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 “As leaders grapple with today’s complex world, they look to create

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lasting value amidst all the noise and obstacles. INSEAD Lead the
Future enables executives to gain specialised tools to expand their
capabilities, and to develop their vision to create enduring value and
impact for their stakeholders. The programme’s impactful and rigorous
12-month learning journey helps executives to see the world through
multiple lenses and drive meaningful impact and relevant results.”

Charles Galunic
Programme Director for INSEAD Lead the Future
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
The Aviva Chaired Professor of Leadership and Responsibility

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 INSEAD LEAD THE FUTURE

Advance your leadership.

Reshape the future. Key benefits to you
and your organisation
Lead the Future is INSEAD’s transformational flagship And as you progress through the programme, you can
online programme that accelerates leadership tailor your learning to your specific needs and objectives
capabilities for an increasingly complex and rapidly through selective courses that reflect for you the most
changing world. pressing and relevant business issues.

Leveraging INSEAD’s pioneering expertise in leadership INSEAD Lead the Future convenes a rich and diverse
development, the INSEAD Lead the Future Certificate cohort of leaders, faculty and coaches from around
gives you what you need to broaden your business the globe – a network of change makers with whom
understanding while sharpening your focus, to adapt to you exchange ideas, knowledge and perspective.
changing contexts and deliver unprecedented results. A community of support that will challenge and Lead yourself, your team and your organisation. Master new ideas, new
encourage you as you navigate the complexities of approaches and research-backed frameworks that will empower you to navigate
Designed for optimal impact, INSEAD Lead the Future business today, and lead change purposefully tomorrow. our turbulent business world
is a transformative 12-month online learning journey.
Each module is geared to enable you to respond to Prepare to go deeper and further than ever before.
volatility and ambiguity, to look beyond short-term gains Prepare to transform your leadership and impact.
for the wider context, and to create sustainable value for
all your stakeholders. Prepare to Lead the Future.
Engage with world-renowned INSEAD faculty, expert coaches and a truly diverse,
You explore critical business areas from strategy to international cohort of peers, and learn to develop yourself using actionable,
finance to organisational behaviour in the context of personalised feedback across plenary sessions, breakouts and key touchpoints
disruption and uncertainty, continuously rethinking what
it means to you to lead. The programme challenges
you to translate theory into practice as you progress
through your learning journey. You have the opportunity
to apply the ideas and frameworks we explore online Advance your understanding and your personal development as you
to the actual challenges and problems within your own continuously apply your learning in real time to real-world business challenges
context, and bring your learning back for reflection and and problems for optimised impact
analysis within your cohort.

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Drive sustainable value and meaningful change in your leadership and across
your organisation

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 Learning Journey
~12 months hybrid blended learning journey supported by regular live virtual interactions to further facilitate the learning and networking

ONBOARDING

Live virtual
CORE MODULE 1 CORE MODULE 2
Welcome and Fostering Innovation Effective Decision Making Strategy
introduction in an Age of Disruption for Leaders in Turbulent Times
to the programme
Half day Online Live virtual Online

Asynchronous with live touchpoints Synchronous programme Asynchronous with live touchpoints
and group and individual assignments Three half days and group and individual assignments
5 weeks 5 weeks

CORE MODULE 4 CORE MODULE 3

INTRODUCTION Mastering Leadership
TO ELECTIVES Financial Analysis in Disruptive Times
Live virtual Online Online

Presentation and selection Asynchronous with live touchpoints Asynchronous with live touchpoints
of elective programmes and group and individual assignments and group and individual assignments
Half day 4 weeks 6 weeks

Core Seminars
Core Project Seminars ELECTIVE 1 ELECTIVE 2 ELECTIVE 3
and closing of Core Modules On-demand Online On-demand Online On-demand Online
Live virtual

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Half day Participants choose 3 out of 12 electives
5 weeks per elective and run in parallel

CAPSTONE
Fontainebleau
campus

Upon successful completion of all programme Workshop & Graduation

Engagement, interaction and support throughout INSEAD Lead the Future activities, participants will become a full member of 2 days workshop / live case
the INSEAD Alumni community** and are awarded Half day sector workshops
Webinars and live virtual sessions Events and networking sessions Virtual Cocktails an official INSEAD Lead the Future Certificate Half day graduation
of completion 3 days
INSEAD Lead the Future Townhalls Learning partner groups

