My Time As An EMBA Student at IMD Business School

Business school hopefuls choose an executive MBA for a number of reasons. Designed for managers with extensive work experience – generally between 10 to 15 years – EMBA programs are an ideal fit for candidates with considerable business knowledge to draw upon.

The EMBA offers an opportunity for students to reach higher managerial positions and curate their leadership skills for not just the benefit of their company, but also their personal growth.

Tatiana Zaytseva, IMD Business School EMBA Class of 2015, spoke with TopMBA about her EMBA experience and how it helped her in her career.

For the last 20 years, Tatiana has worked in marketing roles, taking on different positions at local and global levels.

She said: “My job is diverse and exciting. To summarize it, it’s about finding prospective markets that can deliver profitable growth to the business and create strategies on how to address them with a proper value proposition based on customer insights.”

Tatiana says finding the right executive MBA program for her was a quest – she attended several MBA fairs, introduction events, master classes and searched across the internet.

She said: “It had to match my future expectations of my career, my level of experience at that time, it had to be a good reputable school with solid and stable ranking, which could equip me with good education and very tangible skills in the areas I wanted to improve myself.

“I finally applied to the IMD Business School in Switzerland, which completely matched my search criteria.”

One of the events Tatiana notes was our QS event in Zurich, she said: "Thank you for the event you organized in Zurich which was exceptionally well done and organized!

"Thank you for giving me a chance to meet with the desired business school (IMD EMBA) and giving me the opportunity to discuss my profile more in depth."

Tatiana enjoyed her EMBA program at IMD Business School and says it prepared her to become a global leader. She said: “It gave me a solid knowledge of key business concepts, introduced me to a cohort of extremely high level professionals from whom I learned a lot, but most importantly it built my awareness of myself as a leader, and I was able to adjust my style, behaviors and gain confidence.”