KF Andersen Leadership Academy
"You, as a Leader, are what you make it."
What We Offer
KF Andersen Leadership Academy offer 3 Master of Business Leadership (MBL) modules that take place as open trainings, or as inhouse trainings which are tailored to your company’s specific needs.

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You, as a Leader, are what you make it!
Abstract for KFAs Training Programmes.
Welcome to KF Andersen Leadership Academy, where leadership transcends conventional boundaries to evolve the full potential of individuals, teams, and organisations. For over 40 years, we have contributed to the growth of more than 75 companies and developed over 20,000 leaders worldwide through transformative training programmes that emphasise human understanding, character development, and scalable leadership qualities.
Our unique approach challenges leaders to master ten scalable leadership attributes and qualities, fostering efficiency, a warm, trustworthy charisma, clarity, and mental enrichment. Through rigorous assessments and profound learning processes, participants evolve through four leadership levels: from Standard Leader to Moderate Leader, further to Great Leader, and finally becoming Elite Leader, while cultivating intrinsic virtues as a foundation for sustainable progress.
At KFA, leadership is not merely about managing tools and methods; it is about fostering hope, focus, and willingness, embracing challenges, and creating a flourishing work culture built on mutual respect, collaboration, and trust. Our Master of Business Leadership (MBL) programmes have been trusted by global companies such as A. P. Moller – Maersk, Novo Nordisk, IBM, DSV, DHL, Anglo Eastern, and Pacific Basin, delivering supreme results and sublime learning.
KFA has proven that a working culture grounded in excellence, life force, and humanised leadership has the potential to yield a high single-digit CAGR over three to five years, alongside double-digit revenue growth, double-digit increases in EBIT, EBITDA, and ROIC, as well as a robust and accelerating cash flow. This transformation occurs by converting a random organisation into an exceptional company infrastructure, focusing on individual strengths, forming elite project teams, and developing all executives into a Brain-Trust Team for the holistic success of all stakeholders.
Join us to transform your leadership development, dissolve ego-driven barriers, and become an Elite Leader who liberates others to reach the zenith of their potential.
Take the first step towards a future of excellence—register today or email your boss requesting to attend KFAs ‘Elite Leader I–III’—three training programmes that transform everything and everyone everywhere into opportunities for growth.
KF Andersen Leadership Academy: Where leaders strive and expand, build an organisation that is founded on rocks that fit, with eight legs to run swiftly and wings to soar high.
KFA offers three ascending levels of insight into action: Elite Leader I—The Will to Lead, Elite Leader II—Team Leader, and Elite Leader III—Elite Business Leader.
A DRAFT OF AN EMAIL TO YOU BOSS
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Subject: Request for Support to Attend KFA Leadership Training
Dear [Boss’s Name],
I hope this email finds you well and in good spirits.
I am writing to express my interest in attending one of KF Andersen Leadership Academy’s Master of Business Leadership (MBL) training programs. These courses are renowned for their transformative approach to leadership development, focusing on enhancing efficiency, controlling one’s charisma, high integrity, and human understanding.
The training aligns perfectly with my goal to enhance my contributions to our team and the organisation significantly. It emphasises developing scalable leadership qualities, such as pursuing excellence, fostering collaboration, and creating a sustainable work culture. These attributes are essential for driving innovation, improving performance, and achieving long-term growth.
By participating, I intend to refine my leadership skills to assist our company in achieving double-digit organic revenue and EBITDA growth. The programme will equip me to innovate and refresh our products, services, and delivery performance while expanding our commercial footprint. It will also enhance my ability to effectively communicate our company’s relevance and position within the industry.
This training will benefit my personal development and positively impact our team and organisation. I kindly request your support in attending this program, as I am confident it will enable me to contribute at a higher level and embrace more challenging opportunities.
Thank you for considering my request. I am happy to discuss this further and provide additional details about the program.
Best regards, [Your Name]
KEY TAKEAWAYS OF THE MBL PROGRAMMES.
You, as a Leader, are what you make it!
- Character Development: Focus on fine-tuning and synchronising leaders’ character traits with a holistic human understanding rather than business processes, enabling profound personal and professional growth.
- Intrinsic Leadership Virtues: To drive a sustainable, supreme business growth, cultivate timeless leadership qualities such as efficiency, trust-building charisma, clarity, and sublime mental enrichment.
