Executive education

Skolar is an executive academy for strategy and leadership.

for leaders who decide

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Explore our course categories

Leadership and strategy, commercial skills, and governance and judgement. Three categories built around decisions you actually face.

All courses

Strategic leadership for senior executives

96% completion

From 4,800 EUR

Course

Negotiation for high-stakes commercial decisions

94% would recommend

From 2,400 EUR

Course

Financial acumen for non-financial leaders

98% completion

From 1,900 EUR

Course

Leading organisational transformation at scale

Avg. 16 weeks

From 5,600 EUR

Course

Board readiness for first-time directors

72% appointed

From 3,800 EUR

Course

Decision making under uncertainty and pressure

95% completion

From 2,200 EUR

Course

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Featured Courses

Austria

Vienna

Austria

Location

Denmark

Copenhagen

Denmark

Location

Switzerland

Zurich

Switzerland

Location

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About

Teaching built on live work, not on textbook cases.

Every programme is built around work participants are already doing. Faculty who still practise teach live cases, challenge reasoning in the room, and review every capstone individually.

Cohorts stay small enough that every contribution is heard. Six programmes across leadership, commercial skills, and governance, taught from campuses in Vienna, Zurich, and Copenhagen.

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Programmes by audience

Programmes matched to where you are now and the role you are moving into.

Audiences

620+ executives taught

Programmes for executives leading whole organisations

Executives

1,400+ managers trained

Programmes for senior managers stepping up

Senior Managers

380+ directors prepared

Programmes for directors and board candidates

Board Directors

290+ founders guided

Programmes for founders scaling their business

Founders

An academy built on rigour

Skolar is an independent executive academy teaching strategy, leadership, and governance to senior leaders across Europe.

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Five diverse coworkers smiling in a modern office with brick walls and plants.

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Progression

68% promoted

Of participants promoted within two years.

Faculty

24 faculty

Practising leaders, not career academics.

History

Since 2011

Independent, faculty-led, deliberately small.

Graduates

2,400+ graduates

Across all six programmes since 2011.

Skolar is an independent executive academy.

Six programmes, each built around live work participants bring from their own organisations and reviewed individually by faculty.

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We teach executives the judgement their next role demands.

Live case work, rigorous assessment, and feedback specific enough to act on. Every programme starts with real work and ends with a capstone reviewed one to one.

About us