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I would hope at least that I’d be more insightful and embracing the change as a leader after I have completed my studies with EMBA.
We help leaders and organisations renew
- not just learn
Igniting strategic renewal
For over 20 years, Hanken & SSE Executive Education has brought the academic rigour of two of Europe's oldest business schools to work for leaders and organisations who want to grow and renew. Our programmes don't just transfer knowledge, they create measurable change.
We are owned by Hanken School of Economics and Stockholm School of Economics, both founded 1909.
Three ways to work with us
Three starting points for renewing people, teams and organisations.
Programmes
Programmes for individuals, including the Hanken EMBA and multi-company programmes bringing organisations together around shared challenges.
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For organisations
Custom-designed learning journeys, co-created with your leadership team, from strategy execution to leadership and cultural transformation.
Explore customised solutions
Change negotiations
Advisory and facilitation for organisations going through co-determination and large-scale change, and outplacement and transition security for the people affected.
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Our footprint in numbers since 2005
48K
48K
Leaders in our programmes
1 600
1 600
Programmes delivered
500
500
Independent expert faculty
The way we work
Courage
Courage, that special skill of calculated risk-taking helps bring out innovation and new thinking. We believe in courage as a skill to move mountains and it all starts from ourselves.
Insight
We believe that insight is the journey to actions that create impact. Insights add value and therefore we collaborate with the intent to offer insight and gain new insights every step of the way. Gaining new insight challenges us to always be one step ahead.
Heart
Organisations don’t create renewal or change, people do. Therefore, everything we do puts us, the human, right at the core. Our human touch creates life-changing moments of insight that inspires renewal and can sustain the test of time.
Bubbly
We have a bubbly spirit and doing business with us is seriously fun. We are flexible and will find a solution to any challenge.
How we design for impact
The way we work show up as a method. Every solution we design blends three things: experience, learner ownership, and real change.
- Experience. We build on experiential learning grounded in Kolb's model. People don't just listen, they learn by doing, reflecting, and applying. That's where learning sticks.
- Ownership. Programmes are learner-led. Participants bring their own challenges and steer their own journey, we guide, support, and challenge along the way.
- Change. The goal is simple and always the same: to change how they think and act. Not just new ideas, but new ways of working that last beyond the programme.
We track that change using a clear impact framework inspired by Kirkpatrick's model — from first reactions to real business results. Because learning should lead to action, for the individual, the team, and the organisation.
HOK-Elanto
“We particularly appreciated that the overall approach was both challenging and highly practical. Academic insight and research-based thinking were combined with strong practical expertise: Hanken & SSE challenged us to pause and reflect, while also providing concrete tools to support everyday execution.”
Metsä Group
"After several years of collaboration, the Hanken & SSE team had developed a deep understanding of Metsä as a company – our challenges, strengths and responsibilities. This enabled them to bring even more concrete value and synergy into the academies."
Telia
Read the story"This programme provides a broad overview of critical areas of our business and the operating environment, and helps us to develop our leadership to drive responsible growth."
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Igniting renewal: Empowering leaders for tomorrow
Hanken & SSE Executive Education, we believe leadership is not just about reacting to change — it’s about driving it. The future belongs to those who lead with clarity, courage, and purpose.
Sustainability
Hanken & SSE Executive Education is committed to social, environmental, and financial sustainability at all levels. We value and take care of social (people), environment (planet), and financial (profit) sustainability in all our actions.
