Executive Impact Program

Your development ambition provides direction for what you want to broaden, deepen, or strengthen. Your strategic challenge determines where you want to apply new perspectives in your practice. Each masterclass brings these two lines together.

A Program Adviser helps you select and schedule the four masterclasses as one cohesive learning journey. The Academic Director of the Executive IMPACT Program then challenges you to further define your development goals and strategic challenge. Based on this conversation, you are matched with a mentor who aligns with your development and challenge. After each masterclass, your mentor helps you determine which insights matter, which assumptions need to be reconsidered, and what this means for your analysis.

How the Executive IMPACT Program works: one learning journey, two connected lines

The development track:
You select four masterclasses that align with your drivers, professional ambitions, and desired development. This enables you to consciously shape what you want to broaden, deepen, or strengthen.

The practice track:
From the start, you work on a strategic challenge from your own professional practice. During each masterclass, you identify which insights are relevant, which assumptions should be challenged, and what a new perspective means for your role or organization.

A dedicated mentor connects both tracks. Your mentor helps you recognize patterns, examine assumptions, and translate the insights from your masterclasses into your role, development, and practical challenge. This keeps your learning journey cohesive and personal.

This is how your personal learning journey unfolds

1. Discover – Define your development direction

You begin by exploring what your role, ambition, and professional context require from you today. A Program Adviser helps you create a suitable route of four masterclasses.

• You discuss your drivers, ambitions, and professional role
• You identify a strategic challenge where you can make an impact from your position
• Based on your ambition and challenge, you select four masterclasses together with a Program Adviser that provide the most relevant perspectives for the impact you want to create

After designing your learning journey, you have an in-depth conversation with the Academic Director of the Executive IMPACT Program. The Academic Director challenges you to clearly define what you want to develop and what your strategic challenge is truly about. This creates a strong foundation for matching you with a mentor who aligns with your development goals and challenge. You then begin your personal guidance journey with this mentor.

If, during this exploration, it becomes clear that another masterclass would better support your development, your learning journey will be adjusted in consultation with you.

Take the Impact Scan

Do you want to discover which development direction best suits your ambition and challenge? Take the IMPACT Scan and receive initial route advice (in Dutch).

2. Deepen – Connect new perspectives

In each masterclass, you apply a new perspective to your strategic challenge. This not only expands your knowledge but also strengthens your ability to determine what an insight means for your choices and actions.

• You deepen your understanding of four topics that align with your development ambition
• You examine your challenge from a new perspective in each masterclass
• You assess what new insights mean for your choices and way of working
• In mentoring sessions, you connect the outcomes to insights from previous masterclasses

Each masterclass contributes to your development and to an increasingly well-founded analysis of your challenge.

3. Embed – Make your impact visible

You do not wait until the end to start working on your IMPACT Paper. The insights related to your strategic challenge develop throughout the four masterclasses and mentoring sessions. In the final phase, you bring this accumulated analysis together into a strategic recommendation.

• You develop your strategic challenge into an IMPACT Paper
• You translate the key insights into well-founded recommendations
• Together with your mentor, you discuss how to implement your recommendations
• You present your findings to your mentor and, where relevant, to stakeholders from your organization

The IMPACT Paper makes your development tangible. It demonstrates how you connect insights from different masterclasses to a current challenge and translate them into a well-founded strategic recommendation with concrete next steps for your professional practice or organization.

Example learning journeys

The routes below show how four content perspectives can be combined around one development ambition. These are examples only. Together with a Program Adviser, you create your own route based on your ambition, experience, and planning.

The Public Value Strategist:
For professionals who want to translate societal challenges into direction and results. Relevant themes include public value, network collaboration, strategy, and governance.

The Change Strategist:
For professionals who want to connect strategy, behaviour, and narrative to enable movement and transformation within their organization. Relevant themes include strategic management, leadership, organizational change, and communication.

The Organizational Architect:
For professionals who want to build a strong organization where people, leadership, and processes reinforce one another. Relevant themes include organizational design, leadership, HR, and governance.

The Governance Strategist:
For professionals operating in a complex stakeholder environment who want to steer more effectively on direction, interests, and decision-making. Relevant themes include governance and supervision, strategy, decision-making, and leadership.

The AI and Future Strategist:
For professionals who want to translate AI, digitalization, and future-oriented organizing into strategic choices. Relevant themes include AI, digital transformation, innovation, and strategy.