"From an IDA perspective, having a programme like LSI is critical as we look to engage with our client base and help them to understand what transformation looks like, how to promote their business, and how to bring future leaders setting direction for companies and for growth and also for bringing through talent."
Our Custom Programmes are shaped by industry, not removed from it. By people who’ve done the job. Not just studied it.
Custom executive education solutions are unique to the IMI. Founded by leaders for leaders, we’ve built a reputation on the fact that we truly know what it means to do commerce in the real world. We get it.
So ‘Custom’ is actually about ‘us fitting to you’ rather than the other way around. It’s a consultative process designed to change outcomes rather than just fill classrooms.
The key to delivering this lies in three words ‘relevance, context’ and ‘circumstance’ so while the commercial world beats to a set of universal principles, context, or more precisely the world we live in and the way we see it, quite often distorts our perspective, limits potential and narrows possibilities. That’s what we set out to change.
We reset perspective, unearth potential and help you see the possibilities. These are the three P’s that are the powerhouses of any organisation.
Our ability to harness them is built on the strength of our contextual understanding and our consultative approach. We’re not aiming to just educate, we want to change how you see and do things in ‘your’ organisation, the impact you make.
It all starts and ends with your unique challenges, the mountains you climb, the actual problems that stare at you every day in your organisation. It’s about finding what’s holding you back, what’s limiting you from developing the skills you need to navigate the sea of possibilities and opportunities and ride through the stormy moments. It’s about finding something in you that lights the road ahead for the team around you. It’s about change specific to you and your organisation.
And our reward…. well, it’s your success.
Shaping and Inspiring Business Leaders
Why Work With Us?
Modular, Scalable and Focused on your Context
Built around your strategy, language and realities – delivered on-campus, on-site, live online or blended, so the solution fits the way your organisation actually works.
Strategy-aligned
Every programme starts with your strategic priorities and success metrics, to deliver your organisational outcomes.
Accelerate Performance
We build in application, feedback and iteration so teams apply, refine and embed new ways of working quickly, meaning you see impact sooner and not “after the programme”.
Measured Impact
From baseline diagnostics to post-programme follow-up, we work with you to define what success looks like and report on behaviour change, capability shifts and business indicators, not just satisfaction scores.
Co-created With Your People
Designed with your leaders, using real cases and challenges so participants work on what matters most, and not hypothetical scenarios.
Culture & Change
We target the mindsets, behaviours and practices that drive your culture, so your leaders don’t just understand the change, they model and sustain it.
Meet Our Customised Solutions Team
From left to right: Patricia McGovern, Conor Miles, Nora Duggan, Aidan Lawless, and Ciara Kissane — the IMI Customised Solutions team, partnering with organisations to design and deliver bespoke executive education solutions.
What Our Clients Say
"We are an international development bank. A little different from IMI’s usual cup of tea. We were aware of this and threw them the challenge to co-create, with our guidance, a leadership program for our Country Program Officers across Africa. The goal was to strengthen a variety of soft skills, adapt already existing skills to become more effective and acquire, through the training, new ones fit for purpose in today’s international operating environment. IMI delivered. Thorough, committed, organised, flexible. Good job."
"For Broadlake, investing in leadership isn’t about ticking a box—it’s about building the leadership capabilities that will power the company’s growth for years to come. By partnering with IMI, Broadlake has not just upskilled its leaders—it has laid the foundation for a future of sustained high performance and growth. Broadlake’s partnership with IMI is a model for how leadership development can be strategic, immersive, and directly tied to business success."
Our Industry Programmes
Explore tailored programmes designed to address complex industry challenges and client-specific needs.
Customised Solutions
Building Strategic Leadership
Irish subsidiaries need to develop future site leaders who can strategically manage the organisation at global level and contribute to strategic decision-making. These future subsidiary leaders must be agile, resilient and display…
Customised Solutions
Emerging Tech Leaders Programme
The Emerging Tech Leaders programme will develop participants’ mindset to become true leaders in a tech space.
Customised Solutions
Graduate Development Programme
The IMI Graduate programme gives your graduates and developing talent the commercial acumen, leadership and thinking skills needed in the workplace – problem solving, critical thinking, communications, and working in teams.
Customised Solutions
Leading in Cybersecurity
The Leading in Cybersecurity programme will help you build a critical awareness of your leadership style, allow you to become an effective and influential communicator, develop your emotional intelligence and ability to cultivate…
Customised Solutions
Leading with Strategic Intent for FDI Multinationals
Senior leadership teams in Ireland’s foreign multinationals are being challenged to become more strategic in terms of their influence and impact. To show unique value, leaders must leverage the strengths of their Irish divisions with a…
Customised Solutions
Women in Construction Leadership
This programme will give you the time and space to explore, develop and articulate who you want to be as a leader and the contribution you want to make to your work, your life, your organisation and the communities or markets you serve.