Thought leadership

Empowering leadership in times of transformation
Effective leadership today means navigating complexity with clarity—managing hybrid teams, engaging across generations, and creating environments where people can grow and perform. This course offers practical tools and frameworks to help you align your team around a shared vision, foster a feedback-driven culture, and turn everyday challenges into opportunities for progress. Designed for managers operating in fast-evolving contexts, the program combines interactive sessions, role playing, real-world insights, and coaching tools to support your leadership development.

Who should apply
This program is for you if you want to build or strengthen your leadership skills—whether to accelerate your personal growth or to guide and support the development of your team.
It is designed for managers, project leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals from any function or industry who lead people or organizational units.
If you’re committed to turning change into opportunity, and believe in creating value by integrating diverse perspectives across generations, cultures, and roles, this experience will help you develop the skills of the leaders of the future.
SDA Bocconi Executive Education Certificate
To navigate today’s evolving macroeconomic landscape and organizational change, it is essential to broaden managerial capabilities. Learning plays a central role in this journey.
An initial conversation with our Program Advisors is a required step to design a coherent learning path, clarify objectives and participation options, and to be eligible to earn the Certificate. From there, participants can choose the learning format that best supports their professional development.


Program Advisory
Learning is never a linear journey—it is a path built together, combining specific training needs with practical tools tailored to individual challenges. Contact our team of Program Advisors, and together we will design the ideal learning path for you or your team, ensuring alignment with your goals.
Your benefits:
A dedicated orientation meeting, either in-person or remotely, to identify learning needs and create a customized plan. Throughout the course, you will experience a tailored welcome to introduce you to the program and foster networking between participants and instructors. Upon completion, your evaluation will become a valuable contribution for continuous improvement of the offering.
How your organization benefits:
Training consultation with HR managers to analyze organizational needs and develop personalized projects. Ongoing progress monitoring and a final follow-up to share results and gather feedback, ensuring constant alignment with pre-set goals.
Get in touch with Erica Pizzelli
Structure and contents
The program consists of 3 days, totaling 24 equivalent hours, and is built on 1 pillar.
Inspire direction, drive momentum, and lead with purpose
Calendar and information
Via Nibby 20, 00161 Roma
Calendar
- 11 - 13 novembre 2026On Campus08:00 - 17:00
Fees
€ 4.200 + VAT
The fee is exclusive of VAT and includes course materials and working breakfasts.
Early Bird
A 10% reduction on the program fees offered to applications sent in by 10 September 2026.
Special payment terms
Bocconi Alumni
Bocconi Alumni are entitled to a 20% reduction on participation fees. To take advantage of the discount, please enter your Alumnus status when registering by indicating “ALUMNI 20” in the notes section. Remember that without this indication, the discount will not be applicable.
Women are good for business
To foster and contribute to women’s professional development, SDA Bocconi School of Management offers them until 8 March 2027 a 20% discount on the participation fee for all Executive Open Programs and Executive Online Programs.
Multiple enrollments
Companies, institutions and public bodies that enroll at least 3 participants in a single program are granted a 20% discount for each registration fee. The concession is not applicable for personal enrollment and must be formalized by the start date of the course.
Corporate education programs
In the case of learning needs involving several resources of the same company enrolled in more than one program, it is possible to define a customized plan from the specific needs of the organization. In this case, our Program Advisors are available to build with the client organizations ad hoc training plans with special pricing.
Partnerships and channel agreements
SDA Bocconi offers the possibility to initiate collaborations that allow them to expand the portfolio of educational trainings to be offered to their members. In this case, the School is available to evaluate partnerships and channel agreements so as to respond in a timely manner to the specific needs of the organization.
By attending at least 80% of the classes, you will receive a certificate of participation in the program and a digital badge to share with your network on LinkedIn.
Program Direction

Developing your leadership is an opportunity to enhance your impact on individual and organizational performance, on people’s personal and professional growth, and on the well-being of society as a whole.

