Grow your strategic leadership
EMBA Highlights
The programme builds key skills in strategic leadership, decision-making, and growth strategy, helping you lead change, navigate risks, see opportunities, and drive innovation while bridging strategy and execution.
Build the skills to navigate uncertainty and shape markets
The EMBA Highlights programme supports leaders to sharpen their strategic thinking, leadership skills, and ability to shape markets in a rapidly changing business world. Participants gain a deep understanding of what it means to lead strategically, learning how to adapt their leadership style to different situations and strengthen their own capabilities. It also focuses on the practical side of leadership—helping leaders connect strategy with execution by recognising industry shifts and leveraging innovative business models.
Designed for experienced leaders ready to apply the latest tools
The programme is for executives, managers and experts - who want to make sure they work with the latest in management and leadership tools. Ideally with a minimum of three years of work experience and at least one year of leadership experience. High proficiency in English and at least a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is also required.
Programme schedule
Programme content
After this module, you are able to:
Use practical tools to connect customer insights (outside-in) with internal strategy (inside-out).
Facilitate more meaningful and strategic dialogue around innovation in your organisation.
Apply structured approaches to drive creativity, clarify direction, and build innovation capacity.
After this module, you are able to:
Identify models that align sustainability and business goals.
Evaluate risks and trade-offs inherent in business models for sustainability.
Assess strategically suitable cross-sector partnership solutions for sustainability.
Propose an actionable business model that incorporates sustainability.
Argue for and defend a chosen sustainability strategy .
After this module, you are able to:
Critically evaluate data and identify potential limitations.
Use data with confidence in decision making.
Integrate psychological, data-driven, and business considerations in their decision-making processes.
After this module, you are able to:
Distinguish between product-oriented and value-based sales strategies in B2B contexts.
Choose appropriate tools and techniques to plan, structure, and execute sales that centre on customer value.
Align your organisation’s sales approach with purchasing strategies and long-term client needs.
After this module, you are able to:
Interpret financial statements to quickly assess your organisation’s financial health and capabilities.
Use financial ratios to analyse competitive positioning and identify performance levers.
Link performance metrics and value drivers to financial results for smarter business decision-making.
After this module, you are able to:
Understand human decision-making in the context of B2C and B2B customers.
Analyze the existing customer base to assess opportunities for growth.
Evaluate growth opportunities based on customer preferences and decision-making.
Understand the fundamentals of how to generate attention, interest, and an emotional connection with customers.
After this module, you are able to:
Identify the main geoeconomic trends affecting today’s international business landscape.
Understand how companies can navigate geoeconomic change and build resilience against it.
Identify and assess geoeconomic and geopolitical risks for their own industry.
After this module, you are able to:
Identify critical capabilities in either adapting to changes or shaping the industry.
Use capability thinking when building new business models daily management.
Understand the role of strategic capabilities in strategy implementation.
After this module, you are able to:
Form a substantiated view of strategic leadership.
Consider why specific forms of strategic leadership work in specific contexts.
Reflect on and develop your strategic leadership skills.
After this module, you are able to:
Plan and communicate change initiatives in a truly impactful way
Understand the essence of good storytelling.
Stockholm Growth Camp: Accelerate growth the Swedish way
Start your EMBA Highlights experience with an additional intensive two-day growth module in Stockholm | 9-10 December 2026
Drawing on research, Nordic business leadership and Swedish growth practices, the camp helps leaders and organisations strengthen their growth mindset, sharpen their market positioning, become truly customer-centric, and align owners, boards and management around a shared growth agenda. Academic frameworks, boardroom insight and real company cases come together in practical lessons you can apply immediately in your organisation.
Price: €3,600 + VAT. Includes growth module participation, meals, a wine tasting experience and one night's accommodation.
Stockholm Growth Camp is booked and invoiced separately from the EMBA Highlights programme.
Your edge: strategic clarity, adaptive leadership, market insight
Benefits for professionals
- Strengthen your strategic leadership and broaden your perspective – lead with clarity and deliver results in complex environments
- Gain fresh perspectives from a cross-sector cohort – explore new ways of thinking alongside professionals from varied industries, roles, and business models
- Flexible, low-threshold way to boost your business acumen – perfect when time is limited but impact matters.
- A smart stepping stone towards an Executive MBA – gain credits now and transfer your study days seamlessly into the full Hanken EMBA when the timing suits you (within four years)
Stronger decisions, faster execution, better results
Benefits for your organisation
- A network of participants from diverse industries from publicly listed companies to start-ups
- Participants bring increased value to the business through strengthened strategic decision-making and leadership skills
- New ways of thinking, as well as tools and techniques for business growth
- Leaders who can both shape the future and mobilise people to deliver it
Faculty
What participants are saying
Each module of the programme brings new knowledge and insights. Also, the opportunity to discuss the learnings with the other participants and how they would apply the insights into their contexts was really valuable for me. The exchange of experiences showed me how the problems I face on a daily basis are similar to the problems in totally different businesses. I would recommend the programme for both executives and young professionals. The opportunity to network and get perspectives from the other participants and learn from each other is a great joy.
The programme offered real-time perspectives and tools on how to navigate during and post these unprecedented times of Covid-19. A wider contextual reflection and group work with other students offered valuable external perspectives during every module. Having digital and marketing lenses on my day-to-day work, I really liked the comprehensive and holistic approach of the programme, covering the core functions and perspective of a modern business. During every module, I was able to draw concrete ideas and tools to apply to my daily work – on both operational and strategic level. I highly recommend MBA Highlights to everyone who wishes to challenge her/his thinking, get inspired by excellent teachers and expand ones toolbox with modern solutions.
I got new tools to develop our companys creative process as well as tools to understand customers and employees needs in a better way. Also, self-management and the methods of positive psychology gave me many practical improvement tools. I can definitely recommend the programme for every business leader who wants to improve her/his skills in modern business management and leadership.
FAQ about EMBA Highlights
EMBA Highlights operates on a rolling basis and is organised annually, granting you the freedom to choose your ideal starting point for the programme. Simply choose a suitable module and join the programme from that point onward.
EMBA Highlights provides an ideal basis towards studying in the Hanken EMBA programme, as the study days are transferable into the full 2-year Hanken EMBA programme, if this is done within four years. Completion of 10 modules equals 14 ECTS credits.
We will meet in the Hanken EMBA room, at Arkadiankatu 22, Helsinki.
To be eligible for ECTS credits, you must complete the pre- and post-module assignments.
If you're only interested in specific modules, you're welcome to register for only those.
The price for individual modules is 1500 €
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For a combined learning experience, we warmly recommend combining coaching with your MBA Highlights programme.
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