Executive Academy - Europe stream
Event Details
The Executive Academy is a state-of-the-art leadership development programme designed specifically to address the needs of senior leadership roles in business schools. It adopts a holistic approach, starting with building a solid foundation
Event Details
The Executive Academy is a state-of-the-art leadership development programme designed specifically to address the needs of senior leadership roles in business schools.
It adopts a holistic approach, starting with building a solid foundation through a Leading oneself module, allowing participants to explore in depth their own leadership style, strengths and skills to focus on. It continues with Leading others and Leading programmes/institutions, delving into leadership in the context of the specific institutions and teams, as well as in the context of the current challenges of management education as a whole. The goal of the programme is to equip participants with tools leading to deeper understanding and awareness of their own skills, qualities and purpose and understanding how to align these with their role in their institutions and their teams, in order to thrive as a leader in the digital age business school environment.
The Executive Academy journey is divided into three phases:
- A preparatory phase, which includes self-study and a comprehensive 360° feedback exercise.
- A face-to-face week in the selected region, with the maximum of 20 participants admitted to each stream.
- A project phase at the participants’ home institutions with support and feedback provided by faculty facilitators and personal coaches.
Participants will:
- Advance through a self-discovery process to better understand their strengths and limitations, which will contribute to the bridging of self-knowledge and self-leadership.
- Learn how to drive a strategy-driven programme design and review process, how to manage different performance layers and how to interlink stakeholder expectations and satisfaction.
- Understand and implement disruptive strategies in business education and map performance metrics to actions and milestones.
Target group:
Programme Directors, Associate/Assistant Deans of Teaching & Learning, and Senior Program Managers with a complete overview of (though not necessarily direct responsibility for) the entire academic cycle: admissions, programme design & administration, career services, and alumni management. For each stream intake, the Executive Academy also seeks to accept managers of corporate universities or executives of corporate talent management departments to cross-fertilize group learning. Corporate participants can improve their understanding of and their ability to interact with business schools.
Application process:
A rigorous and challenging admission process ensures that peer-to-peer interaction in the Executive Academy will be meaningful and ability-enhancing for all participants.
- Please fill in and submit the application form below.
- Your application will be reviewed by the EA Director.
- You will be interviewed during a 30-minute call with the Programme Stream Leader or EA Director.
- Upon completion of the steps above, the EA Director will submit the recommendation for your admission to a Steering Committee which approves each participant’s enrolment.
- Upon admission, we will ask you to register for the event via a link to a registration form that we will send to you via email.
Pre-programme materials:
The preparatory phase of the programme will commence on 24 April.
Registration
Application formProgramme
Monday 22 May 2023
08:45 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:15
Welcome & Introduction
- Griet Houbrechts, Director of Professional Development Services, EFMD Global
- Jordi Diaz, Director of the Executive Academy, Dean, EADA Business school
09:15 – 11:00
Leading oneself: Introduction to Self-Leadership – From first to third generation management
- Steven Poelmans, Professor of Neuromanagement & Strategic Leadership, Antwerp Management School
This session connects with the socio-economic trends relevant to programme directors and explores 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation management models. Participants are invited to reflect on the current management paradigm characterising their own organisations in order to successfully navigate the internal culture and politics.
11:00 – 11:30
Networking coffee break
11:30–13:00
Leading oneself: Purpose and Self-Leadership
- Steven Poelmans, Professor of Neuromanagement & Strategic Leadership, Antwerp Management School
This session focuses on the neuroscience of vision and its powerful way of inspiring and steering people through self-leadership, mobilising faculty, and rallying an inter-disciplinary team around of a sense of purpose.
13:00–14:00
Lunch
14:00–16:00
Leading oneself: Self-Knowledge
- Steven Poelmans, Professor of Neuromanagement & Strategic Leadership, Antwerp Management School
This session facilitates self-knowledge through the interpretation of the KLIO-CS cognitive-style questionnaire. This test also allows participants to gain insight into their “brain- dominance”, which determines the way information is processed and related to others, as well as how decisions are made. This is a necessary basis for situational leadership and adapting one’s style and communication to different stakeholders.
