Opleiding: Advanced Leadership in Investment Management - EN

Guiding growth, transition and resilience.

In a world shaped by complex and accelerating challenges, traditional knowledge and skills are no longer sufficient. What’s needed is leadership that looks beyond short-term dynamics and provides clear direction for meaningful transition. In Investment Management, this means investing in growth while building resilient portfolios that can withstand uncertainty.

We offer a unique leadership program for transition in investment management, where peer learning, expert insights and the latest leadership thinking come together. Strategic perspectives are translated into practical application within the dynamic context of today’s investment landscape.

Look beyond day-to-day market movements, strengthen your leadership capabilities, and build the support needed to drive transition.

The Program

• Blended Learning:
  • Preparatory assignment
  • Two consecutive training days
  • Peer coaching session in pairs
  • Online follow-up session

• Max 12 participants

• English (unless a Dutch group)

• Participants receive the SUSC Sustainability Leadership certificate.

Who is this programme for?

• You bring extensive experience in the Investment Management sector.

• You are a manager or senior professional working at a pension fund, pension provider, insurer, fiduciary manager, asset manager or fund manager (participants come from a variety of departments across these organisations).

• You are motivated to strengthen your leadership skills and take a more active role in driving change, together with like-minded peers.

OUR TRAINERS

Yvonne Bakkum

Experienced impact leader and board member

Yvonne is an experienced impact leader, independent consultant and board member focused on increasing the positive impact of capital.

Yvonne chairs the Netherlands Advisory Board on Impact Investing. An active impact investing practitioner, she advises Achmea Investment Management, chairs the Supervisory Board of Incofin Investment Management and is a member of the Investment Committees of the Social Impact Funds in Rotterdam, The Hague and Amsterdam. In 2022 and 2023, she was included in the Dutch top 50 ‘Women in Sustainable Finance’.

As founding Managing Director of FMO Investment Management, she led the mobilization of more than EUR 2 billion in private capital for the SDGs.

Prior to that, she was Director of Private Equity at FMO, where she built a global portfolio of direct investments and fund investments. She began her career at ABN AMRO Bank. Yvonne holds a master’s degree in business economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Anne Wagenmans

Founder SUSC, expert sustainability leadership

Anne Wagenmans is the founding partner of SUSC. SUSC specializes in sustainability training programs for developing knowledge and leadership for the sustainability transition. Since 2020, more than 1,800 professionals and managers from the financial sector have participated in the programs she developed at the intersection of ecology and economics.

Raised in an entrepreneurial family, Anne is driven by the search for economic levers that can accelerate the sustainable transition. After completing her Master’s degree in Business Economics at Tilburg University, she worked for more than eighteen years at international organizations including FMO, AEGON Asset Management and ExxonMobil. In 2017, she obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainability from the University of Cambridge and afterwards became assessor for several Cambridge programs. Within FMO’s sustainability team, she contributed to renewable energy projects. In 2020, she founded SUSC.

SUSC develops her programs in collaboration with strong partners, serving clients such as Rabobank, ABN AMRO, KPN, Nationale-Nederlanden and ING.

The program is built on three key drivers for advanced leadership

Vision

Shape the future of investment management. Look beyond today’s market dynamics and understand how energy, resources and ecosystems influence investments.

Combine organisational growth with resilient portfolios, using our The Golden Circle of Value in IM model.

Gain insight into transition management and discover systems thinking as a key competency in your role.

Beliefs

Reflect on your values and develop a personal narrative to strengthen your leadership.

Explore how you can use your leadership to shape the mission, beliefs and culture within your organisation.

We reflect on essential sustainability leadership skills based on the Cambridge Impact Leadership Model and the IDG’s (Inner Development Goals).

Practice

Strong leaders combine vision with courage and capability. Develop the skills needed to drive and embed change.

Learn and engage in dialogue with peers on topics such as Strategic Stakeholder Engagement.

Increase your influence and inspire impactful change.

Learning objectives

This programme combines strategic reflection on sustainability and impact investing with the development of strong, directional leadership.

Through dialogue with experienced peers, you will refine your vision and leadership style, enabling you to guide decision-making in complex environments and contribute to the sustainable transition.

Strategic insights are directly translated into practical application in governance, investment decisions and long-term value creation, within the dynamic context of modern investment management.