ISB Executive Education’s Senior Management Programme equips leaders for growth amid disruption

In a period marked by rapid technological change, shifting global supply chains, and rising sustainability imperatives, senior executives are leading organisations through profound transformation. While digital initiatives have enhanced efficiency, the greater leadership challenge now lies in enabling enterprise growth: rethinking how organisations expand, compete, and create lasting value in an increasingly complex environment. Sustained success depends on leaders who can align strategy, people, and performance, while balancing ambition with governance and long-term purpose.

As disruption accelerates, even experienced leaders must renew their skills and perspectives to remain relevant. Today, leading enterprise-wide transformation requires strategic foresight, sound judgment, and a disciplined approach that can help organisations navigate uncertainty. Continuous learning has thus become as critical to effective leadership as one’s industry experience.

In an environment where the stakes are higher and error margins thinner, leadership can no longer rely on past playbooks. What sets apart inspiring enterprise leaders now is their agility and an unorthodox mindset, where they can quickly reframe challenges or threats into opportunities, connect disparate signals to create a meaningful narrative, and mobilise the organisation with clarity and intent. Purposeful leadership development thus becomes the bridge between disruption and sustained growth.


Strengthening leadership for enterprise growth
The Senior Management Programme (SMP) by ISB Executive Education is designed to prepare experienced executives to lead with strategic depth and organisational influence. The programme spans the critical areas of enterprise leadership, including human-AI collaboration for stronger decision-making, India-centric strategies that deepen customer value and pricing effectiveness, and digitally responsible transformation executed with agility.

Delivered by renowned ISB faculty and experienced CXOs, the programme combines on-campus immersions, live-online sessions, peer circles, personalised leadership assessments, and a Business Leadership Challenge integrated throughout the journey. Participants engage deeply with themes of enterprise transformation, board impact, and ethical leadership, building the judgement required to drive strategic clarity and disciplined execution across the organisation.

Building judgment across strategy, technology, and governance
The curriculum is structured across five core leadership dimensions: strategic thinking and enterprise growth; artificial intelligence (AI), technology, and business transformation; agile leadership and stakeholder management; governance and strategic accountability; and creating and leading high-performance organisations. Together, these dimensions provide a holistic framework for enterprise leadership that integrates strategic foresight, financial and operational discipline, technological agility, and ethical governance.

Participants strengthen their ability to lead themselves and organisations, drive strategic advantage through technology, accelerate digital execution and sustainable growth, influence boards effectively, and create enduring value through global and ethical leadership. The programme also emphasises crisis leadership, ESG-integrated strategy, M&A and alliances, platform thinking, and global market expansion, reflecting the realities of modern enterprise leadership.

Programme leadership perspective
Commenting on the programme, Chandrasekhar Sripada, Programme Director and Professor of Organisational Behaviour (Practice), ISB, noted that the future of leadership will be shaped by integrated intelligence, where human judgement, AI fluency, and purpose-driven governance operate in harmony. The Senior Management Programme is designed for leaders who are ready to build AI-first enterprises that are not only efficient but also humane, ethical, and enduring.

Immersive learning for senior leaders
The programme is delivered in a blended format, combining on-campus immersions at ISB’s Mohali and Hyderabad campuses with live-online faculty-led sessions. Participants benefit from peer learning, leadership circles, industry insights, and structured reflection, ensuring that learning is both rigorous and immediately applicable to enterprise-level challenges.

Key programme details

Start Date	February 21, 2026
Duration	52 weeks
Format	On-campus and live-online
Fees	Rs 9,00,000 + taxes

On successful completion, participants are awarded a certificate from ISB Executive Education and gain ISB Executive Alumni status. Alumni benefits include access to the ISB Executive Alumni Network, leadership learning series, research-backed insights, and continued engagement with faculty and industry leaders.

Applications are now open for the upcoming cohort of the Senior Management Programme. Designed for mid-to-senior executives with over 12 years of experience, the programme offers an opportunity to strengthen enterprise leadership capability and lead organisations with confidence, integrity, and strategic intent in an era of disruption.

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