16:00– 16:30
Networking coffee break
16:30– 18:00
Leading oneself: Self-Leadership – The Brain Balance
- Steven Poelmans, Professor of Neuromanagement & Strategic Leadership, Antwerp Management School
Participants focus on the skills of managing stress and harmonizing work, family and personal life. The “BrainBalance” is introduced as a model for taking care of one’s mental and physical energy and thereby increasing focus, efficiency and health. Participants diagnose their sources of stress and related responses while learning emotional regulation techniques for managing stress during peak periods.
19:30– 22:00
Welcome dinner
Tuesday 23 May 2023
09:00– 13:00
Leading others, part 1
- Dr. Carolina Serrano-Archimi, Associate Professor of Leadership & OB, Aix Marseille Graduate School of Management
This session includes half an hour coffee break
13:00– 14:00
Lunch
14:00– 18:00
Leading others, part 2
- Dr. Carolina Serrano-Archimi, Associate Professor of Leadership & OB, Aix Marseille Graduate School of Management
19:30– 22:00
Special event
Wednesday 24 May 2023
09:00–13:00
Leading Successful Programmes and Institutions: Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education
- Jordi Diaz, Dean, Professor of Innovation, EADA Business School
During this module participants will develop a deeper understanding of how disruptive innovation can impact business education and how to establish a clear innovation and growth plan for their programs.
This session includes half an hour coffee break
13:00– 14:00
Lunch
14:00–16:00
Leading Successful Programmes and Institutions: Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education
- Jordi Diaz, Dean, Professor of Innovation, EADA Business School
In a complete peer-learning spirit, participants will engage in a discussion on the future of the industry, the future of their institutions and the future of themselves as leaders of this newly reimagined reality.Each participant will be invited to refrain their survival mode and to practise and implement the “Jobs to Be Done” approach to identify best practices for the achievement of excellence in customer experience / student satisfaction management.
16:00– 16:30
Networking coffee break
17:00– 19:30
Special event
Thursday 25 May 2023
09:00-13:00
Leading Successful Programmes and Institutions: Sustainability transformation
- Katrin Muff, Director, The Institute for Business Sustainability, Professor of Practice in Sustainability & Leadership, LUISS Business School
The session focusses on the underlying mindset shifts required for such a transformation: the leader and the organisation mindset. Participants will use concrete assessment tools to understand where they, their leadership peers and their organisation is at. This analysis allows them to establish action priorities to bring about the change envisioned. The workshop creates a space to learn from each other and to advance one’s thinking to the next level in a safe and creative environment. As such, the session seeks to illustrate what a future learning environment for executive students might look like, offering insights into how to build competencies in a field that cannot be taught as a lecture.
This session includes half an hour coffee break
13:00–14:00
Lunch
14:00–18:00
Leading Successful Programmes and Institutions: The future of work – trends impacting the role of business schools
- Raf Cuyvers, Founder & CEO of myCareerCompanion.
The labor market is overheated in many countries and all involved stakeholders (academic world, organisations, companies…) are struggling with the situation and even more the highly demanding Generation Z. This session will provide you with an ‘outside-in’ perspective, giving you food-for-thought on how to design and manage a learning and development journey for the current generation of talent.
Next to a snapshot on how organisations and companies (try to) deal with these challenges, you will get insights on the ‘attention economy’ and the related behaviour of today’s and tomorrow’s graduates. Based on own research and data of +10k young professionals, myCareerCompanion gained relevant information on labor market readiness, boundary conditions and organisational culture preferences that will be shared with you.
This session includes half an hour coffee break
19:30-22:00
Closing dinner
Friday 26 May 2023
09:00-12:00
Leading Successful Programmes and Institutions: Strategic Change Challenge
This session includes half an hour coffee break
12:00-12:30
Leading Successful Programmes and Institutions: Notes on the future of management education
- Eric Cornuel, President, EFMD Global
12:30-13:00
Final remarks by the Executive Academy Director
13:00-14:00
Lunch
Friday 30 June 2023
13:30-14:30 CEST
Final ceremony (taking place over Zoom)
Practical information
Programme Fees
EARLY BIRD through 14 April 2023
- € 4.000 + 21% VAT
REGULAR FEE as of 15 April 2023
- € 4.500 + 21% VAT
The tuition fee excludes travel expenses and local accommodation.
