ISB Executive Education | Emerging Leaders Programme

Course Modules

Module 1: Business Foundations

• Build shared business knowledge and management foundation as a first step to starting your transformative leadership journey.
• Build a strong foundation with some of the critical concepts required to lead effectively. Complete introductory courses in accounting, statistics, managerial economics, and critical thinking to start on a level playing field.
• Improve your organisational management and decision-making ability and gain a unique industry perspective in a changing business world.
• Understand and appreciate the complexities associated with diverse parties and agendas in negotiation.
• Increase awareness of your own negotiation style.
• Learn about marketing, financial analysis, and operations with a shared vision and optimally utilise the resources at hand.
• Understand the emerging and future business trends via market research and learn how to present your findings with greater impact.
• In this module, you will also prepare yourself to craft your Action Learning Project (ALP). You will work with faculty and peers to identify and clearly define a business problem with transformative potential. Your faculty mentor will work with you to define problem hypotheses and how you could test them.

Module 2: Strategy and Business Acumen

• Learn invaluable lessons on how to form your personal leadership strategy.
• Develop an understanding of how to develop and be committed to enhancing your leadership skills through changing times.
• Identify your strengths and gaps and receive 360o feedback from faculty and peers.
• Learn to lead and manage stakeholders effectively by engaging in case studies, simulations, and role play.
• Learn how to use storytelling as a communication tool to catalyse your personal brand.
• Attend the first ELP career progression workshop to establish your personal brand.
• Apply the learnings from the previous module to provide a comprehensive assessment of your business problem and formulate an initial solution for your Action Learning Project (ALP).

Module 3: Transformational Leadership

• Bring newly gained insights in-between modules into your daily work tasks to drive results and create business value.
• Learn about new and advanced digital technologies and their applications to transform products, processes, and business models.
• Explore the business drivers of technology-related decisions in firms.
• Equip yourself with skills, tools, and frameworks to formulate and implement competitive strategies for your firm.
• Gain industry perspective to explore and create new-age business opportunities.
• Enable user-centric thinking in your organisation with practical skills such as design thinking.
• Learn to embrace and inspire a culture of innovation and change.
• Rewire your leadership mindset for the future and mitigate the effects of disruption with innovation at scale.
• Attend focused career progression workshops on networking effectively and crafting your career development plan.

Module 4: Building Agile Organisations

• Drive customer excellence by understanding customer value propositions in business markets.
• Join engaging conversations with industry practitioners and entrepreneurs in an exclusive roundtable event.
• Complete a thorough self-assessment of your business problem with reflections from your learnings complemented with guidance from faculty and your peer group.
• Present your comprehensive Action Learning Project (ALP).