The program is

offered in English

INTERNATIONAL
MANAGEMENT
PROGR AM (IMP)

Changing Perspectives
exedsse.se
FI RS T S T E P O F TA L E N T D E V E LO PM E N T
The International Management Program (IMP) is a multicultural
meeting point for emerging international managers. The diversity
of backgrounds and experiences they represent enriches the entire
program. It is a program designed in association with our partner
companies – Alleima, Atlas Copco, DeLaval, Epiroc, Sandvik, Scania
and SSAB – to meet the ongoing needs of international managers in
these global companies operating in a dynamic business environment.

IMP is the first step in a talent development pipeline of SSE Executive

Education Consortium programs, where FEM Executive Management
Program and TIO International Executive Program form the next steps.

YO U R PRO FI L E
The target group is high-potential managers - or newly appointed
general managers – requiring a general management competence
in environments with a strong focus on business results and perfor-
mance. The program also targets talented second-line managers
in need of leadership development before being assigned to more
complex management tasks.

Participants have at least 1-5 years of business experience with

intensive cross-border business relations and are typically in their
thirties. Key characteristics are a track record of success and high
motivation for continued personal development. Normally, 10-15
different nationalities are represented in the group.
AN INTENSIVE INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNIT Y

The goals of IMP

PRO GR A M This program will enhance your skills in key general management areas such as
O BJ EC TIVES Business Finance, Digitalization and Innovation. It will develop your strategic ability
to maintain a sustainable competitive advantage, but foremost it will help you acquire
an awareness of yourself as a leader and manager and from there how to lead, form
and develop teams in a global cross-cultural organization.

To meet these objectives, we offer you a unique opportunity to acquire skills, enhance
knowledge and increase awareness integrated throughout the program through a
creatively designed and professionally facilitated learning process, in which the active
participation and interaction of participants are keyvalue components.

You will develop leadership abilities, especially in a multicultural environment,

understand leadership in complex matrix organizations, team leadership and colla-
boration, encourage and lead continuous change. We will especially increase your
awareness of your own and others values, attitudes and behavior in cross-culture
interactions.You will enhance your ability to use essential management tools in
management accounting, business models, communication, collaboration and
transformative leadership.

Educational focus
Business/assignment
Business control
Leadership
PROGR AM CONTENT
All topics are integrated through dialog and reflection sessions during the entire program. Participants learn,
bond, and develop exceptional ties with each other.

Participants bring a real business challenge which they get to explore and expand during the program in
consultation teams. A 360° feedback activity is performed between the two modules and is further develo-
ped in the consultation teams. During the final week guests from the partner companies are invited to take part
of presentations by the participants who share their individual learnings and learnings for their companies.

1 2 3
ONLINE SESSION

ONLINE SESSION
FACE 2 FACE, 8 DAYS WEEKLY ONLINE FACE 2 FACE, 8 DAYS
KÄMPASTEN, SWEDEN SESSIONS, 6 HALF-DAYS KÄMPASTEN, SWEDEN

Foundation for leadership The second program module Leadership and management
and development is delivered with live-online in practice
webinars, with the following
Openness as the Grand themes: Developing a “Matrix Mind”
simplifier and the bottom-line and contributing to a global
of productivity Understand contemporary business
trends such as AI, sustainability
Communication for managers: and DE&I and the respective Increasing the ability to lead
getting the message across challenges and opportunities and act flexibly in a multicultural
they imply for incumbent context
Leadership of high-perfor-
mance cross-border teams in a multinational companies Building trust and collaboration
multinational organization Ability to use business models The development of your natural
Reflection as a method of as a tool for holistic business leadership talent
learning development and innovation

