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

Leading with Power: Authority, Influence & Coalition

Build power that serves the institution — and survives you.

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 leading, and your institution is short of decisions with owners, dates and consequences. How you deliver leading sets the price of every change you attempt afterwards. This programme is for leaders who intend to deliver leading, not describe it: the cadence, the coalition and the courage, tested before it counts.

Context

Why this matters now

Citizens, investors and lenders now measure leading announcements against delivery within a single cycle.
Boards increasingly select and promote leaders by delivery: leading track record is the new due diligence.
Hybrid and distributed operating models have quietly rewritten how influence, culture and leading accountability work.

Capability

What you will be able to do

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

When the Coalition Breaks

Six months into a public university’s flagship leading 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 leading 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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