Transformational forces are in the process of reshaping higher education and business schools, as professional schools, are at the forefront of this development. As universities are responding to the call of becoming more customer oriented, impactful, technology-embracing, and network focused, hardly ‘any stone will be left unturned’. Everything from content, the role of research, pedagogy to students are credentialed is likely to be affects.
The Leadership Accelerator Academy focuses on these challenges and will help participants to respond to them in their professional roles, as leaders and shapers in higher education.
A joint program is conducted by Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and EFMD Global Network.
To create a space in which leading higher-education actors can discuss and develop the reform agenda of tertiary education (in particular management education) in a global context
Dates:
Program Length:
1 kick-off day & 2 full days
Language:
English with simultaneous translation into Russian
Location:
Campus of Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
EFMD — international leader in business education. EFMD is the largest International network association in the field of management development that includes over 912 institutional members and reaches over 30,000 management development professionals from academia, business, public service and consultancy across 88 countries worldwide.
EFMD plays a central role in shaping an international approach to management education and it is a unique forum for information, research, quality assurance, networking and debate on innovation and best practice in management development. It diligently serves as an international platform to bring together leaders in the management education profession and to contribute systemic and integrative thinking to the discourse of continuous amelioration in education, research and practice.
Uniquely responsible and inclusive, EFMD convenes, facilitates and fosters collaboration amongst institutions that share interest in promoting and developing responsible initiatives.
The joint international program has the perceptible aim to gather experts from academia and business spheres who would contribute and tackle the actual challenges in management development. This program will highlight the current regional issues; foreground challenges and questions that concern business education sphere and provide some practical solutions.
Interaction with high-quality international and Russian experts in business education
Becoming part of the unique community of business-education leaders
Discussion of key trends and problems of business education, identification and analysis of transformation tasks
Joint development of agenda and future activities
The Leadership Accelerator Academy enhances the participants’ leadership competencies while at the same time focusing on issues that are high up on the reform agenda of Russian higher education
An important pathway towards tackling these challenges is to engage more effectively with the non-academic world; to be ‘engaged’ and generate ‘impact’
In a globalized world, having ‘impact’ necessitates learning from other organizations, partnering with them and utilizing networks to the benefit of institutional stakeholders
Together with their stakeholders, business schools need to explore how to embrace technological change that is impacting the way students learn; they need to transform the educational journey to meet employers’ future needs
Βusiness-education leaders
Members of senior management teams of business schools
Deans of schools of management & economics at universities departments who already hold or intend to assume transformational roles in their institution
Senior executives of corporate universities
Executives with corresponding positions at the university level or in other faculties are invited as well
After completing the face-to-face component of the program, all participants are invited to engage in a capstone activity targeting transformational challenges at the participants’ home institutions with feedback to be provided by expert coaches of EFMD GN and Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO.
Director of Business School Development at EFMD Global Network (GN), Associate Director Quality Services at EFMD
Areas of expertise: corporate risk management, organizational resilience, higher education management and financing
Virtual session
Director General & CEO, EFMD
Areas of expertise: institutional development of business schools, strategy, international management and entrepreneurship
Chairman of the SKOLKOVO International Academic Council & Associate Dean, HKUST Business School
Areas of expertise: leadership training, education and NGO management, leader assessments, global partnerships, education administration and board member training
Dean of Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
Areas of expertise: leadership in strategic transformations, strategic partnership of business and business schools
Virtual session
Executive Dean, Deakin University, Co-President ABDC
Areas of expertise: digital transformation, marketing communications, marketing strategy, brand management, and health promotion
Dean, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
President, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Academic Director, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Director of the SKOLKOVO Education Development Centre, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
The program fee includes:
Tuition
Full set of study materials
Session with expert coaches after the end of the program
Completion of all phases of the program will lead to the award of professional certificate issued by EFMD GN and Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Parking fee
Lunch and coffee breaks
Please note that accommodation and travel expenses are not included.
Only fully filled applications will be accepted for consideration
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Admission committee reserves the right to refuse admission to any candidate who has not passed at least one of admission steps.