What impact does a custom programme have on company performance?

A custom programme acts as a direct lever for managerial performance, cultural transformation and team mobilisation. At EDHEC, each programme is designed based on the organisation’s real strategic challenges. It aims to: À l’EDHEC, chaque programme est conçu à partir des enjeux stratégiques réels de l' entreprise. Il vise à : Strengthen leadership capabilities at all levels,</li> Align managerial practices with business priorities,</li> Create measurable effects on engagement, cooperation and collective performance.</li></ul> Results observed across our 2024–2025 programmes: +74 global NPS, among the highest worldwide (Financial Times & UNICON benchmarks),</li> 55–65% client reconduction over three years, demonstrating sustainable value creation,</li> >90% participant satisfaction, confirming the quality of support and the learning experience.</li></ul> These indicators reflect a lasting transformation of behaviours and practices within organisations in France and Europe: more confident leaders, more agile teams and organisations better aligned to succeed in a complex environment.

What are the objectives of a corporate training programme or an in-company programme?

EDHEC Custom Executive Education programmes aim to: Strengthen leadership capabilities in complex, uncertain or international environments.</li> Support major transformations: digital, cultural, ESG and organisational.</li> Stimulate cooperation between executive teams, business units and support functions.</li> Deliver concrete, measurable outcomes in the short and medium term, both individually and collectively.</li></ul> Each in-company programme is based on the EDHEC Proximity framework: co-design with your teams, long-term support and impact evaluation at 6 and 12 months. This approach aligns skills development with your organisation’s strategy, culture and operational priorities.

What types of in-company programmes does EDHEC offer?

EDHEC designs fully customised in-company programmes, built with and for each organisation, based on its strategic challenges, sector and culture: Strategic leadership and innovation governance: programmes dedicated to Executive Committees (COMEX), Management Committees (CODIR) and functional leadership teams.</li> Transversal management and cooperation: to strengthen influence, communication, agility and networked ways of working.</li> International talent development: to support leaders in growth, operating in hybrid, multicultural or rapidly transforming contexts.</li> Custom experiential programmes: immersive seminars, strategic simulations, learning expeditions and collective challenges.</li></ul>

EDHEC Executive Education’s customised programmes

Q: Why invest in a custom or in-company programme?

In a context shaped by rapid digitalisation, the rise of AI, ESG requirements and evolving ways of working, investing in bespoke development for leaders and managers strengthens an organisation’s competitiveness and its capacity to innovate sustainably. A custom programme, designed specifically for your organisation, enables: (details not fully visible in the source text).

OUR MISSION

Overview

Together, we design a journey with learning outcomes that unlock your leaders’ potential in order to amplify your organisation’s collective impact.

Alongside our corporate partners, we accelerate the development of senior and high-potential leaders to strengthen collective impact on sustainable performance and organisational transformation. Our custom programmes are designed to address your organisation’s unique challenges, aligning talent development, strategic vision and transformation dynamics.

Our clients value our custom programmes for their impact. Because a leader capable of challenging established models is not a standardised, one-dimensional figure with calibrated emotions and behaviours. It is someone whose business acumen is amplified by deliberately cultivated human and emotional qualities. Rather than relying solely on decisions that appear rational, even when suggested by predictive tools, they develop their thinking in the service of a positive contribution.

Anne Fessan

Director of Custom Programmes

APPROACH

The EDHEC “Proximity” Approach

Our signature framework allows us tocreate and deploy bespoke learning journeys that reveal your leaders’ potential and amplify your organisation’s collective impact.

Conceived and developed by EDHEC, this framework guides the design and implementation of each custom programme, based on proximity, high standards and lasting transformation.

Your unique organisational challenges become the core of our work. Together, we tailor a programme that is fully aligned with your context and strategic priorities. Your leadership models, current challenges and ambitions shape each module. Our professors and contributors bridge academic concepts and your business challenges.

In practice, this analysis phase is based on:

Targeted discussions with your Executive Management, HR leadership and key functions
Integration of your strategic documents and internal frameworks
Listening to future participants to capture their needs and expectations

Together, we define:

Key moments for Executive Management involvement
The narrative thread of the programme
The most appropriate support formats

Your role: provide access to the right people and the right strategic reference points so that the programme is fully aligned with your challenges.

