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High-Impact Leadership Training 

Are you looking to enhance your self-awareness as a leader and improve your people management skills? Do you need support in navigating organizational growth or change management? AI, digitalization, and data-driven practices are reshaping how work is done and how decisions are made. At the same time, leaders are expected to provide clear, value-driven direction, act responsibly, and think in new and broad ways.
Leadership today means actively driving renewal, shaping the future, and creating lasting impact in a rapidly changing world.

Beyond technical and operational expertise, effective managers require a strategic vision and forward-thinking perspective. Our leadership and general management training challenges your current leadership paradigms, encouraging innovative approaches and developing new skillsets for advanced leadership roles. 

We offer high-level leadership and strategic management programs that prepare you to tackle complex challenges and seize new opportunities. Enhance your ability to lead, innovate, and drive strategic change through our comprehensive leadership development program.

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As part of Aalto University, Aalto EE helps organizations cope with climate change mitigation, the geo-economy, and technological change. Our systematic approach helps to understand each phenomenon, acquire the tools to analyse them, and exploit the opportunities offered by these changes. This downloadable PDF gives you an overview of our systematic approach.

Overview of Leading in Triple Transition Concept

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You will find an overview of our systematic approach in this downloadable PDF file.

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Leadership in the Age of Transitions

Aalto EE offers a unique understanding of the great change drivers of our age. Our solutions cater to all organizational levels, emphasizing actionable learning and swift implementation of living strategies. We blend global insights with local expertise, infused with Nordic values of humanity and leadership.

The Need for Innovative Leadership Development Solutions

 

Organizations face unprecedented challenges due to significant transitions, and the urgency for effective leadership development is greater than ever. New leadership skills and organizational capabilities are essential, as old approaches are no longer sufficient.

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Sito­wise Lead­er­ship Acad­emy Pro­motes Strat­egy Im­ple­men­ta­tion and a Co­her­ent Ap­proach to Train­ing Lead­er­ship

“Sitowise's management team has a very clear vision of what we want the company to look like in five years' time – and a clear strategy for how to get there. With the Leadership Academy, we wanted to spread these ideas throughout our organization, especially to the business management,” says Kirsikka Sarkeala, Human Resources Development Manager.

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Advanced Leadership Skills: Essential for Navigating Change

In today's rapidly evolving landscape, organizational agility and adaptability are paramount. Exceptional leadership is key to thriving in competitive markets. Organizational success hinges on effective leadership, leveraging individual talent to drive value. Executives must possess a strategic perspective and global vision to navigate complex challenges and opportunities.

Strong leadership requires deep self-awareness and a willingness to grow:

  • Effective leadership begins with self-reflection and a deep understanding of one's leadership style.
  • Leaders must embrace change as an opportunity for personal and professional growth.
  • Leaders must effectively manage both the structural and human aspects of change, let go of outdated habits, and adopt forward-thinking approaches.

High-impact leaders understand the difference between change management and transition management. Effective leaders:

  • Recognize their leadership styles.
  • Adapt to change effectively.
  • Utilize practical tools to guide themselves and others through organizational change.

Aalto EE empowers executives to:

  • Define and communicate strategic direction.
  • Lead global and high-level strategy implementation.
  • Foster new mindsets and skills for senior leadership roles.

Meet Our Faculty

Timo Vuori

Timo Vuori is an Associate Professor, Strategic Management at Aalto University School of Science, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.

Professor Timo O. Vuori is a strategy consultant and professor at Aalto University. His research on the psychological aspects of strategic management has been published in leading international journals and won several international awards. He has taught and presented his research at leading universities like Harvard and INSEAD. 

Professor Vuori's research and teaching focus on how companies formulate and execute strategies. He has written two books with senior business executives on these topics. "Living Strategy" describes scenario-based strategy making in an ever-changing world. "Platform Strategy" describes how incumbent firms should and can renew themselves in the digital era. The books detail both the "hard" factors, such as technology and business models, and "soft" factors, such as people and psychology, influencing strategy and renewal.  

Professor Vuori works extensively with companies, often collaborating with a leading strategy consulting company. Vuori helps the client organization formulate and evaluate several strategic options in strategy formulation projects. He uses advanced psychological techniques to help leaders unleash their strategic creativity and overcome thinking myopias and personal biases. This approach is based on his cutting-edge international research, also described in the Platform Strategy. 

In strategy execution projects, Professor Vuori specializes in helping the client firm optimize the psychological engagement of the whole organization. He analyses the psychological impact of the intended strategy execution program and modifies it to maximally leverage the emotions of the organization's members' for effectiveness.

Mikko Koria

Mikko Koria is Professor of Design Innovation and Director of the Institute for Design Innovation in Loughborough University London, and Visiting Professor at Aalto University.

Dr. Koria has a career that spans over twenty-five years of professional management, practice and research in the private, public and the third sectors. In the last years, Mikko has directed his efforts to the field of innovation and related capability management, design and management research and international development projects. He has done research, lectured and taught widely in the fields of design, culture and business studies at various universities and faculties in Finland, China, Japan, Brazil and the UK.
 

Contact Us

Maria Karsten

Business Unit Director +358 10 837 3730 maria.karsten@aaltoee.fi

Elina Vasarinen

Relationship Manager +358 10 837 3856 elina.vasarinen@aaltoee.fi

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