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MBA, executive MBA, continuing education for executive in Lyon and Paris | Training sessions offered by EML Executive
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3 days a month during 20 months
Full Time during 12 months
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Next intake: October 2022 in Lyon and Paris
Bachelor or Master degree required
#8 worldwide for career progression Financial Times 2019
Nathalie WESSE - Recruitment Manager | Executive MBA
QS Executive MBA Rankings 2022 : l’EMBA d’emlyon classé 27e mondial
The Executive MBA – a program built on diversity, solidarity, and hard work
Why study for an Executive MBA during a crisis situation?
Realign your professional direction - Redefine the meaning and purpose of your professional goals
Advance your skills to keep up with your changing environment - Develop the skills needed to integrate the technological, economic and social disruptions
Create your own MBA - Take advantages of the choices that you have to make the programme work for your individual goals
See direct professional and personal benefits - Directly implement the knowledge that you are gaining into your professional setting
Study in English or in French
The program is taught in English in Paris and the choice of English or French in Lyon
Our course for senior executives will help you to accelerate your career and develop your ability to lead in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving world.
Director of MBA programmes
- Boost your career
- Open up to new ideas and challenge your practices with others
- Develop your competencies in line with your personal and company’s expectations
- Manage ambiguity in an uncertain world in a better way
Benefits for your company
- Reward, recognize and retain key talent
- The immediate application of new learning to lead to higher levels of performance
- The completion of a strategic project defined and sponsored by the company
Executive MBA participants are senior managers with extensive professional experience (15 years on average) or with an entrepreneurial project for a new venture or acquisition.
96% of the alumni have reached their objectives (Placement survey 2019)
Participant global satisfaction (courses): 3.4/4 (2019-2020 courses)
Success rate: 95% (February 2021 jury)
Businesses are confronted by challenges due to today’s complex international environment. There exist a number of technological, political and economic ruptures that are influencing business activity and companies have to be prepared with strategies on how to deal with this.
You will gain a vision of these challenges and learn how to position a company, its strategy and organisation.
There are many specific cross-functional skills that a manager needs to be effective and to make informed decisions. You will not only learn these skills, but also learn how to integrate them into your daily tasks in your professional setting.
You will learn through practical experiences and be immersed in real-world assignments from various industries to immediately put the concepts and tools that you learn from the courses into practice.
In the second part of the programme you will have the choice of four Maker Bridge specialisations, to tailor the programme to your professional objectives. You may choose to further develop and confirm your current position, or to choose a new direction all together.
The four Makers Bridge options are:
Corporate Executive: participants wanting to evolve in their position as senior manager or executive in large corporations
Small Medium Enterprise Manager: SME executives to reinforce their position as CEO or to create a pathway to becoming the CEO and learn how grow their company further
Corporate Entrepreneurship: participants wanting to excel at innovating within a larger organisation
Entrepreneurship : participants wanting to start or develop their business
You will be supported by specialised leadership development experts who will coach you and help you understand and master individual and collective leadership challenges. Depending on your profile and career goals, you will have tailored support to ensure that your objectives will be achieved.
An integral part of the curriculum, the Executive MBA’s dedicated careers track comprises a full range of services specifically designed to help participants establish a roadmap to successfully manage their next and future career developments.
Access to the community of 27 000 alumni is one of the most rewarding and enriching aspects of the Executive MBA. As part of this international network, you will be able to draw upon lifelong contacts from around the world for advice, expertise and friendship as you move your career forward. You can take advantage of the network for business opportunities and social connections thanks to the various Business Clubs, School events and gatherings.
The 27 000 alumni live :
40% in the Paris region
30% in the Rhône-Alpes region
10% elsewhere in France
20% living and working abroad spread across 108 countries
The members of our faculty are all highly qualified with 90% of our 130 permanent professors holding a doctoral degree
7 teaching and research units in touch with the business world
A business school incubator which has coached 1 350 participants in supported projects since 1984
emlyon business school is among the 1% of business schools worldwide awarded
Executive MBA admission requirements is :
a minimum of 7 years' of professional experience
Bachelor Degree or equivalent(in any other case, please contact us)
English Test (TOEIC, TOEFL, IELTS)
For students with disabilities, please contact our Disability Resource Center: handicap@em-lyon.com. We will consider all possibilities to provide specific arrangements in accordance with your needs
The application form includes :
• 2 recommendation letters (template provided with the application form above)
• a certified copy of your IELTS/TOEFL/TOEIC
The Admission Board will review your application :
• You are directly admitted to the Executive MBA
• You are invited to a face-to-face or Skype interview
• You are not admitted
€ 45,000 excl. VAT.* - Application fee: € 150 inc VAT – October 2022 intake in Lyon and Paris Includes lifetime membership to emlyon’s alumni association – We are currently accepting all applications.
