INSEAD Leadership Programme for Senior Executives (ILPSE) – India

Become an impactful leader

Shape your future—and your company’s success

The INSEAD Leadership Programme for Senior Executives (ILPSE) – India is a one-year part-time general management and business leadership programme. Now in its 13th year, ILPSE offers an integrated approach to general management that combines the imagination and creativity of entrepreneurship with the strong functional focus of operating managers. With an extraordinary record of success, this transformative programme will prepare you for senior management roles and provide a timely boost for your career.

While the programme is designed specifically for the Indian context, it equips participants with a wider global perspective that is crucial in today’s interconnected business world.

The programme brings an outstanding peer group, immersions across INSEAD’s global campuses and tailored career support.

Why should you consider the programme?

This transformative learning experience will enable you to:

Enhance your general management skills by gaining in-depth perspectives on functional areas, strategic thinking and business leadership skills.
Deepen your leadership capabilities through experiential modules on personal leadership, 360-degree feedback and assessments, one-on-one coaching and a leadership action plan.
Analyse global case studies and real-world examples for valuable insights into international business practices and trends.
Broaden your horizons with week-long immersions at INSEAD's global hubs near Paris and in Singapore and Mumbai for an exceptional international educational experience.
Learn from over 19 world-class faculty and guest speakers and leverage INSEAD's global thought leadership.
Apply the learnings to your workplace through a comprehensive action plan and application assignments, throughout the 12 months of the programme.
Develop an enriching network by being a part of the over 67,000-strong worldwide INSEAD alumni community.
Graduate with INSEAD alumni status and become eligible to join national alumni associations across the globe.

Comprehensive curriculum

The design and curriculum of the ILPSE are derived from INSEAD’s extensive experience, recognising that a participant’s success hinges on the mastery of three key dimensions of leadership – leading self, leading teams and leading organisations.

Leading Self

Self-awareness plays a pivotal role in the journey of personal growth and development. Accomplished leaders possess a profound understanding of their identity and motivations, allowing them to govern themselves adeptly and engage others productively. This pillar of the programme focuses on providing participants with the tools for introspection, feedback solicitation and cultivation of a personal leadership agenda. These tools empower participants to challenge themselves and be an effective leader.

Leading Teams

Progress in a participant’s journey requires transitioning from being a successful individual contributor to a leader who can successfully motivate and manage their teams to generate collective success for the organisation. The curriculum in this pillar of the program focuses on providing the participants with the skills that are foundational for influencing others and creating successful teams.

Leading Organisations

The curriculum for this pillar of the programme focuses on providing participants with cutting-edge knowledge encompassing all aspects of general management and frameworks for understanding the implications of contemporary macro- and micro-level developments. It progressively establishes the connections across these different domains and culminates in a capstone simulation during the final module of the programme, where participants compete to successfully build and grow a profitable business.

Programme enrichment, networking and career support

Individual Development Plan

An individual development plan (IDP) is a process to help you put to use what you learn to generate better results. It is individual because it is yours – no one else will monitor your performance against the plan. It is about development because it is based on reflection and the actions that you will take based on insights you gain in the programme. It is a plan because it sets forth what you are going to do and what results you expect to see.

Career Services

INSEAD is globally recognised by organisations as a renowned source of talent. The programme offers career guidance and a tailor-made approach to help create your career development action plan. This includes a wide range of activities, including self-assessments, career workshops, discussions with industry veterans and career conversations with coaches.

The INSEAD India Business Dialogue

An integral part of the programme, the annual dialogues bring together industry leaders, experts and INSEAD alumni. Connect with distinguished experts and experienced delegates from India and around the globe as they discuss and debate on varied facets of the Indian economy.

The Entrepreneurial Boot Camp

Tap into your creativity and all that you have learnt in the programme to develop an original business idea and create an action plan to bring it to fruition.

The Phoenix Encounter

A dynamic group exercise where you will put a hypothetical business model to the test, react to forces of disruption, and collaborate with your peers to create a strategic blueprint to see it "Rise from the Ashes."

Participant testimonials

ILPSE is one of the best programmes to understand how to navigate the business world. Unlike other programmes, it not only focuses on individual and personal development but also on growing teams succ...

Raghu Banda

Senior Director, AI Product Management,

SAP Labs

If you are looking for a powerhouse of transformational knowledge and a programme that would guide you for a lifetime, wherever you are and in whatever profession you are, ILPSE is the best. With an a...

Thejaswini Kodavur

Senior Software Engineering Manager,

Delphix

ILPSE, at this juncture in my life, has been the best investment I have made in myself. If you have achieved functional excellence and are looking to define your path to greater success – whether thro...

Neha Jain

Head of Communication, Asia-Pacific,

American Tower

The programme’s curriculum is thoughtfully developed by reputed professors. It is collaborative, holistic, contemporary and relevant. Designed to prepare you for growth, both professionally and person...

