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Executive Master in Management

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The Executive Master in Management is aimed at managers, executives and entrepreneurs who wish to redirect their professional careers, move up to positions of greater responsibility, or develop an activity, a business or a company on a more solid footing. The program aims to share a renewed vision of business, and to pass on managerial tools, methods and practices directly applicable to different professional environments.

  • A diploma course delivered by a leading university business school

    IAE Aix is part of Aix-Marseille University, the world's largest French-speaking multidisciplinary university, renowned for the excellence of its training and research. Since it was founded in 1955, the IAE Aix has been helping local companies to train their staff in management and leadership skills, as well as supporting executives in their career development. In 1999, the school became the first French university business school to receive EQUIS accreditation, an independent label awarded to only 215 business schools worldwide. The IAE is included in the Financial Times' ranking of the best business schools, and ranks first for value for money. The IAE Aix Executive Master's program therefore benefits fully from antimulant environments capable of accelerating personal and professional careers.

  • Training tailored to working professionals

    The pace of the course enables you to reconcile your studies, personal life and professional life. Classes are held every 15 days at the Puyricard site on Thursdays from 5pm to 8pm, Fridays from 9am to 8pm and Saturdays from 9am to 1pm. The course design offers real flexibility. The Executive Master is made up of 5 blocks of knowledge and skills. These 5 blocks can be delivered in the form of certificates and taken independently of each other (see content).

  • Training for understanding, realization and commitment

    In keeping with IAE Aix's mission, Empowering Humanistic Leadership, and aligned with its values of respect, high standards, avant-garde and consistency, the Executive Master pursues three major objectives:
    - Understand the principles and fundamentals of management through a 360° vision of the company
    - Commit to sustainable business, with the notion of sustainability running through all modules.
    - Achieve self-fulfillment by developing your leadership skills and reinforcing your managerial posture.

  • Training driven by diversity

    Diversity is the cornerstone of the Executive Master program. Each graduating class is made up of a wide variety of profiles, in terms of background, training, professional and personal projects. Engineers, managers from major corporations, directors of social and community organizations, entrepreneurs, lawyers, civil servants, all share their experiences, debate the practices and perspectives presented by the lecturers, and gradually shape their own business and managerial vision. This diversity is further enhanced by the fact that, over 18 months, 3 different classes come together. Beyond the diversity of the participants, it is also the diversity of the speakers, both academic and professional, that is particularly appreciated.

The Executive Master consists of 5 blocks of knowledge and skills. These 5 blocks can be delivered in the form of certificates, and taken independently of each other.

  • Finance for managers and entrepreneurs

    Financial documents 1 d
    Financial indicators 3 d
    Financial decision-making 4 d
    Business Game 2 d
    Management control tools 3 d
    Cash and treasury issues 1 d

  • Sustainable business development

    Strategic diagnosis 3 d
    Strategic deployment and desirable futures 1 d
    Marketing fundamentals and renewal 3 d
    Customer orientation and specific environments 1 d
    Sustainable development and CSR 2 d
    Ethics, business law and managerial responsibility 2 d
    HR tools and processes 3 d
    Employment law 1 d

  • Leadership and managerial posture

    Communication profiles 2 d
    Multiple intelligences 1 d

    Fundamentals of relationships in the workplace 1 d
    Conflict and belief management 1 d
    Critical approach to leadership 2 d
    Leadership at the service of the team and the organization 2.5 d
    The approach and tools of project management 3 d
    Change management 2.5 d

  • Managing transitions

    Digital transformation of the organization 1 d
    Digital marketing and social networks 2 d
    Data-driven management and AI 1 d
    Understanding ecological and societal issues 2 d
    Geopolitics and Transitions 1 d
    The citizen manager 1 d

  • The manager in action

    Prospective & Management Project 8 d
    Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship and Repreneurship Project 8 d

  • Teaching and assessment methods

    Although face-to-face classes on the IAE Aix site are the main teaching method, conferences and off-site activities are also offered. Group work is an integral part of all courses, enabling students to go beyond the work to be carried out, and get to grips with group analysis and decision-making, the application of collective intelligence and the mobilization of group dynamics. These skills are particularly relevant to the two projects, Foresight & Management and Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship and Repreneurship. Graduation is subject to individual assessment, group work and course attendance.

