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Unlock your Next Best You with the Executive MBA
Unlock your Next Best You with the Executive MBA
The Executive MBA at IE Business School is designed to help you unlock your Next Best You, a leader who can combine strategic insight with tangible impact to navigate complex business environments, lead high-performing teams and make decisions that drive organizational growth. This program focuses on three core pillars: career, impact and purpose. You'll define your career goals while learning how your personal values align with your professional objectives, giving you the clarity to lead with confidence and integrity.
Your journey is guided by three signature accelerators. The Career Discovery Accelerator helps you identify growth opportunities and develop the roadmap to achieve your goals. The Impact Skills Accelerator equips you with the behavioral and leadership skills needed to influence teams, manage change and deliver results. The Purpose Accelerator ensures your decisions are grounded in meaningful objectives to create sustainable impact in business and society.
Throughout the Executive MBA, interactive workshops, real-world projects and peer learning allow you to apply insights while expanding your global network. By blending your existing expertise with new knowledge, you'll emerge as a resilient, innovative and purpose-driven executive—ready to tackle complex challenges and shape the future of business.
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KEEP CHASING THE NEXT BEST YOU
KEEP CHASING THE NEXT BEST YOU
YOUR CAREER
Now is the time to build on your current career success and push it to the next level. Throughout the Executive MBA, we’ll work with you to understand your strengths, ambitions and goals, then create a career development plan tailored to your needs. From learning to balance the competitive demands of the present and future to maximizing growth opportunities, our practical teaching and expert coaching will help you become resilient, responsive and bold in your career choices—taking you to where, and who, you want to be.
YOUR IMPACT
No matter the strength of your skill set or the breadth of your experience, succeeding at the highest levels of business means being able to make things happen. Impact is not intangible—it’s about how you think, how you act and how you embrace technology. In the Executive MBA, we’ll equip you with the strategic, behavioral and digital skills you need to thrive in a C-Suite environment. You'll learn to translate vision into results, ready to drive growth and innovation at the highest level.
YOUR PURPOSE
Business has the potential to address today’s most pressing social issues, but lasting change requires individuals with both passion and the skills to lead with confidence. We place your sense of purpose at the heart of your career path, helping you become an executive who can drive meaningful change across organizations and industries. By fostering a spirit of collaboration for a greater purpose, you'll cultivate a global professional network and create new sources of value for your business—now and in the future.
YOUR CAREER
YOUR CAREER
CAREER DISCOVERY ACCELERATOR
CAREER DISCOVERY ACCELERATOR
The Executive MBA's Career Discovery Accelerator is a compass, helping you clarify your career ambitions, uncover new opportunities and define a strategic path to growth. Through personalized mentoring, interactive workshops and expert guidance, you'll gain the focus, confidence and actionable insights needed to advance your career and step into your next best you.
Achieve your goals with IE Talent & Careers
Achieve your goals with IE Talent & Careers
At IE Business School, helping you reach your career ambitions is our top priority. Career support begins the moment you join the Executive MBA. The IE Talent & Careers team provides personalized coaching, strategic guidance and access to global employers to help you establish your goals, nurture in-demand skills and advance your executive career.
Advising & Education Services
Receive one-on-one career coaching to navigate your career discovery journey and ensure your CV, cover letters and LinkedIn profile are optimized. Benefit from sector-specific, functional and regional insights to strengthen your market positioning. The integrated Career Success Course and ad-hoc training sessions, including bootcamps and assessment centers, provide practical skills for success.
Employer Relations
Engage with top employers through career fairs, company presentations, coffee chats, virtual opportunities and on-site interviews. Build meaningful connections with IE Alumni, global employers and student clubs to expand your executive networks and explore worldwide leadership opportunities.
Resources
Leverage premium AI-driven career platforms to research employers, network and prepare for recruitment. Enjoy lifelong access to the IE Career Portal, offering ongoing guidance, resources and tools to support you long after you graduate.
Expert guidance
Expert guidance
The Executive MBA program offers two coaching streams designed to complement each other in driving your personal and professional development.
Executive Coaching
While your career path is uniquely your own, having the expertise of an industry leader to call on is a priceless resource when it comes to achieving your ambitions. We’ll assign you an executive coach who will act as your mentor, gathering 360º feedback from your professors and classmates as they monitor your progress, while sharing the benefit of their insight and experience to help you get to where you want to be.
Career Coaching
Your career coach will work with you to form a deep understanding of your strengths, abilities and goals to draw up your unique personal development plan. As you progress through the program, your career coach will be on hand to support your learning journey, and ensure you remain on track to reach your goals, through a series of one-to-one coaching sessions. Career coaching is an optional element of the program, but once paired with your coach, you can request their support whenever you feel you would benefit and as often as you choose.
A lifetime of benefits
A lifetime of benefits
Master classes & vip speaker events
Master classes & vip speaker events
Leaders who join the Executive MBA program at IE Business School understand that personal and professional transformation is an ongoing journey, not a destination. That’s why our commitment to you extends far beyond your graduation. We’ll support you as a lifelong learner by providing exclusive, engaging educational content such as master classes on the topics that matter to you, VIP speaker events, and updates on the latest from the worlds of business, technology and more – all at no additional fee.
