LeadiNNg to Scale-Up 2024: New cohort announcement
Summary
We are proud to attract talents from across Switzerland, and we are also pleased to observe a growing participation of women CEOs, constituting a quarter of this cohort, adds Patrick Barbey, Innovaud Director.The first lesson was different with the addition of a team building afternoon outside the IMD classroom to spend time together and get to know each other from the start. Some examples :\xb7 Scaling for customers: understanding the value proposition that your current and future target customers are seeking, with the scaleup expert Roland Siebelink from the Silicon Valley\xb7 Your team and scaling: how to build and incent a scalable organization, with Michel Jaccard from id est avocats and Jean-Marc Wismer, former COO Mindmaze\xb7 Change leadership: understanding the psychology and process of change management, with Javier Bello, former CEO ImverseFor startups, the benefits are numerous: they learn about how to scale from leading entrepreneurship professors at IMD, gain access to a network of successful scale-ups and entrepreneurs, become part of a community of ambitious founders facing similar challenges, and receive a certificate of completion recognized by IMD and Innovaud.Founding and scaling a startup can be a lonely process, and it can be helpful for founders to know that their peers are facing the same challenges. We looked at the data we had from more than two decades of running the IMD Startup Competition and interviewed founders who were already successfully scaling.A crucial aspect as explains Eugenia Balysheva, CEO Dotphoton and participant of LeadiNNg to Scale-Up 2024: I am happy to be part of a course specifically designed for founders at the scale up stage. The LeadiNNg to Scale Up course not only provides the necessary toolkit to manage rapid expansion, but also offers invaluable insights from those whove successfully navigated similar paths. Its about empowering startup founders to turn their vision into a sustainable and thriving enterprise.From what weve seen, in Switzerland there are many programs for early-stage companies, often teaching the fundamentals of pitching and fundraising, but we found few were targeted at ventures that had already raised money and had a product in the market with multiple clients and seemed poised for fast growth on a global scale, concludes Jim Pulcrano.