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Communicate with impact in the most demanding leadership situations
Leading effectively in complex situations hinges on your capacity to communicate in ways that mobilise others and connect with their emotions, goals, and needs.
Impactful Communication for Leaders is a highly experiential online programme designed to enhance your leadership impact through strategic and effective communication. The aim is to strengthen your ability to articulate your vision such that it truly resonates with others—by building a deeper understanding of yourself: your communication style, personality, and presence as a leader.
You will engage in deep self-reflection, peer dialogue, immersive learning, and AI-driven simulations to put your insights into practice. And you emerge with a personalised toolkit that will empower you to communicate, influence, and engage stakeholders at all levels—whether interpersonal, organisationally, or externally.
Skills you will develop
- Communication
- Self-awareness
- Leading Teams
- Executive Presence
Our participant profile
Impactful Communication for Leaders is designed for executives across all leadership levels in business, advisory, and consulting, who face complex communication challenges—from leading diverse stakeholder groups to building engagement and alignment in high-stakes scenarios.
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How you benefit
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Build the self-awareness to enhance authenticity and elevate your leadership impact
Craft and deliver messages that resonate with others to foster trust, engagement and alignment
Leverage leadership presence and storytelling to communicate with clarity, charisma, and authority
Navigate difficult or high-stakes conversations with emotional intelligence and strategic structure
Apply your learning systematically in the workplace through an Action Learning Project and a personalised communication plan
What you will get
Upon successfully completing all the programme requirements in time, you will receive an official Certificate of Completion from INSEAD, which you can also share with your network on LinkedIn.
This programme also qualifies for the INSEAD Online Certificates: Leading in a Transforming World, a formal recognition of your continuous professional leadership development and your commitment to succeed in a transforming, disruptive landscape.
Programme Director
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Choose our Premium Journey
Deepen the impact of your Action Learning Project (ALP) with extended, in-depth coaching
A cornerstone of INSEAD’s cohort-based online programmes, Action Learning Projects (ALPs) are guided, real-world assignments that enable you to apply new skills directly to your role and organisation—delivering immediate and lasting business impact.
STANDARD | PREMIUM | |
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| Learning Coach Support | 2 hours, spread across multiple sessions | 4 hours, spread across multiple sessions |
| ALP Support Timeframe | Guidance from programme start through ALP submission | Additional support for up to 4 weeks after the peer review deadline |
| Access to Programme Content | 6 months from start date | 12 months from start date |
| Fee | Included in the programme fee | Additional €680 |
Please note:
- The Premium Journey must be selected at the time of application and cannot be added later
- Premium Journey participants may choose to utilise all their coaching hours before the ALP submission or extend support into the post-peer review period
- All participants start the programme at the same time, receive the same programme content and certificate, and must meet the same ALP submission and peer review deadlines—regardless of the journey selected.
Recommended learning
Participants are strongly encouraged to also consider the Executive Presence and Influence programme, which explores persuasive communication, influence, and executive presence in greater depth.
Taken together, these two programmes create a powerful learning journey—from mastering influence techniques, to communicating with impact in the most demanding leadership situations.
Executive Presence and Influence
Leading Through Change and Uncertainty
Leading Organisations in Disruptive Times
INSEAD's cutting-edge online programmes
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Learn
Through outstanding design and delivery, INSEAD’s online programmes build upon our world-class faculty’s ability to convey very complex concepts in the simplest yet most comprehensible way.
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- Content designed specifically for the online format, including short high-impact videos
- Professional, television-quality filming in INSEAD amphitheatres with actual participants
- Use of relevant and engaging examples and short case studies from a wide range of industries
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Interact
Through a rich set of interactive elements, we build a community of faculty, learning coaches and diverse, high-quality global executives who learn together as a group - one of INSEAD’s strengths.
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- A mobile-friendly learning platform built to maximise interaction and engagement
- Faculty answering questions during the programme via live calls and just-in-time videos
- A learning coach guides participants through the programme at each step, simulating content discussions and helping them with their learning.
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Apply
Action-Learning Projects are a core element of the online programmes designed to increase business impact.
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- The guided ‘real-world assignments’ feature of the programmes encourages participants to take newly acquired skills and apply them within the context of their actual job and organisation.
- The projects are closely aligned with the learning in the programme and benefit from the learning community, with feedback from the learning coach.
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Certification
Upon successful completion of all programme activities, combined with satisfactory grades on the final assignment, participants are awarded with an official Certificate of Completion from INSEAD, which they can also showcase on their LinkedIn profile.
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Upon successful completion of all programme activities, combined with satisfactory grades on the final assignment, participants are awarded with an official Certificate of Completion from INSEAD, which they can also showcase on their LinkedIn profile.
