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Executive Certificate
Leadership : Posture, Stratégie et Impact
Leadership : Posture, Stratégie et Impact Leadership : Posture, Stratégie et Impact
Develop Transformational Leadership for Yourself, Your Teams, and Your Organization.
This executive certificate empowers managers and senior leaders to embody authentic, high-impact leadership. You’ll strengthen your personal influence, master key team development tools (targeted recruitment, constructive feedback...), and adopt a reflective leadership mindset. The program integrates today’s environmental and societal challenges, helping you lead with purpose, responsibility, and meaning. Through active learning and peer exchanges, you’ll transform these insights into real, actionable leadership practices.
Place(s):
Paris – Jouy-en-Josas Campus
Duration:
12 days
Format:
In-class
Next start(s):
Mar 31 2026,
Jul 07 2026
Sep 15 2026
Language(s):
French
Cost:
17 900 €*
Objectives
- Analyze stakeholder expectations to integrate a systemic vision (self/team/environment) into strategic decision-making.
- Prioritize critical business challenges (technological, geopolitical) using strategic arbitration tools adapted to volatile and uncertain contexts.
- Translate company vision and values into mobilizing messages and concrete actions to anchor responsible human dynamics and strengthen team engagement.
- Develop your capacity to lead transformations by leveraging key internal and external stakeholders.
- Develop emotional intelligence through real-life scenarios (crisis negotiation, conflict management) to strengthen natural authority and team buy-in.
Program Structure
Comprised of 3 Executive Certificates:
Program
Through group work and plenary debates, challenges and levers for organizations and leaders seeking to implement a purpose will be highlighted. Latest research in responsible leadership will anchor key learnings regarding barriers, best practices, and actionable levers.
Research from HEC's "Purpose-based Leadership" Chair shows that middle management autonomy is a key condition for improving purpose-based leadership performance. This requires providing tools and methods to develop their teams' collective intelligence daily. The session focuses on methods and tools leaders can mobilize to improve organizational dynamics and purpose impact.
Leadership evolution and prospective analysis, identifying personal and organizational purposes, decoding managerial context.
Perceiving weak environmental signals, mindsets and postures necessary for leadership, training in interactions and adversity, risk-taking and building shared vision.
Acquire a methodological framework to decode and relay strategy and value creation drivers in your company, integrating the cross-functional dimension of different stakeholders to guide your thoughts and actions, and those of your teams.
Identify best practices for mobilizing and managing a team of high-level managers and executives, develop your capacity to lead transformations by leveraging your team.
Capitalization
This Executive certificate is eligible for capitalization towards the Executive Master in Management - general management
Profile
Who is this program for? Is it right for you?
Participant Profile
Managers of managers; Business unit leaders; Entrepreneurs; Executives transitioning to leadership roles
Prerequisites and Admission Criteria
Our certificate is designed for all executives, leaders, and functional or operational managers with at least 5 years of professional experience.
Faculty
Emmanuel COBLENCE
Associate Professor, HEC Paris
I believe leadership is not just taught — it is crafted. Our role is to empower executives to develop a leadership signature uniquely shaped by who they are, the organizations they serve, and the challenges they are called to address.
Learning methods & evaluations
Pédagogy :
In this leadership program, participants work on their own leadership situations, considering their unique personality and style, organizational context, and role. Participants don't just master leadership theories but learn to adapt their behavior to situations and act decisively as leaders. The pedagogy is active, alternating role-playing, practical exercises, conceptual inputs, analytical frameworks, peer exchanges, tools and methods enabling personal action plan structuring.
Evaluations:
Final essay integrating learnings from the 3 modules. Action plan and stakeholder mapping.
Admission
Would you like to submit your application?
We invite you to:
1. Contact our training consultant, who will guide you through the admission process.
2. Then, complete your application on our platform by clicking the button below:
This program is accessible to individuals with disabilities. Please contact us to discuss any additional needs or to obtain the Public Accessibility Register.
Tuition Fees and Funding
The program fee includes tuition and meal costs during training hours (lunch and breaks).
Not included: Dinners (except in specific cases), transportation costs, and accommodation costs (except in specific cases).
Funding Options: Depending on your profile and chosen program, several solutions may be available to you. Visit our funding section for more information.
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