Leader Forums and Live Forums with practitioners and INSEAD Alumni

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 Programme content:
Core modules
INSEAD Lead the Future is a 12-month, online learning · Sustaining Value: Evaluate and identify what brings
journey designed to balance depth of understanding, real long-term value and meaningful impact to your
actionable learning, flexibility and impact. stakeholders
The programme is built on three core pillars with core INSEAD Lead the Future integrates four obligatory core
and elective programmes carefully selected to provide topics and three elective tracks so you can customise
you with a rounded and integrative perspective on your learning to your needs and objectives. Core topics
effective leadership today. are enriched by an Action Learning Practice (ALP) that
challenges you to apply new ideas to an existing, real-life
· Sensing Value: Scan the environment, identify the real
business problem.
trends and shifts that are affecting business and assess
what really matters strategically to you You will work on a core project of your choosing that
you will present at the end of the core phase, to share
· Delivering Value: Reconnect structures and systems
insights and learning with fellow INSEAD Lead the
within the organisation, to be able to adapt quickly to
Future participants and faculty.
changes in the environment
The programme concludes with a Capstone module:
three days of face-to-face workshops and classes.

CORE MODULE 2 CORE MODULE 4

Strategy Mastering
in Turbulent Times Financial Analysis
CORE MODULE 1 CORE MODULE 3
Fostering Innovation Leadership
in an Age of Disruption in Disruptive Times

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Explore the latest tools, concepts and frameworks to turn
digital threats into opportunities. Accelerate your understanding of the core financial
dimensions of business.
• Leverage digital to develop compelling value
How do you leverage innovation to respond to change, propositions and turn threats into an opportunity • Elevate your understanding of the tie between financial
especially when that change is driven by digital Understand the challenges facing senior leaders– reporting and sustainable value creation
• Execute on digital strategies by aligning key activities
disruption? from conducting fair decision-making to enabling • Access the tools, techniques and frameworks to
across your organisation with new value propositions
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 nderstand the meaning of innovation and disruption, organisations to navigate. assess the financial health of your organisation
and by balancing strategic agility with longer-term
and learn about what kind of people lead innovation. sustainability • Learn practical tools to help teams make critical • Accelerate your strategic decision making and
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 cquire the tools and frameworks to develop a decisions empower yourself to make courageous decisions
• Gain a clear understanding of AI and its value creation
process for innovation and successfully translate your power and explore key challenges in executing AI • Acquire skills to discern the organisational culture you • Build authority and fluency in the language of finance
ideas into action strategies. really have – not just the one you wish for – and how for enhanced communication and a more holistic
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 elp your organisation foster innovation to forge to shape that culture leadership approach.
ahead of competitors. • Manage through contradictory forces that firms
inevitably face in fast-paced environments.
- Sensing value: Fostering Innovation in the Age
of Disruption, Strategy in Turbulent Times
- Delivering value: Leading in Disruptive Times
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 Programme content: Live Virtual Programme:
Elective modules Effective Decision Making for Leaders
Customise your knowledge and skills by choosing 3 elective courses, After participants finish the first core module, participants will attend a
delivered online and on-demand, to fit your most pressing business issues. virtual and synchronous delivery on judgement and decision-making.

You select the courses that best map to your objectives and needs. Elective Effective Decision Making for Leaders delivers practical frameworks
courses will feature projects and reflections. drawn from management science and psychology to help you improve your
decision-making. You will learn to apply simple data science techniques and
Simply choose any three modules from the below elective streams.
experiments to improve individual and team choices.

Elective streams*

Sensing Value Delivering Value Sustaining Value

Connect, collaborate, and succeed
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 esigning and Building Digital -L
 eadership Excellence and - Management Accounting
Lead the Future is a rigorous programme that requires active participation and
Partnerships and Ecosystems Influence
- Mastering Fintech commitment. Beyond individual learning, it emphasises collaboration through group
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 arketing Strategies in a -L
 eading Diversity, and work and peer exchanges. You will engage in live sessions, contribute to team
- Building a Circular Economy
Digital World Inclusion projects, and share insights with a cohort of leaders. This collaborative approach
- Sustainable Finance

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 astering AI for your - Negotiation Excellence enhances learning and fosters lasting connections. Success in the programme

Organisation depends on your dedication to fully engaging with the material, your peers, and
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 merging Leaders Programme applied learning opportunities.
-M
 astering Creativity and
Design Thinking

*Choose any combination of three, within or across streams

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 Participant Profile Why Enrol on
INSEAD Lead the Future
INSEAD Lead the Future convenes a carefully selected From participants to INSEAD Alumni**
and exclusive cohort of mid to senior executives and
Upon completion of the programme graduates of Lead
leaders from diverse roles, industries and geographies.
the Future will gain alumni status for a period of 3
Participants benefit from the heterogeneity of the
years, with the option to maintain membership and gain

