Executive MBA

Futureproof yourself with the Executive Master of Business Administration

We live in a world where rapid change and a need for greater sustainability are the only constants. This requires organizations to maintain a careful balance between agility, speed and steadfastness. What kind of leaders can do that successfully? Leaders with keen judgment, a clear vision and insight into every aspect of the business. Leaders who can weigh the interests of multiple stakeholders. Leaders who are aware of the vital importance of building coalitions in order to lead change. Leaders with the confidence to assume the lead in the transition to sustainability. The TIAS Executive MBA trains precisely this kind of leader.

English-taught EMBA program leadership and transition

During the Executive MBA, you develop a sound understanding of business. You improve your technical and management skills and reinforce both your professional competencies and your personal skills. You expand your horizons and your awareness by applying your new skills, knowledge, and insights to real-world cases. Intensive attention to personal development and mission-driven leadership further strengthens your resolve, credibility and self-confidence. In this way, you become a leader capable of achieving a sustainability transition with more impact, more space and more satisfaction. For yourself, your organization and the world in which that organization operates.

How will the executive mba benefit you?

• Your perspective becomes more complete through deeper knowledge of and insights into your own field and broader knowledge of other fields.
• A transformative leadership program allows you to make valuable advances both personally and professionally. You let go of limiting beliefs about yourself, about others and about what is possible.
• You connect all the knowledge, thoughts, ideas and skills you have gained during Live Performance Challenge Weekends. During these weekends, you get to work for real clients.
• On your trip to Rwanda, you experience what it’s like to do business with local entrepreneurs under completely different conditions. This brings home the inseparability of business & society.
• You can create a social impact, as business and society are integral parts of the program rather than stand-alone modules.
• You enjoy a major boost in self-confidence. You are freed of doubt about your own abilities.
• You gain insight into your own drives, leadership styles and strengths and weaknesses, and discover the future you want to create for yourself and how to create it.
• 88% of graduates receive a promotion or new job offer during their studies or within a year of graduation.
• You expand your network, as the unique modular structure allows you to form a cohort with a fixed group of fellow participants and work together with larger, different groups.
• The TIAS Executive MBA trains leaders to help society by transforming their organizations.  

Executive MBA program at TIAS

The English-taught Executive MBA at TIAS consists of a sound academic program with an integrated transformative leadership program. It combines integrated and critical thinking with confidence and awareness. This allows you to make a difference for yourself, to your organization and in the world around you. The combination of academic concepts and practical tools offered in varied assignments and working methods encourages you to think differently and embeds what you have learned. You start making an impact before you’ve even completed the program, as you can apply your acquired knowledge straight away.

Flexibility

The modular structure of EMBA offers participants the opportunity to complete the program at an accelerated pace or take a break if necessary. Participants can also graduate at their own pace as they get to decide when to start their Capstone Projects. For more information, please contact your Program Adviser.

BizzTrek Rwanda

This four-day exploration of the business environment in Rwanda is an essential part of the program. Through maximum immersion in the local (business) environment, you get to discover the many ways that business and society are intertwined and interact. This journey is invaluable. Stepping into a different context expands your mind and touches your heart. It’s an unforgettable experience.

Leadership in the EMBA

Leadership is an integral part of the Executive MBA. TIAS’ unique approach combines workshops geared towards developing skills, deep awareness, experiential learning and peer-to-peer coaching. The fixed peer-to-peer coaching groups meet five times throughout the EMBA and are supervised by a coach. This allows you to achieve optimum personal growth. Our coaches will supervise you in developing and honing your core competencies and working towards your personal goals. In this way, the Executive MBA creates an environment for both professional and personal growth.

Structure of the Executive MBA

TIAS' Executive MBA comprises fourthemed stages that together provide a comprehensive view of business administration from both an operational and strategic perspective. Your EMBA concludes with a Capstone Project.

