Executive Leadership & Entrepreneurship Programme(Signature Programme)
Overview
The Executive Leadership & Entrepreneurship Programme is designed for people who must lead while also creating: founders shaping a venture, owner-managers scaling a business and executives developing a new proposition inside an established organisation.
The programme brings together strategic leadership, customer discovery, business models, finance, digital innovation, governance and people leadership. Participants apply each theme to a live opportunity and finish with a realistic action plan supported by evidence, milestones and measures.
Key facts
| Key fact | Current information |
|---|---|
| Course type | LSBI executive professional-development programme; non-regulated |
| Recommended duration | 12 weeks part-time |
| Recommended guided learning | 60 hours, plus independent application |
| Delivery | Interactive workshops, executive coaching and applied project work |
| Assessment | Leadership portfolio, validation evidence and a final growth plan or venture pitch |
| Proposed award | LSBI Executive Certificate in Leadership and Entrepreneurship; non-regulated |
Who is this course for?
The programme is intended for founders, directors, senior managers, family-business leaders, social entrepreneurs and high-potential professionals with responsibility for a venture, team, product or growth initiative.
What you will learn
- Diagnose personal leadership strengths, risks and priorities.
- Frame and test a customer problem before committing significant resources.
- Build and challenge a value proposition and business model.
- Use cash-flow, funding and unit-economics information to improve decisions.
- Lead innovation and responsible AI adoption with appropriate governance.
- Convert strategic choices into an accountable 90-day and 12-month growth plan.
Course modules
| Module | Credit/status | Module focus |
|---|---|---|
| Strategic Leadership and Personal Effectiveness | Programme module | Leadership purpose, judgement, resilience, influence and a personal development agenda. |
| Opportunity Discovery and Business Models | Programme module | Problem framing, customer discovery, value propositions and business-model choices. |
| Market Validation and Customer Growth | Programme module | Evidence, experiments, positioning, routes to market and retention. |
| Finance, Funding and Cash Flow | Programme module | Commercial drivers, cash discipline, funding options, investment cases and financial risk. |
| Innovation, Digital and Responsible AI | Programme module | Innovation portfolios, technology adoption, data, AI opportunities and control measures. |
| Governance, Risk and Responsible Growth | Programme module | Board-level thinking, ethics, sustainability, compliance, risk appetite and accountability. |
| Leading People, Negotiation and Influence | Programme module | Team capability, culture, difficult conversations, negotiation and stakeholder alignment. |
| Executive Growth Action Plan | Capstone | An evidence-based venture, transformation or growth plan with measures and review points. |
Teaching and assessment
The recommended format combines facilitated workshops, peer challenge, leadership diagnostics, coaching and practical experiments. Participants should apply tools to their own organisation while using anonymised information where confidentiality is required.
Assessment should be developmental rather than examination-led: a short leadership portfolio, evidence from customer or stakeholder validation, a finance exercise and a final action plan or pitch reviewed against published criteria.
Entry requirements
No particular regulated qualification is proposed as a universal entry requirement. Applicants should normally have responsibility for a business, team, product, project or entrepreneurial opportunity and be able to contribute relevant experience.
LSBI may use a short application statement or discussion to confirm fit. It should publish any experience, English-language or technology requirements before enrolment.
Progression and career relevance
Participants leave with a practical growth or venture plan and a continuing leadership-development agenda. They may progress to further executive education, mentoring or a regulated Level 7 management qualification if they meet its separate entry requirements.
Award
Participants who meet the approved attendance and completion requirements receive the proposed LSBI Executive Certificate in Leadership and Entrepreneurship. It is an internal professional-development award and carries no RQF level or regulated credit.
Important information
This programme is not a regulated qualification, MBA, degree or professional licence. Any external endorsement, CPD hours or professional-body recognition must be evidenced and kept current before it is advertised.
