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Leading for the future: Driving renewal and growth at OWP Singapore 2024
Get inspired to drive renewal and growth. Learn how to optimize the core business, and create new sources of revenue for the future. Guided by IMD expert faculty, you will explore these topics and more, benefiting from the latest insights and applied research.
Keynote speakers will motivate you to take ambitious action with their bold, compelling stories. You will deepen your learnings across industries and geographies by learning from, and connecting with, hundreds of peer executives who will join you in high-impact, highly energizing sessions. You will leave with an opportunity-rich toolkit that equips you to contribute to a better world and prosper while doing so.
Experience IMD’s Executive Learning Center, situated at Catapult in the Rochester Park area in Singapore. Enjoy state-of-the-art, immersive learning with the latest technologies. We warmly invite you and your teams to join us for five inspiring days at OWP Singapore.
Customize your week
As an individual
Pick the most relevant topics and streams to solve your challenges and drive your business forward. Take back tools and strategies that you can implement immediately.
As a team
OWP is the ideal environment for your teams to regroup, plan ahead and build highly effective collaborations. A wide range of options enable teams to work together on post-pandemic challenges and develop specific solutions at the corporate level. Team members can also work on individual development needs to effectively lead and collaborate in the new normal.
IMD’s award-winning faculty will explore the latest innovations, technology trends and what these mean for you as a leader. You will learn how to make your organization better and grow as a leader. Get inspired by their latest insights, research and case studies to drive renewal and growth for you and your business.
Your week is divided into highly interactive streams, insight sessions and special topics around five themes: leading strategy, leading execution, leading stakeholders, leading people and leading self.
Get a taster of some of the exciting sessions from previous sessions below.
Professor Öykü Isik
What is the business case for this new paradigm of computing? Why is it so difficult to achieve success? Demystify the new frontier of computing, discuss t existing business applications, and explore what you can expect to see in the near future.
Chief Officer Learning Officer, Sarah Toms
In this immersive team-based experience, play the role of a green-tech scientist stationed on a deep-sea laboratory, where your leadership, communication, collaboration, decision-making, and strategic thinking skills are put to the test. The experience will be fun, engaging and gamified, with feedback, rewards, debrief and actionable takeaways.
Professor Ben Bryant
We will approach knowing yourself as a leader through the lens of role – to explore the way you show up as a leader. This includes your engagement, attitudes, and motivation, your convictions and self-doubts, your vulnerabilities and containment, and finally your sense of being authentic in role.
Professor Marleen Dieleman
Most companies in Asia are owned by business families, even the largest ones. This crash course allows you to familiarize yourself quickly with the key business players in the region, learn what makes them so successful and how you can successfully engage with them.
Professor Frédéric Dalsace
Sustainability is center stage on the agenda of many firms, but prioritizing it does not guarantee success. Many play the sustainability game poorly and face internal dissent. Discover how to leverage sustainability in your company strategy, to create a sustainable advantage with prosperity for you and society.
Professors Amit Joshi and Cyril Bouquet
Gain invaluable insights into how AI is reshaping the work of designers, innovation leaders, and professionals. Immerse yourself in the latest generation of generative AI technologies and tools, and witness firsthand their potential to revolutionize problem-solving in your work and personal life.
Professor Ina Toegel
One of the consistent predictors of a team’s performance is the presence of psychological safety – the shared belief that members can speak up and take risks without facing negative consequences. Explore practical ways to build psychological safety and sustain team performance.
Professors Mohan Subramaniam and Amit Joshi
Do you use your data to support your products, or your products to support your data? In this stream, we will discuss the power of adding data, analytics and AI to your existing product line up and thereby create new revenues through different business models.
Professor Cyril Bouquet
As a senior executive, you hold a pivotal role in cultivating a culture of innovation within your organization. Many executives struggle, often resorting to superficial changes that yield no real value. Join us to overcome this challenge and create an atmosphere where innovation can truly thrive.
Professor Arnaud Chevallier
Based on Prof. Chevallier’s book, Solvable, A simple solution to complex problems, discover a simple three-step process to structure how you make difficult decisions. Get concrete tools to improve your effectiveness, adapt your confidence level to the decisions you face and make decisions under time pressure.
