An Intensive 5-day Training Course

The Advanced Professional Certificate in
Strategic Management & Leadership

High-Impact Results in a Complex and Changing World

INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE

This intensive 10-day Advanced Professional Certificate in Strategic Management & Leadership training course is designed to elevate your leadership and strategic thinking to new heights. Developed for senior professionals, business leaders, and emerging executives, the training course focuses on the most current and effective approaches for navigating complexity, driving innovation, and achieving sustainable high-impact results in today’s rapidly evolving global marketplace.

Participants will explore cutting-edge practices drawn from global corporations, high-performing start-ups, and leading strategic thinkers. With a hands-on approach, the course challenges you to apply proven methodologies directly to your own organizational context. It goes beyond conventional theory, covering a broad spectrum of topics from trend analysis and business model innovation to value-based pricing and culture transformation. Through a powerful combination of case studies, experiential exercises, and strategic frameworks, participants will gain the critical leadership skills to influence, persuade, and empower others while building robust, forward-looking strategies.

This training course is structured in two modules and is highly recommended as a full two-week program for maximum benefit and transformation. It presents a unique opportunity to refine your tools, sharpen your competitive edge, and position your organization for long-term success.

Key highlights of this Advanced Professional Certificate in Strategic Management & Leadership training course include:

  • Developing an innovation-driven mindset to stay competitive in a dynamic environment
  • Leveraging trend analysis to anticipate emerging customer demands
  • Building a high-performance, purpose-driven company culture
  • Exploring the dimensions of strategic leadership and their influence on organizational outcomes
  • Strengthening your ability to lead with purpose, agility, and measurable impact

This training course is split into two modules:

Module I - Advanced Professional Certificate in Strategic Management

Module II - Advanced Professional Certificate in Strategic Leadership

Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a 2-week training course.

COURSE DETAILS

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OBJECTIVES

By the end of this Advanced Professional Certificate in Strategic Management & Leadership training course, participants will be able to:

  • Apply innovative and forward-thinking approaches to strategic leadership
  • Analyze industry trends and customer behavior to shape responsive strategies
  • Cultivate a company culture that drives innovation, engagement, and performance
  • Design and execute strategic plans that lead to measurable results
  • Use principled leadership systems to make high-impact, sustainable strategic decisions
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TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This Advanced Professional Certificate in Strategic Management & Leadership training course uses an interactive approach with practical, real-world applications. It includes lectures, case studies, group discussions, and individual and group exercises to promote experiential learning. The focus is on active participation, collaboration, and acquiring tangible skills and strategies that can be immediately applied to the delegates’ work environments. Personalized guidance will be provided to ensure delegates achieve maximum learning outcomes.

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ORGANISATIONAL IMPACT

By investing in this training course, organizations will benefit from:

  • Enhanced leadership and decision-making skills that drive better performance, resource allocation, and competitive positioning
  • Broader adoption of strategic frameworks that align with current market demands
  • Improved ability to generate customer and shareholder value through targeted strategic initiatives
  • Stronger internal culture and leadership pipelines prepared to scale and innovate
  • Advanced capability in pricing strategy, trend analysis, and market differentiation
  • Practical implementation of business strategies that result in measurable, sustainable outcomes
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PERSONAL IMPACT

Attending this training course will empower participants with the capabilities to lead confidently and think strategically. Key personal benefits include:

  • Strengthened leadership presence, communication, and collaboration skills
  • Deeper understanding of strategic and competitive frameworks applicable to your sector
  • Increased ability to spot insights, assess trends, and create market-responsive strategies
  • Enhanced skillset in building and sustaining high-performance cultures
  • Greater fluency in innovation, value pricing, and change leadership
  • Practical tools to deliver immediate impact and long-term value in current and future roles
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This training course is designed for experienced professionals from any industry and any specialization who wish to gain a broader appreciation of the dynamics strategic leadership and develop their personal roles in creating the future for their organization.

This KC Academy Advanced Professional Certificate in Strategic Management & Leadership training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Senior Managers
  • Managers taking on a more senior and strategic role in their organization
  • Supervisors taking on additional strategic responsibilities.
  • Managers wanting to refresh their strategic management tools.
  • Specialist Managers
  • Operational Managers
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Business Consultants

DAILY AGENDA

Module 1: Advanced Professional Certificate in Strategic Management
Day 1: Fundamentals of Strategic Management
  • The essential components of strategy
  • Strategic problem solving
  • Framing the challenge and formulating a strategic hypothesis
  • Strategic analysis and the Industry Environment
  • Strategic sources of power and multipliers
  • Introduction to delegate’s particular core strategic challenges
Day 2: Strategic Innovation
  • Fundamentals of Innovation
  • Gaining insights: tools and techniques
  • Trend curation and analysis
  • Business innovation
  • Implementing innovation in the organization
  • Bringing innovation to market
Day 3: Unlocking Strategic Value
  • Unlock strategic value
  • Scenario Planning
  • Value Pricing
  • Unlock customer opportunities
  • Become a “category of one”
  • Compound your results in a virtuous cycle of action
Day 4: Strategic Leadership
  • Principled Decision-Making
  • Leadership systems to enhance strategic choices
  • Creating and stimulating a conscious organization
  • Aligning organizational structure with strategy
  • The role of leadership and culture in strategy implementation
Day 5: Strategic Implementation, Evaluation, and Control
  • Implementing strategy in the organization
  • Evaluation and control in strategy implementation
  • The use of balanced scorecard, bench-marking, and other strategic tools
  • Apply continuous improvement
  • Set up systems for ongoing feedback
Module 2: Advanced Professional Certificate in Strategic Leadership
Day 6: Why Strategic Leadership Matters
  • Strategic leadership defined
  • Assessing the role of strategic leaders
  • Leadership theories
  • Leading versus managing
  • What distinguishes strategic leaders
  • Top management teams
Day 7: Key Strategic Leadership Actions
  • Setting strategic vision
  • Building and sustaining an effective organisational culture
  • Top management teams
  • The multiple functions of strategic leaders
  • The outcomes of strategic leadership functions
Day 8: Main Characteristics of Strategic Leaders
  • Nature and/or nurture?
  • The link between personality and leadership effectiveness
  • Leadership development
  • Individual-level characteristics
    • The ‘Big Five’
    • Charisma
    • Motivation
    • Knowledge, skills and abilities
  • Decision-making limitations and biases
  • Group-level attributes
    • Diversity
    • The knowledge, skills and abilities of top-management team
    • Top-management team interaction
    • How strategic leaders shape behaviour
Day 9: Environmental Factors
  • The impact of context on strategic leadership
  • External aspects of strategic leadership
    • How firm’s external environment affects strategic leadership
    • How strategic leadership affects the firm’s environment
  • Macroeconomic conditions
  • Industry and competition variables
  • Socio-cultural features
  • The internal organisational context
    • Ownership
    • Firm size
    • Resource availability
    • Complexity
Day 10: The Outcomes
  • Organisational performance
    • Multidimensional economic and non-economic factors
  • Strategic decisions
    • The process of strategy selection
    • The degree of risk taking
  • Innovation
    • The role of leaders in R&D productivity of organisations
  • Social issues
    • Emphasising ethical practices
  • Incorporating societal trends
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Certificate

On successful completion of this training course, KC ACademy Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.

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