Programme for Management Development Pre-MBA
- Status:New season starts on September 12th 2026
- Duration:12 September - 20 February
- Language: Ukrainian
- Time:on Saturdays, from 10.00 till 18.00
- Fee for EBA members:92000 UAH
- Early Registration for EBA members:80000 UAH till August 12th 2026
- Place:Kyiv Hall, 25 Khreshchatyk Str.
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Programme for Management Development Pre-MBA. Date: 12 September2026. Time: 10:00 18:00. Language: Ukrainian. Place: Kyiv Hall, 25 Khreshchatyk Str.. EBA Management Development Centre team jointly with partners launches the eighth season of the ambitious project PMD Pre-MBA. This season there will be 10 modules, and as a bonus, there will be participation of the modern company plant+4 hours of the module on artificial intelligence. At the end there will also be business projects defence in groups of 5 people each. It is a unique programme which is entirely covered by practitioners, experts in their field, successful professionals and MBA holders who have a positive experience of implementing the acquired knowledge. Each season the programme is renewed.
If you want to see the prospects of intensive career development, improve your effectiveness as a manager, acquire new competencies and organize your own experience, it is exactly for you.
The goal of the programme is to equip you with skills and knowledge which are required for meeting company’s strategic objectives, understanding business as an integral system in the interrelationship of organizational, financial, marketing decisions aimed at increasing business competitiveness.
Partner – Location: business space Peremoga — a network of modern spaces for work and events, offering private offices, meeting rooms, event halls, coworking areas, and shared zones.
During the modules you will:
Discuss what should be the modern leader.
Understand modern business environment’s strategic objectives.
Learn how to manage changes and understand strategically how they influence processes within the company.
Obtain the vision of possible directions of your companies’ and company’s departments’ development with regards to business transformations and innovations.
Evaluate the impact of operational, marketing, financial decisions on company performance as a whole.
Improve your qualification to deal with functional managerial issues.
Communicate with owners and top management in the same language – the language of meeting company’s strategic objectives.
Obtain leadership and HR management skills.
The Programme is filled with case studies, practical assignments, group and individual work, projects presentations. Having successfully finished the programme, you will receive a certificate of completion.
Target audience: heads of departments/divisions within big companies, senior and top managers of companies, the owners and CEOs.
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Syllabus:
Module 1. Modern Effective Leadership – September 12th 2026 - Mykhailo Krikunov - location - office of Ilyashev&Partners
Module 2. Change Management – September 26th 2026 - Yevhen Osmak, Olga Chekmenova, Anton Hlazkov - Kyiv Hall
Module 3. Operational Management - October 10th 2026 - Yevhen Osmak - location - business space Peremoga
Module 4. People Management and Employer’s Reputation – October 24th 2026 - Nataliia Lukash - location - business space Peremoga
Module 5. Financial Management – November 14th 2026 - Ivan Kompan - location - business space Peremoga
Bonus Module – Implementing Generative AI in a Company - November 26th, 10.00 - 14.00 - Oleksii Minakov and visiting the modern company plant - November 26th 2026, 14.30 - 16.00 - location - business space Peremoga
Module 6. Working in PowerPoint+oratory skills - November 28th 2026 - Oleksandr Kucheruk + Oleksandr Zayoma - location - business space Peremoga
Module 7. Strategic Management – December 12th 2026 - Olena Yuzkova - location - business space Peremoga
Module 8. Systematic Approach to Innovation – January 16th 2027 - Oleg Balakin - location - business space Peremoga
Module 9. Building of the System of Managing Marketing - January 30th 2027 - Volodymyr Sobolev - location - business space Peremoga
Module 10. Integrative Group Projects. Graduation Сeremony – February 20th 2027
Lecturers:
Mykhailo Krikunov - Ph.D., adjunct lecturer, chartered marketing specialiast, (Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK, 1999). Specialist of economic development ( IEDC 2007, Harvard Chan SPH 2026). Decane of the Kyiv Business School, President of GO Ukrainian Chain of Building. Trainer, explorer, managing and consultant on marketing, economic development and building, top-manager.
Yevhen Osmak - IT Director Zeppelin International (Switzerland), MBA tutor, Programme Architecture of the company and IT strategy, consultant on digital transformation and strategy/architecture of the company issues, expert, trainer and coach on personal and team effectiveness.
Olga Chekmenova - Agile Coach, Business Trainer and Facilitator with 17 years of experience of management and transformations in banking sector. Works with leadership teams and organizations on change implementation, development of management practices and increasing organizational effeciveness. Specializes in leaders development and facilitation of strategic dialogues in companies.
