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Executive Impact and Influence

Executive Impact and Influence: Empowering Leaders to Shape the Future

Executive leadership today requires more than expertise and authority—it demands vision, agility, and emotional intelligence at scale. Executives are not only accountable for results; they are also responsible for shaping the culture, ethics, and long-term direction of their organisations.

As the pace of change accelerates and complexity grows, the most impactful executive leaders are those who influence beyond their title. They bring people with them, translate vision into enterprise-wide strategy, and lead with clarity, authenticity, and emotional insight.

Executive Impact and Influence is about stepping into that space—where strategy meets human connection, and leadership becomes a catalyst for sustainable transformation.

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Core Concepts

This stream is designed to sharpen the unique capabilities required at executive level. It supports senior leaders in expanding their influence, refining their authentic leadership style, and navigating the emotional and strategic demands of enterprise-wide leadership.

Participants develop the skills to:

  • Set bold vision and align others to it
  • Influence at board and stakeholder levels
  • Lead with emotional intelligence under pressure
  • Drive strategic transformation and innovation
  • Build succession, legacy, and long-term impact
  • Inspire a performance culture that embraces diversity and growth

Executive Impact and Influence: Core Learning Themes

  1. Visionary Leadership and Organisational Strategy

Executives learn to craft and communicate compelling visions that align strategy, culture, and growth across the enterprise.

  1. Influencing at the Board and Stakeholder Level

Leadership at the top means influencing in complex, high-stakes environments. This theme explores how to lead up, across, and outward with strategic presence and credibility.

  1. Decision Making and Personal Values

Making high-level decisions requires deep emotional insight. Executives explore how values-based thinking strengthens clarity, alignment, and trust.

  1. Corporate Governance and Ethical Leadership

Responsible leadership is good business. This module reinforces the importance of governance, transparency, and ethical accountability in executive decision-making.

  1. Strengths for Strategy and Culture

Using a strengths-based lens, leaders learn how to shape culture, drive engagement, and embed talent strategies that fuel performance.

  1. Setting Goals and Driving Strategy

This theme connects vision to execution. Leaders refine how they cascade strategy, set goals with purpose, and mobilise teams at scale.

  1. Managing Change at an Enterprise Level

Enterprise change demands strategic foresight, emotional steadiness, and people-focused leadership. Executives explore how to lead through disruption with confidence and clarity.

  1. Fostering Innovation and Transformation

Innovation is not a project—it’s a mindset. Leaders learn how to build a culture where innovation thrives across functions and teams.

  1. Succession Planning and Legacy Leadership

Sustainable success depends on growing future leaders. Executives explore how to identify, develop, and empower the next generation with intention.

  1. Creating a Growth Mindset Culture

Embedding growth mindset principles at executive level transforms learning, agility, and resilience across the organisation.

  1. Diversity to High Performance

Inclusive strategy is high-performance strategy. Leaders learn how to leverage diversity of thought, background, and strength for enterprise-level results.

  1. Active Leadership Resilience

At the top, pressure is constant. This theme builds tools for managing stress, modelling resilience, and staying focused under complexity.

  1. Sparking an Environment of Innovation

Innovation starts with leadership energy. Executives explore how their behaviour, openness, and curiosity create the conditions for transformation.

  1. Authentic Leadership Style with the Enneagram

Through the Enneagram, leaders deepen their self-awareness, identify their leadership blind spots, and amplify their authentic leadership voice.

  1. Coaching and Mentoring

Modern executive leadership includes the ability to grow others. This theme builds coaching and mentoring skills to elevate teams and embed a culture of development.

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The ACTIVE© Leadership Lens

This stream aligns closely with the ACTIVE© Leadership model, adapted for the executive level:

  • A – Aware: Deep self-awareness and emotional intelligence at scale
  • C – Connecting: Strategic influence with boards, stakeholders, and cross-functional leaders
  • T – Targeted: Clarity of goals, priorities, and enterprise focus
  • I – Innovative: Creating safe, forward-thinking spaces for transformation
  • V – Versatile: Leading across functions, cultures, and crises
  • E – Engaged: Staying energised, resilient, and purpose-driven in the face of pressure

Final Thought

Executive leadership is not about being the loudest voice in the room—it’s about being the clearest. The most effective executives lead with both vision and values. They move beyond authority to build trust, influence culture, and leave a legacy. Executive Impact and Influence is about turning that leadership potential into lasting transformation—for your teams, your organisation, and the future.

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