Executive Master of Management and Organization
Start date
20 mei 2026
Duration
3 days on campus per module/20 months master degree
Language
Dutch
Costs
€ 38500
Degree
Master of Science (MSc)
Accreditations
- AACSB
- NVAO
Fulltime / Parttime
Parttime
Schedule
Monthly 3 days
Introduction
This master’s program is designed for professionals who don’t just want to endure or manage change, but shape it. Do any of these questions resonate with you?
- What if you didn’t just manage change, but truly led it?
- Are you ready to sharpen your vision and help shape the course of your organization?
- Do you feel your influence is falling short, and are you looking for ways to expand it?
- How do you translate your expertise into strategic, system-level impact?
- Are you seeking new perspectives to realign both yourself and your organization?
What do all these questions have in common?
A desire not to work harder, but to move smarter. Not to be a manager of the status quo, but a leader who makes transformation possible.
Participant profile
Participants in this program are experienced leaders who bear strategic responsibility within their organizations. They are facing major transitions and want to actively steer growth, innovation, and future-proofing.
They are looking for new ways to strengthen their organizations in a sustainable manner by stimulating innovation, translating strategy into action, and successfully implementing complex changes.
In the lecture hall, you will meet peers who, like you, hold high-level positions of responsibility and want to further develop their leadership skills in order to make a greater impact, either within their organization or as independent professionals working for their clients.
Average demographics
43 years | 41% men, 59% womenAverage work experience
10 years of experience at various management levels
Why this program
At some point in your career, experience stops being the answer and starts raising new questions. The Executive Master of Management and Organization (MMO) is designed for that turning point.
It’s for leaders, professionals, and change agents who sense that something needs to shift — and want to learn how to make that happen.
What will the program bring you?
In this master’s program, you don’t learn how to become the ‘right’ kind of leader—you learn how to find your role within a complex reality.
You’ll discover how content, process, and context together determine what is truly needed—and how you can respond with greater awareness.
You won’t learn to push harder, but to see more clearly. Not to know more, but to understand more deeply. Not to follow, but to provide direction.
About this program
The Executive Master of Management and Organization is an integrated learning journey. Over twenty months, you work in eleven modules organized around four movements: reframing your perspective, giving direction to change, building adaptive capacity and leading movement.
Together, these four movements form one continuous development path. In each module you work with your own challenges and translate new insights directly into steps in your organisation. In subsequent modules you revisit this work, create new connections and increase the impact of what you have already set in motion. This creates a learning process in which the modules mirror, deepen and reinforce one another.
In each module you connect reflection, up to date insights from research and practice and the issues at stake in your organisation, with your leadership as the guiding thread.
1. Learning to see differently
You will learn to see yourself in a new light - as a leader, as a change agent, and as a part of a larger system
Module 1: Business in transition: new perspectives on organization & society
You will start to see your organization as a hub in a broader ecosystem of stakeholders and societal transitions, and explore what this implies for your strategy, governance and personal leadership.
Module 2: Online deep dive: Business, Society & Ethics
You sharpen your moral compass using current, often intractable cases and learn to position yourself more effectively in the tensions between profitability, societal legitimacy and long-term value creation.
2. Shaping direction in change
You will craft a strategic narrative, learn to navigate competing interests, and give direction to movement
3. Strategic narrative & strategy execution
You develop a strategic narrative that provides direction, meaning and energy, and translate it into a realistic and widely supported execution path that fits the dynamics of your organization.
4. Sustainable innovation & new business models
You explore how to shape innovation and business models when societal impact, circularity and long-term value weigh just as heavily as growth and financial returns.
3. Building adaptive capacity
You will connect your functional knowledge — HR, finance, technology — to the movement you aim to create. will practise leadership in action. You will design and test an intervention. You will learn to move through complexity.
5. Customer, brand & value creation in transition
You shift from linear customer service to co-creating value within networks and platforms, and learn to deploy brand, reputation and relational capital strategically.
6. People, learning & organizational culture
You learn to read and influence the often invisible undercurrent of culture, patterns and unwritten rules, so that learning, psychological safety and performance reinforce each other.
7. Finance as narrative & management instrument
You use financial language not only for accountability, but as a means to make strategic choices, risks, investments and societal ambitions explicit and open to discussion.
8. Processes, flow & operational agility
You look at processes, waiting times and bottlenecks through a systems lens, and learn how to increase flow, quality and agility simultaneously for both customers and professionals.
9. Study trip: looking beyond your own system
During the study trip you confront your own assumptions with practices in other countries and sectors, and translate the insights gained into concrete interventions in your own context.
4. Leading in motion
You will practise leadership in action. You will design and test an intervention. You will learn to move through complexity.
10. Leadership in complexity & uncertainty
You explore how to exercise effective leadership when there are no clear answers, by providing direction, creating space and facilitating meaningful dialogue about dilemmas and uncertainty.
11. Data, digital transformation & information flows
You learn to approach data and digital technology as an integral part of strategy and organizational design, and to translate digital ambitions into feasible change journeys in which people, processes and information come together.
Elective options
To tailor the program even more closely to your learning goals, the modules Sustainable Innovation and Transformation & Leadership can be exchanged for an elective. Please contact your Program Adviser to learn more about the available options.
Want to learn more about the modules by theme? Download the brochure.
Business Research Methods
Business Research Methods (BRM) is part of your Master's degree. This module will help you make better decisions in situations where a solution to a problem is not immediately obvious because you are missing some of the information.
For students doing an entire Master's program at TIAS, both BRM modules are mandatory. We recommend doing BRM I at the start of your Master's and BRM II at the end, just before graduation. Talk to your Program Adviser about the best time to schedule BRM I into your personal learning path.
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