- Scalable Leadership Mastery: Learn and master ten scalable leadership attributes—qualities that enable leaders to excel through four ascending levels: Standard Leader, Moderate Leader, Great Leader, and Elite Leader, for guiding individuals, teams, and the entire organisation.
- Human-Centric Leadership: Cultivate the ability to lead as a human being, fostering respect, collaboration, and a trustful work environment.
- Transformative Learning: Participants will be involved in a rigorous, intensive change process that challenges them to take their leadership potential to the zenith and become a refreshing and invaluable asset to everyone across the organisation.
- Supreme Results: Gain methods and insights to enhance the overall performance, innovate, and strive for double-digit organic revenue and EBITDA growth.
- Intensive Peer Collaboration: Benefit from transparent feedback and open discussions with peers, fostering collective creative intelligence, and unfolding hidden strengths.
- Socratic Questioning Skills: Learn to ask insightful, profound questions to clarify convictions, challenge attitudes, promote factfulness, and meaningful change.
- Build an impressive legacy: Understand leadership as a profound way of living that shapes your legacy by deliberately improving the lives of all stakeholders.
- Global Recognition: Join a programme trusted by prominent international companies, demonstrating effective results in developing Great and Elite leaders who enhance a company’s market value.
The MBL programs are designed to transform leaders into individuals who impress with their level of excellence, inspire to overcome challenges, and create thriving work cultures.
THE FOUR LEADERSHIP LEVELS
KFA defines the four leadership levels based on the mastery of scalable leadership qualities and their percentile distribution:
- Standard Leader: Operates up to the 64th percentile, demonstrating foundational leadership qualities.
- Moderate Leader: Functions up to the 80th percentile, showing improved efficiency and effectiveness in leadership.
- Great Leader: Achieves up to the 96th percentile, excelling in leadership attributes and significantly impacting individuals, teams, and organisations.
- Elite Leader: Operates above the 96th percentile, embodying exceptional leadership qualities that inspire and empower others to achieve excellence everywhere.
These levels reflect a progressive evolution of leadership capabilities, with Elite Leaders representing the pinnacle of humanised and impactful leadership.
Humanised Leadership
KFA defines humanised leadership as a profound realisation of life’s significance, where leaders dissolve their egos and embrace their role as team leaders who respect and uplift others.
Key aspects include:
- Profound Character: A humanised leader sees themselves not merely as a body or mind but as a legacy of life, fostering respect for diversity and the lives of others.
- Respect for Humanity: Humanised leaders believe every individual is inherently lovely and treat others respectfully, even in the face of bad behaviour, noisy attitudes, or negative convictions.
- Ego Dissolution: Leaders establish collective creative intelligence by dissolving their egos, enabling renewal and fostering a collaborative work culture.
- Legacy of Life: Humanised leadership is rooted in the belief that life is eternal, and death does not exist, leading to greater respect for others and their contributions.
This approach ensures leaders inspire trust, collaboration, and mutual respect, creating a sustainable and evolving work environment.
Upcoming Events 2025
27-31
Januar
Open training
The Will to Lead
(MBL1)
Copenhagen
8 – 12
September
Fully Booked
Leadership Communication
(MBL2)
Hong Kong
00 – 00
June
Canseled
The Will to Lead
(MBL1)
Copenhagen
22 – 26
September
Open Training
The Will to Lead
(MBL1)
Copenhagen
25 – 29
August
Open training
Leadership Communication
(MBL2)
Copenhagen
0 – 0
Not scheduled
Open training
Leadership Communication
(MBL2)
Hong Kong
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“Everyone who participated in KFA’s first module back in 1986, are today either a CEO or at the corporate executive level at different companies all over the world”
I still remember my final goodbye to Siegfried at the end of that first week of MBL1 The Will to Lead. I shook his hand and enthusiastically stated that if what he taught were a religion, I would come to church every Sunday!
Today, I still find strength, a sense of renewal, optimism and confidence in what I learned. I owe a great debt of gratitude to Siegfried and colleagues for the training, discussions and friendships that I have had over the years, and I wholeheartedly and unreservedly recommend KFA for anyone bold enough to take on a journey that may alter your life path forever.
KF Andersen’s MBL3 Lead the Business is a program you must attend. This is 5 days of how to make it happen, get it done and how to transform winning strategies into genuine bottom line results.
Through case based learning and discussions, your understanding on how to link together; people, strategy, and operations, is dramatically enhanced. KFA makes it simple, practical and gives you the mental models for how to approach this so people work together to create a strategy which is in sync with the realities of the marketplace, economy, and competition.
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