The Executive Master in Management offers complementary managerial skills to professionals with strong initial skills. This much sought-after and much-appreciated dual skill set can be used, depending on the individual's project:

- reorient a professional career ;

- access positions of greater responsibility;

- develop an activity, a business or a company.

Program advantages

  1. The excellence of a university education. The IAE Aix ranks among the top 150 business schools in the world thanks to its EQUIS accreditation, is ranked first in France by the Financial Times for return on investment, and is ranked 16th worldwide by CEO Magazine.
  2. The program's reputation and recognition. This general management program, dedicated to working professionals, was the first offered by IAE Aix when it was founded in 1955. Widely recognized by companies and all socio-economic players, it benefits from a network of over 20,000 graduates.
  3. The flexibility of a part-time program. The Executive Master offers courses spread over two years, with an intensive integration week followed by three days every two weeks (Thursday 5pm-8pm, Friday 9am-7.30pm and Saturday 9am-1pm).

  • Alumni

    The Executive Master takes full advantage of IAE Aix's alumni network and connections with the socio-economic world. Aix-Marseille University alumni, IAE Aix alumni and Executive Master alumni form a particularly strong community in our region. IAE alumni are regularly involved in institutional events and program activities. Some Executive Master courses are taught by alumni, and projects are also supported by various alumni.

  • Partnerships with the socio-economic world

    The main socio-economic players in the region have an excellent image of the IAE Aix and particularly appreciate our students and graduates. The school supports its partners in their recruitment and training strategies, in consolidating their employer brand, and offers workshops during which employees and participants discuss real-life managerial issues. Recently, the school has structured its own entrepreneurial ecosystem, enabling it to work closely with entrepreneurs, incubators, institutions and other major players in the local entrepreneurial scene. The IAE's Lab Icube is part of this ecosystem. The Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship and Repreneurship project is an activity designed and developed by Lab Icube.

ADMISSION

  • Admission requirements

    - Higher education diploma: engineering diploma, Master's degree, Master's degree in any speciality or equivalent level (foreign diploma in particular). Validation of professional experience (VAP) may be considered.

    - Solid professional experience of at least 5 years

    - Satisfactory level of English

    Application form to be completed online: click here

    The application form includes the following tests

    - an aptitude test for management studies. We recommend the TAGE Executive dedicated to continuing education (expected score around 280): https ://www.tageexecutive.fr

    - a TOEIC English test (score expected to be at least 750) https ://www.etsglobal.org/fr/fr

CONTACTS

  • Employee - Individual returning to education - Entrepreneur

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    Service Admission

    Tell us about your project
    Our candidate guidance team will advise you from the very beginning of your journey, helping you choose the training programme best suited to your profile and goals.

    Tracking your application
    Once you have registered on our online application platform, your profile will be reviewed by our team. Depending on your project and following a preliminary exploratory interview, you will have an interview with the programme director of the training course you are applying for, who will validate your application to join the next cohort.

    Financing your training
    We offer personalised support in putting together your financing application, whatever the method (CPF, Transition Pro, France Travail, OPCO, company, etc.). Our dedicated representative will contact you and monitor its progress.

  • Companies - Organisations - Networks in the region

    At your service
    Do you have a skills development plan to implement? Would you like to enrol one or more employees in training? Are you considering setting up a specific programme for your teams?

    Our mission: to understand, support and assist your organisation's challenges through human capital. IAE Aix supports companies in their various training and skills development needs in leadership and management. As key players in the development of your executives and managers, our approach is based on the joint construction of the project you entrust to us.

    Would you like to collaborate with our institute on training initiatives? We are also open to suggestions from local decision-makers in order to create lasting synergies together.

THEY TALK ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Valérie Mathieu, Director of the Executive Master in General Management
François-Xavier Michaux, Executive Master in Management
Séverine Janssens, Executive Master in Management
Léopoldine Lascurettes - Executive Master in Management
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THE TEAM

Program Director

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Valérie
MATHIEU

Program Coordinator

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Leila
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