By your side throughout the journey, we strive for adaptable programme governance and maintaining a close working relationship. Our teams move forward together, with regular touchpoints to ensure seamless follow-up, rapid adjustments and continuous participant support.

Together, we define:

The organisation of the programme, adapted to your unique business needs
Pedagogical adjustments based on participant feedback
Content priorities for subsequent modules

In practice, this means:

Effective governance: a jointly defined framework and a single visual document to focus discussions on what matters and enable fast decision-making
Personalised participant follow-up: access to a dedicated platform, continuous support and, if required, individual coaching
Ongoing agility: regular satisfaction checkpoints and continuous programme evolution based on your feedback

Your support: a dedicated, fully engaged EDHEC duo (Programme Director and Project Manager), who understand your challenges and facilitate the success of the programme.

From development to proof on the ground: transformation does not stop at the final session. After six months, we demonstrate what truly matters: tangible results for your leaders and your organisation.

Together, we define: the modalities and timeline of the closure, the participants involved, locations, presentation formats and evaluation criteria.

What we implement:

Celebrate together
A closing day with Executive Management, participants, our duo and an EDHEC professor: a key moment to recognise the development of your leaders.
Confirm impact
After six months, an evaluation involving participants and their managers. A clear impact report tailored to your needs, with measured results.
Sustain momentum
A review meeting proposed after 12 months with your HR Director and selected participants, to assess anchoring (and identify future priorities).
Our commitment: staying present until proof. Documenting the value created for your leaders and your organisation, so you can capitalise on your investment and inform future decisions.

This programme is the result of a genuine partnership between our Tech, Data and Digital leadership teams and the EDHEC Custom Programmes team. Designed with leaders with leaders in mind, it combines academic excellence, operational anchoring and continuous co-construction. From day one, participants contribute to strategic thinking at the heart of the company’s decision-making.

Isabelle Lerin-Basset

Head of HR Digital & Payments Division (3100 employees) for BPCE Group

SUCCESS STORIES

The impact of our custom programmes

Concrete results for Equalia through the partnership with EDHEC
DIGITECH: the programme that develops our digital, data and tech leaders
At Executive Committee level: a vision of leadership through LEAD-RTE, a custom programme

Concrete results for Equalia through the partnership with EDHEC

DIGITECH: the programme that develops our digital, data and tech leaders

At Executive Committee level: a vision of leadership through LEAD-RTE, a custom programme

IMPACT

Recognised, measured and sustainable results

Our results reflect what our partners experience every day: real transformations, a lasting relationship and shared high standards.

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worldwide – Custom Executive Education

International ranking

Financial Times 2025

^50-65%

reconduction over three years

Client retention

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Participant satisfaction

Post-programme surveys

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Global NPS

Upper range of global benchmarks

UNICON, FT

81% sponsor satisfaction (source: Financial Times 2025 – Custom Programmes Ranking).
+74 global NPS, a standard of excellence recognised by UNICON and Financial Times standards, placing EDHEC among the highest in global benchmarks for recommendation and client loyalty.
55 to 65% client reconduction over three years, evidence of a partnership built on trust, proximity and sustainable value creation.
More than 90% participant satisfaction across 2024–2025 programmes, confirming the quality of the learning experience, the relevance of programme design and the bespoke support delivered by EDHEC.

Your speakers – Your team

We draw on our best resources to meet your needs: the academic excellence of our research professors and PhD holders at the forefront of the latest developments in their fields, combined with strong business anchoring through our contributors, experts, senior executives and coaches from the corporate world.

Among our Professors:

Denis Dauchy

Position: Professor,

Leadership Development Chair Affiliate Researcher, Management in Innovative Health Chair Research Associate

Discipline: Strategy

Faculty: Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Operations

Expertise:

Denis Dauchy, PhD, is Professor of Business Strategy, with professional experience in business and consultancy.