Professor Misiek Piskorski
Leadership labs allow you to become a better leader by practicing, rather than just learning about, leadership. Compete against other teams as you complete a series of hands-on assignments that require fast decision-making, negotiation, following others, time management and dealing with change. Debrief with the coach, get feedback from participants, and learn what to improve.
Professor Amit Joshi and Dr Robyn Wilson
The power of presence can be tangibly felt by others. In these sessions, you will get a chance to explore your presence in two contexts: one with horses, and the other with actors. Practical exercises and processes will be shared during these sessions to help you explore how to manage in the moment.
Professor Arturo Bris
The sustainability imperative widely promoted is that combining ESG objectives is possible and desirable. We will question that: (1) there is virtually no business model that does not transfer the costs of sustainability to external stakeholders; (2) there is an ongoing sustainability bubble where stock returns of sustainability are driven by demand and not change in company behavior; and (3) at the macro level, sustainability will be useless if not extremely costly.
Professor Omar Toulan
Geopolitical and country risk pose an increasing challenge to firms operating not only abroad but even domestically. How can we analyze these risks and best mitigate them? Furthermore, how can we best prepare ourselves for future risks and/or trends through a process of horizon scanning?
Professor Ben Bryant
Using the mind-talk-action framework, this session invites you to challenge yourself and confront the consistencies and inconsistencies between what you say, what you believe and what you do. As leadership contexts become more complex, with multiple stakeholders, competing objectives and values, our search for a purposeful, integrated and authentic leadership is very challenging.
Group Vice President, Digital Ecosystem & Transformation, Danone Global, Netherlands
I chose OWP Singapore because the program is focused on developing winning performance mindsets. I was impressed by both the diversified topics and the diverse community here.
Senior Vice President Global Account Management, ABB, Singapore
OWP Singapore is a fantastic future-facing course, bringing together the best of IMD faculty and external speakers. It gives us the tools and the knowledge to face our leadership challenges head on.
Vice President Governance, Risk and Compliance, DKSH Management, Thailand
I had forgotten how refreshing and invigorating a high-quality academic environment can be. Listening to podcasts or reading books is just not the same as spending a week at OWP Singapore.
Managing Partner, Hildebrandt & Brandi, Denmark
We came to OWP with our full management team. It’s a great team experience offering a relaxed yet professional atmosphere. You are together to do some professional learning, while you at the same time get the chance to talk about stuff that is important in your own team.
Director, Structured Commodities Finance, ING, Switzerland
In these very uncertain times, it is extremely valuable to be able to network with such smart, brilliant people from all over the world, to interact with the faculty, and to learn the latest on what’s happening out there.
Commercial Banking Relationship Manager, Absa Bank, Mauritius
OWP Singapore is a transformational experience. An eye opener helping us as leaders in developing our mindsets and understanding our own blind spots. The opportunity to meet leaders and executives from 35 countries is amazing and definitely helping me in my role.
If you’re in a role where innovation and strategy matter, this is where you see theory meet practice. Discover how leading companies integrate GenAI to revolutionize their processes and offerings, and how you can do the same. Enjoy a taster of the OWP experience: engage in a session that reflects the dynamic and immersive learning environment of IMD programs.
Spaceship designer, serial entrepreneur, and space diplomat Susmita Mohanty has a unique vantage point on the world, having worked for space agencies and mega-corporations and co-founded three startups.
Canadian photographer, visual artist and activist Benjamin Von Wong has gained global recognition for his powerful images that carry important environmental and social messages.
To safeguard your organization from persistent cyber threats, look beyond technology and focus on educating your people, says prominent cybersecurity expert and ethical hacker Jamie Woodruff.
Join us for a masterclass or an information session and experience for yourself what IMD OWP program has to offer you, your career, and your future. You will get the opportunity to virtually meet faculty and discuss your professional challenges and aspirations with a program advisor who will help you to find the best path forward.
OWP is co-directed by IMD President, Professor Jean-François Manzoni and Professor Misiek Piskorski. Program co-directors are joined by 20+ faculty experts to inspire you with fresh perspectives and bold new directions.
Length: 5 days on Singapore campus