Identifying business challenge Ability to connect business

decisions with financial reports
to measure and improve value
creation

Understand change processes

and how to drive successful
transformation

OUR VIEW OF LEARNING PRODUCES RESULTS

We focus on learning, not on teaching. You will develop by sorting, evaluating and construing the context within
which your organization operates. This strengthens you in your mandate to lead others. By developing a holistic
understanding of your organization and its business, you will understand how to act strategically. We are not a
conventional school. You can be certain that our faculty resources represent the foremost in their respective fields, but
for us the meeting of minds, the exchange of experience, the dialogue and reflection, carry equal weight in creating a real
learning outcome. For us, generating real results in the organization is our challenge and our priority.
A HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE FOR SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP

Successful management and leadership impose complex Faculty and learning approach
demands. Managers at all levels need to find a balanced The program is an intense, challenging and rewarding
personal competence profile which combines leadership, learning experience, delivered by world-class interna-
management control and the ability to move the business tional faculty associated to SSE Executive Education
forward. Furthermore, a successful manager must under- and other leading European and American business
stand the interrelation of these three key management schools. Senior executives from participating companies
perspectives. A holistic perspective is the cornerstone of act as guest speakers.
successful leadership.
A variety of active learning approaches (case studies,
The challenge of integrating Business, Control and group work, experience-based learning) enhance inte-
Leadership lies in focusing on how these areas interact. raction among participants. The exchange of experience
For instance, the complexity of corporate organizations is an essential part of the program and an opportunity
can be addressed both from a Leadership and a Control to build a valuable professional intercultural network.
perspective, whereas the company’s operational vision The international dimension is strengthened by the natio-
unifies Leadership with Business development. nal diversity of participants, the scope of the discussions
and the selection of materials.
This truly comprehensive program brings together and
tailors all these areas to tackle the actual challenges you
face in your role as manager and leader. This metho-
dology places great demands on the learning process
and on the participants’ ability to switch between
various perspectives.
Photo: Erik Sandberg
WE WANT TO SEE
YOU GROW WITH
YOUR ORGANIZATION
THE CONSORTIUM MODEL GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE,
FOR MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT A DYNAMIC NETWORK
Consortium programs have long been at the core SSE Executive Education has been delivering executi-
of our executive education offerings. Our consortium ve development around the world for over 50 years.
collaborations all share some key characteristics: a We are ranked by the Financial Times as one of the
select group of partner organizations (typically 5-8) world’s foremost providers of executive education
with a long term view on structured management with a position as the leading provider in Northern
development; a shared desire to exert a proactive Europe. We have offices in Sweden, Finland, Russia
influence on program goals and structure; and a joint and the Baltic States and a strong network of interna-
interest in cross-company experience sharing and tional faculty in more than 20 countries.
networking.
Key to our mission is that we are firmly anchored in
Furthermore, the consortium model leverages the the commercial world, in academia and in the com-
process of making real impact in the organizations munity at large. As such, we constitute a dynamic
by allowing several participants from each organiza- network of researchers and experienced business
tion to participate at any point in time. This facilitates leaders from the entire world.
the task of pro­
­­ cessing company-specific challenges
as part of the program process, and beyond.

PRO G R A M FACTS

D U R AT I O N A N D R EG IS T R AT I O N
21 days divided into two modules during three months.
For current dates and registration visit www.exedsse.se or contact us.

PRO G R A M FE E
SEK 175,000 (Ex VAT) excluding accommodation & full board and travel expenses

LO C AT I O N
Live-online/Sweden

WA N T T O K N O W M O R E ?
Up-to-date information on programs, contact persons and application forms can be found on www.exedsse.se.

Photo: Juliana Wiklund if nothing else is specified.

In numbers
Ranked #1 in the Nordics by the
Financial Times
We train With We offer

3000 50
managers years of
75
programs
per year experience

SSE Executive Education is Northern Europe’s leading partner

for executive education and ranked number one in the Nordics
within leadership and business development according to
Financial Times. This is where academic research and industry
meet. SSE Executive Education develops leaders with a focus
on cutting-edge research and initiatives within innovation & en-
trepreneurship, sustainable growth and finance, and increases
competitiveness for companies, organizations and the public
sector through transformational change.
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