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:BC Astarta, 58 Yaroslavska Str., Sigma Software Group
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Programme for Management Development Pre-MBA. Date: 12 September2026. Time: 10:00 18:00. Language: Ukrainian. Place: BC Astarta, 58 Yaroslavska Str., Sigma Software Group. 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.
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
Module 2. Process Management and Change Management – September 26th 2026 - Yevhen Osmak, Olga Chekmenova, Anton Hlazkov
Module 3. Operational Management - October 10th 2026 - Yevhen Osmak
Module 4. Strategic Management – October 24th 2026 - Olena Yuzkova
Module 5. Financial Management – November 14th 2026 - Ivan Kompan
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
Module 6. Working in PowerPoint+oratory skills - November 28th 2026 - Oleksandr Kucheruk + Oleksandr Zayoma
Module 7. People Management and Employer’s Reputation – December 12th 2026 - Nataliia Lukash
Module 8. Systematic Approach to Innovation – January 16th 2027 - Oleg Koss
Module 9. Building of the System of Managing Marketing - January 30th 2027 - Volodymyr Sobolev
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, Organizational Agile Coach at UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, Accredited Kanban University Trainer, consultant in OKR implementation and Agile transformation.
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.
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.
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.
Oleg Koss – Partner and co-founder of the first Ukrainian service design agency Lanka.CX. Helps leading Ukrainian and international companies create new products and services using modern customer-centric methodologies. Introduces a comprehensive customer experience management system. Worked with Comfy, Eva, OLX, Prom.ua, New Mail, FUIB and others. Headed the marketing, product, client experience in Kyivstar, lifecell, Ukrtelecom and others. Has an Executive MBA degree from IE Business School (Madrid).
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.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. 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 at UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, Business Trainer, Facilitator, and Coach. Anton Hlazkov. Organizational Change Specialist, Organizational Agile Coach at UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, Accredited Kanban University Trainer, consultant in OKR implementation and Agile transformation. 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”. 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. 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. Oleg Koss. Partner and co-founder of the first Ukrainian service design agency Lanka.CX. Helps leading Ukrainian and international companies create new products and services using modern customer-centric methodologies. Has an Executive MBA degree from IE Business School (Madrid). 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.
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
- Module 2. Process Management and Change Management – September 26th 2026 – Yevhen Osmak, Olga Chekmenova, Anton Hlazkov
- Module 3. Operational Management – October 10th 2026 – Yevhen Osmak
- Module 4. Strategic Management – October 24th 2026 – Olena Yuzkova
- Module 5. Financial Management – November 14th 2026 – Ivan Kompan
- 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
- Module 6. Working in PowerPoint+oratory skills – November 28th 2026 – Oleksandr Kucheruk + Oleksandr Zayoma
- Module 7. People Management and Employer’s Reputation – December 12th 2026 – Nataliia Lukash
- Module 8. Systematic Approach to Innovation – January 16th 2027 – Oleg Koss
- Module 9. Building of the System of Managing Marketing – January 30th 2027 – Volodymyr Sobolev
- 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, Organizational Agile Coach at UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, Accredited Kanban University Trainer, consultant in OKR implementation and Agile transformation.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Oleg Koss – Partner and co-founder of the first Ukrainian service design agency Lanka.CX. Helps leading Ukrainian and international companies create new products and services using modern customer-centric methodologies. Introduces a comprehensive customer experience management system. Worked with Comfy, Eva, OLX, Prom.ua, New Mail, FUIB and others. Headed the marketing, product, client experience in Kyivstar, lifecell, Ukrtelecom and others. Has an Executive MBA degree from IE Business School (Madrid).
- 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.
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
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 at UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, Business Trainer, Facilitator, and Coach
Anton Hlazkov
Organizational Change Specialist, Organizational Agile Coach at UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, Accredited Kanban University Trainer, consultant in OKR implementation and Agile transformation
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”
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
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
Oleg Koss
Partner and co-founder of the first Ukrainian service design agency Lanka.CX. Helps leading Ukrainian and international companies create new products and services using modern customer-centric methodologies. Has an Executive MBA degree from IE Business School (Madrid)
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
Yevhen Osmak
Olga Chekmenova
Anton Hlazkov
Olena Yuzkova
Ivan Kompan
Oleksii Minakov
Oleksandr Kucheruk
Oleksandr Zayoma
Nataliia Lukash
Oleg Koss
Volodymyr Sobolev
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