Global EMBA: Leadership & Strategy for Senior Executives
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The Global Executive MBA prepares experienced managers to lead in an era shaped by AI, data, and sustainability transitions. As digital acceleration and ESG challenges redefine organisations, the programme helps turn complexity into strategic and responsible growth opportunities.
You are expanding your responsibilities, moving into leadership roles, leading a strategic transformation, or reflecting on the next step in your professional journey.
The Global Executive MBA enables you to step back, sharpen your strategic thinking, and make high-impact decisions, without stepping away from your role.
Upon completing the Global EMBA, you are able to:
You also strengthen your leadership posture, your ability to operate in international environments, and your overall career trajectory. You benefit from an active, international, and long-lasting alumni network.
Conduct a comprehensive business diagnosis, design strategy, manage financial decisions, and identify growth opportunities while addressing ESG challenges.
Progress in your career and take on new responsibilities
Prepare for Business Unit leadership, entrepreneurship, consulting, or interim management roles.
Learn from your peers and join a lifelong professional network.
2 strategic projects rooted in your real business challenges
in entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship (Capstone and Social Projects)
1 optional project (Consulting project in partnership with a company)
3 core themes: Innovation, ESG, and Intelligent Technologies & Transformation
fully integrated into strategic decisions and projects
5 seminars: 2 in Europe, 1 in Middle East, 1 in Asia and 1 in Africa
1 International alumni network:
active and engaged, bringing together more than 80,000 NEOMA graduates
NEOMA Business School is Qualiopi certified under the following action categories:
Structured around the GROW initiative, NEOMA’s Global Executive MBA develops the key capabilities to enhance self-awareness, build resilience, engage teams, and make decisions in complex environments.
The programme equips you with a comprehensive 360° strategic view of the organisation and enables you to apply your learning through hands-on projects addressing real business challenges.
Acquire 360° View
Finance & economics
Marketing
Strategy
Human Ressources Management
Supply Chain Management
Drive Change
Innovation
AI & Big Data
ESG and ethics
Make Impact
Capstone Project
Social Project
Consultancy Project (optional)
A cornerstone of the programme, the Capstone Project brings together participants’ collective expertise, professional experience and the knowledge acquired during the programme around a real-world project (an existing company, a non-profit organisation, or an entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial initiative).
You work on strategic directions and development opportunities, directly connected to your own professional challenges.
The Social Project enables you to design innovative solutions to real social challenges, leveraging digital tools while integrating both economic sustainability and measurable impact.
A strategic consulting assignment carried out for a partner company, addressing a real business challenge such as transformation, growth, innovation or performance.
Supervised by an expert, you analyse the situation, develop practical recommendations, and present them to senior decision-makers.
An immersive experience designed to strengthen your leadership posture and deliver tangible strategic impact.
Choose your intake between October and March
2 international seminars: 1 in Asia 1 in Africa
You will benefit from exchanges with leading European academic partners, including Porto Business School, POLIMI and University of Bath to broaden your perspective and develop your international network.
The Global Executive MBA brings together internationally recognised faculty and experts, engaged both in academic research and in the most demanding management practices.
They teach at leading institutions such as Harvard Business School, MIT, Columbia Business School, Stanford University, Imperial College London, INSEAD, HEC and Surrey Business School, bringing rigorous analytical frameworks closely aligned with today’s organisational challenges.
The Global Executive MBA develops four core competency areas
These competencies correspond to four RNCP-certified blocks.
They may be completed individually or as part of the full programme leading to the “Senior Executive” qualification.
Competencies are assessed throughout the programme through:
The successful completion of the programme also requires the submission and defence of the Capstone Project before a panel of experts.
100%
percentage of students present in final examinations*:
100%
Graduation rate*:
Source: *2023-2024 and 2024-2025 Juries
Alongside the programme’s courses and projects, the Global Executive MBA offers a hands-on multicultural experience designed for executives and senior professionals operating in international environments.
In France and abroad, you will explore major contemporary challenges such as social entrepreneurship, innovation, sustainable development and leadership under pressure through on-site courses, expert talks, immersive learning experiences, meetings with local business leaders and company visits.
A unique opportunity to challenge your perspectives alongside international peers and strengthen your ability to act and make decisions effectively in complex, global environments.
International Learning Experience
Understanding how entrepreneurial ventures develop within a high-growth ecosystem, through direct exposure to investors, entrepreneurs, and projects in the acceleration phase.
