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Day 1

• Mindfulness Based Strategic Awareness –

experiential insight into leadership and

personal growth. Meditative practices and an

introduction to positive psychology and the

enablers of positive individual traits

• Leadership - practical scenario-based

leadership tasks with secure personal

feedback, strengthening confidence, and

empowerment with a consideration of ‘Mission

Command’ and values-based leadership

• Business Communication - an exploration of

styles and types of communication and

negotiation. Implementing emotional

intelligence in the business context to deliver

maximum impact

• Leading through Crisis - styles of business

leadership in leading through crisis and

change

• Building Resilience - the importance of

resilience (individual and team) and stress

management. Involving practical exercises for

self-development and action-planning, in

adapting strategies

Day 2

• The Effectiveness of Yoga on Personality

Profiling – contemplation and meditation

developing leaders through enhancing their

positive traits reflected in, thoughts, feelings

and behaviours

• Business Culture - understanding corporate

culture, and prevailing values, through

overcoming bias and stereotyping, developing

leadership aspirations to meet the

organisational cultural fit

• Scenario Based Exercise - an opportunity to

develop and practise, leadership,

communication skills with individual

development and feedback

• Reputation and Business Development -

individual brand management, marketing own

leadership and corporate cultural values,

developing a supportive network and

mentoring strategy

• Empowerment and the ‘Leadership Shadow’

- identifying and initiating change; the art of

‘having difficult conversations’, moral courage

and managing upwards

Inspirational Performance - Module 1

Cass Business School

2-day module designed for aspiring female leaders, to provide them

with the opportunity to develop individual leadership strategies in

terms of resilience, stress management, leading in crisis,

sharpening negotiating and influencing skills within the business

culture.

The Inspirational Development Group

Leadership In Action Programme

An Experiential Custom-Designed Leadership Development

Programme offered in conjunction with Institute of Banking

Studies – Kuwait

Today’s business executives are forced to lead in in a VUCA world; one that is volatile,

uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. To respond to changes and challenges, leaders

must be agile, flexible, innovative and forward-thinking. Combining intellectual insight

and practical expertise, the IDG/Sandhurst “Leadership In Action” Programme is

designed to equip leaders with the understanding, skills and confidence to address

today’s pressing strategic business issues, to make the right critical decisions (when the

information is imperfect and the stakes are high) and to drive their organisation by

inspiring their people.

This is a unique, exciting and experiential leadership development programme that

allows leaders to access the facilities and explore and practice the leadership

philosophy at the UK’s world famous Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS). The

programme creates a safe environment which invites leaders to take a step back and

develop the means of building a leadership culture based on their organisation's core

values.

Day 1

• Mindfulness Based Strategic Awareness –

experiential insight into leadership and

personal growth. Meditative practices and an

introduction to positive psychology and the

enablers of positive individual traits

• Leadership - practical scenario-based

leadership tasks with secure personal

feedback, strengthening confidence, and

empowerment with a consideration of ‘Mission

Command’ and values-based leadership

• Business Communication - an exploration of

styles and types of communication and

negotiation. Implementing emotional

intelligence in the business context to deliver

maximum impact

• Leading through Crisis - styles of business

leadership in leading through crisis and

change

• Building Resilience - the importance of

resilience (individual and team) and stress

management. Involving practical exercises for

self-development and action-planning, in

adapting strategies

Day 2

• The Effectiveness of Yoga on Personality

Profiling – contemplation and meditation

developing leaders through enhancing their

positive traits reflected in, thoughts, feelings

and behaviours

• Business Culture - understanding corporate

culture, and prevailing values, through

overcoming bias and stereotyping, developing

leadership aspirations to meet the

organisational cultural fit

• Scenario Based Exercise - an opportunity to

develop and practise, leadership,

communication skills with individual

development and feedback

• Reputation and Business Development -

individual brand management, marketing own

leadership and corporate cultural values,

developing a supportive network and

mentoring strategy

• Empowerment and the ‘Leadership Shadow’

- identifying and initiating change; the art of

‘having difficult conversations’, moral courage

and managing upwards

Inspirational Performance - Module 1

Cass Business School

2-day module designed for aspiring female leaders, to provide them

with the opportunity to develop individual leadership strategies in

terms of resilience, stress management, leading in crisis,

sharpening negotiating and influencing skills within the business

culture.

• Provide an experience of Sandhurst, its culture, environment and the unique way it

trains leaders. Offering a different perspective on leadership through the lens of the

British Army – a perspective highly transferable into a non-military context.

