Future Leader Academy

Start:: 29 May 2026
Location:: Hamburg & Online
Language:: German
Duration:: 4 weeks / 2 days per week
Price:: 2.990 € excl. VAT
Degree:: Certificate of Participation
In cooperation with:: ChefTreff

Target Group

First-time Leaders
Project Managers

Course Content

The 4-Week Programme for Aspiring Leaders

You have already gained some management experience - whether in leading project teams or as a disciplinary manager - and now want to take the next step? Then the Future Leader Academy is just the right next career step for you. In this intensive 4-week programme, you will develop the skills, the mindset and the network to really thrive in your role - and grow beyond it.

The programme is a cooperation between HSBA and ChefTreff - a platform of HSBA alumni who are now successful founders and managers in the business world. Together we combine theory, practice and real career experience.

What you will experience:

Concrete results & best practices for your everyday management life
Modern & practical: Lectures from top experts and directly applicable tools
Exclusive network: 20 hand-picked participants from Hamburg-based companies
Academically sound: Quality and depth from HSBA
Peer learning & exchange with other young managers

How it works:

Intensive workshop on site and joint welcome dinner to get to know each other
Tuesdays: 1 hour of digital input
Fridays: 3 hours workshop & exchange at HSBA
Closing dinner for networking

The Future Leader Academy is your chance to rethink leadership - with the spirit of ChefTreff and the academic excellence of HSBA. Become part of a new generation of leaders who take responsibility, shape change and achieve real impact.

Experts

Wolfgang SchererSpeaker

Founder & leadership expert | Specialist in human factors, cultural development and performance optimisation | Executive coach, alternative practitioner for psychotherapy and university lecturer | Certified PERMA lead consultant and catalyst for sustainable organisational development.

Modules

Applied Effective Leadership Foundation & Essentials | Welcome Dinner

Identify your strengths. Understand leadership. Take responsibility.

In this first module, you’ll lay the foundations for your leadership journey. Together with experienced coaches and your peer group, you’ll reflect on your own strengths, learn about different leadership styles and gain a better understanding of what ‘effective leadership’ means in a real-world work context.

A comprehensive strengths assessment helps you refine your individual profile – serving as the basis for all subsequent modules.

The aim is not to learn a theoretical model, but to develop an awareness: How do I lead today – and how do I want to lead?

Leading Effective Teams How to Lead Them and How They Should Lead Themselves

Effective team leadership – and self-managing teams.

Effective teams don’t just happen by chance. They emerge when leaders establish clear guidelines, share responsibility and foster trust.

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to better align teams with shared goals, clarify roles and expectations, and use the Team Effectiveness Toolbox to gain practical, fundamental tools for making collaboration more effective.

You will discover how to not only lead – but also empower people to lead themselves.

Leading Effective Focusing Operational Effectiveness and Competencies

Create clarity. Set priorities. Make an impact.

Leadership also means making decisions, reducing complexity and maintaining focus.

The Gameplan method and practical tools help you develop strategies to achieve operational excellence in your day-to-day work. You’ll learn how to define roles more clearly, structure responsibilities more effectively and keep track of things when it gets hectic.

This workshop gives you an insight into practical tools for turning goals into results – and guiding your team successfully through each phase.

Leading Effective Culture Applied Organisational Fitness

Shaping culture – through attitude, communication and storytelling.

Culture isn’t created by values on the wall, but by the stories we tell.

This workshop will show you how to strengthen organisations through narratives, communication and clear messages.

You’ll work on The Art of Storytelling – how to connect figures, data and facts with meaning to provide direction and inspire people.

Because good leadership needs a clear story – about the why, the where and the how.

Leading Myself My Next Level of Leadership | Closing Dinner

Self-leadership as the key to the next level.

Finally, it’s all about you. Where are you in your development – and where do you want to go?

In this workshop, you will reflect on your personal leadership journey, exchange ideas with other participants, and work with the Career Path Framework to design your individual development plan.

Together with your peer group, you will define concrete next steps – for greater clarity, focus and effectiveness in your leadership.

An intensive, personal conclusion that marks the transition from the Academy to your future practice.

Dates

Apply Now for the Upcoming Cycles!

		November	January	March
4.00-9.00 pm	Applied Effective Leadership & Welcome Dinner	06.11.2026	22.01.2027	05.03.2027
5.30-7.00 pm	Leading Effective Teams	10.11.2026	26.01.2027	09.03.2027
4.00-7.00 pm	Reflection	13.11.2026	29.01.2027	12.03.2027
5.30-7.00 pm	Leading Effective Focusing	17.11.2026	02.02.2027	16.03.2027
4.00-7.00 pm	Reflection	20.11.2026	05.02.2027	19.03.2027
5.30-7.00 pm	Leading Effective Culture	24.11.2026	09.02.2027	23.03.2027
4.00-7.00 pm	Reflection	27.11.2026	12.02.2027	25.03.2027
5.30-7.00 pm	Leading Myself	01.12.2026	16.02.2027	30.03.2027
4.00-9.00 pm	Reflection & Closing Dinner	04.12.2026	19.02.2027	02.04.2027

Kosten

Die Teilnahme an der Future Leader Academy kostet 2.990 € für eine Einzelperson. Firmen können Rabatte erhalten, wenn sie in einem Jahr garantiert 4 Personen (2.490 € pro Person) oder 8 Personen (2.250 € pro Person) entsenden. Die Preise verstehen sich zzgl. MwSt.

Admission Requirements

Initial management experience (at least project teams) is expected. Recommended for young managers who have been promoted in the last 1–2 years. People with 2–7 years of professional experience.

You are interested in the Future Leader Academy?

Would you like to take part in the course?

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Any Questions?

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Laura Hoffjann

Executive Education and Transfer

+49 40 822160963
executive.education@hsba.de

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