Senior Leadership Program for Organizational Excellence

Name: Senior Leadership Program for Transformation and Organizational Excellence
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Master executive influence, strategic decision-making, and organizational leadership across four interdependent dimensions.

Senior Leadership Program for Organizational Excellence

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Duration: 12 days
Format: Classroom
Cities: London, Sharm El-Sheikh, Madrid, Abu Dhabi, Istanbul, Rome and more
Next session: 5 – 16 October 2026, London
Average fee: 9,900 €

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Senior Leadership Program for Transformation and Organizational Excellence

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Overview

Transformation programmes stall at the top more often than on the front line: sponsors lose alignment, operating model redesigns drift, and excellence initiatives become reporting exercises. The Senior Leadership Program for Transformation and Organizational Excellence is a two-week executive programme for leaders who own an enterprise change agenda. Participants work on a live transformation case from their own organisation, building a case for change, a target operating model, a sponsorship map, a benefits realisation plan and an excellence self-assessment. Each day ends with a board-style review in which executives defend their decisions to peers acting as a steering committee. This course is delivered by Agile Leaders Training Center.

Who Should Attend

Top executives accountable for the organisation's overall performance and its change agenda
Leaders responsible for turning strategy into an executed transformation portfolio
Directors who own institutional excellence, quality and performance results
Sponsors and steering committee members who approve, fund and govern transformation programmes
Directors leading mergers, restructurings or digital operating model changes

Departments and Industries

Participants typically come from units that design, fund or measure enterprise transformation.

Transformation Management Offices and Strategy Realisation Units
Institutional Excellence and Quality Award Teams
Organisation Design and Operating Model Functions
Enterprise Portfolio and Investment Committees
Government Entities, Utilities, Healthcare Networks, Banks and Holding Groups

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Build a compelling case for change that links strategic intent to measurable burning platforms.
Build a target operating model covering structure, processes, capabilities and governance, sequenced into waves with stage gates and decision rights.
Analyse sponsors, resistors and change agents and plan a sponsorship cascade.
Use a benefits realisation register with owners, baselines and tracking cadence.
Evaluate organisational excellence through a self-assessment based on the EFQM Direction, Execution and Results logic.
Apply culture levers, from rituals and incentives to leadership behaviours, and defend a transformation charter to a board-level audience.

Course Agenda

Day 1: The Executive Mandate for Transformation

Why transformations fail: evidence from stalled enterprise programmes
Distinguishing incremental improvement, restructuring and full transformation
The role of the executive sponsor versus the programme director
Diagnosing organisational readiness and change saturation
Selecting each participant's live transformation case and framing the transformation question for the steering committee

Day 2: Building the Case for Change

Translating strategy into a transformation ambition statement
Quantifying the cost of standing still
Scenario planning for competitive, regulatory and technology shifts
Crafting the change narrative for boards, staff and regulators
Testing the case with a sceptical stakeholder panel and seeking steering committee approval

Day 3: Target Operating Model Design

Operating model canvas: value chain, organisation, locations, information, suppliers
Centralisation, federation and shared service choices
Spans, layers and decision rights in the future organisation
Capability mapping and gap prioritisation
Drafting the current-state to future-state bridge and stress-testing it before the steering committee

Day 4: Transformation Governance and Roadmapping

Structuring a transformation office and its reporting lines
Wave planning, dependencies and stage-gate criteria
Portfolio rationalisation: stopping projects that no longer fit
Escalation paths and executive decision forums
Integrated transformation dashboard design and steering committee approval of the roadmap

Day 5: Sponsorship, Stakeholders and Resistance

Sponsorship cascades from board to front-line supervisors
Stakeholder heat maps and influence planning
Reading the sources of resistance: loss, uncertainty and capability
Engaging unions, regulators and long-tenured staff
Designing the change agent network and presenting the engagement plan to the steering committee

Day 6: Culture and Leadership Behaviours

Culture diagnostics: the cultural web and values audits
Defining the few critical behaviours that move results
Role-modelling by the executive team and symbolic acts
Aligning incentives, promotions and recognition with the new culture
Leading through ambiguity during restructuring, with a steering committee review of the culture shift plan

