In Brief
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Fees: 4 virtual workshops Expert mentoring sessions Masterclass launch event and final presentation 
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Why choose this programme?
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 show of capabilities and efficiencies that cannot be easily replicated elsewhere.
The Leading with Strategic Intent programme has been designed to address the critical challenges facing leaders in multinationals, from building and sustaining a sphere of influence and developing a transformative mindset to navigating cultural complexities and building a pipeline of future leaders.
Transformative Change
Developing a transformative mindset in your senior leadership team, enhancing their readiness for sudden change.
Increased Influence
Proactively influence the strategic direction of your subsidiary and communicate the value you generate back to corporate headquarters.
Strategic Vision
Define a strategic vision with specific actions to identify opportunities and develop innovations, working with mentors who lead global organisations.
Participants can look forward to:
Virtual Workshops
A series of 4 experiential workshops working with peers designed by global leaders in multinationals and IMI. Each workshop comprises 2 * 4 hour blocks, 2 weeks apart.
Expert mentoring
An experienced senior global executive will provide mentoring throughout the programme to keep participants focused and aligned.
Masterclass launch
An expert-led virtual event will be held to set the scene through a world-class speaker.
Present your plan
Company teams will present their plan to a panel of industry experts, testing their strategic blueprint in a confidential setting.
Strategic blueprint
Each company will craft a value-enhancing strategic blueprint for your subsidiary, including an implementation plan.
2022 Capstone Event
Participants, programme leaders and mentors talk about the impact the IMI Leading with Strategic Intent programme has had on them and their business.
We talked to participants on the programme, company mentors and Mary Buckley, Executive Director at IDA Ireland.
Key programme takeaways
International Influence
Make Ireland central. Allow your leaders the space and tools to strategically influence decision-making at corporate headquarters.
Strategic Vision
Stop thinking about today and start influencing tomorrow. Leave with a concrete strategic blueprint for your organisation going forward.
Create Value
Define how your Irish office creates and adds value to the corporate headquarters. Define strategies to grow and innovate, and communication tactics to make sure the story is heard internationally.
Programmes themes
- Examine the role your subsidiary plays in the overall game plan for the multinational.
- Analyse the polarity between autonomy and HQ oversight.
- Explore a framework for understanding the processes typically present during the evolution of subsidiary strategy.
- Assess the implications of past changes in the charter and capabilities of your subsidiary.
- Identify future success metrics through a shareholder, customer and market value lens.
- Explore differentiation as a source of competitive advantage.
- Craft a unique value proposition.
- Position your strategy and story internally and externally.
- Promote constructive debate and alignment in the senior leadership
team.
- Distinguish your subsidiary by becoming
an incubator of talent. - Lead virtual and remote teams to drive engagement and agility.
- Identify critical future capabilities to capitalise on emerging investment opportunities.
- Recruit, manage and develop talent virtually.
- Build on your leadership vision for your subsidiary.
- Map your local and global ecosystem and stakeholders, and develop an engagement plan.
- Learn how to manage and strategically
influence stakeholders in a matrix, multicultural context. - Articulate your value proposition.
- Closed Panel Presentations – each organisation shares and receives feedback on their success narrative and key learnings from the Strategic Blueprint Exercise to a panel of industry experts and IMI associates.
Programme Director: David Cornick
David Cornick is Programme Director for the Leading with Strategic Intent programme. We sat down with him to ask about how leaders in multinational subsidiaries in Ireland can add value back to headquarters and become a part of the strategic conversation.
Programme Partners
We are proud to partner with IDA Ireland for the Leading with Strategic Intent programme. Ireland's inward investment promotion agency, the IDA is a non-commercial, semi-state body promoting Foreign Direct Investment into Ireland through a wide range of services.
