Holcim Business School for Advanced Leaders

A high speed learning journey

Global L&D | December 2023

Introduction

The new Holcim Business School for Advanced Leaders targets the group of managers just
underneath our 200 Senior Leaders. Led by faculty from Ivey School of Business, the program
is highly interactive, intense and tightly aligned to Holcim reality and the Senior Leaders
Business School. It aims at upskilling our Advanced Leaders beyond their own function,
specific geography or single operation. The program is purely virtual.

Target Audience

Holcim’s Advanced Leaders are responsible for significant parts of the organization, being
members of local Exco and/or direct reports to our Senior Leaders.
For smaller countries, we target local Exco and P&L holders, for medium and large countries
local Exco (if they are not Senior Leaders), P&L holders, and their succession candidates.
Participants can but don’t have to be graduates of Emerging Leaders and/or ECLP.
These leaders greatly affect Holcim’s ability to progress strategically, as well as maintain,
engage, and develop people.

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Focus and key objectives

The focus of the program is on developing the organization’s leadership, in particular on:
1. Leading for effective execution and change
2. Driving performance and accountability
3. Increase the momentum to accelerate green growth
4. Build a practical toolkit for driving high engagement and becoming an employer of choice
5. Exchange experience and expand interpersonal networks

Sessions

The program focuses on 2 main themes, with a total of 5 half day sessions:

1. Executing in a changing environment:

a. Driving execution and green growth
b. Leading and supporting organizational change

2. Engaging and motivating employees

a. Engaging engagement: the progress principle
b. Diversity, equity and inclusion: beyond the numbers
c. Your compelling leadership narrative

Partners

We partner with a renowned Business School and faculty that have successfully worked with
us on other programs (Senior & Emerging Leaders, ECLP) and know Holcim very well.
1. Ivey Business School (Canada) is one of the leading business schools worldwide, and
a constituent unit of the University of Western Ontario.

2. Dramatic Resources (UK) is a training provider that offers highly practical, tailored
training that draws on techniques from theater, to inspire more courageous business
communication.

Global L&D / Ursula Stocker

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