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LEAP Leadership Journeys — Cohort 03

LEAP Senior Leaders

Directors, function heads and senior managers navigating the shift from functional excellence to enterprise leadership.

Cohort 036 to 9 MonthsSenior Managers and DirectorsBrandon Hall Recognised

LEAP Senior Leaders is ProventusHR\'s flagship leadership journey for directors and function heads accountable for business outcomes. Six mindset modules focused on enterprise thinking, trusted-advisor stakeholder leadership, and the shift from managing through systems to influencing through relationships.

Who This Journey Is For

The Shift From Functional Excellence to Enterprise Leadership

Senior leaders are accountable for business outcomes, not just functional outputs. That accountability requires a different quality of stakeholder leadership, a broader commercial perspective, and the capacity to influence decisions across boundaries that were previously above formal authority. Most senior leaders arrive at this level having been developed for the role below it.

LEAP Senior Leaders is designed for directors, senior managers, and function heads who are either navigating the senior-level transition or seeking to deepen their effectiveness at this level. The journey builds enterprise thinking, board-level communication credibility, and the trusted-advisor positioning that distinguishes leaders who shape strategy from those who implement it.

The journey runs over six to nine months combining masterclasses, individual executive coaching, 360-degree stakeholder feedback, and manager co-signed outcome documentation. Every investment is connected to a commercial or organisational result before the programme closes.

The Transition

Senior leaders are accountable for business outcomes, not functional outputs. That shift requires enterprise thinking and influence across boundaries previously outside formal authority.

The Typical Gap

Leaders promoted through functional excellence frequently carry a functional mindset into enterprise roles, managing what they know best rather than leading the enterprise they are now responsible for.

What Shifts

From functional expert to enterprise leader. From managing through systems to influencing through relationships. From informing boards to shaping strategy before the decision point.

The Right Candidate

Directors, senior managers, and function heads accountable for business outcomes across multiple teams. Typically 15 or more years of leadership experience in any sector or geography.

Journey Parameters

Duration

6 to 9 months

Modules

6 Mindset Modules

Cohort Size

10 to 16

Delivery

In-person recommended

How the Journey is Structured

Five ARChitectures

From inner clarity to enterprise influence. Every module maps to one of the five ARChitectures. The sequence is the same across cohort variants. The content is calibrated to the specific transition each cohort is navigating.

ARChitecture 01

Identity

Self-regulation, composure, executive presence

From reactive expertise to intentional self-management. The leader learns to recognise their own triggers, regulate their response under pressure, and operate from strategic self-awareness.

ARChitecture 02

Cohesion

Team leverage, delegation, coaching discipline

From hero to coach. From single-point dependency to team-led accountability. The leader builds the discipline of contextual delegation and the skill of developing direct reports through coaching conversations.

ARChitecture 03

Emergence

Innovation, digital adoption, change readiness

From compliance-driven to leader-initiated digital practice. Data-led decision-making replaces manual cycles. The leader builds the mindset of leading through uncertainty rather than waiting for it to resolve.

ARChitecture 04

Credence

Advisory quality, trusted-advisor leadership

From transactional to advisory-led engagement. Stronger pre-meeting preparation, trusted-advisor positioning, and the capacity to influence senior stakeholders through insight rather than effort alone.

ARChitecture 05

Alignment

Stakeholder influence, enterprise thinking

From generic updates to stakeholder-specific communication. Proactive risk surfacing. Structured governance rhythm. The leader operates as an enterprise citizen rather than a functional manager.

Engineering Services Sector

Senior Leader Journey for a Large Engineering Consulting Firm

Anonymised. Sector and outcomes referenced. Client name withheld at client request.

Context

A large engineering consulting firm identified that its senior technical leaders, promoted into general management roles over three years, were consistently effective as functional experts but struggling to operate at enterprise level: influencing across peer functions, managing board-level stakeholders, and contributing to strategic decisions beyond their technical domain.

Design

ProventusHR designed a nine-month LEAP journey with Computer Simulations on strategic decision-making and enterprise resource allocation, REEL|Life modules on executive presence and trusted-advisor communication, and individual coaching running in parallel throughout. Board members from the sponsoring organisation co-designed the outcomes framework.

Documented Outcomes

  • All participants demonstrated measurable improvement on enterprise thinking metrics at 90-day stakeholder review
  • Three participants moved into expanded enterprise roles within eighteen months of programme close
  • Commercial outcomes documented across the cohort, attributed to changed leadership behaviour
  • Succession pipeline formalised for the first time in two of the five business units represented

Organisations That Have Run LEAP

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