As leadership responsibilities expand, success depends less on expertise and more on the ability to influence decisions, align stakeholders, build trust, and lead through complexity. The Leadership Programme in Building Executive Presence and Influence is designed to help experienced professionals strengthen these capabilities and enhance their effectiveness in high-stakes leadership situations.
Communication skills focus on how effectively you deliver a message. Executive presence is broader. It reflects the confidence, credibility, composure, judgement, and trust that leaders bring to important conversations and decisions.
The programme views executive presence as the ability to show up with clarity and authenticity while creating confidence and alignment among others.
Participants can strengthen their ability to:
The programme follows a progression from self-leadership to enterprise-level influence, helping participants connect personal growth with organizational impact.
Leadership challenges evolve with seniority. As responsibilities expand, leaders are expected to influence broader stakeholder groups, navigate competing priorities, and shape outcomes beyond their direct span of control.
This programme is designed specifically for experienced professionals looking to strengthen executive presence, organizational influence, political intelligence, and leadership judgement in increasingly complex environments.
Many leadership programmes focus primarily on management frameworks and business knowledge. This programme focuses on how leaders build influence and credibility in real organizational settings.
Its emphasis on executive presence, stakeholder influence, political skill, leadership networking, organizational dynamics, and communication with CXOs and boards makes it particularly relevant for experienced leaders.
The curriculum includes a dedicated module titled Cracking the Code of Political Skill. It covers influence tactics, political skill, leadership networking, communication with CXOs and board members, and indigenous insights.
The module enables participants to understand organisational dynamics and navigate political currents with constructive foresight.
Upon successful completion, you will receive an industry-recognized Certificate of Completion from IIM Calcutta.
Yes. You will be awarded Executive Education Alumni Status from IIM Calcutta along with:
The programme is best suited for:
Applicants must:
Eligible candidates will be selected based on an assessment of their educational background, professional experience and motivation reflected in the submitted application.
The programme is led by the following Programme Directors from IIM Calcutta:
Select faculty from IIM Calcutta will also teach in the programme.
The curriculum comprises eight modules:
Together, the modules progress from self-awareness and reinvention to team leadership, stakeholder alignment and organisational influence.
The programme follows a highly interactive and technology-enabled pedagogy. Learning methods include:
The programme is designed for experienced professionals with at least 10 years of work experience, including senior managers, professionals in large client-facing roles, entrepreneurs and founders.
Participants will engage with the cohort during live online sessions and the campus immersion, if held.
The programme is for six months and includes 90 hours of learning.
Live online sessions will be held once a week on Sundays from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
No. The programme combines live online learning with face-to-face learning at the IIM Calcutta campus.
The blended format enables sustained weekly engagement through online sessions and immersive faculty and cohort interaction during the campus component.
If the campus immersion is held, attendance is mandatory for successful completion of the programme.
The campus component is an integral part of the programme’s learning and completion requirements.
Assessment will be based on:
The total programme fee is ₹3,10,000, excluding applicable GST.
A separate application fee of ₹2,500, excluding applicable GST, is payable at the time of application.
Yes. The programme fee is payable across three instalments, according to the communicated payment schedule.
The exact payment dates should be shared with applicants during the enrolment process.
No, the application fee is non-refundable.
No. The programme fee is non-refundable and non-transferable under any circumstances.
No. The programme fee is non-refundable and non-transferable under any circumstances.Do I need a laptop?
Yes. You will need a laptop with:
Reading material (pre/post session) will be shared regularly through the Online Learning Management System. The access will be available for 1 year from the date of the commencement of the programme.
iPearl.ai (Interactive Platform for Experiential and Remote Learning) is created by TalentSprint’s engineering team. The platform integrates best-in-class technologies and SaaS services and perfected them over the last seven years.
When this platform was built, we intended to offer it to our partners and customers for digital learning and delivery. Since 2013, the platform has been extensively used by IIM Calcutta, IIT Kanpur, IIIT Hyderabad, and IIT Hyderabad, and many more of our customers and partners. More than 300,000 students have used this platform, which is reputed for user experience, quality, and scale.
This feature-rich platform has become so popular that some of our partners now use it for their academic needs.
Do not worry. In case you miss a session, you will be given access to view the recorded version of the session soon.
The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta was established as the first national institute for Post Graduate Studies and Research in Management by the Government of India in November 1961, in collaboration with Alfred P. Sloan School of Management (MIT), the Government of West Bengal, The Ford Foundation, and the Indian Industry. Over the years, IIM Calcutta has grown into a mature institution with a global reputation, imparting high-quality management education. It has been playing a pioneering role in professionalizing Indian management through its Post Graduate and Doctoral level Programmes, Executive Training Programmes, and Research and Consulting Activities. For more information please visit the IIM Calcutta website.