1 Learn 2 Interact
learning community.
access to benefits thereafter for a minimum annual
Typical participants are: membership fee. Only graduates of our world-famous
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 enior executives looking for diverse lenses, degree programmes including the MBA, Executive MBA
perspectives, ideas and approaches to drive innovation and PhD programmes, together with selected Executive
and find new solutions for sustainable impact Education programmes, are eligible for this status. The
elite worldwide network consists of 70,000 alumni in
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 id-level leaders looking to accelerate and extend their
more than 180 countries, many with very active National
competencies and enhance the impact of their team
Alumni Associations. Flexible High-Impact Multi-dimensional Interactions with Peers,
and their own leadership going forward
Learning Experience Faculty & Learning Coaches
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 igh-potential managers looking for the tools,
frameworks and knowledge to fast-track their Through outstanding design and delivery, INSEAD Lead Video lectures are complemented by a rich set of interac-
the Future builds upon our world-class faculty’s ability to tive elements, including short quizzes, simulated exercises,
leadership and deliver continuous value and impact convey very complex concepts in the simplest yet most online discussions and personal reflections. We build
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 nterprising professionals looking to collaborate and comprehensible way. Through online and asynchronous a community of faculty, learning coaches and diverse,
delivery, participants learn at a pace that is convenient to high-quality global executives who learn together as a
exchange expertise, experience and insights with other
their schedules. group - one of INSEAD’s strengths.
motivated and visionary leaders to drive impact and
change.

3 Apply 4 Certification

Real-time Application Certification

for Immediate Impact and Network
Action Learning Practices (ALP) are a core element of the INSEAD Lead the Future allows participants to engage
online programmes, designed to increase business impact. online, when and where it works best for them. Upon suc-
The guided ‘real-world assignments’ feature of the pro- cessful completion of all programme activities, combined
grammes encourages participants to take newly acquired with satisfactory completion of the Action Learning Prac-
skills and apply them within the context of their actual job tices, participants are awarded an official INSEAD Lead the

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and organisation. Future Certificate of completion.

Lead the Future is INSEAD’s flagship online leadership programme and

fully leverages INSEAD Online’s status as a world-leading pioneer in
online, virtual and blended learning. The programme integrates INSEAD
faculty expertise and thought leadership with high-impact, multi-
A next-generation dimensional and interactive learning experiences, all of this undergirded
learning journey by a curriculum expertly designed to maximise real-time application
and long-term impact. The result is a learning journey that is as flexible
as it is deep, as immediate as it is rigorous, as collaborative as it is
transformational.

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 Action Learning Practice (ALP) Dates and Fees
and Core Project Seminars

To stay ahead of the curve, to remain competitive It works like this:

and relevant in a disrupted and ever-changing
Identify a unique and challenging focus
environment means finding new solutions to
for your ALP.
new problems – and putting those solutions into
action. INSEAD Lead the Future challenges you to
 pply the concepts that you learn to your ALP,
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continuously practice applying your learning to your
exploring your challenge and leveraging the
own role and real-life business problems as you
concepts, tools and reflections garnered from
advance through the programme.
the programmes.
Working with a learning coach, you will complete
Action Learning Practice (ALP) for each of your four  ynthesise elements from your regular weekly
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core topics, leveraging the tools and frameworks submissions for faculty and peer feedback
you master to prepare an action plan that fulfils your into a coherent action plan.
objectives and to develop your core INSEAD Lead the
Future project. Throughout the programme, you will work on your
own core project building on your learning, on new
ideas and frameworks and on your expanding skillset
as you advance. You will share your project for
faculty and peer review at the end of the programme
and prepare to take your ideas forward within your
Dates Fees*
organisation for longer-term impact and value
creation.
Begins 9 April 2025 €19,950
Ends 1 April 2026 on Fontainebleau campus, France.
Individual application deadline: 27 March 2025 at 11am CET Contact
Lorenzo Ferdinands
Your ALP and project work deliver the following critical benefits: Programme Advisor
Tel: +65 6591 5305

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Email: [email protected]

Apply new concepts and ideas Deploy new tools and frameworks Lead efforts to help your
to develop behaviours to become to develop a process for organisation transition from being
more innovative as an individual innovation – one that helps execution oriented to becoming
and to lead innovation generate innovative ideas, tests more innovative through its ranks
them and puts them
into action

*Fee subject to change. Local taxes shall apply at the prevailing rates.

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