Achieving Managerial Excellence Program

Leadership skills business

Soft skills for business to create the right context for change, drive team performance and collaborate effectively across functions, cultures and beyond

The CEDEP AME is a fully immersive 9-day program that helps managers and functional leaders develop a wide range of soft skills crucial for success in our interconnected and competitive world – where functional expertise alone is no longer enough.

Instead, today’s leaders must develop an enterprise perspective and collaborate across functions, business units and regions to have real organisational impact.

Connecting with stakeholders beyond their functional specialty is vital to gain support for new ideas and execute them successfully. This is where soft skills for business become essential.

The real-life business challenge project within the AME program reinforces participants’ ability to lead and follow in today’s constantly changing, high-pressure and volatile business world.

Why AME? A Unique Experience That Needs 9 Days to Transform You

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Objectives

With the evolution of Artificial Intelligence, soft skills are the only competitive advantage we as humans will have in the future. Anything that cannot be digitised or automated will become extremely valuable including truly human traits like creativity, empathy, intuition and the ability to connect the dots.

Although these soft skills set us apart, they are less tangible and therefore not usually taught on the job. However, these skills are crucial for managers in broader strategic and transversal roles. Managers need to be able to network effectively, inspire and get the buy in from diverse stakeholders beyond their domain to rally support for and implement their ideas.

The main objective of the AME program is to teach participants essential soft skills and new behaviours to remove the limitations of old patterns and guide them towards new mindsets. They are given the time and space to practice what they have learned and break out of their old patterns.

Incorporating real-life business challenges with in-depth learning, networking and sharing with peers from a wide range of cultures and industries makes this program a unique and powerful experience. The resulting growth – both personal and professional – is invaluable for creating high-impact, effective managers and leaders of the future.

This program is delivered in accordance with the Qualiopi certification standards, ensuring the quality of our training processes.

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Program Director & Experts

Upcoming sessions

Learning journey

19 – 28 May 2026
6 – 15 October 2026

Tuition fees (excl. taxes)

€13,400

Board & Accommodation (excl. taxes) € 2,850

Participant profile

AME is designed for managers and functional leaders whose success depends on connecting and engaging people and teams, and working effectively across different functions, cultures and regions. They may also be in charge of implementing important initiatives within their organisation.

Ideal for high potential leaders who have gained managerial experience on-the-job and are ready to expand their horizons, breakdown silos, have more responsibility, and lead larger transversal teams.

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Explore our insights on Achieving Managerial Excellence to understand how managers and functional leaders can develop the soft skills, emotional intelligence and cross-functional collaboration capabilities needed to drive change, inspire teams and create meaningful impact across their organisation.

This CEDEP whitepaper explores how the rise of AI is reshaping the skills, behaviours and mindset that leaders need to succeed. Drawing on real-world insights and the latest research, it offers a practical framework for developing the human capabilities that drive performance, collaboration and lasting organisational impact in an AI-shaped world.

Insights on how AI is redefining the soft skills and leadership behaviours that matter most in today’s organisations.
Covers key themes including emotional intelligence, influence without authority, cross-functional collaboration and human-AI teaming.
Translates emerging research and practitioner experience into concrete actions leaders can apply immediately.

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What does the AME experience look like from the inside?

Discover what senior leaders take away from this global leadership journey.

The AME program has been an incredible deep dive experience in technical and emotional management issues. It was a real parenthesis allowing me to open new perspectives in my management skills directly linked to challenges facing our companies and societies. These nine days allowed me to broaden my knowledge, explore another dimension of my management vision and instil real self-confidence. I really appreciated the professionalism of the faculty, the kindness of the entire training team and the incredible dynamism of the program director. AME has allowed me to mature alongside people from various countries and fields. Such a great adventure in the management world!

Embarking on the AME program at CEDEP was a transformative journey that exceeded my expectations. I was deeply impressed by the program's unique ability to inspire limitless boundaries and greatness in its participants. Through its amazing facilitators, it fostered a strong bond amongst a set of diverse professionals evolving us from strangers to an empowered tribe. AME was truly a paradigm shift for me, and I would highly recommend the program to other professionals seeking to be better leaders and catalysts for change.

AME is simply fantastic! It made me think differently and think better to truly act at best in my daily job life. I came with huge expectations and no clear idea about what was going to happen to me in the program and I came out with an incredible network of professionals and friends, with ideas I could put into practice immediately in my job, with tools I use now to improve my leadership skills and, finally, a renewed hope for a greater future. An intense and truly game changing experience, that gives you the courage to move on the right managing way, a must do for all leaders in every company to step up in their career and give back to others!