The IMHL approach is novel, simple, and powerful. It is designed to concentrate the learning experience on the issues of participants and their respective organizations and communities. It provides participants with an unparalleled opportunity to draw on their personal experience putting theory into practice, developing a far deeper understanding of world challenges and offering an environment conducive to fostering breakthrough solutions.
Learning takes the form of a rich and constant exchange of ideas and insights, as participants with faculty move back and forth between management concepts and their experiences, reflecting upon them individually and together.
Participants are supported and challenged by the most prominent faculty in the field internationally who are very engaged in the process: academics and practitioners from Management, Medicine, Political Science and other fields from McGill, other universities and organizations around the world.
“The IMHL engages people in a way that changes their lives. The class becomes a strong community, which helps participants to revitalize themselves, their organizations, their management practices, in and beyond their communities. No one who has visited our classroom wants to go anywhere else for a development program in health care.” - Professor Henry Mintzberg, Cleghorn Chair of Management & IMHL Faculty Director
The program consists of five, 12-day modules over 16 months. Each module builds from the last and corresponds to a specific "leadership mindset":
Participants work with each other at round tables (as opposed to amphitheatre style), and share in workshops together frequently - for about half the total program time. Various activities are designed to bring the learning to life in a natural way: an anchoring project, managerial exchange, reflection papers, self-study, a final paper and tutoring.
McGill University awards the degree of Master of Management to IMHL graduates.
Program requirements include full attendance at the five program modules, the successful completion of all related classroom assignments, and a final paper written within six months following the completion of the last module.
