iAdmit LEAP
The initiative
What iAdmit LEAP is
Leadership Excellence and Acceleration Programme for high-potential managers.
LEAP exists because the jump from running a team to running a business is not a training problem that a two-day workshop can touch. It is a shift in what a person is asked to be accountable for, and it needs a structure long enough for judgement to be practised, corrected and practised again.
The programme runs as a closed cohort, either for a single organisation or as a mixed batch drawn from several. Mixed cohorts are the more useful format for most participants — the argument in the room is sharper when the person disagreeing does not report to the same leadership.
Objectives
- Build a bench of managers ready to hold a P&L within eighteen months
- Replace instinct-led decision-making with a shared analytical vocabulary
- Give high-potential managers exposure outside their own function
- Produce a defensible succession shortlist rather than an opinion-led one
Who it is for
- Managers with six to twelve years of experience, already leading a team
- Nominated by a business head, not self-selected
- Expected to take a larger remit within the next two years
- Able to protect six to eight hours a week for the programme
- Format
- Live online, weekend-weighted
- Duration
- Approximately 7 months
- Cohort size
- 25–40 participants
- Entry
- Nomination by a business head
- Assessment
- Baseline and repeat on the same instrument
Structure
How the programme runs
Five stages. Nothing is taught before the baseline is taken, and nothing is signed off before the project is defended.
- 1
Baseline
Competency assessment against the leadership matrix, plus a structured conversation with the nominating business head.
- 2
Core
Twelve weeks on strategy, finance and organisational behaviour, taught with cases rewritten around the participant's own sector.
- 3
Track
Eight weeks in a chosen track — commercial, operations or technology leadership — with a smaller group and a faculty mentor.
- 4
Business project
A live problem from the participant's own organisation, scoped with their sponsor and worked through with faculty guidance.
- 5
Defence
The project is defended in front of faculty and the participant's own leadership. The write-up stays with the organisation.
Outcomes
What participants leave with
- A defensible succession shortlist backed by assessment rather than impression
- A business project with a written recommendation the sponsor can act on
- Movement measured on the same leadership matrix used at baseline
- A cross-functional peer group that survives the programme
Outcomes depend on the participant, their sponsor and the organisation they return to. The programme creates the conditions for a move; it does not promise one.
For organisations
Running iAdmit LEAP as a closed cohort gives HR a common assessment across the whole nominated group, a written project from every participant, and competency movement recorded on the organisation's own matrix. Most organisations run it in waves of thirty so the business is never short-staffed.
Get in touch
Apply to iAdmit LEAP
Individual applications are reviewed against experience and current remit. Organisations nominating a group should use the corporate route, which carries a different assessment and reporting structure.
- Fit confirmed against the entry criteria before an application fee is raised
- Cohort dates and the weekly commitment stated up front
- Manager or sponsor conversation arranged where the entry route requires it
- A clear answer on whether a different programme would suit you better
Initiative
Nominate yourself or your team
Individual professionals apply directly. Organisations nominating a group are routed to the corporate learning desk.
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