This executive leadership training is for directors, founders and senior executives who want to embody a coherent posture, inspire their teams and hold their course in shifting times. Over two days, you work on the four pillars of sustainable leadership: vision, presence, decision, transmission. A structured and personal approach, far from universal recipes.
An executive without clear direction cannot durably engage the organization
For executives in French speaking Switzerland, the role evolves: less operational expertise, more vision, presence and incarnation. This course offers a clear framework to clarify your posture, identify growth zones and build a concrete action plan. Format with introspection, peer feedback and integrated coaching.
Module 01: Position yourself as a manager of managers
Module 02: Develop your leadership
Module 03: Leading a team of managers
Module 04: Strengthen the managerial skills of its employees
Module 05: Lead a solid team of managers
Module 06: Adapt your management to each manager
The executive job has changed deeply. Speed, complexity, team expectations, digital and ecological transitions: the role today demands a clear posture and capacity to inspire. This course offers a structured approach for those who want to upskill on this dimension, in addition to technical skills. In Geneva and Lausanne, many executives come to work on their posture after a position transition or hierarchical leap.
Solid leadership rests on a clear inner compass. What is your reading of the world? What are non negotiable values of your direction? The course offers guided introspection without psychologizing drift, to clarify what carries you and what you want to transmit. An often skipped step that proves decisive for long-term coherence.
Goleman, Hersey, Blanchard: several models map leadership styles (directive, participative, visionary, coach…). The course helps you identify your dominant style, strengths, blind spots and the flexibility needed. With a personal diagnostic that you work on in course.
Executive presence is not decreed, it is worked: posture, voice, silence management, congruence between word and act. The course offers concrete exercises on this often neglected dimension. Many participants report a visible change from the second day.
Daily executive life is made of difficult decisions with incomplete information. The course details cognitive biases, methods to structure complex choices and review rituals that avoid impulsive decisions. With focus on long-term decisions, where the cost of an error is highest.
A direction is held only if repeated, embodied, lived. The course works on founding narrative, embodiment rituals and coherence between speech and acts. With attention to tempo (the leader’s patience) and transmission to managerial relays that amplify the message.
General management, executive committee, BU direction, SME or growth company founders, strategic program managers with direction influence. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, banking, pharma industry, public sector and growing SMEs.
You formulate your vision and values in a few readable sentences, you identify your leadership style and discomfort zones, you work on your oral presence and impact, you structure your difficult decisions with a clear grid. You leave with a three-month action plan and a logbook to follow your progression.
In a shifting economic and organizational context, the executive’s posture is a marker for the team. A stable and readable posture allows the organization to absorb shocks without losing its course. This course specifically works the stability of this posture, over time and facing the unexpected, so that the executive remains a useful anchor for their team.
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs over two days in a small group with a senior leadership coach with operational direction experience. Format mixing introspection, peer feedback, role plays, body exercises and integrated individual coaching. Group confidentiality is explicit and held. Beyond the course, the executive leadership topic is maintained daily through journals, coaching sessions and peer exchanges.
A founder transitioning from operational director to visionary leader after a growth leap. A BU director clarifying his posture after a merger. An SME director repositioning her leadership after a maternity or sick leave return. The course works on these three situations from cases brought by participants.
Executive posture directly shapes organizational culture over time. Through repeated micro-decisions, communication choices and arbitrages, the executive sets implicit norms that the organization absorbs. The course briefly opens this dimension to make this responsibility visible and conscious.
Sustaining executive performance over years requires conscious energy management: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual. The course briefly addresses this dimension, often the missing piece in classic leadership development. Practices to protect bandwidth, integrate recovery, and preserve clarity over the long run.
Practical work on these dimensions during the course closes with a personalized energy management plan calibrated to your professional rhythm.
The course also addresses how to integrate these practices with executive committee rhythms without burdening them.
For which job level?
General management, executive committee, BU direction, SME or growth company founders.
Is it academic?
No, the course is resolutely practical. Models serve as compass, not recitation.
Is individual coaching included?
A personalized coaching session is integrated. For prolonged follow up, a coaching path can be proposed after.
Are exchanges confidential?
Yes, group confidentiality is announced and held.
Does it integrate digital transformation and AI challenges?
Yes, the executive’s posture facing current transformations (digital, AI, ESG) is integrated in several sequences.
How to handle leadership during organizational restructuring?
The course addresses restructuring contexts specifically, with attention to communication, support of impacted populations, and posture maintenance under pressure.
Does the course address succession planning?
Yes, succession planning and transmission of leadership are addressed in a dedicated sequence, with frameworks adapted to family business, scale-up and corporate contexts.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Côtes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
