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Programme for Management Development Pre-MBA. Date: 13 September2025. 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 seventh 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. At the end there will also be business projects defence. 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.
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.
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.
Understand how to keep sales at the highest level.
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 13th 2025 - Mykhailo Krikunov
Module 2. Change Management and Operational Management – September 27th 2025 - Yevhen Osmak and Serhii Potapov
Module 3. Change Management and Operational Management - October 11th 2025 - Yevhen Osmak and Serhii Potapov
Module 4. Strategic Management – October 25th 2025 - Olena Yuzkova
Module 5. Financial Management – November 15th 2025 - Ivan Kompan
Module 6. Working in PowerPoint+oratory skills - November 29th 2025 - Oleksandr Kucheruk+Oleksandr Zayoma
Module 7. Systematic Approach to Innovation – December 13th 2025 - Oleg Koss
Module 8. People Management and Employer’s Reputation – January 17th 2026 - Nataliia Lukash
Module 9. Building of the System of Managing Marketing - January 31st 2026 - Volodymyr Sobolev
Bonus Module – visiting the modern company plant - second part of February 2026
Module 10. Integrative Group Projects. Graduation Сeremony – February 21st 2026
Lecturers:
Mykhailo Krykunov - Ph.D., adjunct lecturer, chartered marketing specialiast, (Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK, 1999). Decane of the Kyiv Business School, President of GO Ukrainian Chain of Building. Trainer, explorer, managing and marketing consultant and economic development, 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.
Serhii Potapov - Project management expert with 20 years of experience. Together with the team, for the first time in Ukraine, implemented project portfolio management using the Critical Chain Project Management approach. Helps different organizations to become more productive: achieve more, faster, building the system of managing projects. Serhii works in project management since 2002, consciously since 2013. Since 2015 he shares experience and knowledge with different organizations as consultant and trainer and thourgh these years he made unique things for the sphere of managing projects in Ukraine. He uses universal approach with absolutely different organizations: banks, IT-companies, agrarians, pharma, builders, parliament, municipalities, energetic companies.
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, 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).
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.
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).
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.
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:
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Event Partners: Lanka.CX, La Famiglia Catering, Sigma Software Group, Kovalska.Speakers. Mykhailo Krikunov. Ph.D., adjunct lecturer, chartered marketing specialiast, (Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK, 1999). Decane of the Kyiv Business School, President of GO Ukrainian Chain of Building. Trainer, explorer, managing and marketing consultant and economic development, 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. Serhii Potapov. Project management expert with 20 years of experience. Together with the team, for the first time in Ukraine, implemented project portfolio management using the Critical Chain Project Management approach. Helps different organizations to become more productive: achieve more, faster, building the system of managing projects. Serhii works in project management since 2002, consciously since 2013) Since 2015 he shares experience and knowledge with different organizations as consultant and trainer. 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.. 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. 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). 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. 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:. Ірина Шевчук. E-mail [email protected]. Contact Phone. 067 240 90 90.
About the Programme
EBA Management Development Centre team jointly with partners launches the seventh 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. At the end there will also be business projects’ defence. 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.
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.
- 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.
- Understand how to keep sales at the highest level.
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 13th 2025 – Mykhailo Krikunov
- Module 2. Change Management and Operational Management – September 27th 2025 – Yevhen Osmak and Serhii Potapov
- Module 3. Change Management and Operational Management – October 11th 2025 – Yevhen Osmak and Serhii Potapov
- Module 4. Strategic Management – October 25th 2025 – Olena Yuzkova
- Module 5. Financial Management – November 15th 2025 – Ivan Kompan
- Module 6. Working in PowerPoint+oratory skills – November 29th 2025 – Oleksandr Kucheruk+Oleksandr Zayoma
- Module 7. Systematic Approach to Innovation – December 13th 2025 – Oleg Koss
- Module 8. People Management and Employer’s Reputation – January 17th 2026 – Nataliia Lukash
- Module 9. Building of the System of Managing Marketing – January 31st 2026 – Volodymyr Sobolev
- Bonus Module – visiting the modern company plant – second part of February 2026
- Module 10. Integrative Group Projects. Graduation Сeremony – February 21st 2026
Lecturers:
- Mykhailo Krykunov – Ph.D., adjunct lecturer, chartered marketing specialiast, (Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK, 1999). Decane of the Kyiv Business School, President of GO Ukrainian Chain of Building. Trainer, explorer, managing and marketing consultant and economic development, 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.
- Serhii Potapov – Project management expert with 20 years of experience. Together with the team, for the first time in Ukraine, implemented project portfolio management using the Critical Chain Project Management approach. Helps different organizations to become more productive: achieve more, faster, building the system of managing projects. Serhii works in project management since 2002, consciously since 2013. Since 2015 he shares experience and knowledge with different organizations as consultant and trainer and thourgh these years he made unique things for the sphere of managing projects in Ukraine. He uses universal approach with absolutely different organizations: banks, IT-companies, agrarians, pharma, builders, parliament, municipalities, energetic companies.
- 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, 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).
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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, Kovalska.
Trainers
Mykhailo Krikunov
Ph.D., adjunct lecturer, chartered marketing specialiast, (Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK, 1999). Decane of the Kyiv Business School, President of GO Ukrainian Chain of Building. Trainer, explorer, managing and marketing consultant and economic development, 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
Serhii Potapov
Project management expert with 20 years of experience. Together with the team, for the first time in Ukraine, implemented project portfolio management using the Critical Chain Project Management approach. Helps different organizations to become more productive: achieve more, faster, building the system of managing projects. Serhii works in project management since 2002, consciously since 2013) Since 2015 he shares experience and knowledge with different organizations as consultant and trainer
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.
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
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)
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
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
Serhii Potapov
Olena Yuzkova
Ivan Kompan
Oleksandr Kucheruk
Oleksandr Zayoma
Oleg Koss
Nataliia Lukash
Volodymyr Sobolev
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