Anton Hlazkov - Organizational Change Specialist, in past Organizational Agile Coach at UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, Accredited Kanban University Trainer, consultant in OKR implementation and Agile transformation.
Nataliia Lukash - ex-Director of personnel of the Metinvest Digital: has more than 25 years of experience in management, 18 years in HR among them. She worked in IT, telecom, finance, state sector, has HR-expertise in all the spheres, including compensations and benefits, personnel development, internal communications, change management, practicing business trainer, trainer of the Deloitte academy «School of the CEO of the future» and of leadership development programmes, author of the expert articles for business editions.
Ivan Kompan - Director of Deloitte Academy and founder of the First Kyiv Investment Club, specialist in finance with 25 years of experience, held senior positions in a number of large Ukrainian and international financial companies, in particular, Deloitte (partner, head of financial and advisory services; Wood & Company (General Director), Creditanstalt Austria Investment Bank (Managing Director).
Oleksii Minakov - Сonsultant on the implementation and use of generative AI, who has delivered AI training for employees of DTEK, Vodafone, Philip Morris, 1+1 media, Starlight Media, UNICEF, and dozens of other organisations. Аn expert of the Artificial Intelligence for Business course by Google. In 2019-2022, he worked at the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine (Diia.Business and Diia.Education projects).
Oleksandr Kucheruk - Lector and author of the online course “PowerPoint Magic”, which has been completed by more than 2000 people from 10 countries all over the world, 10 years of experience in marketing and advertising, ex-Product Marketing Specialist in Microsoft, ex-leader of the educational project “Super people” in FEDORIV.
Oleksandr Zayoma - Presentation Skills trainer, speech writer, from top-5 companies in any sphere three are my clients, I prepare speakers for WebSummit, TED and top world and Ukrainian events, I believe that it is better to learn cheerfully.
Olena Yuzkova - Certified management consultant (CMC), business coach, facilitator, mediator, MBA trainer, PhD in Public Management and Administration, specializes in creating and implementing coach sessions – individual and teamwork for improving personal efficiency and improving companies; business-mediations implementing, management consulting; consulting products and services implementation, CEO of the “Era of International Education”. Got MBA in the International Institute of Management.
Oleg Balakin – Senior service-designer of the client experience agency Lanka.CX. Through 7 years of agency worked, as with big organisations in different industries (Comfy, Rozetka, Pumb, Eva, Unicef, Повернись живим, Fozzy group, DeNovo etc), as well as with startups. Has Masters Degree in Economics and Social Psychology.
Volodymyr Sobolev - CMO in Kovalska. Is working in marketing for more than 12 years. In PrivatBank he worked on promoting key products in bank, innovational products and decisions based on BigData. He took part in Google Pay and Apple Pay launches in Ukraine. Among achievements are PhD Degree in Economics (Measuring the marketing effectiveness of retailers) and gold at Young Lions Marketers Competition Ukraine.
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Event Partners: Lanka.CX, La Famiglia Catering, Sigma Software Group, Ilyashev&Partners, Peremoga Space, Kyiv Hall.Speakers. Mykhailo Krikunov. Ph.D., adjunct lecturer, chartered marketing specialiast, (Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK, 1999). Specialist of economic development ( IEDC 2007, Harvard Chan SPH 2026). Decane of the Kyiv Business School, President of GO Ukrainian Chain of Building. Trainer, explorer, managing and consultant on marketing, economic development and building, top-manager. Olga Chekmenova. Agile Coach at UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, Business Trainer, Facilitator, and Coach. Anton Hlazkov. Organizational Change Specialist, in past Organizational Agile Coach at UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, Accredited Kanban University Trainer, consultant in OKR implementation and Agile transformation. Yevhen Osmak. IT Director Zeppelin International (Switzerland), MBA tutor, Programme Architecture of the company and IT strategy, consultant on digital transformation and strategy/architecture of the company issues, expert, trainer and coach on personal and team effectiveness. Nataliia Lukash. ex-Director of personnel of the Metinvest Digital: has more than 25 years of experience in management, 18 years in HR among them. She worked in IT, telecom, finance, state sector, has HR-expertise in all the spheres, including compensations and benefits, personnel development, internal communications, change management, practicing business trainer, trainer of the Deloitte academy «School of the CEO of the future» and of leadership development programmes, author of the expert articles for