Optimizing Business Performance

• Managerial Accounting and Control
• Operations
• Managerial Finance
• Data analytics
• Leadership workshops:
  - Negotiations
  - Peer-to-peer coaching

Leading in a (Post) Global World

• Strategy
• Micro Economics
• Macro Economics
• Doing Business in a Complex World
• BizzTrek Rwanda
• Leadership workshops:
  - Inclusive leadership
  - Intercultural Competence
  - Peer-to-peer coaching

Building Sustainable Businesses

• Marketing Management
• Sustainable Innovation Management
• Creating Shared Value
• Entrepreneurship
• Leadership workshops:
  - Responsible Leadership
  - Peer-to-peer coaching

Leading Transformation

• Organizational Dynamics
• Leading Change
• Strategic Leadership
• Leadership workshops:
  - Transformational Leadership Trail
  - Change Leadership
  - Peer-to-peer coaching

Capstone Project

Consultation with the Program Adviser

Contact our Program Adviser for further information on this EMBA program. We’ll be happy to answer your questions on the program contents, group composition, financing, admission requirements and more. After the consultation with the Program Adviser, if you decide to move forward with your EMBA, you’ll receive an enrollment invitation from us.

End result: Executive MBA diploma

After successful completion of your studies, you receive the title of Master of Business Administration (MBA). In addition, the TIAS program holds both international AMBA (Great Britain) and institutional AACSB (United States) accreditations. These accreditations form the legal basis for granting the Master of Business Administration degree.

Costs Executive Master of Business Administration

€ 59600 (exempt from VAT).

The program includes:

• Enrollment, registration and administration costs
• Required literature, textbooks and course materials
• Catering packages (lunch, coffee/tea and soft drinks) during lecture periods, meals during residential sessions
• Overnight accommodations including breakfast*
• The substantive program of the international study trip**
• Access to the online learning environment

* Accommodation during residential overnight sessions enables you focus all your attention on your studies. The Program Adviser can give you further information on the benefits of overnight accommodations as well as cost savings if you decide not to.

** Travel expenses for the international module are not included.

For more information about the costs and possibilities of participating in stage(s) of the EMBA. Please contact the Program Adviser.

Benefits of the Executive MBA for your organization

• With ample focus on personal leadership, participants develop into leaders who maintain control even in difficult situations.
• Well-prepared to take the lead and armed with knowledge of new business models and innovation management, participants help futureproof their organizations.
• Participants develop into valued and confident advisers and sparring partners for the C-suite.
• Participants can use their mission to forge convincing and motivational connections with teams and employees, allowing goals to be achieved more easily.
• They apply scientific concepts and models directly within the organization, through a combination of work and study.
• During the final Capstone Project, participants apply their new skills, knowledge and insights to a project in their own organization under the supervision of world-class lecturers. In doing so, they make a difference within their organization, and often a measurable impact on the operating result.

Scholarships

Financial support options for the Executive MBA

So you’ve found the right program for your learning objectives and ambitions. But how do you finance it? Several options are available. Your employer may play a role, but the law also offers attractive options that you can use yourself. TIAS explains these for you below.

Read about the options »

Admission Executive MBA

You will find all of the admissions requirements listed on the application portal and listed below.

The final stage of the application process will be an online interview with the EMBA Academic Director, Roemer Visser.

Executive MBA Admissions Requirements

• A Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD degree.
• At least 5 years of relevant work experience, at least 3 of which are in a leadership or management role.
• Successful completion of the TIAS Competency Test for applicants without a Master’s degree or PhD.

Please don’t hesitate to contact the Program Adviser with any questions you might have regarding the EMBA admission requirements and process.

Meet the Executive MBA lecturers

Our lecturers have extensive knowledge and wide experience in science and society. Because of this, they know better than anyone how to translate academic theories, models and principles into practical strategies to respond to current developments and issues.

Roemer Visser, Associate Professor and Academic Director: “TIAS creates opportunities for reflection and exploration to help you discover ‘What is most important to me? How can I make that happen and what are my next steps?’”