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Your impact
Landing your dream position is one thing, but making an impact goes beyond simply doing the job at hand. To truly make your mark in the C-suite, you’ll need to develop a key set of skills and behaviors.
The Global Executive MBA will equip you with all the tools you need to be boardroom-ready and capable of mobilizing the C-suite behind your vision. Throughout the program, you’ll enhance the hard and soft skills that make you stand out from the crowd. And by tackling real-life challenges and problems, we’ll push you to deploy and harness those skills to become the next best you – while acting as your trusted guide every step of the way.
IMPACT SKILLS ACCELERATOR CERTIFICATE
The Global Executive MBA is designed to maximize your impact on the business world by transforming your abilities in three key areas: how you think, how you behave, and how you harness technology. Through our new Impact Skills Accelerator Certificate, we’ll equip you with a carefully defined set of skills needed to turn vision into action—and bring your colleagues with you. You’ll hone your capabilities in critical thinking, negotiation, data analytics, public speaking, and more, to become a transformative leader who can make things happen at the highest levels.
What the Global Executive MBA can do for you...
You have already built a successful career and worked in the C-Suite. But you know that you can do more – you strive to understand business on a global scale while taking advantage of the digital revolution. However, due to the fast-paced nature of business, you must continuously stay at the top of your game and be ready for any situation or challenge that comes along. This is something that only you can achieve for yourself, which you can do by using the comprehensive grounding that you will receive at IE Business School.
...and for your future career
The Customer Data Platform (CPD) published an article that highlights the skills that modern C-Suite executives need to succeed. Adaptability and flexibility, technological literacy, data-driven practices, an agile mindset, and emotional intelligence rank in the top five. At IE Business School, you will finish the Global Executive MBA program readily equipped with these skills, which will fuel your future and get you ready to make an impact in the boardroom. Of course, due to the nature of business, there will be times when the unexpected happens and you might not immediately have the right answers. But the key is to be ready for these moments and know how to act while staying level-headed in the face of the unknown. The Global Executive MBA program is all you need to make your mark in the boardroom, while striving to become the next best you.
Three pillars of impact
Thinking Skills
The best leaders harness their knowledge, experience, and creativity to fuel success. That’s why we put critical, logical, and analytical thinking at the forefront of the Global Executive MBA. We’ll challenge you with real-life problems and project-based learning to deliver high-impact solutions that matter, coupled with hands-on experiences across three continents – making you ready to lead in any situation, anywhere in the world.
Behavioral Skills
The key to leading and motivating others is how you behave. Having the emotional intelligence to connect with colleagues inspires them to see your vision and carry it through. We’ll equip you with the behavioral skills to handle conflicts, resolve problems, and bring teams together, honing the abilities that define you as a leader others want to follow.
dIGITAL Skills
Digital skills are at the heart of modern business. Data-backed decision-making sets apart the most effective leaders, unlocking new strategies and pathways to growth. In the Global Executive MBA, you’ll learn to manipulate, analyze, and visualize data until it becomes second nature, and an integral part of your leadership abilities.
Impact skills in the Global Executive MBA
The Global Executive MBA builds its future leaders through real-life challenges and on-the-ground, first-hand experiences in three continents around the globe. While all business leaders will develop their own style and bring their own strengths to the table, a set of core skills are fundamental to effective leadership. Through the Impact Skills Accelerator Certificate and our project-based learning methodology, we’ll equip you with those skills necessary to positively influence and inspire others, make sound decisions, and create a lasting impact for the company and its stakeholders.
Impact skills that you will develop will fall into three categories :
Thinking, behavioral, and digital skils: all of which when used together will put you on the path to success. These include strategic thinking and the ability to develop a long-term vision and anticipate future challenges, emotional intelligence to help you build strong relationships, motivate employees, manage conflicts, and adapt to changing circumstances, and decision-making to help you analyze situations, evaluate alternatives, and choose the best course of action to drive organizational success. You will also learn how to effectively problem-solve and identify complex problems creatively, which is crucial for driving continuous improvement, maintaining a competitive edge, and developing innovative products and services. Further impact skills include effective communication and the ability to influence others, adaptability and resilience in an ever-changing business world, team building and delegation to empower team members to take ownership of their work. Additionally, you will learn ethical leadership fosters trust, promotes a positive company culture, and ensures long-term success by aligning business practices with societal values and expectations.
Thinking Skills
Behavioral Skills
Digital Skills
University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Residential
The face-to-face residential periods are central to the Global Executive MBA at IE Business School. These international experiences offer the chance to learn first-hand from real executives and leaders through company visits, gaining unique insights and perspectives from key business locations around the world.
IE Business School and partner UCLA offer an immersive experience that gives students an eye-opening and memorable insight into the US business world. As with the other residential periods, you will also benefit from networking opportunities with the community of IE executive alumni, enabling you to learn from their successes.
EXPLORE OUR COMMUNITY’S IMPACT
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
WHAT NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES WILL THERE BE IN THE GLOBAL EXECUTIVE MBA?
The Global Executive MBA student body is composed of a diverse international community of professionals from a variety of sectors, roles, and cultural backgrounds. And during your residential weeks, you’ll have the opportunity to network with local alumni and participate in visits to top companies, while also engaging with students and faculty at our partner institutions.
HOW CAN I EXPAND MY NETWORK AFTER THE PROGRAM?
After graduation, you’ll enjoy lifetime membership of our exclusive professional network of over 70,000 alumni, as well as lifelong access to our Talent & Careers service. The uniqueness and diversity of our global network connects academia with business to drive executive excellence.
Additionally, IE has 25+ international offices located all around the globe, facilitating IE alumni connections and fostering a truly global support network.
HOW WILL THE GLOBAL EXECUTIVE MBA HELP ME BECOME A LEADER?
The Global Executive MBA prepares you to be a leader who will make their mark in the global boardroom by equipping you with the necessary impact skills, knowledge, and behaviors. Then you’ll apply your learning and hone your skills through real-world challenges and project-based learning, while gaining a first-hand perspective of global business destinations through immersive residential periods.
WHAT SUPPORT DOES IE OFFER TO ENTREPRENEURS?
At IE Business School, we champion entrepreneurship, and the Global Executive MBA places a focus on entrepreneurial management, scaling ventures, and driving innovation. And thanks to our unique entrepreneurial ecosystem , IE students and alumni have exclusive access to a wealth of resources and opportunities to help make their vision a reality.