An integral part of the curriculum, the Executive MBA’s dedicated Leadership and Development track comprises a full range of services specifically designed to help participants establish a roadmap to successfully manage their future career developments.
Whether you want to develop in your current company, change careers or launch an entrepreneurial project, the programme is designed to give you individual coaching and support to ensure your success.
A range of dedicated services
Expert panels and conferences: To provide you with excellent opportunities throughout the year to meet with different companies and educators face-to-face to discuss your future
Corporate events: Events that gather various corporate partners for you to meet with companies, experts, and potential recruiters
Alumni network: Hold lifelong membership within a network of over 29,000 alumni in 118 countries
Human Resources Director Abeo Group
This training programme certainly played a major role in my recruitment and today I am experiencing the benefits of this year, mainly in terms of my business understanding and in my ability to challenge and make proposals for strategic decisions within the group
founded three companies in the medical sector
Promote well-being in the workplace and a genuine respect of their employees demonstrated through care and trust.
the head of Refresco Gerber since 2015
You went to a great school: make the most of that, let loose, do what makes you happy
Export sales director at Teclis Instruments
I started an EMBA at emlyon business school to prepare the company takeover via a LBO.
Group Communication Manager of Gattefossé
I also asked myself many questions, including about the interest for me, who works since six years in a company, to gain experience elsewhere. But the coaching realised by a high-quality professional allowed me to take a step back, to put my project into perspective and to reinforce my wish to make this company grow while consolidating its independence, which is important to us, and also to our customers.
President / CEO of Bilfinger LTM industrie
The point is to share with different people, from different backgrounds, different ages; to develop my network and to have new knowledge and tools allowing me to see further.
Director of Cabinet Neocoach, expert in change management
A human and entrepreneurial adventure.
CEO of France Retraite
Firstly, the course helped me become sufficiently self-confident about my capability to put the project together and make it work. And, in addition, it allowed me access to resources that were very valuable in building the project. I was therefore able to benefit from the input of teachers and other people whom I had especially appreciated in the fields where I needed support, people whose only goals were to help me succeed in my takeover.
Director of Human Resources at PSB Industries
Whatever the period, life - particularly professional life - is not like a slow-flowing, peaceful river. Successes and failures constantly oblige us to adapt. Along the way, periods of training are a privilege that allow you to develop both professionally and in human terms and you must know how to make the most of these.
Enhance your particularity and creativity! Rely on the acquired competencies and on emlyon business school network but also add your own touch to what you do and undertake.
Executive Officer of Fibrotermica
Proclaiming that I'm always right: a manager is a manger, not because they are always right, but because they have to choose the best solution from all the available options (whether they stem from an original idea or from a member of their team).
Firstly: increased understanding of marketing, strategy, management, finance, ... I’ve been highly impressed by the professors. We tried to challenge them on the basis of our experience and they always met our expectations. Secondly, I enjoyed the network and strong entrepreneurial spirit of EML. The EMBA convinced me that entrepreneurship is possible. Last but not least, I lived a transformational experience both personally and professionally. After the completion of the EMBA, I was contacted by a headhunter to take on general management responsibilities of a BU. I then created my own company. Mastering a large range of subjects and their interactions would not have been possible without the multidisciplinary approach and state-ofmind developed by my EMBA
Obiz co-founder, received the "Coup de cœur" trophy at the 8th edition of the Fête de l'Entreprise
I wanted to be better equipped, to obtain quality education and training (MBA EMLYON in 2003), a denser network to activate and enough funds of my own to be able to set up my enterprise while keeping risks low.
Founder and CEO of Amoéba
When I joined the Executive MBA programme I was determined to update my knowledge on various subjects like finance and human resource management. My aim was to build solid skills in the areas that have to be taken care of on a daily basis by any entrepreneur.
The EMBA brought me the necessary skills that then allowed me to move on to more strategic positions with an international scope. But I also learned a lot about myself, namely thanks to the meetings and events with the other MBA groups and students in my graduating class. Learning from the professional backgrounds and experience of the other participants is just as important as the content of the training program itself.