Corporate Governance Program | ESIC

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PROGRAM

THE BUSINESS TRANSFORMING COUNCIL

The program is focused on honing the skills of senior professionals with the potential and aspiration to assume board positions or current board members who want to upgrade their skills and be able to act in corporate governance for business transformation.

The program aims to contribute to excellence in the business world and to promote the access and contribution of professionals with great potential to government positions in companies.

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  80 hours
 
  • Executive

  Language:

Spanish
 

On-site

  Available locations

  • Madrid
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Why study?

WHY STUDY THE PGC?

In this sense, the program has a twofold objective:

Why ESIC?

At ESIC we know that the best way to learn is by doing. Therefore, our program is designed based on tools, workshops, real cases and the use of licenses so that you can access the labor market with the best possible preparation. Our PGC stands out for:

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Reputation of over 50 Years: Reputation of over 50 Years: ESIC is an educational institution with a rich history of over 50 years in the teaching of marketing and business. This tradition and experience consolidate its leadership in the field and guarantee a quality approach to training.

2

Pioneers in Marketing: As pioneers in marketing education, ESIC has been at the forefront of marketing trends and practices for decades. This means you'll get an education that is grounded in experience and adapted to the latest developments in the field.

3

Alumni Network: ESIC's alumni community includes many successful professionals in the marketing and business world. By joining ESIC, you will have access to a valuable network of contacts that can open doors and opportunities in your career.

4

Programs adapted to today: ESIC prides itself on keeping its academic programs up to date with the latest trends and technologies. The advanced course you are considering focuses on online strategies in social media and sales, crucial areas in today's digital age.

5

Commitment to Excellence: ESIC has a strong commitment to academic excellence and student success. Highly qualified faculty and cutting-edge teaching methodology ensure that you will get a high-quality education that will prepare you to excel in the field of online marketing and technology.

Rankings and accreditations

 

YESTERDAY, TODAY, ALWAYS

#46

EUROPE

Best Business Program. Focused on student employability.

QS

#41

WORLDWIDE

Best Business Program. Based on the opinion of students, alumni and employers.

Youth Incorporated

#1

SPAIN

Best Business School. Focus on student experience, preparation for working life and international perspective.

Forbes

ENTRY PROFILE, WHO IS THE PROGRAM AIMED AT?

The Corporate Governance Program: the board transforming the business is aimed at senior professionals with accumulated sectorial or functional experience in previous executive positions, whose objective is to assume positions on a board of directors, as well as current board members who want to position themselves on a board transforming the business. Participants will be professionals with a senior profile who have knowledge, business and management vision and a wide network of professional contacts. They will be profiles that will add value and better understand, as a transforming agent, what a board of directors is in the current era:

AN EXECUTIVE BOARD well informed about the macro environment and the impact of decisions on transforming and driving the company's current and future business.

A FLEXIBLE BOARD to adapt to the 3 needs of a company:
a / Board representing shareholders and control of the business.
b / External Board of prestige for the company's reputation.
c / Board representing key stakeholders.

profile

TESTIMONIALS

 

Ioana Lazar

Director of the Corporate Governance Program: The Business Transforming Board

  Iván Lozano

Iván Lozano

Director of the Technology Business Unit of the Zambudio Group.

  Ignacio Aparicio

Ignacio Aparicio

Executive Partner of Andersen Iberia

  José Vicente Morote

José Vicente Morote

Managing Partner of Andersen Iberia

Objectives of the Corporate Governance Program: The Business Transformation Board

1

You will learn about the legal and commercial framework in the context of the Board of Directors, as well as, among others, the requirements of compliance, financial management and technology.

2

You will understand the essence of Corporate Governance in the current macroeconomic context and technological disruption, the company's strategy from the angle of the Board of Directors, the ESG agenda, as well as understand the importance of talent management.

3

You will apply decision-making influence models, corporate crisis management and individual networking models to access Board of Directors' positions.

4

You will develop models of business-transforming innovation in a disruptive world.

5

At the end of the program, you will design an individual positioning map and an action plan to obtain a future position as a counselor.