business editions. Ivan Kompan. Director of Deloitte Academy and founder of the First Kyiv Investment Club, lecturer at the Edinburgh Business School, a specialist in finance with 25 years of experience, held senior positions in a number of large Ukrainian and international financial companies, in particular, Deloitte (partner, head of financial and advisory services; Wood & Company (General Director), Creditanstalt Austria Investment Bank (Managing Director), etc.. Oleksii Minakov. Сonsultant on the implementation and use of generative AI, who has delivered AI training for employees of DTEK, Vodafone, Philip Morris, 1+1 media, Starlight Media, UNICEF, and dozens of other organisations. He is also a lecturer of the Artificial Intelligence for Business course on the General MBA programme at the International Institute of Business, and an expert of the Artificial Intelligence for Business course by Google. In 2019-2022, he worked at the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine (Diia.Business and Diia.Education projects).. Oleksandr Kucheruk. Lector and author of the online course “PowerPoint Magic”, which has been completed by more than 2000 people from 10 countries all over the world, more than 10 years of experience in marketing and advertising, ex-Product Marketing Specialist in Microsoft, ex-leader of the educational project “Super people” in FEDORIV. Oleksandr Zayoma. Presentation Skills trainer, speech writer, from top-5 companies in any sphere three are my clients, I prepare speakers for WebSummit, TED and top world and Ukrainian events, I believe that it is better to learn cheerfully. Olena Yuzkova. Certified management consultant, PhD in Public Administration, lecturer at the International Institute of Management MIM-Kyiv, CEO of the “Era of International Education”. Oleg Balakin. Senior service-designer of the client experience agency Lanka.CX. Through 7 years of agency worked, as with big organisations in different industries (Comfy, Rozetka, Pumb, Eva, Unicef, Повернись живим, Fozzy group, DeNovo etc), as well as with startups. Has Masters Degree in Economics and Social Psychology.. Volodymyr Sobolev. CMO in Kovalska. Is working in marketing for more than 12 years. In PrivatBank he worked on promoting key products in bank, innovational products and decisions based on BigData. He took part in Google Pay and Apple Pay launches in Ukraine. He worked with such Ukrainian brands as “Zolotiy Vik”, Maxus, EnglishHome and “Luxotica”. Among achievements are PhD Degree in Economics (Measuring the marketing effectiveness of retailers) and gold at Young Lions Marketers Competition Ukraine.. You can send a question to:. Contact person:. Iryna Shevchuk. E-mail [email protected]. Contact Phone. 067 240 90 90.
About the Programme
EBA Management Development Centre team jointly with partners launches the eighth season of the ambitious project PMD Pre-MBA. This season there will be 10 modules, and as a bonus, there will be participation of the modern company plant+4 hours of the module on artificial intelligence. At the end there will also be business projects’ defence in groups of 5 people each. It is a unique programme which is entirely covered by practitioners, experts in their field, successful professionals and MBA holders who have a positive experience of implementing the acquired knowledge. Each season the programme is renewed.
If you want to see the prospects of intensive career development, improve your effectiveness as a manager, acquire new competencies and organize your own experience, it is exactly for you.
The goal of the programme is to equip you with skills and knowledge which are required for meeting company’s strategic objectives, understanding business as an integral system in the interrelationship of organizational, financial, marketing decisions aimed at increasing business competitiveness.
Partner – Location: business space Peremoga — a network of modern spaces for work and events, offering private offices, meeting rooms, event halls, coworking areas, and shared zones.
During the modules you will:
- Discuss what should be the modern leader.
- Understand modern business environment’s strategic objectives.
- Learn how to manage changes and understand strategically how they influence processes within the company.
- Obtain the vision of possible directions of your companies’ and company’s departments’ development with regards to business transformations and innovations.
- Evaluate the impact of operational, marketing, financial decisions on company performance as a whole.
- Improve your qualification to deal with functional managerial issues.
- Communicate with owners and top management in the same language – the language of meeting company’s strategic objectives.
- Obtain leadership and HR management skills.
The Programme is filled with case studies, practical assignments, group and individual work, projects presentations. Having successfully finished the programme, you will receive a certificate of completion.
Target audience: heads of departments/divisions within big companies, senior and top managers of companies, the owners and CEOs.
