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

The CEO Agenda: Value Creation & Capital Allocation

The complete CEO playbook — strategy, capital, talent, and stakeholder value.

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

The organisation applauds the ceo agenda strategy in the town hall and ignores it on Monday — and each cycle of that costs more than the last. Credibility is the one currency a leader cannot borrow — and ceo agenda stalls spend it in front of everyone. In five days you rehearse the hard parts of ceo agenda leadership in live simulations and leave with a 90-day agenda only you can lead.

Context

Why this matters now

The next ceo agenda disruption will not wait for the planning cycle — institutions are being tested in real time.
The shelf life of strategy has shortened: ceo agenda execution architecture now matters more than planning ceremony.
Institutions face simultaneous shocks — currency, capital, climate, politics — that expose the gap between ceo agenda authority and ceo agenda capability.

Capability

What you will be able to do

  • Deliver the first 90 days of ceo agenda with commitments you can keep.
  • Communicate the ceo agenda agenda with a clarity that mobilises the institution.
  • Design the execution architecture that converts ceo agenda strategy into delivered results.
  • Decide ceo agenda trade-offs with explicit assumptions, owners and consequences.

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 professional-services partnership has one role too many at the top: two trusted executives, one mandate in ceo agenda, 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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