Participants will gain the ability to:
- Translate data and analysis into compelling leadership narratives
- Strengthen their influence as trusted business partners
- Recognize what motivates individuals and teams in professional environments
- Conduct effective coaching conversations aligned with modern leadership expectations
- Support teams through disruption, uncertainty, and organizational change
- Balance performance, people, and compliance demands with confidence
This program is tailored for executive managers and senior professionals in banking and financial services who aim to amplify their leadership impact, elevate people performance, and communicate insights with clarity and influence, while effectively navigating complexity, regulatory demands, and continuous change.
By the end of this program, participants will be able to:
- Apply storytelling principles to communicate financial insights, analysis, and decisions with greater clarity and influence.
- Understand and enhance the employee experience, recognizing the leader’s role in shaping engagement, retention, and performance.
- Motivate professional staff effectively, adapting leadership and communication styles to different motivational drivers.
- Use coaching skills to develop people, lead diverse teams, and drive sustainable performance.
- Lead individuals and teams through change, understanding human responses to change and applying proven change leadership models.
In the banking and financial services sector, leaders are expected to deliver results in environments defined by regulation, risk, speed, and constant change. While technical and financial expertise remain essential, today’s executive managers must also lead people effectively, influence beyond authority, communicate insight with clarity, and support teams through change.
The Applied Leadership for Executive Managers program is an in-person adaptation of IMA’s Applied Leadership Series. It is designed to translate core leadership capabilities into practical, workplace-ready behaviors relevant to finance and banking professionals.
This immersive program bridges the gap between data and insight, authority and influence, strategy and people, enabling participants to strengthen their leadership impact while remaining grounded in the realities of professional financial environments.
This 2-day in-person workshop focuses exclusively on Applied Leadership, maintaining the learning intent and outcomes of the original IMA online modules, while leveraging the depth of reflection, interaction, and real-world application enabled through face-to-face delivery.
The program covers five integrated leadership domains:
- Storytelling for financial and analytical leaders
- Enhancing the employee experience through leadership
- Workplace motivation in professional environments
- Coaching for the 21st-century leader
- Leading people through change
All content is contextualized for finance, accounting, banking, and financial services organizations.