Leadership Essentials
Gain strategic decision-making clarity, build agile high-performance teams, influence stakeholders effectively, and confidently drive transformational change with adaptive leadership.
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Mar 22 - Aug 9, 2026
20 Weeks
₹ 1,60,000 + Taxes
Financing options available
Live-online and Self-paced
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in India (FT Global MBA Ranking 2025)
in Asia (FT Executive Education Open Ranking 2025)
Programmes delivered
Leaders nurtured
Key Takeaways
The programme equips you to:
- Elevate your self-awareness and understand your leadership style, mindset, and emotions to navigate challenges with clarity and confidence
- Build high-performing teams by designing diverse, productive team structures that sustain performance and foster innovation
- Master stakeholder engagement by developing strategies to balance priorities, foster collaboration, and effectively manage stakeholders
- Lead change with agility, drive transformative initiatives with adaptability and build credibility as a dynamic leader
16 Hours of Pre-recorded Videos
Access asynchronous content by ISB faculty, designed for flexible, self-paced learning
34 Quizzes
Assess your learning with quizzes at both module and course levels to reinforce key concepts and track progress
13 Live-virtual Sessions
Engage in live-virtual sessions offering interactive learning and real-time insights from leading experts
25 Integrative Thinking Activities
Engage in discussions post-quiz and compare your insights with experts
3 MasterClasses
Gain strategic insights through exclusive MasterClasses, designed to deepen your understanding and enhance your professional capabilities
1 Simulation
Enhance real-world decision-making with hands-on experiential learning
Is This Programme For You?
This programme is for professionals looking to strengthen leadership capability and lead teams with greater clarity.
It is ideal for:
- New and early managers building foundational leadership skills
- Mid-career professionals refining influence, communication, and team leadership
- Entrepreneurs aiming to lead high-performing, resilient teams
Programme Eligibility: Diploma/Bachelor’s degree (10+2+3/4) or equivalent from a recognised university; Minimum 10 years post-degree work experience.
Develop deeper self-awareness to understand your strengths, vulnerabilities, and emotional impact on performance. Learn to identify habits, adapt to new roles, and actively work on personal growth to achieve your goals with confidence and resilience.
Strengthen your leadership identity in times of change by exploring personal values, building resilience, and sharpening self-awareness. This journey focuses on growth, branding, and career development to help you progress with clarity and confidence.
Gain skills to lead teams by fostering collaboration, aligning goals, mastering delegation, coaching, feedback, and conflict management. Enhance virtual teamwork to build and sustain high-performing teams through continuous learning.
Build expertise in managing stakeholders by understanding their needs, influencing without authority, and resolving conflicts. Master strategies to foster collaboration and psychological safety, enabling cooperation across boundaries to achieve shared goals.
Lead the way in building resilient cultures that empower change and high performance. Learn to foster psychological safety, leverage behavioural insights, and apply frameworks that shape and sustain organisational success.
Effective change leadership starts with aligning stakeholders and building collaborative teams. This course equips you to tackle resistance, energise execution, and foster resilience, creating a shared vision to drive smooth, impactful organisational change.
In today’s tech-driven world, leaders must align strategy and culture for success. This course uses behavioural insights and practical approaches to help you anticipate disruption, harness innovation, and guide your organisation to adapt and thrive.
Adjuct Professor of Marketing and Strategy (Practice), ISB
Visiting Faculty, ISB
Shivani Khurana
Technical Account Management, Zscaler, Inc.
Parth Dudhatra
Senior Software Engineer, Amazon
Chandra Sekara Raju Vijayabattu
Administrative Partner, Mohan Chandra and Associates
ISB Executive Education programmes are designed for working professionals across career stages who are looking to accelerate their leadership impact, deepen domain expertise, or prepare for broader organisational responsibilities.
Our participants typically include:
- Mid-career professionals seeking functional depth or cross-functional growth
- Senior managers preparing for enterprise-level leadership roles
- CXOs and business owners looking to sharpen strategic thinking and future-ready capabilities
Time commitment varies by programme format and duration. Short-format programmes usually require a few hours per week over several weeks, while long-duration programmes may involve a higher weekly commitment over several months.
The learning experience typically includes:
- Live online sessions and/or in-person classroom sessions
- Asynchronous learning modules and readings
- Faculty-led discussions and case-based learning
- Individual assignments, group projects, and capstones
- Peer learning with a diverse cohort of experienced professionals
What are the programme fees, and are instalment or financing options available?
Payment options may include:
- One-time full payment
- Instalment plans
- Employer sponsorship or corporate invoicing
Know more about financing options here.
On successful completion of a programme, participants are awarded an official certificate issued by either ISB Executive Education or ISB Online, depending on the programme, recognising their professional development and learning achievement.
- You will receive a digital certificate for each certificate you earn. These can be shared with your organisation, potential employer, schools, or on your social media profile.
- Depending on the programme, you will also receive digital merit badges for each module you complete in your course journey. These digital badges can also be shared on social media to indicate progress.
Note: Certificate eligibility is subject to meeting attendance and assessment requirements specified by each programme.
