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

The Executive Support System: Building Your Back Office

Build the chief-of-staff function that multiplies 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

A leadership transition, a market shock or a political shift is coming for your executive support system agenda; the question is whether the execution architecture survives it. The cost never appears on a budget line: decisions made slowly, made twice, or never made at all. In five days you rehearse the hard parts of executive support system leadership in live simulations and leave with a 90-day agenda only you can lead.

Context

Why this matters now

Boards increasingly select and promote leaders by delivery: executive support system track record is the new due diligence.
Hybrid and distributed operating models have quietly rewritten how influence, culture and executive support system accountability work.
Leadership transitions, elections and reorganisations make executive support system execution architecture the difference between continuity and reset.

Capability

What you will be able to do

  • Design the execution architecture that converts executive support system strategy into delivered results.
  • Decide executive support system trade-offs with explicit assumptions, owners and consequences.
  • Run a executive support system operating rhythm — reviews, escalation and accountability — that surfaces the truth.
  • Make high-stakes executive support system decisions under uncertainty with a disciplined, repeatable process.

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 executive support system, 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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