Align all areas of your organisation and lead with impact.
As a business leader, the ability to implement strategies that filter down all levels of an organisation is vital to organisational success.
The Breakthrough Leadership Programme is a transformative programme that equips business leaders with the necessary skill set to successfully implement organisational-wide strategies that create value and drive success across the organisation.
Join a new generation of business leaders, who are accelerating their career to the next level by actively creating change within their organisation, by equipping themselves with the skills obtain greater resilience and the clarity to successfully lead their organisation and plan for the future.
Strategy Implementation
Take your strategic implementation to the next level, involving all areas of the organisation, and how you can implement high-impact and value strategies that drive organisational performance.
Management into Leadership
Understand the realities of senior-level leadership, and how you can enhance your leadership capabilities to increase your overall impact on your organisation.
Knowledge Into Action
Benefit from a suite of development tools that are designed to help you interpret internal and external opportunities for your organisation, and how you can capitalise on these findings to create new opportunities.
How to influence
Learn how you can effectively communicate across all levels of your organisation and how to influence, including at the board level.
What will you gain from this programme?
This programme will enable you to dive deeply into who you are, your values, and how you can unlock your potential to lead with confidence and purpose.
With the help of leading psychometric assessments, modern tools, engagement with your peers, and carefully crafted content, you will understand the skills and knowledge required to lead your organisation, align all areas and drive performance and innovation.
At a glance
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- Dates
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- 11 Dec 2025
- Duration8-10 hours virtual learning + 5 days residential + 5 days residential + review sessions after 6 and 12 months
- LocationCranfield campus and virtual learning
- Cost£17,560 + VAT, including accommodation Concessions available
Module dates
The programme modules run on the following dates:
| December 2025 | |
| Access to Learning |
11 December 2025 |
| Module 1 | 19-23 January 2026 |
| Module 2 | 16-20 March 2026 |
| Review 1 | TBC 2026 |
| Review 2 | TBC 2027 |
Who is this for?
Senior managers who:
- Have been appointed into a director or leadership role within the last few years.
- Responsible for implementing business-wide strategies.
- Identified as a successor to a division/unit/organisation.
- Preparing for a career advancement into a leadership role in the near future.
Programme impact
With access to industry experts and renowned Cranfield faculty, you will work to broaden your leadership skills, enhance your strategic and operational thinking to influence the strategy management agenda.
Through a suite of tools provided, you’ll be able assess your organisation and understand what areas require focus, as you begin to align your organisation to the same goals.
For you:
- A suite of development tools to future-proof your leadership, manage ambiguity and change.
- Broadened leadership knowledge to inspire new ways of thinking, being and doing.
- Understand your leadership style and how to maximise your effectiveness.
- The know-how to effectively communicate at all levels of an organisation.
- The capacity to let go and plan for the future.
For your organisation:
- Increased collaboration across all levels of the organisation.
- A leader with a range of tools and frameworks to increase business performance.
- A leader who can successfully implement a business-wide strategy.
- A leader who can adapt and drive competitiveness within the business landscape.
- A confident leader who can anticipate and interpret organisational challenges and change.
- A proactive leader who has the knowledge to build organisational resilience in light of market trends.
Testimonials
Breakthrough Leadership Programme brochure
Gain clarity on your key business functions and master cross-functional leadership.
Structure
This programme will give you the confidence to lead your organisation and guide your transition into a leader, who can solve complex challenges by implementing business-wide strategies that create value and build resilience.
With opportunities to network with peers and turn inward to understand who you are as a leader; this programme will act as a springboard for you to maximise your leadership potential and become more impactful and influential.
Strategic concepts and frameworks
- Learn leading concepts and frameworks that are ready-to-implement to your organisation and designed to help you develop high-impact and value strategies for your organisation.
How to lead in an ever-changing landscape
- Delve into your leadership style and how you can create a personal development plan to enhance your leadership capabilities, maximise your potential and have the know-how to align your organisation to the business strategy.
Implementing a strategic vision
- Enhance your strategic capabilities and develop the know-how to implement business-wide strategies that are sustainable, high value and drive innovation and success.
Planning for the future
- Acquire the practice of stepping away to gain a clearer perspective, by discerning the business environment and successfully plan for the future. With greater clarity, benefit from laying the foundations for increased resilience across your organisation.
What you'll experience
Module one – Introduction and online coaching
Online (approx. 8 hours to complete)
Begin your journey towards becoming a more impactful leader with carefully crafted psychometric tests to understand your leadership style. Meet your peers who will have experience from diverse sectors and industries and learn how they navigate organisational challenges.
You will also meet your coach, who will be with you throughout the programme as you develop key areas for development that will see you increase your organisational impact.
Module two – Business leadership today
Face-to-face (5 days residential)
Learn the reality of leadership at a senior level, and how you utilise a suite of tools and frameworks that are designed to help you increase your organisational influence, including at the board level.
Discover how to effectively communicate strategies that filter down each level of your organisation as you closely align organisational actions to business strategy.
Module three - Developing future thinking and realising personal capability
Face-to-face (5 days residential)
Learn how to plan for the future and lead with no ego. Increase your understanding of leadership and what it means to prepare an organisation for the future. You will also identify a strategic project that creates value for your organisation.
Six-month progress review day
Cranfield (one day)
Implement what you have learned throughout the programme and reflect on the progress that you have made in your leadership journey.
- Review the progress you have made over the last six months and the impact it’s had on you and your organisation,
- Join your peers and faculty to review the key outcomes and learnings from your action plans,
- Set new targets with your coach, which are ready to implement and review at your next review.
12-month continuing development review day
Online (2/3 hours)
To consolidate your development, you return for a 12-month review to reflect on the last 12 months and the programme's long-term impact on you and your organisation.
Reflect on the progress that you have made on your personal journey and outline the next steps in your transition to becoming an impactful and influential leader.
Unique and practical programme features
Experience innovation first-hand through meeting entrepreneurial leaders and draw inspiration and learn from three different business types:
- Start-up incubator
- Market disruptor
- High growth business
- Real-life business simulations with opportunities to build key personal and professional skills.
- Transformational journey for each delegate that inspires, challenges and enlightening new ways of thinking through real-life business problems.
- Attain an integrated suite of leadership development tools.
- Peer-to-peer learning.
- On-going coaching.
- Cranfield renowned faculty – drawing on their research, thought leadership and global perspective on key issues to equip you with powerful insights.
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Concessions
20% discount (tuition fee only) for Cranfield School of Management Alumni who have attended one of our eligible leadership programmes.
Accommodation and Location
How to apply
Next steps
If you have any further questions about the programme, or would like to discuss how we can support your needs, please get in touch with our advisors.
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This course is provided by Cranfield Management Development Ltd a wholly owned subsidiary of SWAGºÏ¼¯