• Hone core skills required to create scalable organizational impact in areas such as

motivation and team building; communication and influence; problem solving and

decision making; and leading and managing change

• Gain access to an enhanced professional network and create long-term business

relationships with senior leaders from similar backgrounds, thus broadening the

executive’s ‘C’ suite perspective

• Develop the risk management, negotiation and mediation skills necessary to

execute strategy successfully in a Business environment

• By working within one of the world’s best schools of leadership, maximize

confidence and commitment to taking responsibility at the highest level and

leading strategically and effectively in a ‘VUCA’ world.

Objectives

Inspirational Performance - Module 1

Cass Business School

The Leadership In Action Programme will provide leadership excellence for the

delegates and their organisation through:

• Sharing an approach to leadership development which develops leadership in a

challenging commercial environment, alongside developing leaders who can

support, maintain or, if required, change their organisation’s culture and practices.

• Distinguishing a set of values around which professional life, personal motives and

behaviour could be ordered, organised and understood, which leads to creating a

leadership culture where values are actively accessed and referenced.

• Employing a highly capable design, delivery and evaluation team who have a wide

variety of skills and are experts on bespoke, high impact programmes across the

world. Our consultants are experienced business people, former military officers and

academics, who have a broad and real international experience underpinning their

cultural insight and delivery of programmes aimed to help transform leaders along

with their organisations.

• Sharing the Royal Military Academy’s inspiring surroundings.

Approach

The leadership In Action Programme explores two fundamental areas of

Organisational Development: Culture and Strategy and Leading through

Change. It breaks down these into critical components to support leaders in

implementing strategic plans congruent with their organisational vision and

strategies: leading people, sustaining and growing the business, leading

strategic change and the challenges of senior leadership.

Module 1: Culture and Strategy

A series of experiential and classroom sessions addressing the definition of

culture and its role in bringing strategy, innovation and values to life. To do

so, topics covered include: Leadership theory and practice, Value based

leadership, Adaptive leadership in a challenging and uncertain world, The

power of followership, motivation and team building, Problem solving and

decision making, Communicating and leading, and Managing change.

Module 2: Leading through Change

Learning through the practical application of applied military leadership

principles relating to innovative and courageous leadership. Using a mixture

of physical and intellectual hurdles covering a range of topics drawn from

one of the world’s great leadership institutions and built on a foundation of

“Serve to Lead”. Business-based simulations and classroom sessions,

focused on the art of innovative and strategic thinking and leading

sustainable change. To be practised in the context of business economics

and information management, marketing, media management, risk

management, managing strategic change, stakeholder management and

navigating through complexity and ambiguity.Pro

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Mentoring

In support of the leaders development ambitions and business practices, a

personal mentor will offer guidance throughout their journey.

Coaching

The Leaders will learn how to use coaching tools and techniques through

peer-to-peer coaching - a skill that they can take back to the workplace.

Feedback against a Competency Framework

A set of leadership competencies to ensure the achievement of sustainable

behavioural change. The leaders will receive regular and formal feedback to

help support and encourage their development as practised by some of the

most well-respected and effective organisational leaders in the world.

Reflections through Personal Learning Journals

A toolkit comprising a summary of the learning that the leaders will get from

the programme. It:

• Summarises the models upon which their future behaviour will be based

• Captures the quality conversations they will have

• Records the outcomes of the activities and simulations they will

participate in

• Captures their thoughts, ideas, insights and action plans

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Stephen Bennett

Founder & Chairman

Stephen is a Chartered Accountant and after qualifying, was a

lecturer to post-graduate students in a private accountancy

college. Stephen worked for Deloitte for 12 years, firstly as

Director of Studies, became partner four years later and then

served on the central management team as assistant Managing

Partner and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions for the UK and

Europe. After leaving Deloitte in 1990, he became Chairman and

CEO of a UK USM company. He took this company to a full listing

on the main UK Stock Exchange 2 years later. The Group was sold

in 2000 to a large US Corporation now owned by Warren Buffett.

In the 10 years of his tenure, he effected almost 30 acquisitions

and disposals and had 9 boards reporting to him. Stephen went

back to his M&A roots by founding Buckingham Corporate

Finance - an M&A boutique specialising in mid-market

transactions. In the same year, because of his ongoing interest and

years of experience in leading and managing people, he also

founded IDG. He is an experienced and well known speaker,

particularly on business and financial topics and has written a

book and numerous published articles.

