Executive programme in Mega-trends & transversal skills: how to Navigate Complexity
The Course
Program
Contents and Structure
Locations and Schedule
Costs and Scholarships
The Course
Course title
Executive programme in Mega-trends & transversal skills: how to Navigate Complexity
A.A. 2025-2026
Course overview
The program “Mega-trends & Transversal Skills: How to Navigate Complexity” aims to:
- Increase awareness of global macro-trends (AI, digitalization, sustainability, hybrid roles, generational intersections, acceleration of change) and their implications for daily work.
- Encourage reflection on the connection between external transformation (context) and internal transformation (skills and mindset).
- Strengthen the most in-demand transversal skills in complex, agile, and digitalized environments.
- Develop greater individual and collective resilience in international organizational contexts.
- Prepare people to become agents of change through relational, communication, cognitive, and self-regulation skills.
The program consists of 8 independent but interconnected modules, each focused on:
- A globally relevant mega-trend
- One or more key transversal skills needed to deal with that trend professionally
Modules are held over weekends (Friday/Saturday) for a total of 64 hours. The approach is experiential and applied, with interactive sessions, individual reflection, peer sharing, and simulations.
An initial assessment (developed in collaboration with our strategic partners at Eggup | Zucchetti, who have LUMSA among their longstanding academic partners) provides each participant with a personal soft skills profile, identifying areas to develop during the course.
Career development
By the end of the program, participants will:
- Have enhanced their strategic awareness of trends impacting their role
- Know and have practiced key soft skills to face uncertainty and complexity
- Be able to navigate critical situations more effectively, thanks to tools in communication, stress management, and relational networking
- Have strengthened their professional purpose and sense of agency
- Be able to contribute more effectively to multicultural and distributed teams
- Benefit from a shared language across colleagues and departments
Admission requirements: High school diploma (five-year program). Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree, Specialist degree, or a university degree awarded prior to DM 509/1999 (old system), or any equivalent foreign academic qualification recognized as suitable.
Target audience
The module is designed to foster the development of essential relational competencies required to operate effectively within complex, hybrid, and continuously evolving professional environments.
Participants will acquire the ability to enhance their communicative skills, to establish and sustain trust-based relationships, and to manage interpersonal dynamics within teams and across diverse stakeholders in a constructive manner.
Special emphasis will be placed on active listening, emotional intelligence, conflict management, and assertive communication, as well as on the theoretical and practical dimensions of reputation, positioning, and storytelling.
Qualification Awarded
Certificate of participation in the Executive programme in Mega-trends & transversal skills: how to Navigate Complexity. To obtain a certificate of participation, you must attend at least 80% of the training activities included in the program.
The final certificate will also be issued in Open Badge mode.
Deadline: July 12, 2026
The management reserves the right to extend the deadline for enrollment and to postpone the start of the course, respecting the deadline for its conclusion. Only failure to activate the course gives the right to be refunded of the amount paid.
Students in possession of a qualification obtained abroad will be able to send the enrollment application only after completing the form and receiving confirmation of the suitability of the qualification from the Welcome Office.
Inside the form, in the "Course chosen at LUMSA" section, they must select the following course: EXE (executive course) Italian curriculum.
On-line registration procedure
Registration of personal data
In order to access the LUMSA students services it is mandatory to first register your personal data at the link: Mi@Lumsa (https://servizi.lumsa.it) → Registration.
At the end of the registration, you will receive a login and password to access your personal profile.
Before starting the registration process, you must have:
- Passport photo for documents, in digital format, uploaded directly online, max 5 MB, 35x40 mm, showing the face against a light background. Panoramic photos, photos taken from a distance, photos from behind, or photos where the face is not fully visible are not permitted. Do not use photos featuring other people.
- Scan of a valid identification document, duly signed;
- Scan of the tax code, duly signed;
- For citizens of European Union countries: copy of the European identity card and/or passport.
- For Non-European citizens must attach a copy of their residence permit or a copy of their appointment at the Police Headquarters to apply for a residence permit; a copy of their passport and visa.
NB: Scanned documents must be submitted in .pdf format.
Other formats or photographed documents are not accepted.
Enrollment
- Log in to Mi@Lumsa with the username and password obtained after completing the online registration process.
- In the top-right menu, click on Registered Area -> Enrollment -> Enrollment for Open Courses and enter all the information and documents required by the procedure.
At the end of this procedure, after confirming all the data entered, the computer system processes the following documents:
- Fee payment slip to be paid upon registration;
- Registration application.
To proceed with enrollment, the student must:
- Pay the registration fee directly online via PagoPA or by printing the payment slip automatically generated by the online registration process;
- Print the enrollment application, verify the information provided, and sign it in its entirety;
- Scan the enrollment application, the payment receipt, and any required attachments.
NB: Scanned documents must be submitted in .pdf format.
Other formats or photographed documents are not accepted.
- Click Confirm or continue.
- Log in to Mi@Lumsa, click on Registered Area -> Career Attachments in the top-right menu, and upload the scanned documents listed above.
Scholarship recipients and recipients of payments made by third parties should contact the office at iscrizionimaster@lumsa.it for information on how to register.
LUMSA may in any case request additional documentation.
Educational information:
Dott. Benedetto Buono, b.buono@buonopartners.com
Administrative information
Segreteria LUMSA Master School
Directorate of Academic Student Services
Head: Dr Bruna Marro
PARTNERS
Not provided.
