Upcoming Sessions
Content Overview
INSEAD Lead the Future is a 12-month, online learning journey expertly designed to maximise depth of understanding, actionable learning, flexibility and impact.
The programme is built on three core pillars with core and elective programmes carefully selected to provide you with a rounded and 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 obligatory core topics and three elective tracks so you can customise your learning to your needs and objectives. Core modules are enriched by an Action Learning Practice (ALP) that challenges you to apply new ideas to an existing, real-life business problem.
You will work on a core project of your choosing that you will present at the end of the core phase, to share insights and learning with fellow Lead the Future participants and faculty.
After finishing core and before starting elective modules, the learning journey is further enhanced by a mandatory live virtual (synchronous) delivery of Effective Decision Making for Leaders.
The programme concludes with a Capstone project: three days of face-to-face workshops and classes.
Learning Journey
** Upon completion of the programme graduates will gain alumni status for a period of 3 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 conducting fair decision-making to enabling organisations to navigate.
- Learn practical tools to help teams make critical decisions
- Acquire skills to discern the organisational culture you really have – not just the one you wish for – and how to shape that culture
- Manage through contradictory forces that firms inevitably face in fast-paced 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 & sustainable value creation
- Access the tools, techniques & frameworks to assess the financial health of your organisation
- Accelerate your strategic decision making & empower yourself to make decisions
- Build authority & fluency in the language of finance & 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. Elective courses will feature projects and reflections.
Simply choose any three electives from the below streams - within or across streams.
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Sensing value
Designing and Building Digital Partnerships and Ecosystems
- Discover the key drivers of digital transformation
- Master the key elements you need to design and build future-resilient digital platforms
- Develop skills in alliance portfolio building
- Learn how to build high performing digital ecosystems.
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 how AI is deployed in business, so that you can see what it can (and cannot) do for you and your organisation
- Gain practical frameworks and templates to work with data scientists and programmers, so you can commission analysis and analyse the results you receive.
Mastering Creativity and Design Thinking
- Develop the creative-thinking skills needed to innovate in any organisational context
- Elevate your creative skills so you can develop and support a creative culture within your organisation
- Develop a culture that is capable of confidently pushing and sustaining innovative efforts.
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Delivering value
Leadership Presence 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.
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 more confidence to deliver superior outcomes
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Emerging Leaders Programme
- Refine self-awareness to better understand your influence on others
- Cultivate an inspiring workspace, feedback skills, and adeptness in tough conversations to motivate your team
- Foster successful teams through meaningful collaborations in digital organisations.
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Sustaining value
Mastering Fintech
- Understand the 4 main areas of FinTech: payment systems; lending and fund-raising; cryptocurrencies and blockchains; and technology-driven trading and investing
- Explore technologies from a business point of view, and discover not only the potential transformative power of some technologies, but also their limitations
- Evaluate either the opportunity or threat that your organisation may face due to FinTech.
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.
Sustainable Business
- Discover how to align strategy and sustainability
- Explore frameworks to operationalise sustainability, and how to drive sustainable economic performance
- Drive value innovation through sustainable supply chains
- Develop your knowledge of business and climate change
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
- Discover the key drivers of digital transformation
- Master the key elements you need to design and build future-resilient digital platforms
- Develop skills in alliance portfolio building
- Learn how to build high performing digital ecosystems.
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 how AI is deployed in business, so that you can see what it can (and cannot) do for you and your organisation
- Gain practical frameworks and templates to work with data scientists and programmers, so you can commission analysis and analyse the results you receive.
Mastering Creativity and Design Thinking
- Develop the creative-thinking skills needed to innovate in any organisational context
- Elevate your creative skills so you can develop and support a creative culture within your organisation
- Develop a culture that is capable of confidently pushing and sustaining innovative efforts.
Leadership Presence 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.
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 more confidence to deliver superior outcomes
-
Emerging Leaders Programme
- Refine self-awareness to better understand your influence on others
- Cultivate an inspiring workspace, feedback skills, and adeptness in tough conversations to motivate your team
- Foster successful teams through meaningful collaborations in digital organisations.
Mastering Fintech
- Understand the 4 main areas of FinTech: payment systems; lending and fund-raising; cryptocurrencies and blockchains; and technology-driven trading and investing
- Explore technologies from a business point of view, and discover not only the potential transformative power of some technologies, but also their limitations
- Evaluate either the opportunity or threat that your organisation may face due to FinTech.
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.
Sustainable Business
- Discover how to align strategy and sustainability
- Explore frameworks to operationalise sustainability, and how to drive sustainable economic performance
- Drive value innovation through sustainable supply chains
- Develop your knowledge of business and climate change
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
After participants finish core modules and before starting electives, 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.
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
Action Learning Practice
The Action Learning Practice (ALP) is your opportunity to personalise your learning around a specific challenge or objective that you have. It will take you on a step-by-step journey by developing your own personal agenda for more effective executive presence and influence.
You will begin by reflecting on your own use of presence and influence and to situate yourself in terms of where you want to be per the needs and exigencies or your role and organisation. Each week you will hone your skills through the insights, tactics and practices elucidated by the programme, as you develop greater understanding of what it means to exercise presence and influence without power. The ALP will culminate in a personalised plan that will help you deploy the right strategies with the right people in the right context and in different leadership situations and challenges in your future leadership career.
