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Executive Presence for Impactful Leadership (Batch 1)

   Program Dates
   Start Date: 23 Jul, 2025
   End Date: 25 Jul, 2025

 

 

Venue/Deadline

IIMB Campus
Early Bird Deadline: 02 Jul, 2025
Register By: 13 Jul 2025
 

Program Fees (excluding GST)

Residential: Rs.1,06,500
Residential Early Bird: Rs.95,850
Non-Residential: Rs.90,000
Non-Residential Early Bird: Rs.81,000

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Mode
In-Person
Starting In
July-Sep
Level
Mid- Senior/Career
Duration
Short Duration
International Travel
No
Alumni Status
No

Programme Overview

The rapidly evolving geo-political landscape demands executive presence at the workplace, with a resolve to show commitment, clarity, and conciseness in communicating matters of importance.

In an increasingly complex world, communicating to employees within the organization and to stakeholders externally calls for a versatile and dynamic communication approach.

A change can rock the ship when the ocean is turbulent or when there is a lull before the storm-irrespective of the conditions, the captain must steer his/her ship forward. For this to happen in an eco-system of constant uncertainty – consistency and a culture of impactful leadership must be seen, heard and experienced across the organisation.

This programme will demonstrate how historically, organizations’ have navigated these shifts, and how you can prepare to build your presence through shared values and goals within the organization – thereby exhibiting Executive Presence.

Programme Objective

The course is designed with the following specific objectives and learning outcomes:

  • To navigate the complex communication landscape to determine the right tool to exhibit executive presence.
  • To manage criticism and feedback yet position yourself as a decisive leader.
  • To evaluate best practices, influx of technology and cope with the uncertainty of being misinterpreted by various stakeholders.

Contact Us

Ms. Vinitha Vandana
Landline No.: +91-80-26993475
Mobile No. +91-8951974078
Email: vinitha.vandana@iimb.ac.in

Eligibility

Senior leaders, entrepreneurs, political leaders, health experts, climate leaders, legal professionals, social sector executives, consultants, thought leaders, speakers, writers, content creators.

Pedagogy

Through a combination of lectures, role-plays, round table discussion and case studies.

Participant Benefits

As a participant of this Short Duration Programme, you will be able to enjoy some exclusive benefits other than the outcomes such as skills and knowledge enhancement and building specific competencies that can help shape your career growth.

Some of the exclusive benefits of attending this programme are listed below –

  • Receive Executive Education eNewsletters
  • Participate in EEP webinars on various topics
  • Invitation to curated events and programmes by the EEP office
  • Invitation to share articles to the EEP blog (subject to a shortlisting process)

Programme Directors

Dr. Deepti Ganapathy has 20 years of practitioner and academic experience, she is a thought leader in the space of climate communication, leadership and health communication.

Former Chairperson, Centre for Management Communication, IIM Bangalore, she is a computer science graduate, who went on to pursue a Masters in Mass Communication and Journalism, to become a journalist, she began her career in 2005 as a Reporter with the Deccan Herald and soon became responsible for producing features on real estate, health, education and lifestyle as a Principal Correspondent with the Times of India. Having worked with India’s leading media houses, she was selected as Rotary International’s Group Study Exchange Fellow on a vocational study programme to New Zealand, where she engaged with media houses and gave interviews and co-produced news for Auckland’s leading radio, tv and digital media outlets. She was a finalist in the Asia-Pacific region for the CNN Young Journalist Award 2007. After a successful career as a journalist, she chooses to make the transition to become an academic, by pursuing a PhD in Communication.

Since the past 9 years, she has designed and delivered courses at the Masters level on Business Communication, Storytelling with Data, Creative Writing, Effective Communication, Advances in Business Communication, Communication in the Digital Age, Health Communication and Executive programmes on ESG and strategic leadership communication.

Her research has been published in leading management journals such as the Academy of Management Learning and Education, as well as in highly ranked Communication journals such as Journalism, International Journal of Strategic Communication. She has contributed book chapters in books edited by renowned scholars globally and published by Sage and Emerald on Social Media and Measurement and Computer-Mediated Communication.

She is the author of the bestselling book “Media and Climate Change: Making Sense of Press Narratives”, which explores the socioeconomic and cultural understanding of climate issues and the influence of environment communication via the news and the public response to it.

This book is used as a prescribed reading material for her Open Programmes for Executive Education since 2022, and for her GNAM courses, as well as Elective for PGP, PGPEM and EPGP at IIM Bangalore.

Her case studies published on the Harvard Business Publishing website are bestsellers, have been translated to Spanish for use in Business Schools in Spain, and she uses many of her co-authored case studies on sustainability in her courses.

Her book has been well received globally and she has been invited as a plenary speaker at prominent Climate Conferences and as a speaker to research centre’s in Universities in the US and EU doing work around the themes of Sustainability and Climate Change Communication. Her book was listed in the Honour Book list 2022 in the Business Category in the Green Literature Festival.

She is an Expert Committee member of WHO’s Infodemic Management group. An affiliate faculty at the Centre for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University and was a Visiting Scholar to University of California San Diego.

An academic advisor at Christ University, she is a much-sought after speaker on climate action. She also actively engages with public and private organisations, through sponsored research and consultancy projects. These include integrating digital communication for stakeholder management, scaling up climate resilience and building capabilities for alternative sustainable livelihoods.

Programme Charges

Programme Fee
INR 1,06,500/- Residential and INR 90,000/- Non -Residential (+ Applicable GST) per person for participants from India and its equivalent in US Dollars for participants from other countries.

Early Bird Discount
Nominations received with payments on or before 02-Jul-25will be entitled to an early bird Discount of 10%.
Early Bird Fee (Residential) INR 95,850/-(+ Applicable GST)
Early Bird Fee (Non-Residential) INR 81,000/-(+ Applicable GST)

Group Discount
Group Discount of 5% percentage can be availed for a group of 3 or more participants when nominations received from the same organization.

Please Note

  • All enrolments are subject to review and approval by the programme director. Joining Instructions will be sent to the selected candidates 10 days prior the start of the programme.
  • The programme fee should be received by the Executive Education Office before the programme commencement date.
  • In case of cancellations, the fee will be refunded only if a request is received at least 15 days prior to the start of the programme.
  • If a nomination is not accepted,the fee will be refunded to the person/ organisation concerned.
  • A certificate of participation will be awarded to the participants by IIMB.
  • Kindly do not make your travel plans unless you receive the offer letter from IIMB.

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