Emerging CEO Programme
Transform ambition into leadership excellence
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Empowering tomorrow's leaders to drive transformation
In today’s competitive business environment, organisations are increasingly looking across the leadership spectrum as they seek fresh perspectives and bold, strategic thinkers. If you are a senior professional aspiring to be a CEO, you must move from operational efficiency to becoming strategically indispensable.
The six-month Emerging CEO Programme from Imperial Executive Education is designed to help senior leaders transition into the CEO role. The immersive curriculum will equip you with skills in ethical leadership, strategic management and corporate governance, empowering you to successfully navigate the responsibilities of a CEO. Through real-world case studies, industry examples and executive strategy activities, you will acquire the necessary skills to transform your organisation with forward-thinking strategies and influential leadership while inspiring diverse teams.
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What you will learn
The Emerging CEO Programme will enable you to:
Understand the executive leadership skills necessary to excel in a forward-thinking C-suite role
Foster a culture of innovation that drives organisational evolution through transformative leadership
Leverage strategic frameworks to navigate rapid market shifts and competitive dynamics with confidence
Evaluate and optimise funding mechanisms, ensuring alignment with the organisation's strategic priorities and growth objectives
Design integrated strategies that align financial, operational and leadership objectives with the organisation’s short- and long-term goals
Analyse and refine structural frameworks to enhance decision-making efficiency and organisational alignment
Strengthen your executive communication to build and fortify stakeholder relationships
Anticipate and adapt to emerging trends, positioning your organisation for sustained growth in a complex world
Immersive Learning
Experience an immersive learning journey that extends beyond the classroom through online sessions, live online sessions, discussion forums and toolkit activities, gaining hands-on experience in relevant skills. You will:
Engage with global peers, guest speakers, esteemed faculty and a cohort success coach through online sessions to solidify your understanding of the evolving role of a CEO
Collaborate with your cohort during discussion forums to share your programme learnings and exchange ideas, enhancing your understanding through teamwork
Apply programme learnings to complete weekly assignments, which culminate in two executive strategy activities, transforming your programme knowledge into actionable skills
Receive the guidance and support of a cohort success coach as you blend your career goals with your learning journey
Curriculum
This comprehensive six-month learning journey enhances leadership capabilities, CEO strategies and transformation imperatives. The modules, designed by world-renowned Imperial Executive Education faculty with expertise in leadership and strategy, will help you understand the intricacies and complexities of a C-suite role.
Understand the executive leadership skills necessary to excel in a forward-thinking C-suite role. Navigate the current business landscape confidently by gaining expertise in effective decision-making, strategic management and ethical leadership. Explore how to drive innovation and profitability while ensuring alignment with sustainable practices and responsibility.
Module 1: Organisational Structures: From Hierarchies to Networks
Module 2: Navigating and Influencing Complex Politics
Module 3: Building Collaborations at the Executive Level
Module 4: Understanding Enablers and Derailers to Career Progression in the C-Suite
Module 5: Building Trust and Relationship Management
Module 6: Adept Communication: The Art of Storytelling
Module 7: Fostering a Culture of Ethics
Module 8: Inspiring Cohesive, Effective Teams
Module 9: Future Forces Transforming Demands on the C-Suite
Module 10: The Role of C-Suite in Driving Digital Transformation
Module 11: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG): Balancing Profitability and Responsibility
Module 12: Understanding and Appreciating Diversity in the Workplace
Find your unique CEO voice that resonates with top talent, innovators and stakeholders. Create an environment of mutual respect and openness within the C-suite to encourage innovation, risk-taking and rapid iteration. Navigate the complexities of sustaining growth while also moving towards profitability and scalable systems.
Module 13: The CEO Role in High-Growth Organisations
Module 14: Individuality as a CEO
Module 15: Corporate Governance
Module 16: The C-Suite
Module 17: Financial Strategies
Module 18: Navigating Funding Sources
Align the organisation’s vision with agile expansion, innovation-driven growth mechanisms and transformation strategies that can adapt to fast-changing industries and market landscapes. Unify teams in an era of change, ensuring adaptability and resilience while scaling and building for growth. Attract and retain top talent in innovative fields with strategies that can endure transitions and growth phases.
Module 19: Executing on the Innovation Edge
Module 20: Corporate Strategy for Disruptive Growth
Module 21: Executive Communication
Module 22: Leading through Flux
Module 23: Talent Strategies for High Growth
Module 24: Stewarding Culture
Executive Strategy Activities
Across the Emerging CEO Programme experience, you will apply programme lessons to complete two executive strategy activities, consisting of weekly assignments. These assignments are an opportunity to synthesise programme insights and apply them directly to resolve real-life challenges.
Executive toolkit activity
These required activities, which are built into each module, will equip aspiring C-level leaders with the necessary skills to lead at the executive level and offer regular opportunities to translate theory into practice. The project includes a variety of research-based activities.
Executive workbook
This project will require you to leverage CEO-specific strategies and skills to build a transformation road map for your organisation. Each week, you will complete an assignment, crafting a plan for how your organisation will navigate the complex business landscape, and apply innovative initiatives to achieve business objectives.
Programme highlights
Cutting-edge content
Benefit from a balanced curriculum that is focused on leading your organisation while building a strategic mindset and cross-functional leadership skills.
Interactive sessions
Leverage the synergies of real-time learning with faculty, guest speakers and a cohort success coach.
Esteemed faculty and industry experts
Gain insights into modern-day CEO responsibilities from esteemed Imperial College Business School faculty and distinguished industry experts.
Peer learning
Engage with like-minded peers from diverse fields during discussion forums to exchange ideas and enrich your learning experience.
Executive strategy activities
Complete more than 20 hands-on activities, including the executive toolkit activity and the executive workbook, to strengthen your programme learning.
