emlyon: teaching managers and executives to innovate
Since 2020, we have worked with emlyon Executive Education on innovation, design thinking and intrapreneurship: in the Executive MBA, on Learning Expeditions and in the bespoke programmes the school designs for companies.
- first cohort trained with the school
- 2020first cohort trained with the school
- bespoke programmes and sessions
- 15+bespoke programmes and sessions
- formats: Executive MBA, Learning Expeditions, corporate programmes
- 3formats: Executive MBA, Learning Expeditions, corporate programmes
- campuses: Lyon and Paris
- 2campuses: Lyon and Paris
Innovation practitioners facing seasoned managers.
emlyon Executive Education trains managers and executives already in post: Executive MBA, certificates and programmes designed for a specific company. For innovation, design and intrapreneurship, the school calls on speakers who apply these methods every day with their own clients.
The link goes back a long way: Exoflow’s founders came through emlyon and Centrale Lyon’s IDEA programme, and co-founder Victor Bouin teaches there as a visiting lecturer. The aim of every session: give demanding audiences methods they will reuse the following Monday, not one more theory.
Three ways to contribute, the same focus on the field.
Depending on the programme, we run an existing module, take participants out into the field, or contribute to a programme designed for a specific company.
- STEP 01
Executive MBA
Part-time and fast-track tracks
Design thinking and innovation modules within the Executive MBA tracks: participants apply the method to concrete cases, from user immersion to prototype.
- STEP 02
Learning Expeditions
Immersion in innovation spaces
Visits to innovation labs run by large companies, public bodies and third places. Participants analyse each site’s strategy, organisation and layout, then submit a synthesis that we assess.
- STEP 03
Bespoke programmes
For the school’s corporate clients
Modules designed for a company’s managers: design thinking applied to a real project, AI-augmented design sprint, certifying track for intrapreneurs. Every piece of content starts from the group’s challenges and cases.
What makes the difference in the room.
A deliverable at every step
No content without a deliverable: participants always know what they leave with.
Real cases
Exercises start from the company’s own projects and challenges, not generic cases.
The field first
We start from a problem users actually face, never from a ready-made solution.
AI as a co-pilot
Synthesis, ideation, prototyping: AI speeds up every step, without ever taking over.
Methods that travel back into the company.
Participants don’t leave with course slides, but with tools already applied to their own project, ready to be reused with their teams.
Starting in 2020 within the Executive MBA, the collaboration has grown to include Learning Expeditions and then bespoke corporate programmes: more than 15 programmes and sessions to date.
- A design thinking method applied to a real project
- Project scoping: stakeholders, milestones, risks
- A prototype and a test plan
- A change management plan
- A reusable AI toolkit
Training your managers in innovation?
Executive education module, leadership seminar or intrapreneur track: we build the training from your challenges and your projects.
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