Faculty

Craig Preston

Managing Director

Craig was formerly a consultant with IDG before moving to Aon,

where he worked as a risk consultant after which he led one of

Aon's largest regional businesses. He has a wealth of leadership

experience from his roles with Aon, previously with Coca-Cola and

during his time as an Army officer. He was also appointed the first

Head of People Development for the Rugby Football Union.

He worked with IDG as a leadership and team development

consultant as well as delivering a variety of leadership talks with

clients from the military, business and sporting world. They

included UK Sport, Lloyds TSB, RBS, 3M, BMW, Northampton Saints

Rugby Club, Hampshire Cricket and many more.

During his career as an army officer, he saw service in many

countries throughout the world including Belize, Bosnia, Germany

and Gibraltar. He spent four years in Northern Ireland where he

was mentioned in Despatches in 1989. It is this powerful blend of

commercial, sporting and military experience which enables Craig

to talk with such authority on leadership, teams and change.

Faculty

Lance Gerrard-Wright

IDG Project Director at RMAS

His expertise lies in the design and delivery of leadership

programmes. Lance’s time at IDG has seen him work with a variety

of clients ranging from major pharmaceuticals through to the

world’s largest construction project in the Middle East.

Lance is a former Infantry Officer in the British Army who served for

10 years. His time in the Army included operational tours of

Northern Ireland and Bosnia, a tour of Zimbabwe and

Mozambique, and 2 years working as an Equerry to The Duke of

York. His time in Southern Africa was as a Training Advisor to the

newly-formed Armed Forces of Mozambique, where he was

responsible for the training and rehabilitation of 100 Civil War

veterans.

He was an instructor at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst for 2

years. Lance also has a degree from Sheffield University in English

and Film, and is a licensed practitioner of the Herrmann Brain

Dominance Index, and MBTI qualified.

Faculty

Kathie Knell

Senior Advisor and Consultant

Kathie joined IDG in 2015 as a Specialist Consultant in Crisis

Leadership and Gender. Elected Deputy Chair for the NATO

Committee on Gender Perspectives, she has worked across NATO

and partners to forward the gender agenda influencing operational

effectiveness. She worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth

Office and is a global Gender in Conflict Advisor for the UK

Government.

She left the military as a Lieutenant Colonel, with a wide-ranging

portfolio including operational deployments in Bosnia, Northern

Ireland and with special-forces, Jamaica, Belize and as the Training

Advisor to HM Sultan of Brunei. She has developed expertise in

crisis management and leadership, at strategic and organisational

levels and was awarded an MBE in 2010.

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HRH Noor Bint Asem

Senior Consultant and Coach

Noor joined IDG in 2015 as a consultant for the Middle East.

Specifically, Noor engages in strategic business development, as

well as programme design and facilitation.

She is an executive and certified coach with The Coaching Training

Institute; CTI. She has years of experience in facilitation and

programme design on self-development and youth empowerment.

Noor is well travelled, having been born in Jordan, raised in Spain

and then completed her education in the United States which has

helped her embody a multi-cultural perspective. She has a first

degree in Political Communication and a Master’s degree in

Positive Leadership and Strategy from the IE Business School,

Madrid. Noor speaks five languages; English, Spanish, French,

Arabic and Farsi.

An entrepreneur and a pioneer in the field of positive leadership in

the Middle East, she is an active member in various organizations

such as the ICF (International Coaching Federation), MELA (Middle

East Leadership Academy) and The Institute of Coaching which is

affiliated to McLean Hospital.

Participants

High-calibre senior executives who sit one or two levels away from the board,

individuals who are responsible in their positions for motivating and recognizing their

workforce. Typically, Managing Directors, Regional Directors, Country Managers and

Partners.

Certificate

The Leadership In Action Programme is designed and delivered adhering to the

international standards of the Inspirational Development Group, in Association with The

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Providing the rigour of Sandhurst’s leadership

lessons honed over 200 years, participants who successfully meet and fulfil the

requirements of the programme, will receive an ‘IDG in association with RMAS’

certificate of programme completion.

Location

The programme will be conducted at the world famous Royal Military Academy

Sandhurst in the UK. The inspiration provided there can not be overstated. Experience

and feedback during our 15 years of working within the Academy tell us that for leaders

this will be a life changing experience.

Accommodation

Delegates will be accommodated at a hotel close to the Academy.

Timing

Programme days are from 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. with some case study work in the

evening. There will be two prestige dinners at the Royal Military Academy, networking

opportunities with senior business academics and official representatives.