Specific industries

We offer the following programmes for specific industries:

Health care management

      • Healthcare Management Day

        In-depth topics for management in the healthcare sector. This year's theme: 'Incentives and motivation for personnel in the healthcare sector'
        Duration:         1 full day
        Language:         Dutch

        • Topapotheek

          General Management for the Independent Pharmacist - More and more, independent pharmacists are becoming entrepreneurs. In this training programme -- an exclusive collaboration between Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and the pharmacy professional associations -- they learn the basic skills for managing their business.
          Duration: 18 sessions spread over 2 years
          Language: Dutch

        SME - Small & medium-sized companies

        • Innovation Management for SMEs

          Innovating is crucial to staying competitive, including for SMEs. Five workshops on successful innovation, in conjunction with the Flemish Enterprise Agency (Innovatiecentrum Oost-Vlaanderen vzw).
          Duration:  5 days, from 9 am - 5 pm
          Language: Dutch

        • SME Excellence

          As an experienced SME owner, you have plenty of plans for your company. SME Excellence offers you a critical sounding board of colleagues and experts for your plans, plus a broad base of management competencies for the SME.
          Duration: 19 evening sessions  from 7 pm - 10 pm and 2 residential seminars
          Language: Dutch

        • SME Challenge

          Anyone starting up a small business faces challenges which are different from those of the manager of a large business. Discover the whole range of SME management techniques and acquire a carefully considered business plan.
          Duration: 16 evening sessions with 2 residential seminars and 3 panel sessions
          Language: Dutch

        • Executive Master Class in Innovation & Entrepreneurship

          This advanced programme is tailored to the needs of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs who want to successfully commercialise their innovative business ideas and practices. It is aimed to supply participants with state-of-the art knowledge and best practices in the domain of new venture opportunities.
          Duration: 15 modules of 2 days each (from October to June) and an exam.
          Language: English

          Retail / Consumer goods

          • Vlerick Retail Platform

            The Vlerick Retail Platform is a cycle of four afternoon seminars on current topics for retailers and by retailers, introduced from an academic perspective. The Vlerick Retail Platform is the most effective way to keep up-to-date in the rapidly changing world of retail trade. The breaks and the closing drink provide plenty of opportunities for networking.
            Duration: 4 afternoons, from 2 - 5:30 pm.
            Language: Dutch

          • Retail & Trade Marketing

            To strengthen their competitive position in a time of declining brand and shop loyalty, both manufacturers and retailers need to compete for shoppers. All about shopper marketing, retail marketing and trade marketing, and how to harmonise them.
            Duration: 4 days from 9 am - 5.30 pm
            Language: Dutch

          • 9th Belgian Consumer Goods Conference

            The annual gathering of the most important decision makers within the Belgian Consumer Goods industry! - Answers to all your questions, plus networking with middle and senior management from a variety of fields within Consumer Goods. Everything in just 1 day.
            Duration: 1 day, from 9 am - 5.30 pm
            Language: English

          Interim management

          • Mastering Interim Management

            An advanced management programme designed for experienced interim and change managers. This programme will increase the interim manager’s ability to accomplish interim assignments successfully and to firmly establish the changes introduced.
            Duration: 5 modules of 1-2 days
            Language: English