Leadership development programme

Develop rising leaders in your organisation. The Corporate Network Regional Leaders Programme is a professional education solution to assist you with succession planning for your company’s future growth. Through this leadership training programme, rising leaders will come to understand the factors that directly affect business success and develop the leadership skills and knowledge necessary to manage them.

About the leadership programme

Presenting to team

Why join the programme?

Drawing from the vast resources of The Economist Group, and using the unique expertise of our senior editors, we will expand the perspective of your employees and provide them with actionable insights on the most relevant issues for business. Our editors are constantly working with C-suite executives from the biggest and most innovative companies in the world, and the professional development and knowledge programme incorporates their inputs.

As the complexity of business increases and technology blurs the boundaries between countries and industries, we help executives develop the “peripheral vision” that senior leaders need so they can identify and respond to emerging threats and opportunities.

The programme will help to “internationalise” and expand the perspectives of rising regional leaders, allowing them to:

  • Articulate the broader business implications of function-specific activities
  • Draw from multiple styles of thinking to address business issues
  • Clarify and solve ill-defined problems

Who should participate?

The individuals who will get the most from our business leadership courses are high potential employees who report directly to a functional leader. Depending on the company’s structure, these could be part of a country or regional team.

Ideal candidates will have demonstrated strong performance in the past, the potential for future leadership, and the aspiration to assume a regional leadership role.

As it is a virtual programme, prospective students in our leadership development courses can be based anywhere globally but class timings favour those based in APAC and EMEA. Previous years’ students have come from myriad industries and functional backgrounds.

What to expect from our leadership development training

We have organised a series of interactive virtual seminars to educate future leaders from diverse backgrounds, industries and functions. Accessing the vast repository of written analysis from The Economist newspaper and EIU, as well as the “on-the-ground” insights gleaned from the Directors of the Economist Intelligence Corporate Network, we aim to help our students understand the world around them and how they can shape it.

The specialised leadership seminars on business topics will be delivered virtually once a month by the senior editors of EIU. Each session will be 90 minutes long (30min presentation + 30min scenario exercise + 30min discussion). The classes will be live, not recorded. Each class session includes an interactive component, where students will work on problems in small groups before discussing their results in the larger group. 

The corporate leadership curriculum starts with a strategic overview, and then continues with eight sessions divided into four critical areas: Economics and finance; geopolitics; transformation; and resilience and sustainability.

Course themes

Global economy
Risk scenarios
Public policy
Geopolitics
Emerging markets
International trade
Corporate strategy
Sustainability and ESG
Energy and oil
Technology trends

Download the brochure

For more details about the Regional Leaders Programme, including the full 2024 class list, please download the brochure by clicking the button below.

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If you would like to participate, please fill out the form below or reach out directly to your EICN Account Manager.