Executive Education

Management Programs

Open management education. Quality since 1985.

Welcome to the St. Gallen Business School.
We offer management knowledge with a high degree of practical relevance and implementation benefits for participants. As leading St. Gallen Business School, we represent the St. Gallen management approach, which is considered the standard for good and sustainable management.

Manager Course for Executives:
SGBS Management Education St. Gallen

The management seminars at St. Gallen Business School (SGBS) are aimed at different target groups:

Top Management Courses:
Management education, best practices, networking and exchange of experiences for
the members of the top management: supervisory board members, board members,
entrepreneurs, CEOs, members of the executive board, directors, managing directors.

Executive Management Courses, Manager Seminars and Management Education
Management and leadership seminars for decision makers from top and upper management or with significant responsibility for results.

Management Courses and Executive Education St. Gallen
The top performers at all management levels who want to implement what is desired at the top together with their team at the operational management levels. Seminars for managers, management training, leadership training.

Management Education in St. Gallen for specialists:
High achievers with an important task and high level of competence.

Management and Leadership Training for high potentials:
Management training, management seminars and leadership training for the management of the future.

 Advanced Junior education in corporate management and leadership:
Young managers, management assistants and up-and-coming management talents.

Specialist training, Management education
Top performers from all areas who need to be promoted.

Scientific basis & practical experience: Management courses

The management seminars and management training at the St. Gallen Business School are based on the work “St. Gallen Concept of Integrated Management”, which was significantly shaped and developed by our former chairman of the advisory board, Prof. (emer.) Dr. Dres. hc Knut Bleicher – on the basis of the works of Prof. Dr. Dres. hc Hans Ulrich. This St. Gallen management concept has now become a standard in modern management teaching.

The management seminars offer a combination of the scientific basis – the holistic St. Gallen approach – with a high degree of practical relevance and implementation benefits for the individual participants.

One of the St. Gallen Business School’s special skills that have been developed over the decades is the development of seminars for managers and management training programs that enable a practical combination of scientific findings and relevant practice. The St. Gallen management training has an impact: the manager learns knowledge at the seminar that can be applied in the company.
New things have to be practiced: That’s why some of our management seminars include intensive management training.

Practical application of management education

The founders of the St. Gallen Management Model recognized the integrative power of the systems approach as a framework for management theory as early as the 1960s. Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans Ulrich, they developed the St. Gallen Management Model at the HSG (University of St. Gallen) as a framework model for holistic management, a milestone in management education in St. Gallen.

Professor Dr. Knut Bleicher , Chairman of the Advisory Board of our St. Gallen Business School for many years, developed this model further with a group of colleagues and researchers in St. Gallen. The result was the “St. Gallen Management Concept”: the framework model was filled with content and has been an essential part of management training ever since.

Since 1985, the St. Gallen Group of Business Schools has been tasked with transferring the knowledge and wealth of experience of this holistic management understanding into practice. The mission: Good, correct and sustainable management should create high individual and social benefits. To this end, Dr. Günther Pipp founded the private St. Gallen Group of Business Schools in 1985 as a spin-off from the HSG University of St. Gallen. The mission of this leading organization today is to spread the St. Gallen philosophy in practice: holistic and sustainable management. Knowledge for practice, management seminars with the highest implementation benefits.

In 1994, he handed over the management of the group’s largest business school, the St. Gallen Business School, to Prof. Dr. Christian Abegglen , who developed it into a leading management training and Executive education institution. Since 1985, tens of thousands of managers have learned about these ideas at our seminars and programs and used them in their own practice.

Lecturers

The teaching staff at St. Gallen Business School brings together personalities who convey the results of their intensive international activities – whether in science, research, management consulting or as practitioners – in a high-caliber and implementation-oriented manner. All lecturers at St. Gallen Business School are particularly characterized by their high didactic competence in developing and deepening knowledge together with experienced managers.

More about our lecturers and seminar leaders

In addition to professors and renowned experts, an interesting development is emerging in the area of ​​management training and seminars for managers: it is not uncommon for lecturers from seemingly unrelated fields to be rated particularly outstanding by participants, such as a theater actor or a former hockey coach. Our team of lecturers is therefore deliberately diverse: the participants at the seminar really appreciate this!

Participants

Current references and participant comments from former seminar participants of the St. Gallen Business School can be found here

Management Courses for Top Management

We offer a highly attractive package for top management, entrepreneurs and those responsible for top management as well as supervisory and administrative boards:

Executive General Management
The program for CEOs, board members, C-level members, entrepreneurs and supervisory bodies. 4 days.

CEO & Management Course
Managers in executive functions are responsible for holistic success management. The central topics of holistic management are therefore addressed on the basis of the renowned St. Gallen approach. 4 + 4 days.

New:
Holding & Group Management
Effectively manage a group, umbrella or parent company. 15 seminar days in 4 parts, plus an additional individual final day. How do you steer a group or a group of companies in the desired direction?

Management Courses for executives

For executives with responsibility for results and managers from functions, areas, divisions, business units, business units and major profit centers, but also for project leaders and project managers. Here is a small selection:

Effective Management Program
This 9-day management program, which is divided into two parts, is aimed exclusively at managers with several years of experience who have theoretical and practical management and business knowledge.

Leading important business units
This program shows how management can carry out its leadership role so that business units develop successfully in the right direction and achieve excellent results. 5 + 3 days.

Digital Business Transformation
Using numerous examples, you will learn how successful companies always stay one step ahead of the competition and transform business models and leadership into a new world. 4 + 3 days.

SGBS Management Courses on leadership

The St. Gallen Business School offers a wide range of management courses and St. Gallen management seminars on the topic of leadership. Our classics, which have been successful for decades, include:

Leadership – St. Gallen leadership program
The course “Leadership – St. Gallen leadership program” imparts and trains in an intensive form in two parts the necessary professional and personal skills to optimally carry out leadership tasks in daily practice. 4 + 4 days.

Leadership for executives: Setting the right course in leadership
In discussions with the participants, the experienced lecturers bring proven and new leadership knowledge to the point and show where, in their view, the real levers for increasing your personal management power lie. 4 days.

Advanced Leadership
The seminar is aimed at experienced managers. Practical leadership issues are addressed at a high level. Participants exchange ideas with experts in their field and receive new ideas for their own practice. 3 days.

The effective leadership personality
Self-knowledge is the prerequisite for leadership behavior that should be characterized by appreciation and performance orientation at the same time. This seminar helps to further develop your own leadership style and the way you deal with others. 4 days.