International Learning Experience
Analyse how organisations innovate — in products, services and processes — by leveraging technology, creativity and corporate culture to respond to new market entrants and seize growth opportunities.
Partnerships with pestigious business schools
Place the challenges of innovation, sustainability and organisational design into perspective through academic and professional exchanges at the heart of European ecosystems.
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Immersive Experience EXCLUSIVE FOR NEOMA
NEOMA is the only Business school to offer this innovative and unique experience. Explore the drivers of leadership and decision-making under pressure through a collective experience designed to strengthen team cohesion and executive posture.
You have the opportunity to take part in this seminar in Chamonix or Dammam.
Join an international cohort
Multicultural cohorts composed of experienced professionals from diverse sectors, functions and countries, united by a shared ambition: to step back, learn from their peers and exchange high-level experiences.
The Global Executive MBA Flex supports professionals at key stages of their careers:
The programme enables you to:
You strengthen your role, open up new professional opportunities, and develop an executive posture aligned with today’s challenges.
Organisations that support their executives in the Global EMBA Flex aim to:
98%
Recommendation rate1
9,05/10
Satisfaction rate2
27th Worldwide
Career progress rank2
160 000$
Salary increase (3-years post-graduation)3
100%
Percentage of graduates entering targeted professions1
Sources: 1 Graduate Employment Survey - Graduates of 2023 & 2024 | 2 Financial Times 2025 Ranking | 3 Graduate Employment Survey 2025 statistic (class of 2022)
Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent, minimum three years of higher education) or above
A minimum of five years of professional experience
English level B2 (CEFR): test required
Accepted tests: TOEIC or TOEFL (taken within the last two years)
Exceptions: native English speakers and/or professionals who have been working in English for more than five years
Application (1 hour) online
Submit your application (application fee: €100)
Interview (1 hour)
Admission decision (within 72 hours)
Administrative enrolment (30 minutes)
*Some scholarships may be combined. Please contact us for further information
At NEOMA Business School, we understand that joining a Global Executive MBA is a significant personal and professional commitment. We are available to support you and answer all your practical questions:
How can you best prepare to discuss sponsorship with your employer?
Which organisations can help finance your training project?
Contact Yann to benefit from dedicated support, both regarding funding options and the alignment of your training project with your professional career path.
Email : yann.lorant@neoma-bs.fr
Phone. : +33(0)6 99 05 52 03
The Global Executive MBA is eligible for CPF (Compte Personnel de Formation) funding for professionals working or who have worked in France.
The programme is a degree-awarding programme: Global Executive Master of Business Administration, registered as a Level 7 certification under the title “Cadre Dirigeant” (Senior Executive) in the Répertoire National des Certifications Professionnelles (RNCP), registration number RNCP 37645.
Registration date: 31 May 2023 – NEOMA.
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Product Support Manager – TRACE ONE
“From career progression to strategic leadership, the Global EMBA helped me shift my perspective and operate at a completely different scale.”
Before joining the Global Executive MBA, my career was progressing well. With an engineering background, I had built my path throug...
General Manager France – BALLUFF EMEA
“This experience gave me the strategic framework and confidence to lead complex energy projects and operate effectively in demanding international environments.”
I joined NEOMA’s Global Executive MBA to broaden my international perspective and strengthen my strategic ...
CEO – Tide Power
“It gave me the confidence to reinvent my career internationally and embrace opportunities I had never planned.”
After more than ten years working in the luxury industry in Hong Kong for brands such as LVMH, L’Oréal and Estée Lauder, I decided it was time to take a ma...
International Strategic Acount Manager – MAGNA-TILES
"The Global EMBA helped me develop my sense of boldness and implement a growth plan that continues to drive our development."
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Projects Manager – SOCITEC (Société Ivoirienne de la Terre Cuite)
Our dedicated point of contact for personalised advice and support.
Yann LORANT
Director of Admissions and Development
France: 4 days per month with 3 business days - From Wednesday to Saturday
China: 1 weekend in 3
500 hours - 90 ECTS Credits
€40,000
Campus : Paris, Shanghai
English
October
March
Global Executive Master of Business Administration / Level 7 Qualification on the RNCP (French Register of Professional Certifications) / RNCP sheet No. 37645, Executive Manager
Registration date: 31/05/2023 - NEOMA
