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TEG is held in high regard among executives and in executive search, particularly in Munich. Since 1986 TEG has been privately funded and is tied to no university. Its name is therefore less present at the universities, and all the more so where leadership positions are filled. Numerous executives give their time to TEG as speakers and mentors, and on its advisory board and Kuratorium. Independence has a further advantage: TEG selects solely on merit and aptitude.

No. TEG is a privately funded club devoted to line management, founded in 1986. Executives give their time as speakers, mentors and companions, and on the advisory board and Kuratorium. The Young Business Leadership Academy (YBLA) is structured and formalised, with fixed dates and a final thesis that is assessed to academic standards. It combines professional executive education with a scholarship programme.

TEG helps above all on the way into leadership positions. The YBLA certificate eases entry into the management trainee programmes of large companies. Many TEGlers find their first position through contacts made at TEG conferences rather than through a conventional application. The TEG name is of particular help in the move from a specialist to a leadership role.

As for management consulting: those who know the world of executives find their footing in consulting more easily, and TEG can help with that. TEG graduates, however, usually move to the other side: they become executives themselves, who are advised by consultants. Anyone who wants to remain in consulting for good rather than lead people is not in the right place at TEG.

The YBLA prepares you to lead people; innovation courses prepare you to develop ideas. Innovation and start-up courses teach methods for developing and presenting ideas. Line management, by contrast, means bearing responsibility for people: selecting, appraising and developing staff, and conducting difficult conversations as well. Companies recognise only training that teaches exactly this as preparation for a leadership role. The YBLA is such a programme, the student counterpart of professional executive training. It allows you to complete in part a comparable course that you would otherwise take, at similar length, alongside your job.

As of 2026 the YBLA is the only programme in Munich that prepares students for line management. All others require several years of professional experience.

In the YBLA you meet executives from the general management of business in the DACH region: in the workshops, as mentors and at the TEG conferences. TEG also maintains close ties to executive search: to the five large firms, known internally as “SHREK”, as well as to specialised boutiques. Many circles open only once you have completed the YBLA. The network is open to those who go through the programme in full.

Admission is demanding: each semester TEG awards 8 to 15 places in the YBLA. TEG selects solely on merit and aptitude assessment, without quotas. What matters is not your grade average alone, but whether TEG trusts you with a leadership role after your studies. Alongside your application, the selection process therefore includes an analytical and logical reasoning test and a case on a staff appraisal conversation. A letter of recommendation from an executive also helps.

Participation in the YBLA is free of charge for those selected. It is supported by alumni who are now in top management. The only cost is the association’s membership fee of €30. It is a fine tradition that TEGlers later support the next generation themselves.

The commitment is real: for three semesters, 10 to 18 hours a week, in the evenings and on Saturdays, with fixed dates and an academically supervised final thesis. In return you receive a certificate attesting to your readiness to lead, and complete part of the leadership training you would otherwise take later alongside your job. On graduating you are a TEGler for life.

In the YBLA final thesis you combine the literature with interviews with executives into a paper of your own. You choose a topic from the series of management workshops that particularly engaged you. You research the literature and interview four executives who lead at least a department, and so have managers reporting to them. From both emerges a paper on how companies should decide, act and organise themselves on this topic. The thesis is assessed to academic standards.

The YBLA is designed for participation in full. The TEG network lives on this commitment. Those who leave the programme early also leave TEG’s groups and circles. Many contacts open only with graduation in any case. Anyone who wants to take part for a single semester to collect contacts should therefore not apply.

Yes, under certain conditions. If your studies end during the YBLA, you complete the programme alongside your job. In individual cases TEG also admits young professionals who complete the YBLA entirely alongside their work. TEG then expects a precise rationale: why are you prepared to give up so much of your free time, and how will you fit the programme into your calendar?