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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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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.
Online Courses on Leadership
Creative Collaboration in Teams and Organizations
The Creative Collaboration in Teams and Organizations online course explores the core principles of creative teamwork and provides practical tools to enhance collaboration in your organization. Through research-based insights and real-world examples, you’ll learn how team dynamics, diverse group compositions, and supportive environments drive creativity and innovation.
Estimated study time: 27 hours
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The Creative Collaboration in Teams and Organizations online course explores the core principles of creative teamwork and provides practical tools to enhance collaboration in your organization. Through research-based insights and real-world examples, you’ll learn how team dynamics, diverse group compositions, and supportive environments drive creativity and innovation.
Fee: € 150 (+VAT)
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Organizations
This online course explores the complexities of diversity management and inclusion, helping you understand their vital role in creating a positive workplace culture. Throughout the course you'll gain insights into how to effectively implement inclusive practices in your organization.
Estimated study time: 27 hours
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This online course explores the complexities of diversity management and inclusion, helping you understand their vital role in creating a positive workplace culture. Throughout the course you'll gain insights into how to effectively implement inclusive practices in your organization.
Fee: € 150 (+ VAT)
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Essentials of Emotional Intelligence
This online course will help you on your way towards a deeper understanding of emotional intelligence and spark your interest in learning more. Course language: English
Estimated Study Time: 12 hours
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This online course will help you on your way towards a deeper understanding of emotional intelligence and spark your interest in learning more. Course language: English
Fee: € 350 (+ VAT)
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Facilitating Change
This course is a practical, research-based online course that helps professionals lead and support organizational change in uncertain and complex environments. It equips you with the tools, mindsets, and frameworks needed to navigate transformation from multiple perspectives.
Estimated study time: 27 hours
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This course is a practical, research-based online course that helps professionals lead and support organizational change in uncertain and complex environments. It equips you with the tools, mindsets, and frameworks needed to navigate transformation from multiple perspectives.
Fee: € 150 (+VAT)
Managing (with) Organizational Culture
This course provides leaders with tools to critically assess their role in shaping organizational culture and understanding its impact on company success. Throughout the course you will explore how culture is co-created, maintained, and influenced across all levels of the organization, gaining insights to build a resilient, engaged workplace culture.
Estimated study time: 27 hours
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This course provides leaders with tools to critically assess their role in shaping organizational culture and understanding its impact on company success. Throughout the course you will explore how culture is co-created, maintained, and influenced across all levels of the organization, gaining insights to build a resilient, engaged workplace culture.
Fee: € 150 (+ VAT)
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Master Class: Kieliratkaisuja kansainvälistyville yrityksille
In this Aalto EE Master Class, you will explore various ways to address language-related challenges in organizations. The topic is relevant for organizations where multiple languages are used, employees have diverse linguistic backgrounds, or you are about to recruit international talents. From this training, you will gain ready-to-use tools for implementing multilingual practices and supporting language learning within your work community.
Study time: 1h 15 minutes
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In this Aalto EE Master Class, you will explore various ways to address language-related challenges in organizations. The topic is relevant for organizations where multiple languages are used, employees have diverse linguistic backgrounds, or you are about to recruit international talents. From this training, you will gain ready-to-use tools for implementing multilingual practices and supporting language learning within your work community.
Fee: 50 € (+ VAT)
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Objectives and Key Results for Performance Management
Discover the power of OKR framework in our course, designed to revolutionize performance management and strategic alignment.
Estimated study time: 27 hours
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Discover the power of OKR framework in our course, designed to revolutionize performance management and strategic alignment.
Fee: € 150 (+ VAT)
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Meet Our Faculty
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.
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.
