- Develop a strategic and practical plan to accelerate progress
- Based on cutting-edge research, learn how to lead tangible and quantifiable change across your organisation
Negotiation Excellence
- Explore how to choose between win-lose or win-win, and when each strategy is most likely to be effective
- Understand how strategic negotiations can drive effective, long-term outcomes
- Accelerate your efficiency, build better relationships with fewer conflicts, drive more engagement, and gain confidence to deliver superior outcomes
Emerging Leaders Programme
- Design effective teams through meaningful collaborations within a changing
organisational landscape - Learn to continuously adapt your behaviour to foster relationships built on empathy, feedback and trust, even in difficult contexts
- Build a solid and holistic employee value proposition aligned with modern workplace trends
Management Accounting
- Explore the use of accounting information for internal planning, decision-making, and performance evaluation
- Understand, evaluate, and act upon the many financial and nonfinancial reports used in managing organisations
Building a Circular Economy
- Equip yourself to overcome obstacles to circularity in your organisation
- Unlock economic value with tailored circular business models
- Identify key challenges to circularity and strategies to address them
- Link product and market traits with suitable circular model options
- Explore the journey from design to strategy and craft a roadmap for circularity
Sustainable Finance
- How can sustainability be integrated into the financial product?
- What is the impact on financial performance?
- What is the real-world impact?
Live Virtual Programme: Effective Decision Making for Leaders
Early in the learning journey, participants will attend a virtual and synchronous delivery on judgement and decision-making.
Effective Decision Making for Leaders delivers practical frameworks drawn from management science and psychology to help you improve your decision-making. Over three half days you will learn to apply simple data science techniques and experiments to improve individual and team choices.
Action Learning Practice and Core Project Seminars
To stay competitive in a fast-changing world, you need new solutions—and the ability to put them into action. INSEAD Lead the Future helps you apply learning directly to your role and business challenges.
Guided by a learning coach, you will complete an Action Learning Practice (ALP) for each of the four core modules, using tools and frameworks to create an action plan and develop your core INSEAD Lead the Future project.
It works like this:
- Identify a unique and challenging focus for your ALP
- Apply the concepts that you learn to your ALP, exploring your challenge and leveraging the concepts, tools and reflections garnered from the modules
- Synthesise elements from your regular weekly submissions for faculty and peer feedback into a coherent action plan.
Throughout the programme, you will work on your core project, building on your learning, new ideas, frameworks, and your expanding skillset as you advance. You will share your project for peer review during the Core Project Seminar and prepare to take forward your ideas within your organisation for long-term impact and value creation.
Capstone and Graduation
The INSEAD Lead the Future journey culminates in a capstone graduation on our Fontainebleau campus. Over three days participants will come together face-to-face as a community of leaders and will further solidify their learning through:
- 2-day workshop with live cases
- Half day sector workshop
- Half day graduation
