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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.

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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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Des­tia and Aalto EE Have Been De­vel­op­ing Lead­er­ship To­gether for Years

“Working with Aalto EE has been very straightforward,” says Tero Kiviniemi, CEO of Destia, which achieved its best-ever financial operating result in 2023. Tailored to Destia, the Leadership Card II training program has become so popular that some participants would like to do it twice.

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Psychologist Debunks the Myth of Efficiency: "Our Brain Doesn't Function That Way"

Psychologist Mona Moisala suggests that knowledge workers should hear what neuroscience has to say and give up the detrimental demands of our seemingly efficient ways of working. Do you dare to take a nap during the workday?

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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

Olli-Pekka Pohjanmäki

Olli-Pekka Pohjanmäki's areas of expertise include CRM consulting, customer strategies, change management, and relationship marketing.

He is a relationship marketing theory-practice matchmaker whose work experience includes not only managing a specialist organisation but also strong expertise in building and designing relationship strategies. He has a strong interest in the concept of competitive advantage and its discovery at the level of strategic thinking and at the level of concrete everyday life.

Currently, Pohjanmäki is the Marketing Director of LähiTapiola Group and Partner and CEO of Nordic 4sight Communities Oy. He has previously worked as a partner and CEO at Aspectum Oy and as a professor at the University of Kuopio.

Pohjanmäki is a popular performer and a skilled lecturer, who is a pleasure to hear preach the message of relationship marketing in different forums.

He holds a Master's degree in Economics. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis at the University of Jyväskylä.

Teemu Malmi

Teemu Malmi is a Professor of Accounting and Head of the Department of Accounting at Aalto University School of Business. Also, he has previously been the Chairman of the Board at Aalto University Executive Education Ltd. and Sannäs Manor Ltd.

Professor Malmi specializes in management systems, strategy implementation, and cost and profitability accounting. He teaches frequently in a variety of Executive Programs and has served as an advisor to a large number of companies from various different industries: IT, electronics, energy, finance, food, health care, media, metal and engineering, paper and pulp, pharmaceuticals, rental services, retail, telecom and transportation/logistics and the public sector.

Teemu Malmi holds a Ph.D. in Accounting and Finance from The Helsinki School of Economics, which was merged into Aalto University in 2010.

Ville Eloranta

Dr. Ville Eloranta is currently working as a Senior University Lecturer at Aalto University School of Business.

He is also Director of the IDBM Master's Program (the Aalto International Design Business Management program for future transdisciplinary professionals) and involved in developing Network University Fitech (a transformative education endeavor of the seven biggest Finnish universities, Technology Industries of Finland, and TEK, the trade union for academic engineers and architects in Finland).

Dr. Ville Eloranta is an expert in design management (connecting design paradigms to management practice), business model innovation (especially platform business models), and distributed ledger technologies (especially open blockchain implementations). He has a solid track record of publications in top-level management journals.

Besides a strong academic track record, Dr. Ville Eloranta has 20 years of experience in design and entrepreneurship solving digitalization challenges, especially for big B2B customers.

Ville Eloranta holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management from Aalto University School of Science and Technology.

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.

Saara Bange

Saara Bange is a coach, trainer, and facilitator in leadership, communication, and collaboration with several years of experience in academia and the industry.

Her topics include self-management and self-awareness, leading with emotional intelligence, and understanding identities and personalities in organizational life.

She works as a Director at Aalto EE, holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the Helsinki School of Economics, and is finalizing her Ph.D. in Organizational Studies at the Aalto University School of Business. She has published her research in journals such as the Journal of Management Inquiry and the Journal of Media Management. 

Bange is a certified Hogan Assessment personality profiling consultant, certified WPB5 consultant, certified Personal Resilience Practitioner, and certified emotional intelligence (EQi) assessor. She has worked with several individuals and teams to help them find their potential and leverage their leadership skills. Bange’s clients have complimented her for her caring and passionate approach and her ability to explain complex issues in a way that is easy to understand.

