GENERAL
MANAGEMENT
PROGRAM

Shaping (y)our future: Probing, Sensing, Designing, Acting

Create adaptive and resilient xto face an ever-complex world

CEDEP’s General Management Program (GMP NXT) is an immersive executive education acceleration program dedicated to senior leaders, bringing together worldwide experts and academics and unique pedagogical approaches for a transformational leadership development experience.

During a five-month hybrid learning journey, participants learn to embrace the challenges of our inter-connected and ever-changing business world. They adapt to new perspectives, develop the skills and competencies to navigate uncertainty and learn to progress in complex situations.

In a small and highly participative group environment, participants can network, strategise and reflect with peers.

Why is the GMP so Unique by Jens Meyer, Program Director

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Objectives

The GMP NXT’s objective is to develop adaptive and resilient leaders who inspire teams to face an ever-complex world. We employ an interdisciplinary and cross-industry approach that breaks away from classic functional silos and embraces a holistic stance of how we – individuals and company communities – can shape future developments. Participants explore innovative ways to create value, grow sustainably and have an immediate impact on their organisation.

Everything is connected: the outside world sets the scene for our ambitions and actions – until we make it happen differently. Strategy provides orientation for and through the organisation. People at all layers can be enablers of change and progress.

The collaborative learning journey revolves around a Strategic Challenge where participants share a real-life business challenge. Participants work with peers to dissect the challenge, broaden perspectives and question underlying assumptions. They devise business experiments to conduct within the workplace to help drive the challenge forward and leave the program with an action plan.

Themes may include:

• Industry 4.0 and the wider digital landscape (a digital future, web 3.0, geopolitics, societal shifts)

• Sustainable businesses and humanity (circular economy, value creation, decarbonisation, global vs local)

• Emerging Strategy – renewal, reconstruction, learning from existing and future market spaces (market insights, scenario planning, eco-systems strategy, experimentation, decision making)

• Open vs. Close Management Processes: from managing inputs to managing outcomes (nature of employment, cognitive diversity, collaboration, governance)

• Managing People (self-awareness, the leader as a coach, emotional intelligence, storytelling, mental health, fair process leadership).

The Insight fair by Nana von Bernuth, GMP Program Director

Learning journey

The GMP NXT gives senior managers the unique opportunity to be immersed in a stimulating environment with creative, strong and knowledgeable leaders from diverse backgrounds and industries. Deploying a wide variety of pedagogical approaches, the program focuses on personal development and the common managerial challenges today’s leaders are facing to develop high value employees.

The GMP NXT is a five-month hybrid program with face-to-face modules as the grounded elements and virtual content capsules as the adaptable elements. Face-to-face modules take place both on our French campus and a global location.

Months 1-2

A 60-minute personal call to welcome and acclimate participants.
A 90-minute virtual kick-off to build the GMP NXT community.
A 9-day face-to-face module at our French campus dedicated to developing truly agile leadership. It covers the essentials and creates a sense of community and curiosity.

Months 3-4

2 x 2-day virtual content capsules emerging from participants’ needs. Participants are immersed into a specific subject allowing for an in-depth exploration with content experts (academics and practitioners) and their peers.

Month 5

An 9-day face-to-face seminar in a global location to expose participants to a different yet progressive reality. Dialogues, learnings expeditions, activities and keynote speakers will be dependent on location.

Post-Program

A half-day virtual harvest takes place 60 days after the program. Individual learning capsules adapted to personal needs will also be available.

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Upcoming session

Learning journey

12 May 2025 -> Virtual Kick-off
10 – 19 June 2025-> Module #1
7 – 9th July 2025 -> Virtual capsule #1
8 – 10 September 2025 -> Module #2
7 – 15 October 2025 -> Module #2
19 January 2026 -> Virtual Harveting Insights

Tuitions fees (excl.taxes)
€31,350

Module 1 Board & Accommodation (excl.taxes) €2,700
Module 2 Board & Accommodation (excl.taxes) TBC depending on location

Testimonials

The GMP NXT provides an exciting opportunity to share management experiences within the most diverse group of leaders I have ever met - in terms of people, profiles, cultures and organisations. By exploring new areas of management, we challenge our thoughts about what business, and our leadership role, might look like in the future. With practical experiments, we are designing tools to help us think forward and meet the challenges that will arise tomorrow in our ever-changing world. Be willing to step out of your comfort zone!

The GMP NXT was an incredibly rich experience allowing me to disconnect from my usual work routine, step back and reflect on my work and leadership. What a true luxury. Participating with other senior leaders from diverse companies, rather than just my peers from L’Oréal, was also extremely valuable. This program enables you to better envision how you can further improve your performance and increase the effectiveness of your leadership. I returned to L’Oréal with useful content and frameworks that I can apply to my everyday work. Meeting incredible senior leaders - and discovering Copenhagen - will remain a cherished personal and professional experience.

The GMP NXT offers a good mix of different participants and company cultures. It’s a powerful program requiring you to disconnect from daily work as much as possible to really benefit from the experience. We had to come prepared with our own individual strategic challenges from our respective companies which were then enriched in each session resulting in practical solutions to take away with us. All the sessions were very insightful, with rich content delivered by experienced academics and business experts, complemented with evening lectures and lots of groupwork to expand our ideas. The supporting materials were also very helpful as were the personal coaching and co-participant coaching sessions throughout the programme. Even though the GMP agenda is intense, the focus on wellbeing, with yoga classes for example, was excellent and I really enjoyed the virtual game that brought all our learning together at the end of our journey.

Participant profile

Ideal GMP NXT participants include senior leaders with 15 to 25 years’ experience who have recently taken up a GM role or are on a GM track. The program is also ideal for leaders who head up, or are in the succession plan to head up, a global function, or who manage corporate transformation projects.