Our Executive Education programmes in Paris

Our Executive Education Programmes in Paris

Developing skills in managers and executives so they can attend to the manifold changes inherent to the professional world is essential. Shaping free-thinking, risk-taking minds and helping them foster intellectual courage to cope with the ever-growing complexity of their environment is fundamental. These are the convictions we stand by at Sciences Po Executive Education, at any rate. Drawing on an institution that has been doing just that for 140 years, we have set ourselves the mission of expanding your horizons and turning your newly acquired knowledge into levers for informed decision-making. Because we strive to help our students boost their self-confidence, we teach management, the art of public speaking, and leadership through our training programmes that are in a class of their own, underpinned by the cross-disciplinarity of personal and professional competencies and diversity of knowledge. Is your curiosity piqued? Read on.

Continuing Education: And Then Do What?

Professional practices aren’t immutable. The digital transformation and the seemingly unstoppable wave of artificial intelligence solutions (ChatGPT head of the pack) are the latest proof of this. The programmable automation of countless tasks heralds a massive occupational shift, the loss of some jobs, and the emergence of new ones yet to be known. In a 2023 study, nearly one employee in two said they have perceived a swift change in their job. Executive education is one way to tune your knowledge and skills to this evolving environment, learn to manage a team, and get to grips with the generational differences found in today’s organisations: in a nutshell, sustain and even best your performance and competitiveness on the job market.

Whether you’re looking to bring new meaning to your current role, shake up your approach, or engineer a total career switch by retraining, executive education makes the ideal solution to inject fresh momentum into your career.

Why Choose Sciences Po Executive Education?

If the primary objective of executive education is to capitalise on your knowledge and experience to shore up your expertise, second to this is cultivating your interpersonal and emotional qualities—adaptability, bold action, decision-making, and others—required to elevate your leadership, team management skills, and human resources management practices. In this arena, Sciences Po Executive Education was one of the first continuing education providers to incorporate soft skills development into its programmes.

Attached to Sciences Po, one of France’s longest-standing and most singular institutions, Sciences Po Executive Education gives you a unique opportunity to be inspired by the skills, ideas, and experience of world-class scholars, academics, political figures, and researchers. Our programmes are taught by a roster of expert lecturers from diverse backgrounds. Staffed by professionals from the corporate world, directors, consultants, lawyers, journalists, public service specialists, senior civil servants from France, Europe, and beyond, and professors and researchers at Sciences Po and other grandes écoles or universities, our faculty are all unanimously recognised in their fields. The high-level knowledge these experts bring allows you to gain sharp insight into their respective sectors.

Sciences Po’s Alumni Community

To enrol on a Sciences Po programme is to join a multifaceted community united through its members’ mutual desire to grow and expand their worldview. Because we believe in strength in diversity and collective intelligence, on our programmes, you will find CEOs and managers from CAC 40 multinationals, micro businesses, SMEs, startups, global NGOs, and national nonprofits along with private- and public-sector employees from France and around the world. And, judging by the feedback from our alumni, the alchemy fostered in class or during periods of study overseas continues way beyond the school walls and is a catalyst for the formation of professional networks of seldom-seen diversity.

Learning the Sciences Po Executive Education Way: Effective Methods and Innovative Solutions, Enriched by the Human and Social Sciences

Built on the wealth of knowledge of the social and human sciences amassed by Sciences Po since it was established in 1870, the learning dispensed at Sciences Po Executive Education is designed to do much more than enhance your professional skillset. Shining a light on the past to illuminate the future, expanding the mind and comparing points of view from researchers and sociologists with those from experts in their fields in order to shift the status quo, learning new things, acquiring a different perspective to better innovate, and heightening emotional intelligence: in essence, these are the key principles underlying our pedagogical approach. Beyond the theoretical, our programmes are strongly connected to the real professional world at large and the needs of employers, oriented towards action, experience, and interaction and rooted in real-life situations.

Our Campus in Paris

When you choose to study at Sciences Po Executive Education, you step into a world steeped in history. Pierre de Coubertin, Paul Claudel, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Simone Veil, Emmanuel Macron, and Jacques Chirac, to name a few, are all Sciences Po alumni who trod the campus on Rue Saint Guillaume in the heart of Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés district, the historic epicentre of Parisian intellectual and artistic life. The Sciences Po Executive Education campus is located nearby on Rue des Saints-Pères: an inspiring place where you can find the space you need to reinvent your practices and trajectory but also grasp complex contemporary issues thanks to an active line-up of debates, exhibitions, and conferences held on campus.

Exceptional Tools and Resources

Sciences Po Executive Education gives you access to a wide array of tools and resources: a library of over a million documents in French and other languages related to the field of social and human sciences in Europe; extensive digital resources; and exclusive access to all research conducted by Sciences Po, including in our Medialab, an interdisciplinary research laboratory on relationships between digital and our societies.

Our Programmes in Paris for Managers and Executives

Our catalogue of cutting-edge and multidisciplinary continuing education programmes aimed at managers and executives covers a broad spectrum of topics and is offered in various formats to fit around your availability. Whatever your sector, public or private, your area of expertise, today or in the future, and your career plan, this wide selection guarantees you will find the programme that best dovetails with your goals to deepen your expertise, acquire new skills, and equip you with the ability to lead with vision.

Six Areas of Expertise to Drive Your Professional Aspirations

Our continuing education programmes are structured around 6 key themes, deeply engrained in Sciences Po Paris’s culture by dint of its history, social sciences research, and grounding in professional reality:

Learning Formats Tailored to Your Professional Responsibilities

Executive Masters, short programmes, certificate programmes, programmes on the Paris campus or virtual programmes: whatever your needs or professional responsibilities, you will find the perfect format to suit you.

Our Executive Masters run two to three days a month over a period of one to two years. This accredited programme is aimed at professionals seeking to deepen their expertise in a specific area and sharpen their capacity to ask the right questions. Participants who complete this programme are awarded a Sciences Po Executive Education degree.
Our Certificate programmes are intensive courses comprising two to three sessions held over five to 16 days. Primarily organised in partnership with other schools or professional institutions, they lead to a continuing education qualification.
A series of evening conferences designed to decipher and analyse a variety of social, political, economic, and societal topics and issues in connection with our contemporary world.
Our short programmes are condensed into one to four days and allow participants to expand or enrich their knowledge on subjects related to our 6 key themes.
Our bespoke programmes are aimed at organisations and companies keen to develop their workforce in view of initiating, implementing, or accelerating their strategy. They are specifically crafted to help your teams meet practical challenges and to provide actionable insights.

To learn more about our programmes, check our programme catalogue or speak to a member of our team on +33(0)1 45 49 63 00.

Financing Your Executive Education in Paris

Several options are available to you to fund your training:

Employee-financed training
Personal Training Account (Compte Personnel de Formation, or CPF) (if employed in France)
The Professional Transition Plan (Projet de Transition Professionnelle, previously the Individual Study Leave (Congé Individuel de Formation) (if employed in France)
Training agreement open to local elected officials (in France)
The Validation of Prior Experience (Validation des Acquis de l’Expérience, or VAE) (if employed in France)

Please get in touch with one of our financing experts who will be happy to help you find the most suitable solution for your personal situation.

*Professional Training Survey, Centre Inffo, 2023

Our Executive Education programmes in Paris