Syllabus:
- Module 1. Modern Effective Leadership – September 12th 2026 – Mykhailo Krikunov – location – office of Ilyashev&Partners
- Module 2. Change Management – September 26th 2026 – Yevhen Osmak, Olga Chekmenova, Anton Hlazkov – Kyiv Hall
- Module 3. Operational Management – October 10th 2026 – Yevhen Osmak – location – business space Peremoga
- Module 4. People Management and Employer’s Reputation – October 24th 2026 – Nataliia Lukash – location – business space Peremoga
- Module 5. Financial Management – November 14th 2026 – Ivan Kompan – location – business space Peremoga
- Bonus Module – Implementing Generative AI in a Company – November 26th, 10.00 – 14.00 – Oleksii Minakov and visiting the modern company plant – November 26th 2026, 14.30 – 16.00 – location – business space Peremoga
- Module 6. Working in PowerPoint+oratory skills – November 28th 2026 – Oleksandr Kucheruk + Oleksandr Zayoma – location – business space Peremoga
- Module 7. Strategic Management – December 12th 2026 – Olena Yuzkova – location – business space Peremoga
- Module 8. Systematic Approach to Innovation – January 16th 2027 – Oleg Balakin – location – business space Peremoga
- Module 9. Building of the System of Managing Marketing – January 30th 2027 – Volodymyr Sobolev – location – business space Peremoga
- Module 10. Integrative Group Projects. Graduation Сeremony – February 20th 2027
Lecturers:
- Mykhailo Krikunov – Ph.D., adjunct lecturer, chartered marketing specialiast, (Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK, 1999). Specialist of economic development ( IEDC 2007, Harvard Chan SPH 2026). Decane of the Kyiv Business School, President of GO Ukrainian Chain of Building. Trainer, explorer, managing and consultant on marketing, economic development and building, top-manager.
- Yevhen Osmak – IT Director Zeppelin International (Switzerland), MBA tutor, Programme “Architecture of the company and IT strategy”, consultant on digital transformation and strategy/architecture of the company issues, expert, trainer and coach on personal and team effectiveness.
- Olga Chekmenova – Agile Coach, Business Trainer and Facilitator with 17 years of experience of management and transformations in banking sector. Works with leadership teams and organizations on change implementation, development of management practices and increasing organizational effeciveness. Specializes in leaders’ development and facilitation of strategic dialogues in companies.
- Anton Hlazkov – Organizational Change Specialist, in past Organizational Agile Coach at UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, Accredited Kanban University Trainer, consultant in OKR implementation and Agile transformation.
- Nataliia Lukash – ex-Director of personnel of the Metinvest Digital: has more than 25 years of experience in management, 18 years in HR among them. She worked in IT, telecom, finance, state sector, has HR-expertise in all the spheres, including compensations and benefits, personnel development, internal communications, change management, practicing business trainer, trainer of the Deloitte academy «School of the CEO of the future» and of leadership development programmes, author of the expert articles for business editions.
- Ivan Kompan – Director of Deloitte Academy and founder of the First Kyiv Investment Club, specialist in finance with 25 years of experience, held senior positions in a number of large Ukrainian and international financial companies, in particular, Deloitte (partner, head of financial and advisory services; Wood & Company (General Director), Creditanstalt Austria Investment Bank (Managing Director).
- Oleksii Minakov – Сonsultant on the implementation and use of generative AI, who has delivered AI training for employees of DTEK, Vodafone, Philip Morris, 1+1 media, Starlight Media, UNICEF, and dozens of other organisations. Аn expert of the “Artificial Intelligence for Business” course by Google. In 2019-2022, he worked at the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine (Diia.Business and Diia.Education projects).
- Oleksandr Kucheruk – Lector and author of the online course “PowerPoint Magic”, which has been completed by more than 2000 people from 10 countries all over the world, 10 years of experience in marketing and advertising, ex-Product Marketing Specialist in Microsoft, ex-leader of the educational project “Super people” in FEDORIV.
- Oleksandr Zayoma – Presentation Skills trainer, speech writer, from top-5 companies in any sphere three are my clients, I prepare speakers for WebSummit, TED and top world and Ukrainian events, I believe that it is better to learn cheerfully.
- Olena Yuzkova – Certified management consultant (CMC), business coach, facilitator, mediator, MBA trainer, PhD in Public Management and Administration, specializes in creating and implementing coach sessions – individual and teamwork for improving personal efficiency and improving companies; business-mediations implementing, management consulting; consulting products and services implementation, CEO of the “Era of International Education”. Got MBA in the International Institute of Management.
- Oleg Balakin – Senior service-designer of the client experience agency Lanka.CX. Through 7 years of agency worked, as with big organisations in different industries (Comfy, Rozetka, Pumb, Eva, Unicef, Повернись живим, Fozzy group, DeNovo etc), as well as with startups. Has Master’s Degree in Economics and Social Psychology.