Self-study and reflection exercises
Reinforce core concepts and reflect on learning outcomes through module-specific activities.
Case studies and industry examples
Learn from real-world examples to understand the evolving CEO role and business landscape.
Success coach
Craft your learning journey in line with your career goals with a success coach assigned to your cohort.
Emerging CEO Programme with Imperial Executive Education
The Emerging CEO Programme equips you with the essential knowledge, skills and tools needed to navigate the complexities of today’s business landscape. Imperial’s exceptional leadership training is developed by distinguished industry experts and renowned faculty. These collaborations ensure you will benefit from the latest research and cutting-edge insights, enhancing your readiness for a successful transition to the CEO role.
Who is this programme for?
The six-month Emerging CEO Programme is designed for senior professionals aspiring to fast-track their transitions to C-suite roles. The programme helps develop a holistic view or ‘big picture’ mindset of the organisation, enabling participants to emerge as confident leaders capable of guiding the organisation through high-growth challenges.
This programme is particularly relevant for, but not limited to:
Functional heads and senior executives looking to gain exposure to cross-functional leadership, strategic decision-making and corporate governance while managing stakeholders and aligning innovation with profitability
Vice presidents, directors and their equivalents seeking personalised mentorship to expand their leadership capabilities and develop a mindset to navigate organisational and market challenges
Founders/co-founders of start-ups seeking insights into leadership presence, financial strategies and stakeholder management in order to scale their organisations
Meet the faculty
The programme faculty are world-renowned experts who foster a rich and comprehensive learning environment, ensuring participants gain essential insights and practical knowledge.
Programme Director and Lecturer at Imperial College Business School
Adam Kingl is highly regarded for his expertise in the future of business. His primary research focuses on the work and leadership paradigms of the youngest generations in the...
Advanced Research Fellow at the Institute for Security Science and Technology
Catherine Mulligan is an interdisciplinary researcher whose primary focus is digital technologies. She is also the Founder of the Sustainable Society Digital Collective, a dig...
Managing Director of the Centre for Responsible Leadership
Kate Coombs’s work primarily involves designing and testing behavioural interventions to drive cultural change within organisations, particularly in financial institutions. He...
Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Leadership and Vice Dean of EDI
Professor Sankalp Chaturvedi’s research focuses on effective leadership, mindfulness and collaboration mechanisms in teams. His articles have been published in the Journal of ...
Programme Director of the Imperial Leadership in a Technology Driven World Programme and Visiting Fellow
Frans Campher is a seasoned executive coach, trainer, and facilitator with extensive knowledge of global markets, business practices and protocols. He has worked with CEOs, ma...
Partner and Co-Founder at Candesic Strategy Consultants; Visiting Professor in Finance at Imperial College Business School
Marc Kitten has 25 years of experience in transactions and financial markets and advises corporations and financial investors. He serves on the boards of several fast-growing ...
Fractional CTO and Strategic Adviser
Khalil Dimachkie has an extensive technology leadership background, including ten years as a CTO. He leverages his leadership experience together with his expertise in softwar...
Principal Lecturer (Teaching); Admissions Tutor for the BSc Economics, Finance and Data Science degree at Imperial College Business School
Danielle Lyssimachou, an award-winning educator, is an academic leader and consultant in the field of accounting. Her research has been published in top academic journals, inc...
Certificate
Upon successful completion of the programme, participants will be awarded a verified digital certificate of completion by Imperial Executive Education.
Note: You will earn the Associate Alumni status upon successful completion of the programme. Visit the Associate Alumni page to find out more.
FAQs
The Emerging CEO Programme is a multimodular immersive learning journey that aims to provide participants with the skills and knowledge to emerge as strategic chief executive officers. This CEO training programme covers vast topics to help you learn strategic leadership skills, CEO roles and responsibilities and new mandates undertaken by CEOs in the last few years.
The Emerging CEO Programme is designed for senior professionals aspiring to fast-track their transitions to C-suite roles. This Emerging CEO course is particularly beneficial for individuals in roles such as assistant vice presidents and directors or associate directors, associate vice presidents and founders.
The Emerging CEO Programme has been designed with your busy schedule in mind. You will be required to commit not more than four to six hours per week, enabling you to benefit from this transformative programme while fulfilling your day-to-day work responsibilities. This impactful programme offers a blend of self-paced modules and live interaction.
The six-month learning journey includes live online and video online sessions with renowned faculty, industry experts and global peers. You can take advantage of live sessions and the Slack channel to ask questions and discuss ideas with your cohort success coach and participants. Real-world examples and in-depth programme learnings are delivered through a combination of recorded video and live online lectures.
The programme fee covers teaching fees, all academic material and access to online coursework.
You can pay the full programme fee upfront or pay in easy instalments. If you apply well in advance of the programme start date, you can receive a fee benefit. If you would like to approach your company with a sponsorship request for this programme, here is a customisable template that you can use.
Yes. Closed-captioning and transcripts for all pre-recorded videos and closed-captioning for recordings of live sessions are available.
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For the programme refund and deferral policy, please click the link here.
Programme fees for Emeritus programmes with Imperial Executive Education may not be paid for with (a) funds from the GI Bill, the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Act of 2008 or similar types of military education funding benefits or (b) Title IV financial aid funds.
Connect with a programme adviser for a 1:1 session
Our programme advisers have helped senior executives around the world choose the right programme for their career goals. Schedule a one-to-one session to get a deeper understanding of why the Emerging CEO Programme from Imperial Executive Education is right for you.
Email: learner.success@emeritus.org
Phone: +44 746 045 1107 (UK) / +1 315 236 4838 (US) / +65 3129 7468 (SG)
Early applications are encouraged. Admissions are reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis.
Flexible payment options available.
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