For more information about available scholarships, please contact Anna Jirova.
Registration
After being admitted to the programme, you will receive a special registration link to indicate billing details, dietary requirements and your attendance in the social programme.
Cancellation policy
Cancellations must be confirmed in writing before 17 April 2023. A cancellation fee of €100 + 21% VAT will be charged. After this date, we are unable to refund any fees. However, in such cases, substitutes are welcome at no extra cost as long as we receive notification of the name, title and address of the substitute.
Venue & Contact
The training will take place at:
Štěpánská 33, 11000 Prague (Czechia)
Contact: 420 221 486 100
Accommodation
The training programme will take place at hotel Majestic Plaza (Štěpánská 33, Prague 1, 11000). We have secured a limited number of rooms for the programme participants for a price of 135 EUR/night, with breakfast included.
If you’d like to take advantage of this offer, please make sure to book your room through this link by 18 April 2022.
As of 19 April, please use the regular website form.
In case you would like to choose your own accommodation you can of course do so. In that scenario, please make sure to remember that the location of the programme is Štěpánská 33, so you book a place that is not too far away and easily accessible by public transport.
Social Programme
Those who register for the Executive Academy are invited to join dinners on Monday, 22 May and Thursday, 25 May 2023.
Participants will also be invited to join a special social programme on Tuesday 23 May and Wednesday 24 May 2023.
The meeting point for all events is the lobby of hotel Majestic Plaza.
Getting from the airport
Václav Havel Airport Prague (formerly Prague Ruzyně International Airport) is located 10 km from Prague.
Taxi: The easiest way to get to the hotel from airport is by taxi.
Order a taxi – average price is 25 to 35 EUR
AAA Taxi – 420 222 333 222
Uber: https://www.uber.com/cs/cities/prague/
Liftago: https://www.liftago.com/cs
Public transport:
The best way to get to the city centre from the airport by public transport is to take a bus number 119 to Nádraží Veleslavín where you can change to a green line of the Prague metro.
Second option is to take a bus number 100 to Zličín, where you can change for a yellow line of Prague metro.
Both lines meet in the city centre.
To search for best public transport connection, you can visit www.idos.cz or download the idos app on your phone.
You can find more information on the Prague public transport system here.
Public transport fares:
http://www.dpp.cz/en/fares-in-prague/
Where to buy public transport tickets:
- Public Transport counters in Arrival Halls of Terminals 1 & 2 (from 7 am to 10 pm)/ Vending machines located at a bus stop
- Vending machines located in metro stations and most of bus and tram stops
- SMS ticket – send to 902 06
Tourist information
If you plan to arrive earlier or extend your stay in Prague, see the links below for more information on places of interest.
1 EUR = approximately 24 CZK
Credit cards are widely accepted in many places like restaurants, hotels, and shopping malls. ATM machines are available in front of most of the bank offices and other public places.
Please note that the exchange stations at the airport charge a high fee when exchanging currencies. We recommend going to another exchange point within Prague city centre.
Health & safety for in-person attendance
Please refer to the local authorities requirements to enter the country.
Speakers
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Carolina Serrano-Archimi
Associate Professor of Leadership & OB, Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management
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Eric Cornuel
Eric Cornuel
President, EFMD Global
President, EFMD Global
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Jordi Diaz
Dean, EADA Business School, ES
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Katrin Muff
Katrin Muff
Director, The Institute for Business Sustainability, CH
Director, The Institute for Business Sustainability, CH
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Mette Sjöberg Anthonsen
Coach (PCC), External Relations, University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics and Law, Sweden
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Raf Cuyvers
Founder & CEO, myCareerCompanion
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Raquel Rubio
Solutions Director, Mind Gym
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Steven Poelmans
Professor of Neuromanagement & Strategic Leadership, Antwerp Management School, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Contact
Location
Prague, Czech Republic
Address
Majestic Plaza Hotel
Štěpánská 33, 110 00 Praha
Time
may 22 (monday) 9:00 - may 26 (friday) 13:00
