ECA Executive Program

Five-Day Executive Intensive (3 Days + 2 Days)

Immersive. Applied. Transformational

This redesigned Executive Leaders Program is a premium five-day in-person intensive for senior leaders engaged in strategic, system-wide or public leadership.

Responding directly to senior executive feedback, the program now delivers deeper immersion, stronger cohort connection, and more focused, high-value learning through a 3-day intensive followed by a 2-day advanced session. Between the two phases, participants apply their learning in real organisational contexts.

Participants engage in small group workshops with world-class faculty and experienced facilitators. The experience is dynamic, intellectually rigorous and action-oriented—designed to develop leaders who can think systemically and act decisively in complexity.

Who Should Attend?

Senior executives and executive-ready leaders who:

Hold strategic or public leadership responsibilities
Work across organisational or sector boundaries
Face complex, adaptive challenges
Seek to strengthen their influence, foresight and system impact

Value immersive, high-level peer engagement

Program Focus

Step out of your everyday operational context and into a focused executive learning environment.

Across five intensive in-person days, you will:

Engage with advanced frameworks in systems thinking and adaptive leadership
Develop strategic foresight capability
Strengthen governance, integrity and public value leadership
Explore complexity science and decision-making under uncertainty
Work collaboratively on a real-world Adaptive Challenge
Build strong cross-sector relationships that extend beyond the program

The program is structured as:

Phase 1 – Three-Day Immersive Intensive

Establishing leadership identity, systems awareness, complexity thinking and strategic framing.

Application Period (4–6 weeks)

Testing insights in real organisational contexts through stakeholder engagement and systems mapping.

Phase 2 – Two-Day Advanced Intensive

Prototyping, influence, executive presentation and collective insight.

Learn About

Public and Strategic Leadership:

Leading in complexity and uncertainty
Adaptive leadership and system transformation
Governance, trust and integrity
Cross-sector collaboration
Strategic foresight and scenario thinking
Organisation and system design
Creating public value
Influencing at senior executive levels
Leading culture and behavioural change

Designing and testing strategic prototypes

Qualification Pathways

The Executive Leaders Program aligns to AQF Level 8 competencies and provides an RPL pathway toward the Graduate Diploma of Strategic Leadership (BSB80320) through our partner RTO.

Participants may use evidence from their Adaptive Challenge, strategic case development and reflective practice to support an RPL application.