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

Second-Generation Leadership Transitions

Hand over the enterprise without breaking the generation that built it.

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

Between the decision and the delivery sits everything that actually determines whether second-generation leadership transitions succeeds, and most executives have never been taught that space. Nobody teaches the craft of making second-generation leadership transitions stick — so leaders repeat the pattern of announce, cascade, stall. This programme is for leaders who intend to deliver second-generation leadership transitions, not describe it: the cadence, the coalition and the courage, tested before it counts.

Context

Why this matters now

Leadership transitions, elections and reorganisations make second-generation leadership transitions execution architecture the difference between continuity and reset.
The next second-generation leadership transitions disruption will not wait for the planning cycle — institutions are being tested in real time.
The shelf life of strategy has shortened: second-generation leadership transitions execution architecture now matters more than planning ceremony.

Capability

What you will be able to do

  • Communicate the second-generation leadership transitions agenda with a clarity that mobilises the institution.
  • Design the execution architecture that converts second-generation leadership transitions strategy into delivered results.
  • Decide second-generation leadership transitions trade-offs with explicit assumptions, owners and consequences.
  • Run a second-generation leadership transitions 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.

IPAT Signature Case™

The Decision Only You Can Make

A reorganisation at a public university has one role too many at the top: two trusted executives, one mandate in second-generation leadership transitions, and a board that wants it resolved before results season.

Your decision: Decide the mandate, the person and the exit — with the fairness, the narrative and the successor plan each choice implies.

Mandate and decision-rights analysisExecutive assessmentsPrecedent cases from peer institutions

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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