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Giving senior executives the leading edge
Leaders face a continuous barrage of prescriptions – books, talks and programmes urge them to develop visions, listen to their teams, stay the course in hard times, and communicate. Most leaders know this. Few report that this ‘knowledge’ solves their problems.
Leadership Excellence through Awareness and Practice (LEAP) helps senior leaders bridge this gap. The six-month training – comprising three residential modules and individual and group work in between – focuses less on telling leaders what to do differently; instead, it helps them explore how they can be different to the benefit of themselves, their teams, and their organisations.
Indeed, much of the time on the programme is spent enabling participants to shift behaviour in the areas that would give their leadership the greatest leverage.
Key learning concepts in the programme curriculum
The LEAP programme facilitates transformative senior executive leadership development through four key steps:
Awareness: LEAP fosters deep self-awareness, behaviour, thoughts, and your impact on others.
Intention: By setting sincere intentions, LEAP raises the likelihood of successful behavioural change.
(Overcoming) Interference: Using cognitive behavioural techniques, LEAP equips participants with strategies to identify and overcome obstacles.
Practice: LEAP's modular structure facilitates repeated practice of desired behaviours until they become habitual.
LEAP addresses change across organisational, interpersonal, and intrapersonal levels. It explores diverse questions tailored to each level, promoting holistic development.
Read more about our curriculum and syllabus
Our Participant Profile
LEAP is designed for senior executives with at least 15 years of leadership experience and who are operating at or near the top of their organisations. This includes C-suite leaders (CEOs), managing directors or executive vice-presidents in large and medium-sized corporations; senior partners in professional firms; senior executives in not-for-profit or public organisations; entrepreneurs; owners of large family businesses; and board members of any such organisations.
Skills you will develop
- Leadership and Vision
- Self-awareness
- Resilience and Agility
- Executive Presence
- Communication
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How you benefit
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Gain a better understanding of your leadership style, its origins, and impacts on you and others
Revisit your priorities – current and future – and hone in on the professional and personal legacy you want to leave behind
Shift leadership behaviour in ways that will amplify your strengths and develop new capabilities through identification, development, feedback and practice
Complement “doing” with “reflection” thereby enhancing your capacity to self-learn.
What You Will Get
This programme qualifies for the INSEAD Certificate in Global Management.
The certificate is a formal recognition in areas of global management and leadership. Please refer to the certification requirements here.
Programme Directors
Professor of Management Practice
IN Focus
Roger Maechler
CFO of Octapharma, Switzerland
In one way, the pandemic afforded a natural inflection or break. It felt like the right moment to stop, to provoke a dialogue with myself and to seek different perspectives; as well as the stimulus from outside to reassess my context and prepare for the next 10 or 20 years ahead.
Nicolas de La Giroday
VP General Manager
For anyone looking to have a long lasting positive impact, there’s a real imperative to step back, to take that time away and to create the opportunity to fine-tune yourself. And to be at your most effective – to be the very best version of yourself – you really need to know who you are.
Mabel Yap
Director of the Professional Training and Assessment Standards Division at the Singapore Ministry of Health, Singapore
For me, it’s this emphasis on personal development that makes LEAP unique. We were guided through a wide range of awareness exercises, which were helpful in identifying areas for improvement in our leadership behaviour.
James Stewart
Chairman of Partners at Ferrier Hodgson, Australia
LEAP is a great opportunity to reflect on your personal style and understand how other people perceive you and respond to your behaviour in ways that you perhaps don’t see yourself. It gives you a chance to explore making changes that not only benefit you but also the people you work with.
Adaptive Cognitive Behavioural Approach to Change
Interview with LEAP participants
INSEAD LEAP: Leadership Excellence through Awareness and Practice Programme
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