The Leadership Program
A 12-month certified leadership program that empowers managers to lead with confidence, clarity, and impact.
Develop confident leaders. Drive real results.
Whether you're building a stronger leadership bench or ready to invest in your own growth, the right development makes all the difference.
The Leadership Program equips emerging leaders with practical tools, strategic thinking, and the confidence to lead with impact. Designed to support individual transformation and broader business performance, it helps turn potential into progress, benefiting both the leader and the organisation.
Strong leaders lift teams. Strong teams lift businesses. This program ensures both rise together.
The cost of underdeveloped leaders
When leaders aren’t fully equipped to step up, the impact is felt at every level. Time-poor executives remain bogged down in day-to-day operations instead of focusing on strategic growth to achieve business goals. Promising managers struggle to make confident decisions, missing key opportunities and affecting team momentum. As performance and morale stagnates, so too does engagement, leading to stalled succession plans, retention challenges, and untapped potential across the business.
What You’ll Gain
Through The Leadership Program, you’ll:
- Build confidence to lead yourself, your team, and your business unit.
- Gain clarity around your leadership style, and how to adapt it to different people and situations.
- Learn practical tools for managing performance, holding difficult conversations, and influencing others.
- Join a powerful network of peers who are facing similar challenges and ready to grow.
Whether you’re part of a company cohort or joining as an individual delegate, you’ll get real-world insight - not just theory.
How to Get Started
Join a learning cohort – Individuals will connect with leaders from diverse industries and corporate groups will be formed by the business leaders
Learn from real-world sessions – Practical business topics developed from CEO feedback
Earn your certification – Graduate with the CertM qualification* and new leadership confidence.
* Candidates who have successfully attended the monthly 12 course sessions and have a minimum three years of management experience are automatically awarded Full Certified Manager certification.
Program Details
A certified manager program backed by CEO-level insights.
The Leadership Program runs as a focused, two-hour session each month over 12 months. The program is designed to deliver long-term impact without disrupting day-to-day responsibilities. For organisations enrolling a leadership cohort, the program is tailored to align with your specific business goals and challenges. For individual participants, a curated 12-month curriculum ensures relevant, practical development that builds confidence and capability.
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Click here to view our sample 12-month program.Leadership Fundamentals – For All Levels of Leadership
Overview:
Examine the foundations of effective leadership by exploring core principles, essential traits, and communication strategies that inspire, influence, and align teams around shared goals.
Leading with Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
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Understand how emotional intelligence enhances leadership through self-awareness, empathy, and relationship building. Gain practical tools to navigate difficult situations, foster trust, and lead with emotional depth and insight.
Building High-Performance Teams
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Culture doesn’t happen by accident. This session explores what drives team performance and how to shape a thriving culture with purpose. Participants will gain actionable tools to build trust, foster collaboration, and embed a high-performance mindset.
The Habit of Achieving Goals
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Move beyond conventional goal-setting. This session reframes achievement as an ongoing journey of clarity, adaptability, and personal growth - equipping you with habits to drive consistent progress and purposeful outcomes.
Creating a Culture of Accountability: Beyond the Buzzword
Overview:
Accountability is more than holding people to tasks - it’s about cultivating ownership, commitment, and growth. This session provides strategies to embed accountability into your team culture, empowering others to take initiative and deliver results.
Transforming Conflict into Progress
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Conflict is inevitable - but how we respond is what defines outcomes. Learn to approach disagreement as a catalyst for insight and transformation. This session explores mindset, emotional agility, and practical techniques for constructive conflict resolution that strengthens relationships and drives progress.
Communication & Strategic Influence
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Leadership communication isn’t just about what you say, it’s about how effectively you influence. This session equips you to engage teams, navigate stakeholders, and enhance credibility through intentional, purposeful communication that shapes outcomes.
Thinking Strategically About the Future
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Shift from reactive to proactive. Develop strategic thinking skills that help you anticipate change, spot emerging trends, and align your actions with long-term objectives, preparing you to lead with vision in an evolving world.
Innovative Problem Solving
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Tap into creative thinking through a human-centered design approach. This hands-on session gives you practical tools to solve complex challenges with innovation, empathy, and collaboration - reshaping how you approach opportunities and obstacles.
Finance for Non-Finance Leaders: Understanding P&L
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Decode the language of business by demystifying Profit & Loss statements. Learn how to interpret key financial data, connect performance metrics to strategy, and make confident, commercially savvy decisions.
Social Responsibility and Ethical Leadership
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Leadership today demands more than results, it requires responsibility. Explore ethical decision-making, corporate social responsibility, and how values-driven leadership shapes sustainable business and social impact.
Resilience & Wellbeing: Leading Without Burning Out
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Leadership pressure is real, but burnout doesn’t have to be. This session offers practical tools to build resilience, manage energy, and protect mental wellbeing - helping you lead sustainably while supporting the performance of those around you.
Grow your people.
Grow your business.
- Lift leadership capability across your business
- Free yourself from day-to-day management
- Build a stronger succession pipeline
- Drive better decisions at every level
Step into your full potential.
- Learn to lead with clarity and confidence
- Influence outcomes and think strategically
- Strengthen your personal leadership brand
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Earn a nationally recognised qualification
Your Next Step
Book a short discovery call with our team by filling in the form below.
We’ll help you work out if The Leadership Program is right for you or your people.
Because leadership isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about asking the right questions—and having the courage to grow.
No one should walk the leadership journey alone. Let’s walk it together.
When I commenced the program, I had been in my role as 2IC for approximately 12 months. Throughout the 12 months of the course, I gained enough confidence to step up into Acting CEO role and am currently CEO of the organisation for a contracted position until 2026. I couldn’t have done it without them and what I learned at this program.
I have gained meaningful knowledge from all sessions in the program provided by the CEO Institute. As always, thank you The CEO Institute in providing valuable lessons for us young leaders.
Very informative and very important program for anyone, but especially leaders. It's great to see all the learnings of the past 12 months, linking together to the bigger picture. The program has been amazing, and I have grown so much as a leader. Thank CEO Institute.
I'm halfway through this course and I must say that the Certified Manager Program being provided by the CEO Institute really made me grow and mature towards my leadership role. This program opened me to the next step of my career and geared me to have confidence, learning, values and importance of servant leadership.
I just wanted to say thank you for including me in the certified managers program. I have really enjoyed the experience and got so much out of the program, not only from the speakers but also listening to the other participants. It has been a rewarding and educational experience, and I can’t believe that my last session was yesterday. Finally, thank you for all the work you have done over the last 12 months to make the program such a success.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Certified Manager Program and would highly recommend it to all managers. The speakers were engaging, and I appreciated the opportunity to interact with them as well as fellow participants. Hearing about their challenges and successes in their roles was incredibly insightful. The program also provided valuable guidance on how I can improve as a manager and maximize my impact within my firm. As a result, I am a more effective and confident leader.
This was a great program. The topics and presenters were fantastic. The program not only provided me with the tools to improve my leadership but also opened my eyes to different views/perspectives/approaches to leadership.