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

Executive Talent Assessment & Bench Strength

Judge talent for roles you once held — and roles you never did.

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 executive talent assessment, and your institution is short of decisions with owners, dates and consequences. How you deliver executive talent assessment sets the price of every change you attempt afterwards. You will practise delivering unwelcome truths about executive talent assessment to faculty playing your board — and get better at it before reality tries you.

Context

Why this matters now

The shelf life of strategy has shortened: executive talent assessment execution architecture now matters more than planning ceremony.
Institutions face simultaneous shocks — currency, capital, climate, politics — that expose the gap between executive talent assessment authority and executive talent assessment capability.
Citizens, investors and lenders now measure executive talent assessment announcements against delivery within a single cycle.

Capability

What you will be able to do

  • Decide executive talent assessment trade-offs with explicit assumptions, owners and consequences.
  • Run a executive talent assessment operating rhythm — reviews, escalation and accountability — that surfaces the truth.
  • Make high-stakes executive talent assessment decisions under uncertainty with a disciplined, repeatable process.
  • Build the coalition any serious executive talent assessment change requires.

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™

The Succession Meeting You Must Chair

The founder-CEO of a public university is suddenly unavailable. Three internal candidates, an impatient board, and a market reading every signal. The executive talent assessment agenda the founder championed now has no visible owner.

Your decision: Choose the interim path, the permanent appointment, or an external search — while holding the executive talent assessment agenda and the institution together.

Candidate capability assessmentsBoard dynamics mapMarket and analyst reaction scenarios

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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