Executive Programme for Permanent Secretaries & Directors-General
The elite public leadership programme — strategy, stewardship, and delivery.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
The programme was launched with a speech, funded with a loan, and designed without asking the only question that matters: what would make permanent secretaries actually change on the ground? Every failed attempt makes the next permanent secretaries reform harder to fund, staff and announce. You leave with the 100-day plan, the coalition map and the honest measurement that let your permanent secretaries agenda survive contact with reality.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Trace permanent secretaries money to outcomes and defend the trace under scrutiny.
- Sequence permanent secretaries reform so it survives resistance, turnover and the next budget cycle.
- Manage permanent secretaries programmes with fiduciary discipline and visible value for money.
- Navigate the political economy of permanent secretaries reform without abandoning rigour.
The IPAT Course Standard
The ten-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. The ten-day format runs as two five-day residencies, extending the journey into institutional implementation.
IPAT Signature Case™
The Subsidy on the Cabinet Table
A subsidy now consumes more than the combined health and education capital budgets of a ministry of health. Two reform attempts ended in protests and retreat; a compensation scheme is possible but untested — and the permanent secretaries analysis exists for neither.
Your decision: Recommend the removal design, the compensation architecture and the political sequencing — with the cabinet watching.
IPAT Data Lab™
A a ministry of health cannot trace its spending to outcomes citizens feel.
Dataset: Synthetic expenditure and outcome panel for a ministry of health, with leakage and coverage gaps.
Your task: Trace money to outcomes, find the value-for-money gaps, and design the dashboard that changes decisions.
An expenditure-to-outcome dashboard and findings memo.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 10 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build the design and evaluation framework for your institution's flagship programme: evidence base, causal chain, measurement, and delivery governance.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
- • Cost-benefit analysis and regulatory impact assessment
- • Results-based management
- • Randomized and quasi-experimental evaluation methods
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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