- Volodymyr Sobolev – CMO in Kovalska. Is working in marketing for more than 12 years. In PrivatBank he worked on promoting key products in bank, innovational products and decisions based on BigData. He took part in Google Pay and Apple Pay launches in Ukraine. Among achievements are PhD Degree in Economics (Measuring the marketing effectiveness of retailers) and gold at Young Lions Marketers Competition Ukraine.
Feedbacks from participants of the previous set
Event Partners: Lanka.CX, La Famiglia Catering, Sigma Software Group, Ilyashev&Partners, Peremoga Space, Kyiv Hall.
Trainers
Mykhailo Krikunov
Ph.D., adjunct lecturer, chartered marketing specialiast, (Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK, 1999). Specialist of economic development ( IEDC 2007, Harvard Chan SPH 2026). Decane of the Kyiv Business School, President of GO Ukrainian Chain of Building. Trainer, explorer, managing and consultant on marketing, economic development and building, top-manager
Olga Chekmenova
Agile Coach at UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, Business Trainer, Facilitator, and Coach
Anton Hlazkov
Organizational Change Specialist, in past Organizational Agile Coach at UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, Accredited Kanban University Trainer, consultant in OKR implementation and Agile transformation
Yevhen Osmak
IT Director Zeppelin International (Switzerland), MBA tutor, Programme "Architecture of the company and IT strategy", consultant on digital transformation and strategy/architecture of the company issues, expert, trainer and coach on personal and team effectiveness
Nataliia Lukash
ex-Director of personnel of the Metinvest Digital: has more than 25 years of experience in management, 18 years in HR among them. She worked in IT, telecom, finance, state sector, has HR-expertise in all the spheres, including compensations and benefits, personnel development, internal communications, change management, practicing business trainer, trainer of the Deloitte academy «School of the CEO of the future» and of leadership development programmes, author of the expert articles for business editions
Ivan Kompan
Director of Deloitte Academy and founder of the First Kyiv Investment Club, lecturer at the Edinburgh Business School, a specialist in finance with 25 years of experience, held senior positions in a number of large Ukrainian and international financial companies, in particular, Deloitte (partner, head of financial and advisory services; Wood & Company (General Director), Creditanstalt Austria Investment Bank (Managing Director), etc.
Oleksii Minakov
Сonsultant on the implementation and use of generative AI, who has delivered AI training for employees of DTEK, Vodafone, Philip Morris, 1+1 media, Starlight Media, UNICEF, and dozens of other organisations. He is also a lecturer of the "Artificial Intelligence for Business" course on the General MBA programme at the International Institute of Business, and an expert of the "Artificial Intelligence for Business" course by Google. In 2019-2022, he worked at the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine (Diia.Business and Diia.Education projects).
Oleksandr Kucheruk
Lector and author of the online course “PowerPoint Magic”, which has been completed by more than 2000 people from 10 countries all over the world, more than 10 years of experience in marketing and advertising, ex-Product Marketing Specialist in Microsoft, ex-leader of the educational project “Super people” in FEDORIV
Oleksandr Zayoma
Presentation Skills trainer, speech writer, from top-5 companies in any sphere three are my clients, I prepare speakers for WebSummit, TED and top world and Ukrainian events, I believe that it is better to learn cheerfully
Olena Yuzkova
Certified management consultant, PhD in Public Administration, lecturer at the International Institute of Management MIM-Kyiv, CEO of the “Era of International Education”
Oleg Balakin
Senior service-designer of the client experience agency Lanka.CX. Through 7 years of agency worked, as with big organisations in different industries (Comfy, Rozetka, Pumb, Eva, Unicef, Повернись живим, Fozzy group, DeNovo etc), as well as with startups. Has Master's Degree in Economics and Social Psychology.
Volodymyr Sobolev
CMO in Kovalska. Is working in marketing for more than 12 years. In PrivatBank he worked on promoting key products in bank, innovational products and decisions based on BigData. He took part in Google Pay and Apple Pay launches in Ukraine. He worked with such Ukrainian brands as “Zolotiy Vik”, "Maxus", "EnglishHome" and “Luxotica”. Among achievements are PhD Degree in Economics (Measuring the marketing effectiveness of retailers) and gold at Young Lions Marketers Competition Ukraine.
Mykhailo Krikunov
Olga Chekmenova
Anton Hlazkov
Yevhen Osmak
Nataliia Lukash
Ivan Kompan
Oleksii Minakov
Oleksandr Kucheruk
Oleksandr Zayoma
Olena Yuzkova
Oleg Balakin
Volodymyr Sobolev
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