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The business world has become more complex, and job roles have become more dynamic and flexible. Especially with the Covid-19 virus. To succeed requires taking control, anticipation, building personal development in leadership, and information retrieval. Developing your career in this landscape means no only developing your leadership style, but also learning to base your management decisions on thorough academic rigor with the pursuit for practical relevance. Although the future is unclear, it still involves acting in advance working towards goals before achieving them. Undertaking an executive MBA (EMBA) can be a good way to do this.

The future of learning is fluid, dynamic, adaptable, immersive, personalized, and engaging. It is all about the richness of the experience supported by research and teaching excellence.

Bas Kodden has been appointed professor of Leadership and Management Development at Nyenrode Business University.

Stijn van der Vat and Tjibbe Steenstra wanted to help entrepreneurs instead of keeping their knowledge to themselves.

Elaine Versloot left high school with no qualifications. Doing an Executive MBA helped her to understand her own leadership style and land a job as a COO for a growing tech company.

Most industries are currently suffering from the Corona crisis. It struck hard and unexpectedly. We were not prepared for this. Around the world, companies are wondering how to proceed. Many are struggling to survive. I wonder every day how long the world can handle a crisis like this.

Everything is in motion during times of crisis. But how do we find the right balance between adaptation to the here and now, nostalgia for the past and transformation towards the future?

Corona crisis has a positive effect on digitization and productivity. As various opinion makers have already pointed out, the Corona pandemic in which we find ourselves, accelerates all kinds of processes. Not only historically, morally and socially. The role of digitization is also accelerating.