Executive Short Program
Gouvernance et Stratégie
- Paris – Jouy-en-Josas Campus
- Sep 21 2026
- 3 days
- French
- 5000 €*
Strengthen your governance expertise and develop the skills required to serve effectively on boards of directors. HEC Paris Executive Education programs prepare you to address the strategic, regulatory, and societal challenges facing organizations today.
HEC Paris Executive Education programs support board members, executives, and future directors in developing effective and responsible governance. In a context shaped by accelerating economic, technological, and geopolitical transformations, boards play a critical role in providing strategic direction and creating sustainable value.
Our programs enable participants to strengthen their understanding of governance fundamentals while addressing contemporary challenges related to directors’ responsibilities, risk management, sustainability, ethics, and organizational performance. Through a teaching approach based on peer exchange, case studies, and international best practices, you will develop a comprehensive understanding of board responsibilities and enhance your ability to exert a positive influence at the highest levels of decision-making.
Program Advisor Coaching & Management
By some estimates, more than 80% of AI projects fail to deliver the value expected of them. For Vincent Fraitot, those failures explain very little: it is the successes that are readable, and what they reveal goes well beyond technology. The HEC Paris professor on what it takes to scale an AI transformation.
Companies rush to define their purpose, sure it will fire up their teams and lift results. Rodolphe Durand has spent ten years checking whether that was true. Few people are better placed to know: he holds the Joly Family Chair in Purposeful Leadership at HEC Paris, runs its Purpose Center, and has spent over a decade on the boards of listed, private, and non-profit organisations - watching purpose decisions get made from the inside.
Trust gets you in the room. It does not make you indispensable once the room gets more technical than you are. Radisha Silva, VP at J.P. Morgan in Geneva, saw that gap coming and went back to school to close it.
AI and geopolitical turmoil have convinced many executives that the future is too unpredictable to plan for. Laurence Lehmann-Ortega, strategy professor at HEC Paris and co-author of Strategor, argues the reverse: permanent crisis is precisely why strategy matters again, on one condition, that you stop forecasting the future and start preparing for several of them at once.
*Net price, as HEC Paris is not subject to VAT. The prices indicated may vary depending on the intake dates. When multiple starting dates are available, the price shown corresponds to the first date listed. Program, faculty and course content are also subject to change.