| Programme Dates Start Date: 17 June 2026 End Date: 19 June 2026 |
Registration Deadlines Early Bird Deadline: 27 May 2026 Last Date for Registration: 07 Jun 2026 |
Programme Fee (Residential) Early Bird Fee: ₹95,850 + GST Regular Fee: ₹1,06,500 + GST |
Programme Fee (Non-Residential) Early Bird Fee: ₹81,000 + GST Regular Fee: ₹90,000 + GST |
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After this programme, you will notice:
Mr. Shashidhar
Mobile No. +91-7899991576
Email: shashidhara.cs@iimb.ac.in
‘If you want to walk fast, walk alone. If you want to walk far, walk together!’ – Ratan Tata
Leadership today is no longer defined by authority; it is defined by influence.
In increasingly complex organisations, outcomes are shaped not by control, but by the ability to align diverse stakeholders, build trust, and mobilise people toward a shared purpose.
It is also this ability that distinguishes those who grow into senior leadership roles – leaders who can influence across boundaries, align diverse interests, and drive collective outcomes are the ones who are entrusted with greater responsibility.
The leaders who create lasting impact are those who can navigate complexity with clarity – and bring people together to move forward, collectively.
Today’s leaders are expected to deliver results across teams, functions, and stakeholders-often without formal authority. Yet in reality, many encounter:
• Competing priorities and perspectives
• Resistance that is subtle, unspoken, or persistent
• Alignment that exists in meetings but not in action
What’s missing is not intent, but the capability to influence meaningfully.
This programme focuses on building that capability-enabling leaders to influence through trust, clarity, and authentic connection, and to drive outcomes that are shared, owned, and sustained.
Stakeholder influence is widely recognised as a critical leadership capability in modern organisations (source: McKinsey / HBR).
Influencing Stakeholders toward Collective Growth, offered by IIM Bangalore, is a high-impact executive education programme designed to help leaders build influence across complex stakeholder environments.
Through a human-centered approach, the programme integrates:
Participants will develop the mindset, skills, and practical strategies required to build meaningful relationships, align stakeholders, and drive sustainable impact across teams and functions.
Senior, mid-senior, and mid-level leaders, as well as individual contributors
This programme may be less suitable for:
Early-career professionals with limited stakeholder responsibility.
“The Influencing Your Stakeholders Toward Collective Growth programme at IIM Bangalore was a transformative experience. It blended strategic frameworks, emotional intelligence, and practical tools to enhance my ability to influence diverse stakeholders. The focus on ethical persuasion, trust-building, and storytelling helped me shift from authority-led leadership to influence-driven collaboration—essential in today’s dynamic organizations. With excellent faculty, interactive sessions, and strong peer learning, the programme was both enriching and impactful. I now navigate stakeholder dynamics with greater clarity, empathy, and confidence. I highly recommend it to professionals seeking to elevate their leadership impact.”
— Archana Jain
Consultant – Business Operations, Dell Technologies
Prof. Deepak Malghan is an eminent ecological economist on the public policy faculty at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore. He is a recipient of the VKRV Rao Prize in Social Sciences (2015) and the T. N. Khoshoo Memorial Award (2023). He also served as an editor of the field’s flagship journal, Ecological Economics, from 2018 to 2026.
He is currently writing a global history of the idea of efficiency. Malghan has also worked on questions of social diversity deficits and social exclusion at elite public institutions in India, and this work informs his pedagogical approaches to addressing conflicts within organizations.
Sushmita Usha Devarajan is Visiting Faculty at IIM Bangalore, and works extensively helping leaders build influence and navigate complex, multi-stakeholder environments in both corporate and social sectors. Through her practice at Storywallahs, she partners with organisations to strengthen leadership presence and alignment, navigate conflict, and use storytelling to enable collaborative change and progress.
She teaches Influencing through Storytelling at the Indian School of Business and has served as Lead Faculty for Influencing without Authority in the TISS–ODA Organisation Development Certification Programme. Internationally certified in transformational coaching, mediation and dialogue facilitation, her 20+ years of work includes consulting with the World Bank on multi-stakeholder conflicts, and over a decade as Master Trainer with Soliya, a UN-partner based in New York.
She brings a deeply human approach to influence – one that builds trust and alignment without erasing difference.
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 27-May-26 will 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
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
Invitation to share articles to the EEP blog (subject to a shortlisting process)
Participate in EEP webinars on various topics
Invitation to curated events and programs by the EEP office
