As today’s business landscape becomes increasingly global, organisations need leaders who can operate effectively from anywhere in the world. Securing an international advantage requires executives capable of rapidly adapting to an ever-evolving, highly competitive global marketplace, mastering cross-cultural relationships and creating winning strategies that integrate both local and global perspectives.

The INSEAD Coaching Certificate is designed to build or improve your coaching effectiveness to coach individuals or groups through a blend of professional, personal and coaching skills development. This practice-based programme draws on the expertise of the world-class INSEAD faculty hand in hand with INSEAD Executive Coaching, which for the past 20 years has provided leadership development coaching in our executive education programmes.

Recognising and working with conscious and unconscious dynamics is fundamental to effective coaching with groups. You already have a solid understanding of the pillars of group dynamics from your INSEAD Coaching Certificate. And you’re sensitive to the complexities of coaching groups, from recently formed and temporary groups to established teams.

Your business landscape is increasingly complex, dynamic, and competitive. A key to thriving in this volatile environment is transitioning from traditional models of top-down control to decentralised models of collaboration, agility, and empowerment. But making this shift is not simple. It requires not only new structures and processes but also a new kind of leadership – one that empowers, creates the space for risk-taking and innovation, nurtures growth and connection, and unleashes the best in your people. The Collaborative Leadership programme is your guide to this transformative change. It offers you the opportunity to explore how market-leading organisations are shifting from command and control models to systems of empowered teams as you build a rock-solid understanding of your role in making change happen.

INSEAD’s Aspiring Women Leaders Programme is an intensive learning experience that will enhance your leadership capabilities and empower you to negotiate balance among all areas of life that are important to you. Over the course of three immersive days you will explore how your identity shapes your experience and practice of leadership. You will dig deep into what it takes to show up in your organisation with your whole self, and how the dynamics of your working environment can help or hinder your effectiveness as a leader. You will also have the opportunity to connect to an exclusive community of peers that will inspire and support you during your leadership journey.

The demands placed on today’s managers of teams are intense. No matter how impeccable their technical skills – whether in their own function or business in general – they are constantly asked to get more out of their teams. Even in the comparatively early stages of an executive career, there is pressure not just to manage but also to lead.

The transition from being a great individual contributor to being a leader of others is one of the most important and challenging career stages. If this first leadership transition does not go well, it often delivers a negative ripple effect that can dim future career prospects. The bad news is, more than 50% of first-time managers get lower performance evaluations as leaders than they did as individual contributors. The good news is, when the transition goes well, it can produce positive career results that are amplified far into the future.

Leadership Excellence through Awareness and Practice (LEAP) helps senior leaders bridge this gap. The six-month journey – comprising three residential modules and individual and group work in between – focuses only to a limited extent on evidence about successful leadership. Rather, we spend most of our time enabling participants to shift behaviour in the areas that would give their leadership the greatest leverage.

The ability to lead teams is a fundamental skill for everyone aspiring to become a better leader. Any leader will tell you the same: you can’t do it alone. Whether you lead global virtual teams, task forces, manage projects, or oversee business units, this programme is tailored to enhance your team leadership skills and optimise performance. INSEAD’s Leading Teams programme will elevate your understanding of the critical importance of team leadership to the ongoing success of your organisation. Expertly designed by renowned INSEAD faculty, the programme will equip you with a raft of new leadership skills, techniques, and tactics: updating and enhancing your ability to manage people, manage team process, leverage diversity, improve decision-making, resolve disagreements and conflict—and empower your teams to give the very best of themselves.

Despite compelling evidence that more diversity in senior management ranks increases organisational performance, the proportion of women in key leadership roles remains low in most organisations. Women face a unique set of challenges when progressing into senior leadership positions, including unconscious bias, a scarcity of role models, and a peer group that continually shrinks the more senior they become. These can make striving for the top a lonely and frustrating endeavour even in organisations with the best intentions to support their top female talent.

Be empowered to beat the odds and ensure that your organisation captures all the advantages of digital disruption, today and tomorrow. Join Programme Director, Lin Chengyi, as he shares more about leading in digital transformations, how to scale up changes and successfully transit into your organisation's new reality during our webinar.

In today’s fast-paced world, the ability to pursue ambitious plans and initiatives by gaining the support of others can be a key determinant of business success. Great leaders accomplish great results by setting direction, inspiring action, aligning resources and developing the capabilities of a team. How these skills are applied varies according to the environment and business context.

Leading Successful Change is a three-day programme designed to help you execute change more effectively in your organisation. You will learn about frameworks and tools that you can apply to lead change effectively; analyse different types of change and their different dynamics; and examine peoples’ attitudes towards change. This programme is also designed to help you analyse different sources of resistance and look at how to create change strategies that factor in the different, non-linear dynamics of a change process over time.

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.

Leading a team, board or company to success involves making critical decisions, giving sound advice, and evaluating the decisions of others. However, in fast-changing business environments, managers must often make decisions under severe time constraints and with insufficient information. In these situations, if they rely only on habitual problem-solving techniques and intuition, they can fall prey to unconscious biases that hinder their ability to make the best decisions.