Priyanka Vashisht

Founder and CEO,

360 Degris

The whole programme reignited my student mindset, with each module pushing me to ask questions and think differently. It prepared me to apply a more process-driven approach to my work and in setting p...

Vipul Agrawal

Co-founder,

Unlu

Alumni status

With over 67,000 alumni distributed across 179 countries with 169 nationalities, our alumni are citizens of the world.

Eligibility to join national alumni associations across the globe
Networking and professional development opportunities
Invitations to regional events
Reduced rates for Executive Education programmes

Programme directors

V. (Paddy) Padmanabhan

Professor of Marketing, The Unilever Chaired Professor of Marketing

Balagopal (Bala) Vissa

Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise

Meet the faculty

Katharina Balazs

Associate Professor at ESCP Europe; Executive Coach at the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre

Vikas Agarwal

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise; Academic Co-Director, Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEI)

Ivana Naumovska

Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise

Guoli Chen

Professor of Strategy

Pushan Dutt

Professor of Economics, The Shell Fellow of Economic Transformation

Phanish Puranam

Professor of Strategy

Ian Woodward

Professor of Management Practice in Organisational Behaviour

Michael Writer

Guest lecturer with a range of specialist executive education programmes for INSEAD

Stefan Thau

Professor of Organisational Behaviour; The Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning

Visiting faculty members

Shantanu Bhattacharya

Lee Kong Chian Professor of Operations Management; Deputy Dean (Programmes) and Academic Director, PhD in Business (General Management) at Lee Kong Chian School of Business, S...

Jake Cohen

Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Master's Programs; Senior Lecturer, Accounting and Law at MIT Sloan School of Management

Nuno Delicado

Founding Partner at Pluris Value Lecturer at INSEAD; Lecturer at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

Jamie Anderson

Professor of Leadership and Strategy at Antwerp Management School

Peter Goodson

Distinguished Teaching Fellow at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business

Dominique Jacquet

Professor of Corporate Finance and Head of Economics and Finance at the Ecole des Ponts; Visiting Scholar at INSEAD Social Innovation Centre Affiliate Professor at HEC Montréa...

Jason D. Shaw

Professor, Division of Leadership, Management and Organisation at Nanyang Technological University

Christoph Zott

Professor and Head of the Department of Entrepreneurship at IESE Business School

Debanjan “Deb” Mitra

VOYA Financial Chair and Professor of Marketing at the University of Connecticut School of Business

Past participant profile

The diversity of participants is critical to the learning experience. Our participants come from a wide range of functions, industries, backgrounds, organisations and life experiences. What they all share in common:

Proven leadership potential
Strong achievement, drive and motivation
Depth of business experience (minimum of ten years; 16 years on average, with significant time in management)
Recognised career progress
Enthusiasm for learning and intellectual development

Industries

Work Experience

Schedule

	Date	Location
Module 1: Programme Introduction and Group Intro \| PLA + Team Building Activity \| Managing Leadership Transition \| Judgement and Decision-Making \| Business Strategy and Multi-Business Strategy \| Building Useful Networks \| Leading Change in Complex Organisations \| Corporate Entrepreneurship	2–8 August 2025	On Campus \| Singapore
Module 2.1: Financial Accounting (FFA)	10 August–10 September 2025	Virtual
Module 2.2: Financial Accounting	13 September 2025 \| 20 September 2025 \| 4 October 2025 \| 11 October 2025 \| 2 Hours per Day	Live Virtual
Module 3: Beneath the Surface: Introduction \| Getting Things done \| Emotions and Emotional Intelligence \| Influence and Persuasion \| India Business Dialogue	8–14 November 2025	On Campus \| Mumbai
Module 4: Negotiation Skills	22 November 2025 \| 6 December 2025 \| 13 December 2025 \| 3 Hours per day	Live Virtual
Module 5: Macroeconomics \| Multi-Business Strategy \| Applied Game Theory/Strategic Thinking \| Reimagining Organisations \| Corporate Governance \| Communication Skills	24–30 January 2026	On Campus \| Singapore
Module 6: Versant English Test	21 February–14 March 2026 \| 45 Minutes	Asynchronous Virtual
Module 7: Marketing \| Corporate Finance \| Diversity and Inclusion	18–23 April 2026	On Campus \| Mumbai
Module 8.1: Operations Management	2 May 2026 \| 9 May 2026 \| 16 May 2026 \| 3 Hours per day	Live Virtual
Module 8.2: Private Equity	6 June 2026 \| 13 June 2026 \| 20 June 2026 \| 3 Hours per day	Live Virtual
Module 9: Marketing \| GELM-based group coaching \| SATTVA Simulation \| SATTVA Learnings and Graduation	11–18 July 2026	On Campus \| Fontainebleau

Note: Topics and programme schedule are subject to change for reasons beyond the control of INSEAD.

Connect with an Emeritus programme advisor for a 1:1 session

Email: ILPSE@emeritus.org

Phone: +91 9595840575 (India) | +65 6871 4030 (Singapore)

Early registrations are encouraged. Seats fill up quickly.

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