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The Program for Management Development (PMD) in Barcelona will accelerate your transition to leadership, empowering you to deliver strong competitive advantage to your company and to become a key driver of growth. This leadership course will help you build key competencies by exchanging ideas with trusted peers and participating actively in faculty-led debate.
Transform the way you do business
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Know yourself better - your strengths and your areas for improvement.
Begin to practice a new way of leading
Leave a positive and lasting impact on people.
Leadership competencies
Know yourself better - your strengths and your areas for improvement.
Learn to empower, inspire and align teams
around strategic goals.
Understand how business functions work together and move into a general manager mindset
Understand how business functions work together and move into a general manager mindset
Make decisions based on a solid understanding of strategy and your competitive context.
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With our focus on the general management perspective, you will develop a holistic understanding of organizations and learn to lead across different business functions. You will explore what it means to lead and to become a force for positive impact in your company and society.
Our Barcelona campus will be your window onto the world, giving you first-hand experience in global business and daily interaction with international faculty and peers. You will develop the creativity and longer-term thinking to be an entrepreneur, receiving the academic and practical support you need.
Global & entrepreneurial viewpoint
While our language of instruction is English, you will have the opportunity to master business Spanish or take the bilingual MBA, empowering you to work in two of the world’s most spoken languages.
People-centered approach
Business knowledge
Program for Management
Development
Top #2 in executive education open programs
by the Financial Times 2024
Format: Part-time. Blended program, with 3 on campus modules and 2 online modules.
Length: 5 months.
Location: Barcelona.
Language: English.
Scholarships available.
General Management
"The program gives you a maturity imprint. It will take you from being a specialist to a generalist."
Kathryn Kenealy (PMD)
Senior Claims Advisor
Zurich Insurance Group
Australia
Authentic Leadership
"The program teaches authentic leadership at a time when values are more important than ever."
Matthew Glenn (PMD)
Managing Director UK Export
Campari Group
United Kingdom
Our Admissions Team
Isabel Estalella
Executive Director
IESE EMBA (2004)
Junichi Kagaya
Japan
Book a meeting with one of our advisers now. In this one-to-one session, you’ll go through your professional goals and explore which of our programs might suit you best. Each adviser is focused on a region. We look forward to talking to you!
Isabel Estalella
Executive Director
IESE EMBA (2004)
Wanny Procópio
Western Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Israel, Monaco
Elena Santodomingo
United Kingdom, Ireland, Russia
Arve Utseth
Nordics, Latam
Benefits
BUILD YOUR
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Boost your ability to motivate team members and align them around common objectives.
SHARPEN YOUR DECISION MAKING
Learn how to approach business challenges from multiple angles and achieve better outcomes by leveraging divergent cross-functional viewpoints.
EXPLORE BUSINESS TRENDS
Expand your knowledge of sustainability, artificial intelligence, geopolitical tensions and other trends shaping global business today.
ENRICH YOUR
NETWORK
Build a vibrant professional network of peers who reflect diverse cultures, industries and professional profiles.
Participants are high-potential managers from a very broad spectrum of sectors and backgrounds who are ready to step up and deliver greater impact to their organizations. Profiles include:
Successful functional managers | Newly appointed general managers | Professional specialists | Senior managers
Class profile
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Average age
10
Average years management experience
25
Nationalities
43%
Women
Luis Casas
USA, Canada, Oceania, Mexico, Caribbean
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Next intake: September 2026
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Next intake: April 2026
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