EMBA Module - Leading Transformation
When there is direction, but no movement
Start date
January 21, 2027, Campus Tilburg
Duration
5 months
Language
English
Costs
€ 17000
Accreditations
- AACSB
- AMBA
Rankings
TIAS Executive MBA #1 in the Netherlands #12 worldwide for career development according to the Financial Times
Fulltime / Parttime
Parttime
Program structure
3 consecutive campus days per month
Result
TIAS-certificate, stackable towards an Executive MBA-degree
Introduction
Many leaders recognize this. There’s a compelling narrative, there’s direction, there’s buy-in. And yet: after the first milestones, momentum slips away. Other priorities take over. And eventually, the change drops off the radar entirely. Why is that? The tension lies between what we say we want and how we actually behave.
The EMBA Module Leading Transformation addresses precisely this inner side of change. Not the question of where you need to go, but why it’s so hard to turn a chosen course into reality. You work with a comprehensive change framework that brings together three perspectives: steering and incentives through management controls, a change approach focused on practical application, and insight into human behavior. This way, you learn not just to explain change, but to organize it.
A standalone Advanced Program or stackable as a module within the EMBA
By participating in this program, you will complete one of the four modules of TIAS's leading Executive MBA program. You will learn, discuss and collaborate with participants taking the full Executive MBA, immediately immersing you in an ambitious and strategic learning environment.
TIAS Executive MBA #1 in the Netherlands, #12 worldwide for career development according to the Financial Times.
Participant profile
Participants in the EMBA Module Leading Transformation are senior and executive managers responsible for strategy, execution, or implementation. They know that a clear course doesn’t automatically lead to different behavior. The plans are in place, the mandate is there, but in practice things stall. You want to increase your impact in the phase where it really matters: from plan to actual change.
CV or Linkedin assessment, check your eligibility
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Average demographics
38 jaar | 70% man & 30% vrouwAverage work experience
14 years of work experience in various professional environments
Why this program
Understanding change is not enough. You need to make it land.
Most change initiatives don’t fail because of the plan, they fail in execution. Not because ambition is lacking, but because change gets stuck on behavior, habits, and how the organization is steered. Agreement is not the same as movement.
Leading Transformation helps you break that pattern. You develop a coherent change framework and test it against reality. In Austria, you are held up a personal mirror on your own role as a leader in change. And in the Live Performance Challenge, you bring it all together on a real change assignment where movement has stalled.
This combination means you don’t just see more clearly why change stalls, but also know concretely what it takes to get it moving again. Less convincing, more mobilizing.
What will the program bring you?
An integrated framework connecting controls, change approach, and human behavior
Deeper insight into your own role as a leader and the impact your behavior has on change
The ability to turn resistance into momentum and organize movement without forcing it
Greater alignment across your organization between direction, behavior, and decision-making
About this program
The content is structured as a single learning journey: from understanding where change gets stuck, to figuring out how to get unstuck. Each course adds a new perspective, with your own professional practice as the backdrop for reflection and application. The Live Performance Challenge provides the reality check: can you apply what you've learned in a real-life change challenge?
The five courses in brief
Management Controls, steering behavior through incentives, frameworks, and accountability. What you measure gets done.
Organizational Behavior, insight into motivation, leadership, and culture, and predictors of high performance.
Leading Change, drivers of behavior change in individuals and groups, and setting conditions for organizational change.
Transformational Leadership Trail Austria, a deep dive in personal leadership, getting clarity on what is truly important to you in life and at work, and support in taking the first steps in making that a reality.
Live Performance Challenge, a real change case with a client organization, making choices under real pressure.
Want to learn more about the program and individual courses? Download the brochure.
Time investment and certificate
The program spans 5 months, during which you attend 5 residential weekends of 3 days each. During the first three weekends, the study load is approximately 16–18 hours per week. After that, the study load decreases significantly due to the experiential nature of the final two weekends (approximately 2–5 hours per week).
Upon successful completion, you receive a certificate of participation. This can ultimately count toward an Executive MBA degree, provided you complete all 4 EMBA tracks and your capstone project.
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