Certified Strategic Innovation Professional

Course Overview

Markets, technology, and customer expectations now move faster than most organisations can respond. For the leaders expected to drive innovation and lead change, effort is rarely the problem. The problem is innovation that stalls. Assumptions get mapped but never tested. Promising pilots never scale. And too often a genuinely good idea dies in the room because nobody could align the decision-makers behind it.

This four-day applied programme tackles both halves of the problem: The evidence and the influence. Working teams take one real strategic challenge from environment scan to a committed decision and a live action board, built on the Strategic Innovation Toolkit, sixteen tools delivered through the Innovation Fast Track Process: frame, test, decide, act.

Benefits Of Attending

• Analyse the operating environment, including regional and cultural context, to connect strategic intent to real, evidenced problems
• Frame a sharp, decision-ready challenge before anyone designs a solution
• Evaluate options against desirability, feasibility, viability, and responsibility
• Identify and test the riskiest assumptions using cheap, fast experiments
• Assess evidence, innovation metrics, and return on investment to call pivot, persevere or stop
  
  

Who Should Attend

This programme is designed for leaders who must drive innovation and lead change across their organisation, turning strategic challenges into proven, adopted capability rather than one-off pilots.

• Strategy Leaders and Functional Heads
• Innovation Leaders
• Digital Transformation Leaders
• Change Leaders HR Leaders

Why This Course Is For You

This programme gives you the evidence to build a compelling case and the skills to influence the people who decide.

• Sixteen tools with downloadable canvases you keep and reuse with your own teams
• Coaching-led techniques for influencing decision-makers and handling resistance, so your case survives the room
• Practical AI copilot workflows for research, challenge, prototyping and sharpening your pitch

Certification Requirements

You must meet two criteria to be eligible for an Informa Connect Academy Certificate of Completion:

• Satisfactory attendance: You must attend all sessions of the course. If,for any reason, you miss more than two hours of the course sessions, you will not be eligible to sit the course assessment
• Successful completion of the course assessment: Learners arerequired to complete the end-of-course assessment with a pass mark of 70% or above

Delivered by Terez

Terez is an executive coach, leadership consultant and innovation facilitator with 20 years of experience across corporate leadership and executive development. Having held executive leadership roles herself, she has coached and trained senior leaders across sectors including consumer goods, legal, fintech, renewable energy, food production, engineering and government, from FTSE 100 corporations to private equity backed and high-growth businesses across the UK and internationally.

Certified by PMI

Informa Middle East is an approved Registered Education Provider (REP) with the Project Management Institute (PMI). As an REP Informa Middle East is approved by PMI to issue Professional Development Units (PDU) for our training courses. The REP programme has been designed to enhance the ongoing professional development of PMI’s members, those credentialed through PMI and others in the project management profession.

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