Executive Leadership and Strategy

Programme purpose

The programme develops the capacity to frame strategic questions, examine the quality of evidence behind a proposed direction, make coherent choices and lead implementation without separating performance from responsibility.

Intended participants

The programme is designed for experienced managers, functional leaders, founders and senior professionals whose roles require decisions across organisational boundaries. Formal academic prerequisites are not normally required, but relevant management experience is expected.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion, participants should be able to:

• Distinguish strategic diagnosis from aspiration and planning
• Assess external conditions, organisational capabilities and material constraints
• Formulate choices that specify priorities, exclusions and resource implications
• Examine governance, stakeholder and conduct consequences
• Translate direction into an accountable execution architecture
• Communicate a decision with evidence, assumptions and limitations

Curriculum

The curriculum covers strategic diagnosis; competitive and institutional context; purpose and value creation; choice and resource allocation; executive decision processes; organisational alignment; change and execution; governance; crisis judgement; and a final integrative case.

Learning and assessment

Designed learning time is 40 hours across taught sessions, guided reading, case preparation and independent work. The assessed route uses an integrative case submission evaluated against published criteria for diagnosis, reasoning, coherence, evidence and responsible implementation.

Certificate status

EAB certificates are proprietary records of professional learning. They are not Ofqual-regulated qualifications, academic degrees, professional licences or authorisation to undertake a regulated activity.