Leading competitive organisations in sport industry

Leading competitive organisations in sport industry

Leading competitive organisations in sport industry

Leading competitive organisations – Lessons learned from the sports industry

Keynote Speaker: Nicola Mona, MBA, Chief Executive Officer, Hockey Club Ambrì Piotta

When: 23 September, 17:45

Where: USI, Executive Center, Via Giuseppe Buffi 13,6900 Lugano

Nicola Mona

Nicola Mona is an experienced technology and sports executive, helping organisations in defining and achieving high performance goals.
He bases his competencies on hands-on leadership of cross-cultural teams and large-scale projects in various industries.
He served as CEO for almost 4 years of a professional ice hockey team in Switzerland, Ambrì Piotta, navigating through the turbulent times of the COVID pandemic.
He also managed the challenging endeavor of the construction and commissioning of a proprietary arena.
He was Innovation Mentor for Innosuisse and he is a certified HERMES Foundation project manager.
Graduated in Materials Science and Engineering at ETH, he holds an MBA at Said Business School , University of Oxford.

Hockey Club Ambrì Piotta

The Hockey Club Ambrì-Piotta is an ice hockey club founded in 1937. It is based in the town of Ambrì, located in the municipality of Quinto in Switzerland.
It has been playing in the National League, the highest level of ice hockey in Switzerland, since 1985. It has been playing in the Gottardo Arena since 2021.

Evolving Leadership, by Stephen Norman, 09.09

Evolving Leadership, by Stephen Norman, 09.09

Evolving Leadership, by Stephen Norman, 09.09

Evolving Leadership

Keynote Speaker: Stephen Norman

Former Senior Vice President Marketing and Sales, Stellantis Group

When: Friday, 9 September 2022, 6 PM
Where: USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Via Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano,  Executive Center, Blue Room

Mr. Norman spent his professional life in the automotive industry, where he experienced different positions, in different companies and cultures.
What are the major changes in term of Leadership practices overtime and across companies and cultures?

Stephen Norman

With effect from February 1st 2018, Stephen Norman was appointed Managing Director of Vauxhall Motors and Opel Ireland.

Stephen Norman joined Groupe PSA in May 2014 as Chief Marketing Officer and was appointed Senior Vice President, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer in 2016 with remarkable achievements.

In this new capacity, he was responsible for leading Vauxhall Motors and Opel Ireland business and development, in line with the new strategic plan PACE! Given his extensive worldwide Marketing experience, Stephen Norman served also as Marketing reference for Opel/Vauxhall.

Vauxhall and Opel sold 202,000 cars and 29,000 vans in England and Ireland in 2017. Since November 2017, Vauxhall Motors and Opel Ireland are implementing Opel’s new strategic plan, PACE! aiming at becoming profitable, electric and global.

Limited places available. Book yours: emba@usi.ch

 

 

 

EMBA OPEN DAY 07.09: it’s back-to-school time

EMBA OPEN DAY 07.09: it’s back-to-school time

EMBA OPEN DAY 07.09: it’s back-to-school time

Plan your future.

07.09

USI EMBA opens its doors for a complete presentation of its new program, starting on 24.09.2022.

This is the last opportunity to learn about the master and the application requirements.

SCHEDULE

18:00 Presentation of the Executive MBA 11,  by Professor Colombo, Academic Director
18:20 EMBA Voices, Get inspired by our Alumni Stories

THE WEEKEND FORMAT

1 course per month
3 days:
1 day self-learning
2 days Saturday and Sunday, in Lugano
International Module in California, USA

DIGITAL TRASFORMATION AND SUSTAINABILITY 

Core courses will be integrated with a digital and sustainable part, aimed at understanding how these trends influence each function in the organization, and generally the impact on a business strategy.

Core Courses:

Organizational Behavior and Leadership
Business Analytics
Accounting
Economics
Digital Marketing
Human Resources Management
Digital Transformation
Finance
Strategy
Operations Management
Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship
Negotiation

Advanced courses:

2, chosen by the class, among:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) And Machine Learning (Ml) For Business
Leading and Organizing Digital Transformation
Sustainability Management
Valuing the Intangibles

Book your place: emba@usi.ch

Last BE AN EMBA for a Day, Leaders of tomorrow: 10-11 September

Last BE AN EMBA for a Day, Leaders of tomorrow: 10-11 September

Last BE AN EMBA for a Day, Leaders of tomorrow: 10-11 September

When: 10, 11 September 2022

What: Leadership Course – Last BE AN EMBA FOR A DAY.
Book your free session! 

This course invites participants to reflect on how they lead today and how they want to further develop their leadership skills and mindsets for leading successfully ‘tomorrow’.

We will therefore explore some of the following questions:

• What does it take to lead people and teams towards high performance?
• How did it work in the past, what is changing, and how does successful team leadership look like in the near future?
• What mindsets are helpful to lead and engage people in organizations in times of constant change and increasing complexity?
• What skills can leaders develop, nurture, and leverage to foster their leadership impact?
• How can a ‘coaching leadership style’ support leaders in further developing their effectiveness in helping people and teams to excel, flourish, and grow – even in challenging times?

Professor Andreas Bernhardt, ESMT Berlin

Andreas Bernhardt is executive development advisor and lead coach at ESMT Berlin in Germany, founding member of ESMT’s Center for Leadership Development Research, and manages ESMT’s pool of executive coaches. He has over 20 years of practical leadership development experience with executives from more than 50 countries and has designed and delivered executive programs for several international companies. He is also an executive coach with the Global Leadership Centre at INSEAD, one of the world’s leading business schools.

