MBA Experience - online

You’ll take part in an interactive session led by Vlerick faculty, engage with experienced peers and explore a leadership challenge that shows up in every senior role: conflict. Expect sharp thinking, open discussion and practical tools you can use immediately while exchanging perspectives with an Online Executive MBA alumnus who’s applying these insights in real life.

You’ll explore how leaders can:

• Distinguish productive conflict from the kind that drains time, energy and trust
• Reframe challenging situations to unlock better decisions and outcomes
• Lead difficult conversations with confidence and clarity
• Build a culture where disagreement drives progress, not paralysis

The session

The highlight of the event is a workshop with Vlerick’s Prof Esha Mendiratta: When global values clash: Leading across borders.

You’ll have lunch with our current Executive MBA participants, so you can ask questions and get tips on how to plan your own MBA journey. You can also join an optional Q&A session with the Vlerick MBA team.

Your speaker

Esha Mendiratta

Professor of International Business

Esha Mendiratta’s research focuses on the intersection of corporate strategy, corporate governance and international business.

Topic: When global values clash: Leading across borders

Multinational companies increasingly operate in a world where national governments and other stakeholders hold fundamentally different expectations about what is acceptable, responsible and fair. From supply chains and sustainability to labour practices and geopolitical tensions, leaders often have to navigate conflicting pressures with no obvious “right” answer.

In this interactive session, participants take on the role of managers facing complex, cross-border dilemmas. You’ll explore how leaders can drive change inside organisations – even when they don’t have formal power. And through real-world scenarios, live discussions and a practical leadership framework, you’ll examine how multinational firms navigate competing values, stakeholder tensions and global complexity.

Programme

• 7:00pm – 7:15pm: Welcome & overview Vlerick MBA programmes
• 7:15pm – 8:15pm: Workshop: When Global Values Clash: Leading Across Borders, led by Prof Esha Mendiratta, Vlerick Business School
• 8:15pm – 8:30pm: Q&A with Online MBA participants and the Vlerick team

If you’re considering your next step as a leader, this session will help you decide which MBA format best fits your ambitions, career stage and personal goals.

Register now to get a taste of the Vlerick MBA experience firsthand.

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Success stories

Sara Lesina

Lonza

Some people think an MBA is only about accounting or finance. It's a lot more than that. An MBA is an opportunity to explore what you want to do in life - and it gives you the instruments to do it.  

Oliver Regidor

Euroclear

I have learned to negotiate. I have learned to deal with difficult situations. I have learned to understand what people want and how to get them on board. Without these skills, you cannot lead. 

María García Salmones

Ignition

On the one hand, you have courses about frameworks, techniques and theory. But you need the courage to actually do these things. The leadership courses and self-development empower you. Thanks to that I could create my own start up community and my own company. 

Sebastian Spencer

Médecins sans Frontières

I have completed a lot of training in my career, and the level of personal attention you receive at Vlerick is beyond anything I've received anywhere else.