Day 7: Organisational Excellence Models

Principles of excellence frameworks and quality awards
Direction, Execution and Results in the current EFQM Model, and the RADAR assessment logic
Running an evidence-based self-assessment workshop
Turning assessment findings into improvement projects and reviewing them with the steering committee
Process ownership and end-to-end process management

Day 8: Benefits Realisation and Performance

Benefits mapping from initiative to strategic outcome
Baselines, leading indicators and tracking cadence
Balanced scorecards and objectives-and-key-results for transformation
Handling benefit leakage and double counting
Reporting transformation value to the board and signing off the benefits register

Day 9: Digital Enablement and Sustaining Momentum

Digital and data as transformation accelerators
Agile ways of working at enterprise scale
Avoiding transformation fatigue and quick-win traps
Institutionalising change in policy, structure and systems
Succession and capability building for the next wave, with a steering committee review of the sustainability plan

Day 10: Transformation Charter Presentations

Assembling the complete transformation charter
Board-style presentations of each participant's case
Peer challenge and executive panel feedback
Personal commitments as a transformation leader
First-hundred-days action plan on return to work and programme close

Practical Exercises

These suggested activities apply the programme's tools to each participant's own transformation case.

Suggested activity: draft a case for change and ambition statement, then map the future organisation on the target operating model canvas.
Suggested activity: build a sponsorship cascade and stakeholder heat map for your transformation.
Suggested activity: plan transformation waves against a stage-gate checklist and run a culture web diagnostic.
Suggested activity: complete the excellence self-assessment workbook and a benefits realisation register.

FAQs

Do participants need to bring a real transformation case?

It is strongly recommended. Each participant develops a charter for an actual or planned change in their organisation; a realistic composite case is provided for those who cannot share details.

How long is each daily session and the whole programme?

Daily sessions run approximately four to five hours, giving forty to fifty hours across the ten days, including case work and steering committee reviews.

Is this a general leadership skills course?

No. Personal leadership skills are touched on only as they apply to sponsoring change. The focus is enterprise transformation: operating model design, governance, culture, excellence assessment and benefits delivery.

Conclusion

Rather than working through interpersonal skills one by one, this programme follows a single transformation from ambition to board approval. Every tool, from the operating model canvas to the benefits register, is applied to the participant's own case, and every day ends with a mock steering committee. Executives leave with a complete transformation charter they can table at their next board meeting.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Istanbul	Week 33, 2027 16 – 27 August 2027	12 Days	Onsite	€8,500
Tbilisi	Week 33, 2027 16 – 27 August 2027	12 Days	Onsite	€8,800
Jakarta	Week 33, 2027 16 – 27 August 2027	12 Days	Onsite	€10,000
Amman	Week 33, 2027 22 August – 2 September 2027	12 Days	Onsite	€7,000
Cape town	Week 33, 2027 22 August – 2 September 2027	12 Days	Onsite	€6,400
Cairo	Week 34, 2027 23 August – 3 September 2027	12 Days	Onsite	€7,000
Manama	Week 34, 2027 29 August – 9 September 2027	12 Days	Onsite	€8,000
Johannesburg	Week 34, 2027 29 August – 9 September 2027	12 Days	Onsite	€6,400
Kuala Lumpur	Week 36, 2027 6 – 17 September 2027	12 Days	Onsite	€9,000
Milan	Week 36, 2027 6 – 17 September 2027	12 Days	Onsite	€10,000
Doha	Week 36, 2027 12 – 23 September 2027	12 Days	Onsite	€10,000
Zanzibar	Week 37, 2027 19 – 30 September 2027	12 Days	Onsite	€9,000
Muscat	Week 38, 2027 26 September – 7 October 2027	12 Days	Onsite	€11,400
Dubai	Week 39, 2027 27 September – 8 October 2027	12 Days	Onsite	€8,500
Baku	Week 39, 2027 27 September – 8 October 2027	12 Days	Onsite	€8,800
Vienna	Week 40, 2027 4 – 15 October 2027	12 Days	Onsite	€10,000

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewTransformation programmes stall at the top more often than on the front line: sponsors lose alignment, operating model redesigns drift, and excellence initiatives become reporting exercises. The Senior Leadership Program for Transformation and Organizational Excellence is a two-week executive programme for leaders who own an enterprise change agen…

Are training dates available?

Yes. Available dates and destinations are listed in the course dates section on this page.

How can I register?

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Senior Leadership Program for Organizational Excellence