Global Alumni Week
Global Alumni Week
Our annual Global Alumni Week ensures that opportunities to connect with top-level global executives and industry leaders continue even after your program has ended, and you’ll have lifetime access to our unparalleled professional network of more than 70,000 alumni worldwide.
AMAZON WEB SERVICES CERTIFICATIONS
AMAZON WEB SERVICES CERTIFICATIONS
We've partnered up with AWS Academy to provide our students with access to enroll in Amazon Web Services Academy courses, such as Cloud Foundations and Data Analytics. These courses open the door to AWS Certifications, giving you yet another opportunity to ensure you stay ahead of the curve and unlock your potential.
YOUR IMPACT
YOUR IMPACT
Impact Skills Accelerator
Impact Skills Accelerator
Through hands-on workshops and real-world challenges, the Impact Skills Accelerator will help you sharpen your critical thinking, enhance communication skills and master adaptive decision-making. The immersive experience will equip you to lead with confidence, influence teams effectively and create meaningful impact across your organization and beyond.
Skills That Drive Real Impact
Skills That Drive Real Impact
Thinking skills
As the business world evolves, so do the challenges you’ll face. We teach critical, logical and analytical thinking so you’re ready to deliver innovative solutions to complex challenges. You'll tackle real-world scenarios so you can perfect the art of bringing a team together through empathy, negotiation and persuasion. Our goal is to help you hone your thinking skills until an impact mindset becomes second nature.
BEHAVIORAL SKILLS
Success and failure are determined by how you interact, handle conflicts and inspire others. The Executive MBA is crafted to help you strengthen your behavioral fitness and awareness, while placing you in situations where you can put it to the test. We’ll help you learn the traits, mindsets and ways of working that make you a more positive, productive and effective leader.
dIGITAL Skills
Being able to manipulate, analyze and visualize data is key to staying relevant in business, and those who know how to properly harness its power will be at the forefront of the next generation of leaders. At IE Business School, we’ll empower you to make data your ally in gaining a competitive edge in the marketplace.
Your Purpose
Your Purpose
PURPOSE ACCELERATOR
PURPOSE ACCELERATOR
The Purpose Accelerator in the Executive MBA helps you align your professional ambitions with your core values. You will engage in reflective exercises, immersive experiences and collaboration with mentors and peers to develop leadership abilities grounded in integrity. This approach allows you to take meaningful decisions, shape lasting impact in your organization and inspire a better future.
Driving Results Through Purpose
Driving Results Through Purpose
Planet
At IE Business School, we believe better business practices can improve lives and protect the environment. We call this Sustainable Business. Sustainability sits at the heart of our mission to drive change for a better world. In the Executive MBA, we’ll teach you the key concepts that will empower you to lead that change in your own organization and beyond, including regenerative business, the energy transition and how to apply sustainable practices across every function. We’ll help you channel passion for a better planet into action with meaningful outcomes.
Society
The skill set that serves you in your business career can also be applied to social problems. We call this Social Entrepreneurship—harnessing an entrepreneurial mindset to devise new approaches to tackling issues that affect wider society. As a high-performing professional, you’re accustomed to solving problems under the most demanding conditions—meeting tight deadlines, hitting stretch targets and more. We’ll show you how to apply your hard-won experience to improve lives outside the workplace and benefit the communities in which you live and work.
People
Graduates of the Executive MBA understand that leading positive change starts with how you treat others, and we believe that the people you work with are as important as the results you deliver. We call this Working Well. A work environment built on the principles of positivity, inclusion and well-being is one where every member of an organization can thrive—making the whole greater than the sum of its parts. In the Executive MBA, we’ll teach you how to shape a working culture that leverages the benefits of employee satisfaction and how to model the behaviors of positive leadership.
DISCOVER MORE ABOUT OUR ACCELERATORS
DISCOVER MORE ABOUT OUR ACCELERATORS
The Accelerators are an integral part of the program at IE Business School, guiding you through a transformative journey of self-discovery and growth. They provide essential knowledge, competencies, and skills in a focused and comprehensive way.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How will the Executive MBA boost my career?
The program is designed to accelerate your path to leadership by enhancing strategic thinking, digital and behavioral skills, and preparing you for senior or C-level roles. It helps you become a more impactful, future-ready leader while continuing to work.
What career services does IE offer Executive MBA students?
IE provides personalized support through its Talent & Careers team, including executive career coaching, AI-powered interview training, networking events, and access to exclusive job opportunities tailored to experienced professionals.
Does the program include mentoring?
Yes. Students benefit from one-on-one executive coaching and career coaching throughout the program, helping them develop personalized growth strategies and leadership plans.
Can I access the alumni network after graduation?
Yes. Graduates join IE’s global alumni network of over 70,000 professionals across 165 countries, with access to lifelong learning, events, and professional opportunities through local chapters and global platforms.
Are there entrepreneurship opportunities?
Absolutely. Students can choose an entrepreneurship-focused Mastery Track in the final term and get support through IE’s innovation ecosystem, including access to venture labs, startup mentoring, and investor connections.