Shaping opportunities with an entrepreneurial spirit

In times of rapid change – whether that change is caused by a bubble, a boom, a bust, or a crisis – leaders need to build resilient and agile organizations which continuously recognize, evaluate and execute on promising opportunities. To lead through this innovation process, you have to be able to challenge yourself and have a certain mental agility, paired with a set of skills and a community of like-minded people.

Our Executive MBA program is your opportunity to commit yourself to learning in a structured way. It is an opportunity to enter a program dedicated to your advancement and growth. To a lot of participants, the program feels like entering a new playground of ideas where it is safe to explore, make mistakes, and connect to different mindsets. Thriving on the idea of bringing cutting-edge research-based knowledge and insights into the class-room during this program, we have everyone living under one roof: the entrepreneurship faculty, entrepreneurs, students, and our partner, UnternehmerTUM with all its diverse offers. This establishes a continuous loop of knowledge creation and dissemination, which is “sprinkled” and enriched with our participants’ interesting and diverse profiles and backgrounds.

One of the key pillars of the program is the hands-on project work that is done in teams with dedicated, research-informed exercises. Our multiple coaching formats complement each other in developing your design-thinking skills, working with a diverse pool of experts in sharpened your understanding of business models, and allowing dedicated time and support for personal growth to allow for a rounded learning experience.

While many leaders fear what technological changes are going to disrupt next, being a part of our ecosystem allows you to be at the forefront of the creation of that change. Our start-ups are both disrupting and evolving current business and societal landscape. Through the daily struggles and the excitement that undertaking an entrepreneurial project brings, going through the program inevitably results in a kind of mental agility. Be-coming “wired this way”, you are developing a mindset of seeing problems and technology not as threats but as opportunities, all the while supported by a community you can rely on in bringing these opportunities to life.

Over the last ten years, we have grown an engaged and self-organized community, one that our students and alumni are actively shaping. There is no politics, it’s raw, it’s genuine, it’s well-intended, it’s trustworthy. The community is flourishing, and we already see first investments from our alumni into the participants’ start-ups.

Times are showing more and more that there is a greater risk in not taking some risks. We know we cannot count on stability – even the biggest companies and their jobs are not looking as secure or appealing as they used to be. If you are willing to take some risks, take them in a safe space that is curated and created for this purpose and create opportunities for yourself and for the world.

There was never a better time to invest in yourself.

Prof. Dr. Hana Milanov, Professor of International Entrepreneurship and Academic Program Director of the Executive MBA in Innovation & Business Creation