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Great leadership starts with self-awareness. Our Strategic Leadership Development journey helps you grow as a person and as a strategic decision-maker. Through GEMBA, you will gain the insight, mindset, and confidence to lead yourself, your team, and your organisation with purpose.

What you'll learn

  • Lead the business

    Shape a clear vision, communicate strategy, and align stakeholders for long-term success

  • Lead the team

    Build trust, navigate conflict, and inspire collaboration across functions

  • Lead yourself

    Strengthen focus, well-being, and the ability to adapt in demanding environments

Your leadership journey

From day one, you will reflect on your experience, receive 360° feedback, and create a Personal Leadership Development Plan that guides your growth throughout the programme. Supported by faculty mentors and peers, you’ll apply what you learn in a Strategic Leadership Project within your organisation - delivering real impact while developing your leadership capacity.

Transform your perspective. Elevate your impact. Lead strategically.

Career development journey

Your Strategic Leadership development journey will focus in the attitudes and skills that you need to enhance to become a strategic leader of the organisation as a whole, whether you are functioning in or at one level from the C-Suite.

You will become highly adept at:

  • Monitoring the performance of the business as a whole
  • Diagnosing, identifying, and defining problems at a strategic level
  • Developing a vision for the business
  • Translating that vision into strategic objectives
  • Making effective strategic decisions and deploying the resources to implement them.
  • Implementing strategic/ C-suite decisions
Alumni network

You’re in good company.

Your journey at RSM does not end with graduation. On completing your GEMBA successfully, you join our global RSM alumni community; a world-class network of nearly 50,000 change-makers. Our alumni span the globe and represent a diversity of industries and sectors.

We are a learning and support community offering all of our alumni a full schedule of services, from annual reunions to conferences, social events, educational sessions and discussion panels with experts. We also offer an exclusive service, RSM MentorMe, connecting current students with RSM alumni and to grow the spirit of RSM – to be a force for positive change that helps people and organisations to thrive worldwide.

Career services

For senior leaders seeking to advance their careers, our Career Centre team is there to support. 

We understand that as an experienced leader, you may be looking to take on more responsibility within your organisation, or expand your expertise to new functions or geographies. That's why we offer a range of tailored services, including 360-degree peer feedback sessions, career coaching, and professional development sessions with a seasoned mentor.

Our goal is to empower you to achieve your objectives, by helping you define your career goals, and providing you with the leadership skills and tools needed to succeed in today's ever-changing business landscape.

The student is guided by the Career Coach to develop key career-related areas, such as exploring the market, developing networks and self-marketing as well as upgrading career skills. These coaches will help you develop the necessary skills to land your next career opportunity.

The RSM MentorMe tool connects GEMBA students, who would like to discuss their career options, to Alumni who volunteered to mentor.

RSM has a closed LinkedIn group to share vacancies among GEMBA participants and alumni.

Do you have any questions?

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