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STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM WITH FOCUS ON PRODUCT STRATEGY

International Certificate in
Strategy & Leadership

Become a high IMPACT LEADER with skills in STRATEGY INNOVATION LEADERSHIP FINANCE DIGITAL BUSINESS

Cohorts from

INTEL
VISA
ADOBE
CISCO
Boston Consulting Group
PAYPAL

5 months | 5 Courses

Assignments & Projects

Weekly Faculty Sessions

Recommended 6-8 hrs/ week

Next Cohort Starts

Unlimited 1:1 Coaching

With Skill Coaches

5 months | 5 Courses

Assignments & Projects

Weekly Faculty Sessions

Recommended 6-8 hrs/ week

Unlimited 1:1 Coaching

With Skill Coaches

Program Overview

Key Highlights

workshop

Multiple Case Studies and Assignments | 5 Capstone Industry Projects

Communication

Unlimited 1:1 Mentorship with Mentors & Faculty

hands on learning

Learning Library with Toolkits, Frameworks & Templates

build your idea

Focused New Age Curriculum for Digital Leaders

Team Building

Weekly Faculty Sessions (Live)

PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE

Exclusive Career Management Cell with Hiring Talentathons

Practitioners

Networking Opportunities on Campus and Off Campus

Career Labs - Career Coaching & Mentoring, Portfolio Building, Interview Preparation

Tools Covered

Adobe XD

Strategy and Leadership Certification Program

Product Strategy Certification issued by the C. T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston and Institute of Product Leadership.

Bauer College’s Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship ranked No. 2 in U.S. on the Top 25 Best Undergrad Programs for Entrepreneurs in 2019. (Top 10 since 2007; No. 1 in 2008, 2010 and 2011)

Course audited and approved by the Bauer College.

Preparing you for Global Certification

Strategy and Leadership Certification Program

Product Strategy Certification issued by the C. T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston and Institute of Product Leadership.

Bauer College’s Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship ranked No. 2 in U.S. on the Top 25 Best Undergrad Programs for Entrepreneurs in 2019. (Top 10 since 2007; No. 1 in 2008, 2010 and 2011)

Course audited and approved by the Bauer College.

Syllabus

An executive leadership program created and curated by industry CXOs with case studies, simulations, real-life projects, assignments and personalized coaching.

Core Courses

STG401F - Product & Digital Strategy

■ Corporate Strategy, Business and Product strategy
■ Understanding of strategic frameworks
■ Opportunity analysis canvas

■ Understanding the competition and their emergent strategies
■ Competitor analysis using strategy map
■ Competitive positioning

■ Product portfolio expansion
■ Ansoff model of Product Market Growth
■ Models for Portfolio Analysis

■ Technology and platform strategy
■ Digital Transformation Models

■ Developing roadmaps, defining KPIs and metrics
■ Synthesizing and storytelling

FIN401F - Financial Acumen

■ Revenue Recognition & Cash Flow Basics
■ Building & P&L Management for Cloud / SaaS business
■ Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR) Capital Rationing & Payback

■ Preparing a Financial Plan
■ Forecasting Future cash flows and Financial Modelling

■ Revenue Models & Pricing
■ Cost & Profitability Metrics and Ratios

LDR401F - Communicating for Impact

■ High Impact Communications
■ Presentation Structures like SMP, SIRF
■ Visual Presentations

■ Leveraging Voice & Body Language
■ Networking Within & Outside

■ Delivering Difficult News
■ Handling Tough Q&A
■ Cross Culture Communications

DAT401F - Data Informed Decision Making

■ Creating models for decision making
■ Cluster Analysis, Monte Carlo Models

■ The art and science of data visualization
■ Storytelling with Data
Future Trends & Tools

LDR402F - Leading with Influence

■ Persuasion and Influence, Executive Presence
■ Building a personal brand through Thought Leadership
■ Personalized Assessments on Influentiality Index (II), Conflict Mgmt & Negotiation

■ Leading People and Managing Globally Dispersed Teams
■ Negotiation, Influence Skills
■ Empowerment – Coaching, Training, Support and Motivation

■ Leading Disruptive Innovation & Change Management
■ Stakeholder Management & Creating Strategic Alignment

Elective Courses (Optional)

Electives are recommended add-on courses for those who want to have a broader coverage

Lean Entrepreneurship

■ Growth and Scaling Strategies
■ Financing and Profitability
■ Identifying Stakeholders and gathering support
■ Business case & Revenue Modeling

