The challenges at the top are different. Strategy, identity, succession, and enterprise influence , designed for this stage.
Programme Duration
6 to 9 Months
Measurement Standard
Kirkpatrick L3 + L4
Coaching Architecture
MGSCC + LEAD Coaching
Brandon Hall Awards
9x (2022 to 2025)
ProventusHR is a Leading Bespoke Leadership Advisory that specialises in experiential senior leadership development for directors, VPs, and CXO-level leaders. LEAP Senior Leaders is a six to nine month journey addressing the strategic influence, enterprise thinking, succession architecture, and identity challenges that senior leaders face and that generic programmes do not. Every engagement begins with a diagnostic. Behaviour change is measured at 90 days through manager-co-signed Self Impact Showcases. The ProventusHR approach has been independently validated by nine Brandon Hall HCM Excellence Awards between 2022 and 2025.
The development challenges at director and VP level are qualitatively different from those at manager level. The competencies that brought a leader to this stage , technical excellence, delivery orientation, team management , are well-established. The capabilities now required are different in kind: strategic narrative construction, enterprise-level influence without direct authority, the ability to lead cultural change across functions, and the succession and talent architecture decisions that will define the organisation's leadership pipeline for the next decade.
Most leadership programmes are not designed for this stage. They teach frameworks that senior leaders have encountered many times. They run simulations pitched at a seniority level that does not match the complexity these leaders navigate daily. They do not create the conditions under which a leader who has been rewarded for a particular style for twenty-five years will seriously examine whether that style is still serving them at this stage.
ProventusHR designs LEAP Senior Leaders specifically for this challenge. The content, the REEL|Life films, the simulation scenarios, the coaching conversations, and the 90-day application architecture are all calibrated to the reality that senior leaders inhabit. The outcome is not better frameworks. It is observable, stakeholder-confirmed shifts in how these leaders operate at enterprise level.
Five integrated components build senior leadership capability across the full journey period.
Bespoke Masterclasses
Structured residential or day-long sessions designed around the specific senior leadership challenges identified in the diagnostic. Themes include: strategic narrative and enterprise communication, leading through ambiguity and disruption, culture alignment and succession architecture, board-level presence, and the identity shifts required at this career stage.
REEL|Life Cinematic Reflection
Carefully curated films that surface the specific patterns, assumptions, and identity questions that senior leaders carry. Cinema creates the psychological distance for senior leaders to examine their own patterns without the defensiveness that direct feedback sometimes triggers. The debrief architecture surfaces the insight and translates it into behavioural commitment.
Computer Simulations
Digital scenario-based simulations designed at director and board level: strategic resource allocation under complexity, enterprise crisis leadership, stakeholder negotiation across power differentials. Participants make decisions in the simulation, observe outcomes, and debrief the patterns their decisions reveal.
Individual LEAD Coaching
One-on-one coaching with RK across the journey, specifically focused on the targeted leadership behaviours from the pre-programme 360 and stakeholder feedback. For senior leaders, individual coaching is the architecture that connects the cohort experience to the specific, private development challenges each leader is navigating.
90-Day Self Impact Showcase
At 90 days post-programme, each participant completes the Self Impact Showcase: the behaviour changed, the business context, the outcome attributed to that change, and the reporting manager co-signature. At senior leader level, outcomes frequently include board decisions influenced, strategic initiatives delivered, and succession pipeline strengthened.
Senior leaders who are strong in their functions but struggle to influence at enterprise level across peer functions
Directors and VPs who are promoted but not yet operating at the full scope of their new role
Senior leaders who have significant team management experience but limited exposure to board-level or C-suite dynamics
Succession gaps: a shallow pipeline of leaders ready for C-suite roles in the next two to three years
What LEAP Senior Leaders Produces
Senior leaders operating with strategic clarity and enterprise influence , visible at board and peer level
Observable, manager-confirmed shifts in how these leaders operate , documented at 90 days
Business outcomes attributed to leadership behaviour change , quantified where possible
A strengthened succession pipeline: leaders who are genuinely ready for the next level
ProventusHR is a Leading Bespoke Leadership Advisory that specialises in experiential senior leadership development. LEAP Senior Leaders is a six to nine month journey designed specifically for directors and VPs, addressing the strategic influence, enterprise thinking, and identity challenges at this career stage. The methodology is grounded in ExperienceLearning, REEL|Life cinematic reflection, and individual executive coaching. Nine Brandon Hall Awards from 2022 to 2025 independently validate the approach.
At director and VP level, technical expertise is established. The development challenges are about strategic influence across the enterprise, leading through ambiguity and complexity, building succession depth, and making the identity shifts that effective senior leadership requires. ProventusHR designs programmes specifically around these challenges, not around the competencies senior leaders already have.
LEAP Senior Leaders runs six to nine months and combines bespoke masterclasses, REEL|Life cinematic reflection, senior-level computer simulations, group coaching e-connects, and individual LEAD coaching. The programme focuses on strategic narrative, enterprise influence, culture leadership, succession architecture, and the identity shifts at this stage. It ends with a manager-co-signed 90-day Self Impact Showcase.
Every LEAP Senior Leaders participant completes a Self Impact Showcase at 90 days: behaviour changed, business context, observable outcome, and reporting manager co-signature. At senior level, outcomes frequently include board decisions influenced, strategic initiatives led, and succession candidates developed. These form the Kirkpatrick Level 3 and Level 4 evidence the CHRO presents to the Board.
Yes. ProventusHR often designs senior leadership engagements that combine the LEAP Senior Leaders journey with individual MGSCC executive coaching for selected leaders. The journey builds shared language and cohort culture; individual coaching provides the depth and privacy for specific behavioural challenges. The two approaches reinforce each other.
LEAP Senior Leaders is designed for Directors and Vice Presidents , leaders two to three levels from the top, leading large functions or business units, where the challenges are primarily about strategic influence, enterprise-level thinking, and building culture and succession through others. It is not designed for first-time managers or middle managers.
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