He is co-designer and convener of ESMT’s yearly Coaching Colloquium, was co-organizer of the International Coaching Research Forum in collaboration with the Institute of Coaching at McLean/Harvard Medical School, and regularly contributes to top academic and practitioner conferences. His current consulting and research interests focus on leadership development, executive coaching, HR management, and leading and coaching teams in tough times. He is co-editor of the new book “Tricky Coaching: Difficult Cases in Leadership Coaching” together with Konstantin Korotov, Manfred Kets de Vries and Elizabeth Florent-Treacy.

He teaches and coaches in the areas of Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Coaching, Negotiations and Change in MBA, Executive MBA, open enrollment, and company specific executive programs. His executive education portfolio includes, programs for, among others, Allianz, Deutsche Bank, Postbank, Hogan Lovells, Deutsche Telekom, E.ON, RWE, BSH Bosch and Siemens, Hitachi, Kaspersky, B. Braun, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, West Pharmaceutical Services, Johnson & Johnson, Axel Springer, McDonald’s, and the European Union.

Andreas consults globally operating companies on issues of executive coaching, leadership development, and leading people and teams in challenging times. He also regularly coaches executives on leadership and career issues.

He studied Clinical and Organizational Psychology, Management and Organizational Behavior, holds a Master’s degree in Psychology, and is an alumnus of INSEAD’s long-term executive program „Consulting and Coaching for Change” directed by Professor Manfred Kets de Vries.

Additionally, Andreas has held the position of Head of Leadership and Human Resource Management Programs for USW Schloss Gracht and prior to this worked for several years in the Banking Industry as well as for the German State Police Forces.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FEE For the entire course:

3.000 CHF Course Fee
2700 CHF VSV ASG Members Fee
2.500 CHF USI Alumni Fee

Book your place! emba@usi.ch

EMBA Summer Break

EMBA Summer Break

EMBA Summer Break

Time to relax! USI EMBA’s summer break is from 15th to 19t  August.

We wish you a beautiful summer vacation.

May all the happiness embrace you, let your fun be unlimited with friends and your beloved ones.

We are ready to welcome you back on the 7th of September for our Next Open Day.

Take advantage of the last opportunity to EMBArk with us on this beautiful journey!

Write us: emba@usi.ch

101 successful women in Ticino: an interview with Cristina Saporiti

101 successful women in Ticino: an interview with Cristina Saporiti

101 successful women in Ticino: an interview with Cristina Saporiti

101 Successful Women in Ticino: Cristina Saporiti

Interview with Cristina Saporiti, Director of Operations of our USI Executive MBA, who has been featured featured in the publication “101 Successful Women in Ticino” by Edimen. 

Stories are never all alike. Stories mould themselves on people, tell about them and define them. Stories have a scent: Cristina’s, it smells like challenge. 

Because it all started with a challenge while I was working at Bocconi University in Milan under an ironclad contract obtained through an open call for tenders. In 12 years of work, I had already changed jobs many times. I was very well off, and I liked the environment. And I left it. For what? For the unknown. 

Tell us about it, this unknown. 

When I started at Bocconi, I was working for the Master in Business Administration and was in charge of the business side: I was selling the field projects and internships that were an integral part of the master’s programme, for which I cared much. Then, in 2010 I read that there was a call for applications at Università della Svizzera italiana, where they were trying to launch an MBA programme internationally. So, at age 37, I decided to leave Milan, where I had just bought a house after 12 years of renting, to come to Lugano to launch a new product. 

A leap of faith?

I had some experience in a development team in launching new products. However, here I was going to be on my own with the help of two professors, the scientific directors. I had to do everything from scratch, starting with the business plan: I had the freedom to “invent” according to my experience, following my curiosity and creativity, I had the opportunity to put myself on the line with a challenging and critical task. 

And was it difficult? 

In the beginning, it was not easy. I had a lot of contacts with Ticino, but I was used to a Milan-oriented work attitude, a fast pace and sometimes very superficial interactions. Instead, here in Ticino, I immediately understood how I should behave to integrate into the region successfully: in the beginning, the most important thing was networking, as well as working on the launch of the new product. Because I learned that the first thing you need is to understand where you are, the mindset, the people you have to interact with, and the values, specifically, it was essential to understand the mission of the institution: little by little, I started going to all the professional associations, hanging out with my colleagues, and gradually losing that Bocconian attitude. That constant frenzy, never stopping to smell the flowers, because it’s true: in Milan, you leave home, rush to the University, and never stop. You’re spinning all the time, but then you notice that you’re spinning meaninglessly, and then you must stop and figure out where you want to go. The moment I stopped, this opportunity came, and my heart migrated to Ticino, to Lugano, and here I found my place. 

What is your present today? 

My present is still in the making. I have been able to consolidate my challenge. The product is doing well, but we have adapted it to the new market, so it is in constant evolution: my present is like my product, and I am too. I’ve had the opportunity to embrace other challenges here within the University also because I arrived when the University was 15 years old, and now it’s 25. I’ve also gone from a family-run startup form to a much more adult stage. At Bocconi, I also had the opportunity to gain experience with different types of products. My challenge now is to launch for all different faculties some unique products. I put myself back in the game and set out to try to understand the educational offerings of all our faculties, even those that are not related to my academic background, to try to find some new stimuli, some new products, to consolidate the “brand awareness” of the University again.

Read the full version ( Italian only): 101-donne-cristina-saporiti