ACADEMIC PROGRAM 

A program created to provide the new board member with knowledge of all the company's impact points with a 360º strategic vision and focused on obtaining leadership and influence within the board.

  • To know the current challenges in the Board of Directors of non-listed companies.
  • What is the current dynamics of the Board of Directors?
  • To become familiar with the mandatory subjects to be mastered by any counselor.
  • The professionalization of the board of directors, the presence of independent directors and the application of codes of good corporate governance. The role of external advisors.
  • How they work, what matters they deal with, and what the delegated committees are for, who they are made up of, how much they are paid, and what type of directors they are.
  • Is specific training or qualifications required to be elected as a director and to be a member of executive committees? Recommendations of the codes of good practice. In-depth knowledge of the company and its sector of activity.
  • The regulatory framework: formal aspects on the functioning of the Board and the recommendations of the codes of good practice.
  • What are the duties of directors and how are conflicts of interest resolved?
  • Directors' liability.
  • Special circumstances of directors in subsidiaries of large groups and SPVs: employee directors.
  • The impact on the labor regime.
  • Self-knowledge
  • Identify, through peer mentoring, what are the strengths and areas of improvement for performance within the governance of the company.
  • How do I see myself, a candidate for board member, and how do others see me?
  • Plan to boost your development through executive mentoring
  • To focus future board members on the critical aspects of the strategy from the market.
  • Identify the competitive levers on which the counselor must act.
  • Critical aspects that require the most important asset of the business: the brand.
  • Analyze the 3 competitive responsibilities of the CEO in a disruptive, multi-generational environment where power is held by customers/consumers.
  • The dynamics of decision-making by exercising both minority and majority shareholding.
  • How to make sure that the argument, together with the vote, transforms an idea into a decision?
  • Understand the different current geopolitical contexts from a business perspective.
  • To be able to design a strategy to face the volatility generated by geopolitical risks on business survival and growth.
  • Implement supervision and control commissions to mitigate geopolitical risks.
  • To understand what are the current macro trends in the globalized world in societies and how they impact consumers.
  • How can the Board of Directors respond to current macro trends in society and the consumer?
  • Let's talk about sustainability, social responsibility, sustainable well-being and global solutions with micro impact on business.
  • Globalization and economic growth
  • From the Board of Directors and senior management teams, how are new disruptive technologies understood?
  • Achieve a transversal vision of innovation, cultural and digital transformation, and exponential technologies in business.
  • How do we create and develop AI-assisted technology-based business solutions?
  • To understand the differential factors derived from innovation and technological transformation.
  • Predict the impact of new emerging technologies on the company's strategy.
  • Position the company in an appropriate context for generating value by leveraging technological innovation and the new reality of the digital economy.
  • Scope of current disruptive trends, technologies and business models.
  • Mindset and methodologies for innovation management.
  • Basic toolkit for innovation.
  • Updated, complete and multilevel overview of the main digital security regulations.
  • Technological risk as a determining factor in business decision making.
  • The need to articulate internal cybersecurity governance schemes.
  • Liabilities that may arise from cyber incidents and lack of due diligence by companies.
  • Current and future regulatory context regarding cybersecurity, both in the EU and in Spain.
  • Real cases that have occurred in recent years.
  • How is the modus operandi from search to appointment from the perspective of an executive recruiter with an international profile.
  • How to build a personal brand and position yourself in executive recruiting firms.
  • From corporate strategy to the operating model.
  • From the operating model to the organizational model. New forms of organization and how they impact strategy.
  • Driving and transitioning to agile cultures.
  • Talent as a strategy accelerator: attracting, retaining and developing talent.
  • Identify and understand the scope of ESG criteria.
  • To know which strategies are framed within these criteria.
  • Differentiate with the concept of Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI).
  • Main financial management tools and materials for decision making corresponding to a board member within a board of directors.
  • Reporting strategy to be implemented in the Board of Directors, as a value-added mechanism.
  • The company's organic and inorganic growth strategy, through strategic investments and mergers and acquisitions.
  • Define the objectives and mechanisms of internal control and auditing, aimed at maximizing the economic and social value of the company.
  • Integrates CSR strategy transversally into financial management within the Board of Directors.
  • What are the risks, external and internal, that may affect the business? Draw the risk map.
  • Develop strategies to mitigate these risks and ensure corporate resilience.
  • Define which risk control and management mechanisms can be implemented and adapted to the company's reality.
  • Models of organization and management of criminal risks and their integration in a compliance system.
  • Law 2/2023, of February 20, 23, regulating the protection of persons who report infractions of the law.
  • Anti-corruption regulations and the Company's criminal risk maps.
  • Management of the variables that make up the risk. Special focus on reputational damage management.
  • Obligations of the Board of Directors and Compliance.
  • Updated, complete and multilevel view of the main implications of crisis management for companies of different sizes and sectors.
  • Main causes that can trigger a crisis process within a company: economic, informational, physical, environmental, HR and reputational.
  • Main phases that make up a crisis management strategy.
  • Relationship between CSR strategy risk maps and early stage crisis management.
  • Critically analyze recent examples of crisis management.
  • Reflect and define an action plan with individual commitment in the short and medium term for the director who aspires to a position in the company's governance.

