San Telmo, a business school for leaders and decision-makers
Since 1982, we have worked alongside business owners and executives, helping them make sound decisions in leading their organizations — with judgment, purpose and a clear understanding of business. More than forty years later, over 15,000 business leaders have taken part in our programs.
Companies represented on our Advisory Boards and Research Chairs
Where are you in your career?
A program for every stage of your professional journey
We are not simply a catalogue of courses. Our programs are designed around your professional journey. Start with where you are in your career, and we will guide you towards the program that best fits your responsibilities, your team and your schedule.
Emerging Leaders
University graduates at the start of their professional careers. Build the structure, skills and sound judgment you need to lead effectively from the outset.
Management Development
Middle managers, functional leaders and owners of small and medium-sized businesses. Broaden your perspective, gain a 360-degree view of the organization and learn alongside experienced business leaders.
Executive Leadership
CEOs, chairs and board members. At this stage, learning matters as much as having the opportunity to reflect with peers and keep your strategic perspective up to date.
Family Business & Succession
Owners, next-generation family members and family business boards. Prepare for succession and strengthen the professional governance of family ownership.
Custom Programs
We design the program with you from the ground up: objectives, content, length, format and impact metrics. Built for senior management and leadership teams. Every program adapts to the company’s context, the participants’ profile and the impact it is meant to deliver.
Our training areas
Programs designed for every executive profile, all with the same hallmark: the Case Method, a faculty with real business experience and an alumni community that stays with you beyond the classroom.
Food & Agribusiness
San Telmo’s distinctive area. Specialized programs for executives in the food and agribusiness sector.
Healthcare
Executive education designed for professionals in positions of responsibility across public- and private-sector healthcare organizations.
Digital Transformation
Advances in AI have accelerated digital transformation across organizations. We help executives harness technology with strategic purpose.
Executive Leadership
Programs for experienced leaders. Strategic reflection, corporate governance and executive development for CEOs, board members and business owners.
Management Development & Leadership
An Executive MBA designed not simply to teach you, but to transform the way you lead.
Twelve months. Forty carefully selected executives. A learning method that tests every decision against the experience of people who have faced it in their own organizations. San Telmo’s Executive MBA may be the most demanding conversation of your career — and quite possibly the most valuable. More than 1,500 executives have already experienced it.
The Case Method
Here, you do not simply learn about management. You practise it.
Every session is an opportunity to confront real challenges facing businesses today. Real-world cases deepen the analysis, bring different perspectives into the discussion and strengthen decision-making skills. Each case may have several possible courses of action. The value of the learning experience lies not in finding one correct answer, but in the reflection and debate guided by the professor.
It is the difference between studying a case and experiencing it. Here, you experience it — and that changes the decisions you make when you return to work on Monday.
What happens after San Telmo
Stories from business owners and executives who have studied at San Telmo and are now leading tangible change in their organizations. Their experiences show how learning, strategic reflection and practical application can deliver real results.
When you join San Telmo, you become part of a community of more than 15,000 executives and business owners who come together through events, forums, research chairs, international trips and social-impact projects. A lasting network for lifelong learning, professional connections and new business opportunities.
Research Chairs
Long-term platforms for research and thought leadership where faculty, alumni and invited experts develop insights, events and publications addressing the issues that matter most to today’s business leaders.
Food
For decades, we have developed executives across agriculture, the food industry, retail and foodservice — from seed to plate. Today, that commitment extends far beyond Spain, with academic activities on three continents, internationally recognised faculty and a global network of executives sharing knowledge and experience.
FLAGSHIP PROGRAM · 38 EDITIONS
DEA · Food Business Management Program
A benchmark program for Food-sector executives in Spain. Real business cases, direct interaction with industry CEOs and a unique professional community.
Senior Management in the Food Value Chain
A comprehensive perspective on the entire Food-sector value chain.
Governance Program for Cooperative Boards
Strengthening professional governance in agri-food cooperatives.
International Forums, Seminars & Programs
A recognised international presence in the sector. Discover our activities across Europe, Africa and the Americas.
Management thinking
News, interviews and insights from our faculty and alumni
The best way to find out whether San Telmo is right for you is to experience it for yourself.
Join a real Case Method session. Two hours. A table of executives. A business dilemma with no single right answer. No commitment and no generic presentations — just the same experience our participants have in the classroom.
