Leadership is no longer just an operational function. It has become an exercise in vision, discernment and coherence in environments marked by uncertainty, accelerated change and growing pressure.
Today’s leaders must combine vision, clarity, and consistency to navigate uncertainty, rapid change, and rising pressures.
ELEVATE provides cooperative leaders with a unique learning journey that unites strategy, market insight, and personal growth.
It offers not just management tools, but a deeper, more conscious, and more effective approach to leading in complex times.
Contemporary challenges - from the energy transition to digital transformation, from generative artificial intelligence to responsible governance, from sustainability to social cohesion - have increased the complexity of management and put leaders in front of decisions with increasingly significant and lasting impact.
Leadership is no longer just an operational function. It has become an exercise in vision, discernment and coherence in environments marked by uncertainty, accelerated change and growing pressure.
Not as a conventional school, but as a living, immersive and itinerant training platform that operates directly within the environments where cooperativism takes place, observes, and transforms.
Aimed at leaders, board members, managers and executives in the cooperative sector, ELEVATE offers a unique executive education experience that combines strategic thinking, market practices and personal development - in total harmony with the reality experienced by the participants.
Not a traditional school, but a dynamic, on-the-ground training model that learns and transforms within real cooperative environments.
Designed for board members, managers, executives, and leaders who want to strengthen their impact within the cooperative sector.
Blends strategic thinking, market practices, and personal growth in harmony with the real challenges participants face.
It proposes not only management tools, but above all a deeper, more conscious and effective way of exercising the role of leadership in complex times.
Because no consistent organizational transformation happens without self-knowledge, ELEVATE also invites participants to rethink self-government - as a starting point for truly transformative, collective and lasting leadership.
Cooperative governance requires much more than complying with rules: it requires vision, cohesion and responsibility.
This program is focused on developing conscious leaders with the ability to make strategic decisions in complex environments and to promote trust and collective engagement. It covers topics such as decision-making on boards, interactions between the board and management, succession, organizational culture and integrity.
How can we grow solidly, generate value for our members and maintain our cooperative identity? This program offers tools for rethinking business models, identifying growth opportunities, developing competitive value propositions and aligning strategy with execution. It provides a practical and up-to-date view of expansion, diversification, differentiation and repositioning.
Innovation is not an area, it's a mindset. In this course, participants explore practical ways to drive innovation in their contexts, combining a culture of experimentation with clear strategic objectives. Topics such as digital transformation, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, member-centric innovation, organizational agility and innovation governance are explored in depth.
Based on the reality and legal obligations of the sector, this course delves into the fundamentals that support sound economic decisions. It covers topics such as financial balance, feasibility analysis, risk management, cooperative corporate structures, compliance, regulation and institutional relations. The content is adapted according to the country, the cooperative branch and the group's challenges.
Generating impact is part of the cooperative DNA - but expanding it requires method, measurement and leadership. This program trains managers to develop impact strategies integrated into the business model, using tools such as ESG, social and environmental performance indicators, responsible governance and community engagement.
Masterclasses with international lecturers from institutions of global excellence
Executive workshops focused on immediate application of the lessons learned
Case studies contextualized to the sector or country visited
Panels and discussions with local leaders and specialized mediation
International certification in executive education
Strategic synthesis of the mission, with methodological support and specialized facilitation
Our teaching staff is made up of professors with academic backgrounds at the world's most prestigious universities, with extensive experience in executive education, applied research and leadership development. They are specialists affiliated with internationally recognized institutions for their excellence, academic rigor and strategic influence on the global stage.
More than academics, they are consultants, authors and facilitators who work directly with CEOs, executives and boards of large companies and cooperatives in various countries and sectors. They bring with them real cases, complex challenges and innovative solutions applied in highly demanding contexts.
In the classroom - which, at ELEVATE, can be an innovation center, a partner university or even the interior of a cooperative - they integrate theory and practice, providing a training experience that is connected with the latest in the world of management, leadership, digital transformation, ESG and social impact.
Swedish professor, author and consultant with more than 20 years' experience in leadership, strategy, education and organizational transformation.
Christer is internationally recognized for his ability to integrate theory and practice in high-impact programs, and works as a facilitator of training processes in several prestigious institutions in Europe and Latin America.
At ELEVATE, Christer leads the content curation and ensures the pedagogical excellence of all the university's editions.
WEX is the exclusive partner of ELEVATE - Pop-Up Business School
and is responsible for its implementation
in all countries where the school operates.
With solid experience in executive education, organizing technical missions and liaising with universities and global experts, WEX connects international academic excellence to the practical reality of cooperatives, especially in the Brazilian and Lusophone context.
Each edition of ELEVATE is designed, adapted and presented to the end client by WEX, guaranteeing a personalized, relevant and transformative delivery. We work from the conception of the journey to its execution in the territory, ensuring pedagogical rigor, operational fluidity and strategic impact.
More than representing ELEVATE, we are part of its essence: we promote the development of cooperative leaders capable of facing the challenges of the present and building the future with vision, responsibility and consistency.
