IPAT Senior Leaders Program (SLP™)
Institutions do not fail for lack of strategy documents; they fail in execution. This program teaches the execution craft that changes that. In 5 days you will redesign the decision rights and operating rhythm of your institution, run the Signature Case™ decision round, and harden your plan through a pre-mortem, leaving with Strategic Execution Architecture, plus an executive decision memo on your hardest live {t} trade-off — assumptions explicit, consequences owned.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
Decisions are made in the boardroom and die in the middle: ipat senior leaders program commitments everyone agrees with, and nobody owns. How you deliver ipat senior leaders program sets the price of every change you attempt afterwards. You will practise delivering unwelcome truths about ipat senior leaders program to faculty playing your board — and get better at it before reality tries you.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Communicate the ipat senior leaders program agenda with a clarity that mobilises the institution.
- Design the execution architecture that converts ipat senior leaders program strategy into delivered results.
- Decide ipat senior leaders program trade-offs with explicit assumptions, owners and consequences.
- Run a ipat senior leaders program operating rhythm — reviews, escalation and accountability — that surfaces the truth.
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.
Delivery & Rigor
Action learning, not passive lectures
Every IPAT program is a working residency built on one discipline: analyse, decide, deploy, refine.
Pre-work, two weeks out
A mandatory reading pack, a sector dataset and a short diagnostic arrive two weeks before day one. You do not arrive to be introduced; you arrive ready to work.
Simulation under pressure
Decision rounds and data labs run on realistic, messy African data. Positions are defended, consequences are revealed, and judgement is debriefed, not answers dictated.
The 30-day accountability nudge
Thirty days after the capstone you report progress on your implementation plan and faculty respond with a structured review. The learning that sticks is the learning that is followed up.
IPAT Signature Case™
When the Coalition Breaks
Six months into a scaling fintech’s flagship ipat senior leaders program 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 ipat senior leaders program agenda to what the institution will actually carry.
Real-World Case Study
The Safaricom Succession That Held
Safaricom navigated three CEO transitions in a decade — from Michael Joseph to Bob Collymore to Peter Ndegwa — each planned, publicly communicated and handed over with the M-Pesa franchise intact and the market reading stability rather than risk. Deliberate succession architecture, not luck, kept the region’s most valuable company from its founder-dependency risk.
The lesson: Succession is a value instrument, not an emergency: the boards and leaders who treat it as architecture protect the franchise; those who improvise it gamble it.
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.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Strategic Execution Framework™
- • IPAT Executive Capability Model™
- • Scenario planning methodology
- • Strategy maps and balanced scorecard lineage
- • Decision-rights design (RAPID-style)
The Faculty Standard
Practitioners who have done the work
Every session is led by practitioner-faculty: PhDs, former central bankers, serving and former CFOs, and delivery leaders who have built and run the systems they teach. Cases are drawn from institutions they have advised, not textbook extracts. Faculty teach what they have decided with, under the same pressure you face.
Meet the IPAT facultyCareer Outcomes
Where this program takes you
Salary bands reflect 2025–26 market benchmarking across African markets plus global mobility ranges.
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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