Strategic People Leadership and Organisational Performance

• IMI is in the top 2% of executive education providers worldwide.
• We have been empowering business leaders to build their capabilities for over 70 years.
• We are ranked #1 in Ireland for academic rigour and practical relevance on our Open-Enrolment programmes
• Our full focus is on you, the participant. Through continuous reinvestment, we engage world class faculty to enhance the learning experience and deliver highly contextualised and outcome-led programmes. This provides you with the best opportunity possible to grow your career.

Senior People leaders are close to many of the issues that will determine future organisational performance: skills, leadership, culture, workforce planning, employee experience and the impact of AI.

But proximity does not automatically create influence.

To shape decisions at the highest level, you must be able to connect these issues to strategy, risk, investment and performance. You need to move beyond explaining what HR should do and articulate what the organisation needs—and why it matters commercially.

This programme will help you make that transition.

You will develop the strategic perspective, commercial understanding and confidence to contribute more effectively at Executive and Board level. Rather than considering people priorities in isolation, you will learn to connect organisation design, workforce capability, culture, technology and leadership with the organisation’s wider goals.

The programme follows a connected journey from understanding what is changing to leading the organisational response.

See the future

Understand how AI, technology, demographic change and evolving workforce expectations are reshaping work, leadership and organisations.

Design the organisation

Explore how organisation design, culture, governance and operating models can enable more effective strategy execution.

Build future capability

Identify the talent, skills, leadership and workforce capabilities your organisation will need to deliver its future strategy.

Enable performance

Create the conditions for stronger organisational performance through leadership, coaching, accountability, employee experience and people analytics.

Lead transformation

Strengthen your ability to influence senior stakeholders, lead enterprise-wide change and demonstrate the commercial value of the People agenda.

Bring a challenge. Leave with a roadmap.

You will work on a live strategic challenge from your own organisation throughout the programme.

Your challenge could relate to organisation design, workforce planning, AI adoption, culture, leadership capability, organisational performance or enterprise-wide transformation.

Faculty insight, peer discussion and two individual executive coaching sessions will help you examine the challenge from different perspectives, test your assumptions and develop a credible response.

By the end of the programme, you will have a practical Organisational Performance Roadmap that connects your learning to action within your organisation.

The programme combines in-person learning at IMI with live virtual sessions, peer learning, workplace application and two individual executive coaching sessions.

The programme involves four scheduled learning days, two individual coaching sessions and approximately two to three hours of practical application between sessions. The total indicative commitment is approximately 35–40 hours across the programme.

There is no formal examination. You will apply the learning by developing and presenting an Organisational Performance Roadmap based on a live strategic challenge within your organisation.

Yes. Participants who complete the programme will receive an IMI Certificate of Completion.

The fee includes programme tuition, learning materials and frameworks, two individual executive coaching sessions, access to virtual sessions, and refreshments and lunch on in-person days.

Yes, subject to availability and programme suitability. Contact IMI to discuss multiple places or broader development requirements across your organisation.

The programme is currently under development. At this stage, please register your interest using the form on this page.

Once the programme is ready, we’ll get in touch with you and provide access to the programme brochure, along with further details such as the start date, schedule and pricing.

This programme is designed for experienced HR and People leaders who want to increase their influence and contribution at the highest levels of their organisation.

It is particularly relevant for:

• Chief Human Resources Officers
• HR and People Directors
• Heads of HR or People
• Senior People leaders moving into Executive Committee or Board-facing roles
• High-potential HR leaders preparing for a future HR Director or CHRO position

It may also be suitable for senior executives with responsibility for organisational capability, workforce transformation or organisation design.

Read our campus information page for details.