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Executive Leadership & Strategy5-day executive programUSD $1,999

Corporate Portfolio Strategy & Growth Architecture

Decide which businesses deserve capital — and which deserve exit.

IPAT Executive Certificate 5 intensive days CEOs, executive committee members, managing directors, senior public leaders, and high-potential leaders one role away from enterprise leadership.
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The executive challenge

The problem this program solves

Your calendar is full of meetings about corporate portfolio strategy, and your institution is short of decisions with owners, dates and consequences. Authority without execution machinery produces the most expensive failure in leadership — activity that looks exactly like progress. The programme builds the craft authority cannot confer: how to sequence corporate portfolio strategy, assemble its coalition, and keep it moving when everything competes.

Context

Why this matters now

Boards increasingly select and promote leaders by delivery: corporate portfolio strategy track record is the new due diligence.
Hybrid and distributed operating models have quietly rewritten how influence, culture and corporate portfolio strategy accountability work.
Leadership transitions, elections and reorganisations make corporate portfolio strategy execution architecture the difference between continuity and reset.

Capability

What you will be able to do

  • Make high-stakes corporate portfolio strategy decisions under uncertainty with a disciplined, repeatable process.
  • Build the coalition any serious corporate portfolio strategy change requires.
  • Lead corporate portfolio strategy change that survives resistance, politics and leadership turnover.
  • Deliver the first 90 days of corporate portfolio strategy with commitments you can keep.

The IPAT Course Standard

The five-day journey

Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.

IPAT Signature Case™

When the Coalition Breaks

Six months into a professional-services partnership’s flagship corporate portfolio strategy change, the coalition behind it fractures: finance defunds it, operations slow-walks it, and the board chair asks privately whether you still have the room.

Your decision: Rebuild the coalition, escalate past it, or reshape the corporate portfolio strategy agenda to what the institution will actually carry.

Stakeholder commitment mapDelivery and adoption dataChair conversation notes

Day 5 · The Capstone

What will you change when you return to work?

Build the execution architecture for your institution's most important strategic commitment: decision rights, cadence, accountability, and your own first 90 days.

You leave with: Strategic Execution Architecture

Methodology

Frameworks you will master

IPAT-proprietary methodology
  • • IPAT Strategic Execution Framework™
  • • IPAT Executive Capability Model™
Established practice you will apply
  • • Scenario planning methodology
  • • Strategy maps and balanced scorecard lineage
  • • Decision-rights design (RAPID-style)

Cohorts

Upcoming cohorts

New dates are being scheduled

Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.

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