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Leadership for Founders, 13-15th January 2025

Scale yourself to Scale your company

A startup with amazing technology, a great product selling into a growing market…. Wonderful, but somehow the famous hockey stick of growth is not happening.  Or the hyper-growth is there, and the speed and complexity are causing you to lose sleep every night. 

Could it be your team that isn’t well aligned?  Could it be your leadership capabilities that need to be reviewed and augmented?  You were the perfect CEO for the early days. Still, as you started to scale, with more people, different customer segments, clients that expect to be handled as if you have a mature team, and investors putting pressure on you, you’ve begun to wonder if you’re up to the task of leading your venture into the next stage.

Does it trigger your interest and are you willing to be part of this experience? 

Join us.

Program day by day

Monday, January 13th

  • Self-Assessment: DiSC assessment to understand self-view and team perception.
  • Team Alignment: Strategies to align team with company goals, leadership styles, and creating psychological safety.
  • Intro to Singapore: Insights on Swiss-Singapore relations and business culture.
Tuesday, January 14th
  • Building Resilience: Techniques to manage stress, build a growth mindset, and ensure mental and physical well-being.
  • Scaling Product-Market Fit (PMF) to Startup-Investor Fit (SIF): Adapting pitch for new investor expectations during scale-up.
  • Understanding Local VC Perspective: How SE Asian VCs differ and what they expect from scale-ups.
  • Market Expansion: Swiss startups entering SE Asia and vice versa.
Wednesday, January 15th
  • Pre-Mortem Exercise: Assess potential failure points and strategies to avoid pitfalls.
  • Unique Leadership: Explore the concept of “founder mode” and creating your own leadership path.
  • Leadership Contract: Define personal commitments for post-program actions with team, customers, and investors.
Thursday, January 16th (Optionnal)
  • Field Visits: Visits to relevant companies/organizations to gain real-world insights on Singapourian/SE Asia expansion (organized by Innovaud).

Why should you participate?

  • 3 days immersion with a team of Leaders like you
  • Top notch professor from IMD
  • An extended network of entrepreneurs, Swiss and Singaporians
  • An optional extra day dedicated to facilitated business meetings and investors contacts in S'pore

Admission criteria and process

This three-day program is designed for founders/CEOs of companies that are scaling, whether just starting whether just starting (from Series A and 10 employees minimum ) or fully into it. or fully into it. 

Alumni of the LeadiNNg to Scale-Up program are automatically eligible (first come first served). For the other participant, a quick interview will be organized.

The maximum number of participants is 20.

More information 

Application deadline: End of November
Program: 13-15th January 2025, +16th Jan for facilitated business meetings in S'Pore
Location: IMD Singapore
Fees (including program fees, 3 nights hotel room and food. Flight not included):
Vaud-based companies: 2’300 CHF
Swiss-based companies: 3’300 CHF
Singapore-based participants (no accommodation): 1’500 CHF
 

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