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bluegain Academy helps individuals and organizations to reach the next level by developing success-critical skills as well as competencies and creating new behaviors through professional enablement programs and coaching.

Our specialized open programs are designed to keep top executives, managers and senior professionals up to date on business trends and increase their potential to drive meaningful impact.

Discover the wide range of our leadership programs to leverage winning patterns and avoid pitfalls in your transformation endeavors.

Enabling People and Organizations.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

Horace Jackson Browne Jr.

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AGENTIC AI AND THE FUTURE OF LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATION

June 18, 2026

VIRTUAL

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

This 10-week executive program, developed in collaboration with the Drucker School of Management, provides senior leaders with the frameworks needed to rethink leadership, governance, workflows, and strategy for human–AI collaboration. You will learn what agentic AI is, how to design AI-enabled transformations and explore how to build human–agent work systems, establish governance for autonomy and risk management, and understand the infrastructure required to embed AI across the enterprise. The program concludes with a double certificate from the bluegain Academy/GER and the Drucker School of Management/USA.

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LEADING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

November 24, 2026

BERLIN, GERMANY

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

In this course, you will understand digital transformation as the business and leadership challenge of the digital-intelligent age. You will learn how to use business model transformation to steer and orchestrate your digital transformation and get to know a playbook for leaders to initiate, drive and monitor transformation in organizations at grand-scale. We have been delivering a full-day module in the ESMT Open Enrolment Program 'Leading Digital Transformation‘ since 2020. ESMT is ranked #4 globally for its customized programs in the Financial Times Executive Education ranking.

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INNOVATION WITH A DIGITAL MINDSET

November 26, 2026

VIRTUAL

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

This half-day program for executives at a manufacturer of household appliances, provides a concentrated overview of the methods and tools required to master strategic discontinuity with a digital innovation mindset. In this course, you will learn that mastering strategic transformation is not about reacting faster once the market confirms the change. It is about rewiring the business proactively, before the old logic visibly runs out and the new logic is yet to become the de facto standard. You get to know the winning patterns of strategic transformation, shifting how value is created, delivered, and captured and deciding what to preserve, what to evolve, and what to leave behind. This module is delivered as an ESMT Custom Program. ESMT is ranked #4 globally for its customized programs in the Financial Times Executive Education ranking.

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LEADING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

May 18, 2026

BERLIN, GERMANY

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

In this course, you will understand digital transformation as the business and leadership challenge of the digital-intelligent age. You will learn how to use business model transformation to steer and orchestrate your digital transformation and get to know a playbook for leaders to initiate, drive and monitor transformation in organizations at grand-scale. We have been delivering a full-day module in the ESMT Open Enrolment Program 'Leading Digital Transformation‘ since 2020. ESMT is ranked #4 globally for its customized programs in the Financial Times Executive Education ranking.

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INNOVATION WITH A DIGITAL MINDSET

April 29, 2026

VIRTUAL

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

This half-day program for executives at a manufacturer of household appliances, provides a concentrated overview of the methods and tools required to master strategic discontinuity with a digital innovation mindset. In this course, you will learn that mastering strategic transformation is not about reacting faster once the market confirms the change. It is about rewiring the business proactively, before the old logic visibly runs out and the new logic is yet to become the de facto standard. You get to know the winning patterns of strategic transformation, shifting how value is created, delivered, and captured and deciding what to preserve, what to evolve, and what to leave behind. This module is delivered as an ESMT Custom Program. ESMT is ranked #4 globally for its customized programs in the Financial Times Executive Education ranking.

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LEADING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

November 14, 2025

MILAN/ ITALY

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

In this course, you will understand digital transformation as the business and leadership challenge of the digital-intelligent age. You will learn how to use business model transformation to steer and orchestrate your digital transformation and get to know a playbook for leaders to initiate, drive and monitor transformation in organizations at grand-scale. We have been delivering a full-day module in the ESMT Open Enrolment Program 'Leading Digital Transformation‘ since 2020. ESMT is ranked #8 globally for its customized programs in the Financial Times Executive Education ranking.