TEACHING METHOD

TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING BY ESIC

It is an innovative training ecosystem that helps you to deploy your talent to the maximum and thus develop professionally and personally.

In your journey of personal transformation, you will interact with five pillars of support, which underpin your learning experience:

  • Business reality brought to the classroom through case studies and practical activities.
  • Soft Skills fundamental for your personal and professional development
  • An expert teaching and sectorial faculty
  • A heterogeneous community of national and international students
  • All the areas and services that ESIC puts at your disposal

 

 

The Transformative Learning teaching method helps you by implementing innovative active learning methodologies where the teacher puts you at the center of the learning process and guides you towards academic excellence. The objective is for you to acquire competencies through the practical application of knowledge and tools. 

The resources you will have at your disposal are:

  •   Asynchronous support materials, videos, readings, etc.
  •   Self-evaluation
  •   Tutored application and feedback
  •   Practical and experiential activities
  •   Sistema de evaluación que combina la demostración de logros individuales y grupales
  •   Supervised final project

Faculty and guest speakers

The essence of our program lies in an exceptional faculty. Our faculty is composed of leading professionals and academics with vast experience in the field of marketing and sales. These experts combine their in-depth theoretical knowledge with solid practical experience, offering students a unique and valuable perspective. In addition, many of our professors hold leadership positions in renowned companies, ensuring a direct connection to the latest industry trends and practices.

Ioana Lazar

Ioana Lazar

Program Director

Professor of Finance, ESIC Business&Marketing School

*Faculty and guest speakers are subject to change.

Campus and prices

Madrid

Corporate Governance Program: The Board Transforming Business in Madrid

The Corporate Governance Program in Madrid is taught on the campus of ESIC Business & Marketing School. Our Madrid campus opened in 2021 and has 36 classrooms, an auditorium for 300 people, 16 work rooms, 5 meeting points, gym, mindfulness room, cafeteria and much more. Our classrooms are filled with master's and postgraduate students specializing in marketing, management and technology. The campus is the ideal place to network, work on your ideas and learn. But above all, it's the perfect place to live in the present and build the future.

Campus in Madrid

Avenida Juan XXIII 12,
Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid
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- 06 February 2025
Price: 7.950 €

investment SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS

We do not want economic issues to be an obstacle for you to achieve your goals and ensure a training with a future, therefore, we present a wide range of possibilities that will help you in this regard, both the Scholarship Plan that we have developed from ESIC, as well as those that are available to you from different public or private organizations. The scholarships and grants available are as follows:

  • - Own scholarships
  • - National scholarships
  • - International scholarships
  • - Mobility grants for international internships
  • - Insurance and assistance
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investment FINANCING

ESIC has financing agreements with certain banks under preferential conditions for students enrolled in any of the school's programs. The specific rules and conditions of each of these agreements can be found in the Secretary's Office. ESIC helps you with the financing of your career.

If you live outside of one of the cities where ESIC has a campus, and you are looking for accommodation, we recommend a series of companies and residences dedicated to student housing. Find the one that best suits your needs.

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