■ Ideation and Developing the opportunity
■ Customer Insighting, Problem Discovery

■ Testing business ideas
■ Hypothesis Design & Experimentation
■ Building MVPs

Design Thinking and Customer Centricity

■ Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test
■ How to be a Design Thinker
■ Defining the Problem
■ Customer centric innovation

■ Fly on the wall
■ What-How-Why
■ Roleplaying
■ Empathy mapping
■ Pain-Gain Analysis
■ Analogous empathy
■ Extreme users
■ Journey map
■ Error analysis

■ Ideation Models – Impose constraints, Historical analysis, Power of Ten, Brainstorming
■ Prototyping Methods – Wireframes, Low Fidelity, High Fidelity, Scaled Prototyping, Storyboarding
■ Assumption & Hypothesis Design

Typical Learning Path for each course

Weekly Faculty Sessions
Plus Curated Video Lessons
Assignments
Self & Group Submissions
Capstone Project
Live Presentations with Jury
Certificate
Course Certificate
0

Average Days to complete each course

One Program, Ten Outcomes

#1Product Vision
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Build a long term product vision and articulate a written strategy for the business.
#2Opportunity Analysis
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Analyze new product opportunities to arrive at ‘go’ or ‘no-go’ conclusions efficiently.
#3Portfolio Management
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Decide where to invest & what to shutdown at a portfolio level using new-age frameworks like GE McKinsey Model
#4SaaS Model
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Assess the pros and cons of various business models including SaaS, Freemium, Captive, Crowdsource for a given business
#5GoToMarket
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Develop a go-to-market strategy and pick the right product messaging and positioning for customer acquisition.
#6P&L Management
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Build financial literacy to read, analyze and make decisions around financial statements like cash flow, P&L, balance sheets.
#7Pricing
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Build pricing, revenue and financial business models for new business ideas.
#8Business Storytelling
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Communicate with Confidence, Influence others through better Storytelling.
#9Better Negotiator
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Win more in high stakes negotiations - with exec mgmt team, with customers, with peers.
#10Team Building
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Build stronger people skills - managing high performers, coaching for excellence and stakeholder management.
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Its very simple - those with actionable skills will get promoted faster. End to End Understanding of the business context, customer context and innovation context is key for decision making senior roles.
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Amit Phadnis
Chief Digital Officer, GE Healthcare

Faculty and Mentors

Learn from Global Strategy and Business Leaders

Gaurav Mittal
Gaurav Mittal
Product Management Leader,
Intuit
Heera Ganjikota
Heera Ganjikota
Founder & Consultant,
Pivot Pipers Coaching & Consulting
Steve Caplow
Steve Caplow
Principal,
Caplow Associates
Pinkesh Shah
Pinkesh Shah
Chief Product Officer,
Qualys
Andrew Bean
Andrew Bean
Senior Associate,
Negotiation Partners
Dinesh Gopalan
Dinesh Gopalan
Ex. Director of Finance,
Fidelity
Manjunath Subramanian
Manjunath Subramanian
Sr. Principal Product Manager,
Oracle
Anand
Anand Shrivastava
Head of Product Management, Multicloud India,
Genesys 

Industry Projects and Assignments

Learn through case studies, simulations(Harvard Business Publishing), real-life projects and assignments across industries.

Leadership and Team Simulation: Everest
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Learning Outcomes:
To learn how to build, participate in, and lead effective teams, as well as to examine:
1. How teams can improve the way they make decisions.
2. How opposing interests and asymmetric information affect team dynamics.
3. How leaders shape team decision-making and performance in competitive and time-sensitive situations.
4. How teams and their leaders deal with tradeoffs between short-term task completion and longer-term team effectiveness.
5. How cognitive biases impair decision making.
Strategic Innovation Simulation: Back Bay Battery
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Learning Outcomes:
1. Disruptive innovations often don't meet the needs of a firm's top customers, but managers need to keep an eye on whether these innovations could potentially meet the needs of other customers.
2. Sometimes the best opportunity for a product is not visible early on, and it takes time to develop. Closely watching the market and building strategy in an emergent way is helpful in these circumstances.
3. Managers must carefully allocate R&D funds based on the evolution of a firm's strategy.
Strategy Simulation: The Balanced Scorecard
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Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn how firms can use the balanced scorecard to define strategy, implement strategy, and measure strategy execution.
2. Understand that a strategy is more likely to be effective if the initiatives implemented are synergistic with the strategy.
3. Explore how a good balanced scorecard can help companies take mid-course corrective actions.
4. Examine the advantages and disadvantages of measuring a small or large number of metrics.
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Strategy & Leadership Certification Advantage

Learn Strategic Leadership skills from expert industry practitioners. Leverage the leadership development program by tapping into your leadership potential and expanding your influence and ability to solve strategic problems.

