The EMPOD program, a joint effort between ESADE Business School and the Weatherhead School of Management remains grounded in the basic belief that the self can be a powerful instrument for change; that personal and professional development go hand in hand. The EMPOD learning experience fosters experiential opportunities for participants to become more self aware, to practice and experiment with new skills, and to give and receive coaching that can be life-changing.
The program educates and develops leaders who will create enduring social systems that offer extraordinary value to all stakeholders, nourish the cooperative human spirit, and contribute to ecologically sustainable societies and global well-being.
WHO IS THE EMPOD FOR? PARTICIPANT MIX.
The EMPOD promises a diverse cohort learning experience like none other. Applicants from throughout the globe will have a minimum of five years of work experience and be in management or leadership positions where they are currently responsible for strategic improvement and leading change to improve human system effectiveness. The EMPOD will benefit any professional with a role leading people and teams.
WHAT THE EMPOD WILL DO FOR YOU.
Upon completion of the program, participants will:
• Build new capabilities in strategic-level change management for value creation with customers and communities.
• Broaden their knowledge of leading-edge theory and practice in Appreciative Inquiry, strength-based human resource development, and positive organizational change research.
• Develop the competencies and the emotional intelligence to coach and foster leadership skills and personal character in themselves and others.
• Be able to form extraordinary groups and organizations-sustainable enterprises that enable human flourishing that are economically prosperous, ecologically advanced, and contribute to uniting the strengths of markets with universal ideas.
• Engage in lifelong experiential learning to realize, develop, and model themselves as agents for change.
WHY EARN AN EMPOD?
The context of Organizational Development (OD) has shifted radically within the last 20 years. Customer service, productivity, and the bottom line are no longer the only benchmarks of business success. Today’s leaders need to be prepared to simultaneously embrace accelerated change, knowledge work, disruptive innovations, distributed organizing, social entrepreneurship, and globalization.
The EMPOD degree enables professionals to create a better world by developing human potential with strength-based methods of inquiry, design, and change management.