Emmanuelle Deglaire

Position: Associate Professor,

EDHEC Augmented Law Institute Researcher

Discipline: Law

Faculty: Accounting, Control & Legal Affairs

Expertise:

Emmanuelle DEGLAIRE is law teacher at EDHEC Business School, specialized in both business law and tax matters. She received her Ph.D. working on taxation of French partnerships with Mr.

Karin Kollenz-Quétard

Position: Professor,

Foresight, Innovation and Transformation Chair Member

Discipline: Strategy

Faculty: Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Operations

Expertise:

Karin Kollenz-Quetard is a Professor of Strategy at EDHEC Business School, but also intervenes in customized programs at London Business School (UK), HEC (F) and Duke CE (EU).

Hager Jemel-Fornetty

Position: Associate Professor, Diversity & Inclusion Chair Director, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies

Discipline: Management

Faculty: Management & Humanities

Expertise:

Hager Jemel, PhD, is Associate Professor of Management at EDHEC and Director of EDHEC Open Leadership Innovation Centre for Diversity & Inclusion at EDHEC Business School.

Loick Menvielle

Position: Professor, Management in Innovative Health Chair Director

Discipline: Marketing

Faculty: Marketing

Expertise:

Loïck Menvielle is a Professor at EDHEC Business School, specializing in digital and health innovation.

Director of Custom Programmes

Project Director

Project Manager

For me, proximity is first and foremost a relational and human dimension. It reflects my availability and my attention to the project I am responsible for. It is a guiding thread that informs every stage of the partnership.

Sophie Cuminal

Project Director – Custom Programmes

Proximity is that sense of resonance that connects and unites us, enabling us to move forward together towards shared success.

Isabelle Bergez-Casalou

Project Director – Custom Programmes

As a Professor, contributing to custom programmes is a truly enriching experience for all parties involved. The ongoing dialogue creates the best possible balance between new perspectives and the contemporary challenges of business life. Every condition is put in place to ensure smooth facilitation and the highest level of impact for participants and their organisation.

Denis Dauchy

Professor of Strategy, EDHEC Business School

FAQ

A custom programme acts as a direct lever for managerial performance, cultural transformation and team mobilisation. At EDHEC, each programme is designed based on the organisation’s real strategic challenges. It aims to:

À l’EDHEC, chaque programme est conçu à partir des enjeux stratégiques réels de l' entreprise. Il vise à :

Strengthen leadership capabilities at all levels,
Align managerial practices with business priorities,
Create measurable effects on engagement, cooperation and collective performance.

Results observed across our 2024–2025 programmes:

+74 global NPS, among the highest worldwide (Financial Times & UNICON benchmarks),
55–65% client reconduction over three years, demonstrating sustainable value creation,
>90% participant satisfaction, confirming the quality of support and the learning experience.

These indicators reflect a lasting transformation of behaviours and practices within organisations in France and Europe: more confident leaders, more agile teams and organisations better aligned to succeed in a complex environment.

EDHEC Custom Executive Education programmes aim to:

Strengthen leadership capabilities in complex, uncertain or international environments.
Support major transformations: digital, cultural, ESG and organisational.
Stimulate cooperation between executive teams, business units and support functions.
Deliver concrete, measurable outcomes in the short and medium term, both individually and collectively.

Each in-company programme is based on the EDHEC Proximity framework: co-design with your teams, long-term support and impact evaluation at 6 and 12 months. This approach aligns skills development with your organisation’s strategy, culture and operational priorities.

In a context shaped by rapid digitalisation, the rise of AI, ESG requirements and evolving ways of working, investing in bespoke development for leaders and managers strengthens an organisation’s competitiveness and its capacity to innovate sustainably. A custom programme, designed specifically for your organisation, enables: (details not fully visible in the source text).

EDHEC designs fully customised in-company programmes, built with and for each organisation, based on its strategic challenges, sector and culture:

Strategic leadership and innovation governance: programmes dedicated to Executive Committees (COMEX), Management Committees (CODIR) and functional leadership teams.
Transversal management and cooperation: to strengthen influence, communication, agility and networked ways of working.
International talent development: to support leaders in growth, operating in hybrid, multicultural or rapidly transforming contexts.
Custom experiential programmes: immersive seminars, strategic simulations, learning expeditions and collective challenges.