Assurance of Skills v/s Knowledge
Assurance of Skills v/s Knowledge
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Unlike eLearning and online leadership courses, our program has continuous faculty interactions with feedback on projects & 1:1 personalized coaching that will build real skills.
Expensive doesnt mean Effective
Expensive doesnt mean Effective
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Unlike Ivy League branded programs which will give you bragging rights, this will actually generate ROI and build YOUR brand.
Focussed on Career Acceleration
Focussed on Career Acceleration
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Unlike generic Executive MBA or MDP programs, focus is on building actionable skills for  senior roles in the digital economy
Learning by Doing
Learning by Doing
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Leadership training programs often helps build buzzwords but working on real-world industry challenges produces "evidence" of skills through a demonstrable portfolio

Career Impact

salary-hike

38%

Average Salary Hike

Corporate Partners

50+

Corporate Partners

Career Impact

Corporate Partners

50+

Corporate Partners

HIGH SALARY

50L

Highest Salary

salary hike

38%

Avg Salary Hike

CAREER TRANSITION

50+

Career Transitions

What learners say about ICSL Program

Tuhina Chattopadhyay

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout this journey. I am looking forward to embracing the new opportunities and challenges that come with this certification.

Shivam RaiShivam Rai

I’m deeply appreciative of the knowledge and insights gained during my journey at the Institute of Product Leadership, enhancing my skills in digital product leadership alongside a remarkable cohort and expert faculty.

Poornima Pujar

The International Certification in Strategy and Leadership has enriched me with invaluable insights and skills, all thanks to the exceptional faculty who generously shared their expertise.

Vinesh Kaladharan

A heartfelt thank you to all the tutors and the Institute for providing such a wonderful opportunity.

Neeraj Gupta

Learning is a never-ending journey. We should seize opportunities to learn from both academicians and practitioners, during work and beyond, inside the office and out, and through both in-person and online experiences. The pursuit of knowledge should never halt.

Rajendar Godara

I am confident that this program has enhanced my strategic thinking and will significantly contribute to improving the implementation of strategies within my organization, thanks to the practical insights and tools gained from the IPL team.

Our Students work at

ADOBE
AMAZON
VISA
Boston Consulting Group
PAYPAL
MICROSOFT
PHILIPS
VMWARE
INTEL
MAHINDRA
MERCEDES
HSBC
SAMSUNG
IBM
NOKIA
CISCO

Program Fee covers

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  • Start learning today! with a Pay as you go model

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

The International Certificate in Strategy and Leadership Program spans 5 months and includes 5 intensive courses designed to equip you with essential skills in strategy, innovation, leadership, finance, and digital business.

Absolutely! This program is designed for professionals from various backgrounds. Whether you’re in engineering, design, or business leadership, our program builds from foundational to advanced skills to help you excel in strategic leadership.

The Strategy and Leadership Program is offered exclusively online, allowing participants to engage in coursework and live sessions from anywhere in the world. This format provides flexibility and convenience, making it accessible to a wide range of professionals seeking to enhance their strategic leadership skills.

Learners typically dedicate 6-8 hours per week to coursework, which includes weekly faculty sessions, assignments, and projects to ensure a comprehensive learning experience.

Graduates of the program will gain expertise in product vision, opportunity analysis, portfolio management, financial acumen, and business storytelling, empowering them to drive strategic decisions and lead effectively in their organizations.

Learn from global business leaders and strategists who bring real-world experience and insights from top companies, ensuring you receive education that is both current and highly applicable.

Our program includes a dedicated Career Management Cell, monthly Skill Hackathons, and live presentations, all designed to prepare you for senior roles in the digital economy and enhance your career trajectory.

Interested candidates can apply through our website, and the account activation takes place within 10 minutes post-application. Payment plans are available to ensure the program is accessible to all admitted participants.

Our participants are ambitious professionals from top companies like Adobe, Amazon, and Visa, who are looking to enhance their leadership skills and strategic thinking.

The Certified Associate Product Manager (CAPM) Program is for aspiring product managers from any background & who have 0-4 years of experience. If you are a Fresher who wants to make a career in the product then this program is for you to land your first Product Management job.

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