C-Suite Leaders Programme
Our ‘C-Suite Leaders Programme’ offers seasoned directors the rare opportunity to step back, reflect and rethink their approach to building and leading high-performing boards to meet the needs of their organisation, both nationally and globally.
This programme has been designed to invest C-level executives with high-level strategic expertise and awareness of their personal impact. Participants will be empowered to lead their organisation confidently, dynamically and effectively in a fast-changing environment. The course provides participants with a takeaway ‘tool box’ invaluable guides and templates, including:
- A business valuation template
- A funding strategy guide
- A due diligence check list
- A media management guide
- A risk management matrix
- A business continuity policy
What’s more, it is led by corporate financier, award-winning director and renowned ‘deal-maker’ Jo Haigh, who promises to help get the best out of ambitious executives.
The course explores:
- Board composition, competencies, development and growth
- Board function, structure, reporting and meetings
- Crisis and risk management – developing communications plans (including media relations, social media strategy and internal staff messaging), risk register and mitigation measures
- Problem-solving techniques to manage and harness conflict in the board to the advantage of the company
- Reading in forensic-level detail, and interpreting financial statements
- Business valuations, and how a deal process works
Course Summary
3 Day
Location:
Virtual Manchester London
Delivery Method and Price:
Virtual Classroom:
£2,500
Face to Face Classroom:
£2,500
About the Programme
This course has been designed specifically for those with significant experience operating at board level and in C-level executive roles.
Benefits
This course is for you if you want to:
- Be a seasoned and experienced board director or driven to be a high performing C-level executive
- Build a diverse board that will grow and develop to the company’s needs
- Be involved with mergers and acquisitions, investing in or buying and selling of businesses
- Be able to read and understand accounts like an investigatory journalist would
- Build a resilient, high-performing, and world-class board
Session 1
Board Evolution to Revolution
Key themes include:
- Case study – analyse the board, it’s composition and talent and the basis of starting to build a future-proof model
- Make recommendations on how the board needs restructuring
- Consider how changes would be implemented
- Prepare a list of reserved powers for the board, which is key to protecting future decision making
- Why the best performing boards understand the crucial difference between what happens in a board meeting and a senior leadership team meeting
- Developing board agendas and papers
- Exercise – prepare an agenda for the board, including a senior leadership team agenda
- Holding the board to account
Session 2
Crisis and Risk Management
Key themes include:
- Communicating with your stakeholders and building the reputation you need to survive
- Making risk management work positively
- Prepare a crisis communication plan to deal with a crisis (case study two) and present to the group
- Preparation of a risk mitigation plan with explanations on why you have chosen these routes (case study two)
- Preparation of risk register (case studies one and two)
- Practical problem-solving session – using innovative problem-solving techniques in the board, to manage and harness conflict in the board and gain the company an advantage
Session 3
Beyond the Numbers
Key themes include:
- The investigatory journalists guide to reading and interpreting financial statements, using the Cool Pools Ltd case study
- The practical ‘forensic’ guide to understanding the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and how financial statements can be legitimately skewed to hide the facts
- An insight into this dynamic world and how to spot deals, critical deal-makers and breakers
- Valuing a business using a Cool Pools Ltd case study
- Exercise – building deal structures
- How a deal process works – from issue to bid, due diligence, legal and completion
- The business funding market:
- Debt
- Equity
- Grants
- Crowdfunding
- Pros and cons and how to identify the right route
- Deal covenants and management
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Fundraising in a post-Covid world including exploring mergers, acquisitions and disposal market
Whilst this programme is not linked to a formal qualification, it will contribute to delegate’s ongoing personal and professional development.
Jo Haigh
Tutor
- Winner of The Sunday Times NED of the Year award in association with Peel Hunt.
- Non-Executive Director and Chair for a number of prestigious companies.
- Winner of Acquisition International M&A Awards - Most Innovative UK Deal Negotiator 2016 and The AI One to Watch in Corporate Finance.
- Winner of Non-Exec Director of the Year IoD Yorkshire & North East Awards.
- Winner of the CBI First Women in Business Services Award.
- Shortlisted for Inspiring Leader of the Year Forward Ladies and SME Business of the Year with Forward Ladies.
- Best-selling author of seven books, including An Entrepreneurs Guide to Starting a New Business.
- Since 1989, Jo has bought and sold over 400 companies, specialising in owner managed companies.
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