Prior to joining Aalto University Executive Education, Bange worked for years with leadership development and strategic communications advisory for leading companies in different sectors. Before that, she worked at the Aalto University School of Economics as a researcher and teacher. Her current research interests lie in the intersection of the future of work and leaders’ identity work.

Joaquín Cava

Joaquín Cava is a Lecturer at the Department of Strategy and General Management at Esade.

Joaquín Cava has developed most of his career at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which he joined in 1994. He became a partner and Vice President of the firm in January 2002. During his career as a consultant, he has worked with a wide range of clients in all sectors: consumer goods, banking, industry (cement, machine tools, metallurgy, etc.), energy, telecommunications, diversified industrial conglomerates, etc. He has been involved in projects in a wide range of functional areas, including: strategic definition and implementation; the design and implementation of business or expansion plans; organizational and process design; the definition of business strategies (channels, products, pricing, etc.); the implementation of plans to improve operational efficiency; management of merger processes and synergies; the valuation of acquisition objectives and participation in due diligence processes; the overseeing of the design and implementation of new strategies for information systems.

While at BCG, Joaquín Cava has also been responsible for the areas of recruitment and marketing at the company's offices in Madrid, Barcelona, and Lisbon. Before joining BCG, he worked at The Mac Group and Prodesfarma, SA.

Eeva Vilkkumaa

Eeva Vilkkumaa is an Assistant Professor of Management Science in the Department of Information and Service Economy at Aalto University.

Professor Vilkkumaa is an expert in modeling uncertainties and developing mathematical models to support decision making and resource allocation at companies and public organizations.

Jari Ylitalo

Jari Ylitalo, PhD, is a University Lecturer in Leadership at Aalto University School of Science and Aalto Ventures Program.

He teaches, in particular, master's students on leadership, teamwork, and self-management.

Ylitalo's pedagogical approach emphasises a dialogical and resource-oriented approach. He also works as a supervisor, coach, and workplace facilitator. He has a long and diverse experience in coaching and developing leaders, management teams, and organisations in both corporate and public organisations.

Ylitalo's research has focused on leadership and leadership development, with a particular emphasis on the effectiveness of guidance, resource-centred and dialogue-based development approaches. He has also studied the social dynamics and development of cooperation and partnerships between companies and organisations, as well as network management and the development of a network approach.

Pia Lappalainen

Docent Pia Lappalainen is specialized in performance management and productivity, managerial communication, conflict resolution and management, and workplace well-being. 

She is also an experienced management coach and facilitator and a professional conflict mediator of workplace disputes. 

Lappalainen is a Doctor of Science (Technology) and Master of Arts (English, Communications, and Pedagogics).  Currently, she is a Senior Advisor at Aalto EE, a Lecturer at Aalto University, and a Docent of Workplace Conflict and Performance Management at Finnish National Defense University. She has a background in ICT, construction, and oil industries in leadership development, communication, and training tasks.

Riina Gröhn

Dr. Riina Gröhn specializes in developing leaders to increase their self-awareness and self-leadership skills, to understand what in their own leadership style can work for and against them, and to build emotional intelligence in leading others espec...

As an ICF Certified Coach, she does leadership and career coaching, and she thrives by coaching individuals in self-discovery, navigating through change, career transformations, and to exceed themselves.

Gröhn is a seasoned leader with 18 years of international working experience in leading and developing people and business in executive education and FMCG industry. She has solid experience on learning and development as well as leading renewal and change in organizations. Working and living in Asia has also given her a good perspective on business development with P&L responsibility as well as building partnerships with an international perspective to Europe and Asia. From working in FMCG industry she has years of experience of leading product development and research and innovation management.

She holds a Master’s of Science and Doctorate in the field of health and biosciences at the University of Eastern Finland and at the University of Helsinki, Institute of Biomedicine. In addition, she studied human resources management, leadership, mindfulness and positive psychology at Cornell University ILR School, Darden School of Business and University of California, Berkeley. She is also ICF certified coach (ACC) and certified for several personality and Leadership Assessments (Hogan Assessments, SHL Personality and Ability (OPQ/Verify) Occupational Testing and Kets De Vries Institute Leadership Development Instruments).

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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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