"The Berlin School had a tremendous impact on my career because it both inspired me and provided me with the tools to fulfill my dream."
Berlin School of Creative Leadership
About
The Berlin School of Creative Leadership is a distinctive business school where talented creative business leaders break the boundaries of personal and professional potential. Through our range of tailor-made programs, we foster a community of continuous and relevant learning, enabling professionals to take transformative steps in their careers and lives. Our mission is to turn great creative minds into great creative leaders.
Introduction
The Berlin School of Creative Leadership is a distinctive business school where talented creative business leaders break the boundaries of personal and professional potential. Through our range of tailor-made programs, we foster a community of continuous and relevant learning, enabling professionals to take transformative steps in their careers and lives. Our mission is to turn great creative minds into great creative leaders.
A growing community of creative leaders
At the Berlin School, we’re committed to celebrating business creativity by sharing knowledge and connecting creative business leaders around the globe. We have hosted participants from over 60 countries and from a wide range of professions, brought together by their drive to take transformational steps in their careers, businesses, and industries. We enable these steps through our range of programs, our curriculum taught by academic and industry experts, and our online campus – which also serves as a content platform – the Home of Creative Business Leadership.
Our participants, with their diverse experiences, skills, and backgrounds, make up the heart of our growing global community. To us, community means creating a safe and immersive environment in which to learn, take risks, connect with others, and experiment. It is the living laboratory in which Creative Business Leadership can thrive and succeed.
Turning creative minds into great creative leaders
The Berlin School was founded in 2006 with the launch of the first Executive MBA program tailor-made for the creative industries. The school was formed by a group of executives from the creative industries who believed that creativity and leadership are key for any business to succeed and innovate. Today, as we witness global shifts in the way we do business, use technology, and communicate, this belief remains a core part of our school’s philosophy.
Built from creative DNA
In evolving work environments, those who lead must bring not only imagination to challenges but also the skillset to capitalize on opportunities. Creative business leaders have the ability to do both. As part of our school’s DNA, we harbor a deep understanding of business complexity and creative environments, and we apply this through our curriculum, taught by leading academics and industry experts. We enable professionals to adopt a full leadership skillset that allows them to lead on multiple levels at once, with the agility to respond to often conflicting contexts and challenges.
Our philosophy recognizes six interrelated areas that are vital to developing authentic and impactful creative leadership, from leading self, business partners, people, enterprises, and products, right up to igniting change in markets and society. This thinking is applied through the Berlin School’s learning approach, The Creative Business Leadership Model©, which integrates a range of human and organizational learning skills needed to shape and drive successful creative business.
Campus Features
Our online campus
They say home is where the heart is. Our HOME – the Home of Creative Business Leadership or HCBL – is simultaneously the heart of our Berlin School community and the heart of the action. It’s a venue where current students and alums can discuss their ideas and challenges, browse a comprehensive library of resources in their pursuit of continuous learning, and/or catch up on the latest news and updates on our blog and podcast channels. Non-”Berliners” are also warmly invited to come to visit and find inspiration in our extensive media library as well as thought pieces by and interviews with our global network of academic and industry experts.
How do we enable learning?
Those in leadership roles must learn to know themselves more deeply and act more thoughtfully. However, they do this through interactions and by cultivating others’ engagement and growth. In turn, those relationships become the basis for building teams, projects, and organizations that foster innovation, enable learning, and deliver growing value. In the wider contexts of markets, communities, and networks this dynamic process offers further opportunities to co-create value and deliver impact at scale. At the macro level, Creative Business Leadership addresses megatrends that include hyper-connectedness, data and digital technologies, globalization, ecology, and humanity.
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Student Testimonials
Michal Ben-David - Visiting Lecturer at Regents University London, United Kingdom
Saadi Alkouatli - Creative Director at Leo Burnett, Dubai United Arab Emirates
"Leading with confidence by empowering others. Success doesn't lie within us as individuals. It lies within the team. With the right leadership and emotional IQ, we can uncap an enormous wealth of capacity."
Florian Scheiblbrandner - Director of Communication/Executive Director at the Allinaz Group, Germany
"Working in mid to large-size organizations means dealing with global teams, short attention spans of top management, and complex systems. All of that needs a creative approach. The school helped me bring creativity to my daily work, which has had a massive impact on the way I am able to influence and lead teams, projects, and ideas beyond silos."
Saneel Radia - Global Chief Innovation Officer at R/GA, United States
"My Berlin School experience continues even years after my graduation, thanks to the wonderful network of intelligent, inspiring people it’s connected me with."
Shani Sandy - Design Executive at IBM, United States
"As I have progressed in my career, the stakes have gotten higher, and navigating through interpersonal factors and complex problems are all persistent variables. The rigorous practice and various tools the EMBA has offered me are invaluable to continue to meet these challenges, specifically in the context of creativity."
