IESE Business School offers you the opportunity to engage in a personalized development plan that will help you achieve your professional goals in a practical and flexible way. This plan is designed to meet your individual needs and is carried out with the guidance of an IESE Program Advisor. Once completed, you will receive the IESE Executive Education Certificate.

The IESE Executive Education Certificate is based around our Short Focused Programs - (SFP). These programs will enable you to develop a valuable set of competencies that will have an immediate and lasting impact on you and your organization. The programs are designed to address today’s most relevant business issues in a very attractive program format, short and intense, which fits conveniently into executives’ agendas.

You can choose from our portfolio of Short Focused Programs offered in Barcelona, New York and Madrid (35 in Spanish and 18 in English), which cover the following areas: Strategic Management, Leadership and People Management, Sales and Marketing, Finance, Operations and ICT, and Industry-Specific.

The IESE Executive Education Certificate (EEC) is awarded to participants who fulfill all of the following:

• Successfully complete at least 4 IESE Short Focused Programs (in English or Spanish).

• These programs should amount to a minimum of 13 days in total.

• These programs should be carried out within a 3-year time frame.

The complete list of eligible programs can be found at:

Programs in English: www.IESE.edu/SFP
Programs in Spanish: www.IESE.edu/enfocados

Note: Please note that successfully completed short focused programs during or after the academic year 2009-2010 are eligible for EEC. All General Management Programs are excluded and do not count towards the EEC.

• Focus on your own specific interests and goals with the help of an IESE Program Advisor

• SFP formats that conveniently fit within your schedule

• Earn a widely-recognized credential - the Executive Education Certificate from IESE Business School (#1 in the World for Open Programs, according to the Financial Times 2011)

• 5% discount towards future Short Focused Programs (added to the 10% discount for IESE Members)

• 5 exclusive invitations a year to IESE’s Continuous Education Conferences which are held around the world and designed to encourage continuous learning within the business and executive community

• VIP subscription to IESE’s Insight magazine specifically designed to spread novel and cutting-edge ideas and research by IESE faculty members & research staff and thought leaders

• Receive IESE’s Short Focused Programs newsletter, which features updates on new programs and relevant articles