Ari Manninen

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About Ari Manninen

Thank you for visiting my profile page. I look forward to hearing more about you soon.Our motto in Avance is: Invest to your success. As a director of executive education my privilege is build effective EMBA programs and other tailored programs for executives and managers. I welcome all enquiries, so when you wish to know what EMBA program - tailored for you - would look like, just send me a message (ari.manninen@jyu.fi). Also I am most interested to hear if you have organizational (whole organization, team, management team etc.) development ideas and needs. Let us see what we could do together.I am also most interested to tailor international visiting programs for EMBA, MBA and executive groups from all over the world, like from China, Singapore, India, Russia, Brazil, etc. The tailored program may take place in Finland and we may include other European countries to your program. I welcome all enquires.My background is in accounting and I have done my PhD in accounting. However, I have always been interested about people and organizations. Hence, as a researher I was interested about accounting in action. In my present position as a director of executive education I emphasize the human side of business and organizational life. My goal is to understand what it really is to operate in certain position in certain organization and environment. That understanding creates a basis to develop effective learning programs for you and your organization.Also our unit, Avance Executive Education at University of Jyväskylä, Finland, is focused on creating and innovating effective learning paths which increase managerial and leadership capabilities.Specialties: Strategy, leadership, learning, strategical accounting, management accounting, executive education, EMBA, MBA, social media, Linkedin, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, transparency, silence, change, wisdom, theory, phenomenology, practice, international programs, qualitative research, everyday experience.