Escalino  /  Programmes  /  Innovation Leadership

Innovation Leadership Program.

An 8-day programme for senior leaders in the private sector who know their organisation's future depends on its ability to create, adapt and move — and who are tired of innovation programmes that promise transformation but deliver posters.

8
Days, over 4 months
24
Cohort size, max
Sectors represented
1:1
Executive coaching
For whom

For leaders who have to actually build.

Most innovation programmes teach you to use sticky notes. This one is for people who've used every sticky note and now need to change how their organisation thinks, hires, prioritises and ships.

Participants are typically senior executives, division heads, and leaders of innovation, strategy, product, or transformation functions. The common thread: real accountability for making a large organisation more creative — not just more talkative about creativity.

Curriculum

Four modules. One arc.

/ 01 · Days 1–2

The science of creativity

What creativity actually is — not as mystical inspiration, but as a trainable cognitive process. The research that matters, the myths that don't, and the conditions under which individuals and teams consistently produce original work.

/ 02 · Days 3–4

Innovation as a system

Why most innovation efforts fail even when the ideas are good. Organisational design, incentive structures, and the hard, unglamorous work of making a large company capable of executing on what it discovers.

/ 03 · Days 5–6

Leading in uncertainty

Decision-making when the data doesn't exist yet. How confident leaders stay confident without becoming reckless, and how to build teams that can operate at the edge of what's known.

/ 04 · Days 7–8

Your innovation playbook

Every participant leaves with a custom playbook — a document and a plan for how they'll build innovation capacity in their own context. Reviewed with faculty and peer cohort.

Outcomes

What changes after this programme.

/ 01

A clearer thesis

You'll leave with a precise, defensible point of view on what innovation means for your organisation — and what it doesn't.

/ 02

A peer network of serious operators

Cohorts are curated for quality. The conversations you start here continue for years.

/ 03

Tools that scale

Frameworks and rituals designed for real organisations — not just small teams in hoodies.

/ 04

Permission to be more ambitious

Most leaders leave this programme a little braver. That tends to matter more than any single framework.

Next cohort

Ready for serious work?

Places are competitive and cohorts are selected for balance across industries and seniority. Start the conversation early.

Request programme details