The key factors in the learning are:

• Intensive participant contribution
• Involvement of internationally renowned faculty from leading business schools, universities and advisors to industry
• Discussion of cases that are relevant to the industry
• Anchoring of home company assignments in the sponsoring company
• Multi-company group work on key industry issues

The program requires a lot of preparation and participation. This includes pre-reading, class lectures and discussions, case studies, individual and group assignments, and application of learning to home company assignments.

The home company assignments are intended to anchor the learning and contribute directly to improvements at the sponsoring company. Implementation rates for the final home company assignments are now approaching a level of 70 percent, so around the newspaper industry there are a lot of interesting projects that originated during the Leaders program.

During the program, participants work in multi-company groups to prepare and deliver a report on a key industry issue to expand industry-specific learning and networking.

Due to the international composition of the faculty and the participants, the English language is used exclusively throughout the program.