Courses from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management:
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Bankakademie/HfBExecutive Education

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management is one of Germany’s foremost institutes of higher education. Founded in 1957 as Bankakademie, the institute rapidely became the national benchmark for the continuing development of financial sector employees. At the end of the 1970’s, the programm portfolio was expanded to embrace general management studies, and in the 1990’s, the HfB (Hochschule für Bankwirtschaft - University of Banking) was added as an academic arm, accredited with full university status in 2004. In 2007, all educational and advisory services were brought together under one roof as Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
Today, Frankfurt School offers an extensive portfolio of nationally and FIBAA-accredited academic study programmes, from Bachelor’s to general and specialist Master’s and Ph.D. programmes. As Germany’s market leader in continuing development for financial sector professionals the school’s portfolio is rounded off by an outstanding executive education programme for top management.
The target group of the programme is made up of personalities who bear considerable responsibility or will soon do so. Participants will be rapidly and enduringly increase their ability to make decisions and take action. Emphasis is placed on the instantaneous utilisation and safe transfer of gained knowledge. Within the environment and network of a leading business school learning takes place based on real situations in which an in-depth exchange of experience is possible, and where assumptions can be questioned. In this way, the programme specifically prepares executives to successfully take over tasks with heavy responsibilities.
Topics include innovation for growth and effective approaches for strategy development and implementation. The most important topic for all executives is management effectiveness. Boosting this is an area which will be focused on during training sessions. Several programmes within the executive education sector of Frankfurt School can be booked:
- Leadership Effectiveness
- Advanced Leadership
- Executive Leadership Programme
- Innovation and Growth
- Strategic Customer Relations.
All lecturers are eminently successful in international executive education. The programme formats are geared towards the preferred learning and working styles of executives, irrespective of whether this concerns short briefings or update offers or multimodule programmes which are incorporated into the participants’ actual working day in the form of project work lasting several months.
Furthermore a "Moment of Excellence" programme represents an exclusive training programme for managers, implementing an unique approach. Within extraordinary situations managers face challenges in order to reflect upon their current management approaches and practices and to develop new perspectives and visions for their business life.
