Cosmopolitan Managers
Executive Development that Works

Authors: Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño



Practical research-based advice on what works, and what doesn’t in Executive Education.

Challenges prevailing idea that STEM-based analytical skills have the most impact in making great managers and leaders.

Author cited by the Financial Times as “one of the most significant figures in promoting European business schools internationally”.

Executive education is a billion dollar industry that has the potential to transform individual and organizational performance, but in too many cases the decision whether or not to lavish it upon any given manager comes down to whether the fear that they will leave if you don’t spend money on them is greater than the fear that they will leave if you do.

Given that the future of your business, or your career, depends on developing your managerial talent to its fullest potential isn’t it time we took a serious look at how do you design and deliver an executive education program that is fit for purpose?
Santiago Iñiguez is Dean of the prestigious IE Business School in Madrid – one of the world’s leading providers of executive education. From the impact of MOOCs to the evolution of new multi-dimensional strategic alliances between companies and a diverse range of international education suppliers, institutions, and consultancies, Iñiguez looks at how the future of executive education is changing to meet the needs  and wants of top managerial talent.

Part of the solution, Iñiguez argues, is to balance the technical, analysis-based “engineering” training that forms the basis of many senior managers’ initial study, with a more rounded, integrated approach that includes learning derived from the humanities, such as art and history.

Illustrated with fascinating examples drawn from interviews with some of the most influential figures in business education and corporate training around the World, Iñiguez’s book delivers a unique perspective and valuable insights on what it takes to deliver world-class corporate training.

Table of contents

Front Matter
Pages i-xxvii

In-Company Executive Education and Development
Front Matter
Pages 1-1
Human Resource Management and Leadership Development
Pages 3-18
Executive Education Examined
Pages 19-37
The Managerial Lifecycle
Pages 39-53
Blending Technology and Learning
Pages 55-75
Measuring the Impact of Executive Learning
Pages 77-92
Attracting, Developing, and Retaining Talent
Pages 93-108
Challenges and Opportunities of Implementing Diversity and Inclusion
Pages 109-127

Growing Cosmopolitan Managers
Front Matter
Pages 129-129
Creating Learning Communities
Pages 131-150
Management and the Humanities
Pages 151-168
Creating a Virtuous Learning Environment
Pages 169-184
Nurturing Management Virtues
Pages 185-202
Talent Management and Sustainable Companies
Pages 203-221
Epilogue: Earthly Paradises and Satisfaction at Work
Pages 223-226

Back Matter
Pages 227-231

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