Name: Online Executive Presence Certificate Program | ISB Online
Uploaded: 2026-01-13T09:50:36.591Z
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Description: Advance your career with the online Executive Presence course at ISB Online. Learn about self-leadership, storytelling, and building your personal brand. Enroll now!

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Understand fundamental economic principles, formulate strategic initiatives and learn how to discern disruptive forces to sharpen your strategic acumen.

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Optimal business strategies are complex to formulate and execute, especially in the face of potentially disruptive innovations and discontinuous change. This programme is designed to help you sharpen your strategic acumen, develop an innovative mindset, and equip you with the essential tools and knowledge to make the right decisions towards creating an effective strategy.

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Delve into best leadership practices, lead diverse high-performing teams and excel in change and stakeholder management to lead decisively in your workplace.

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This programme is designed to enrich and elevate your leadership skills, focusing on enhancing your knowledge, behaviour, and mindset to lead decisively in the workplace. This comprehensive programme aims to cultivate a dynamic leadership style, enabling you to lead yourself effectively, excel in stakeholder engagement, boost team performance, and increase agility and responsiveness to change

Gain practical knowledge of AI, ML, and generative AI to transform decision-making, enhance efficiencies, and improve outcomes in your function.

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Gain practical knowledge of Blockchain, IoT, Cybersecurity, AI, and Machine Learning and apply them to enhance your business management and operations.

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Effective business management requires a sound understanding of traditional principles and a keen awareness of emerging technologies and their business applications. This programme equips you with essential elements of emerging technologies like Blockchain, Internet of Things, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and their application in business operations. 

Understand core business principles, lead cross-functional initiatives, and apply data-driven insights to drive strategic decisions and organisational impact.

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Businesses today need professionals who can think beyond their roles and drive impact across teams and functions. The Executive Programme in Business Management equips professionals to lead with a cross-functional mindset, make strategic decisions, and drive business results. Participants build the confidence to lead teams, influence outcomes, and solve complex challenges. With a strong focus on practical application and peer learning, the programme enables professionals to deliver real impact from day one.

Execute projects with precision amid shifting priorities, hybrid teams, and tighter budgets. Master the full project lifecycle using proven frameworks and real-world case studies. Build practical skills in planning, risk management, and execution to deliver faster, smarter, and more reliable outcomes in today’s dynamic environments.

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Lead enterprise transformation and boardroom impact through strategic agility, digital leadership, and responsible governance for senior executives.

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Develop skills to make better decisions using AI, create strategies for India’s unique market, and lead digital change responsibly. The programme guides you through real-world challenges, leadership assessments, ethical governance, and board engagement to prepare you for complex enterprise leadership.

As India’s influence in the global economy grows, leaders must navigate complexity with clarity and foresight. This programme builds the strategic judgement to leverage AI, shape strategies for India’s market context, and lead digital transformation responsibly while preparing for enterprise-level leadership across geographies. 

Master storytelling to craft impactful narratives that resonate with diverse audiences and inspire action

Build a distinctive personal brand by defining your strengths and articulating your unique value proposition 

Enhance self-awareness and emotional intelligence to improve adaptability, interpersonal skills, and leadership effectiveness 

Develop skills to command attention, inspire confidence, and influence stakeholders in complex business settings 

Nisha is a Senior Associate in the Finance Department at Future Automobiles Group. She is up for a managerial position in the next quarter.

Beyond just evaluating her work, Nisha’s company also looks at her leadership excellence. She wants to understand how she can present her strengths better and work on her areas of improvement.

What points and questions should she consider while preparing for her upcoming performance review for this role? How can she optimise her social media presence to showcase her strengths and expertise?

How can she leverage learnings from personal brand stories of famous personalities and people around her to build her narrative?

Do you know what do’s and don’ts Nisha must follow to build a credible personal brand? Learn more with this programme on Mastering Executive Presence.

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Gain essential skills to elevate your impact and effect change to confidently navigate complex settings.

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Advance your career with the online Executive Presence course at ISB Online. Learn about self-leadership, storytelling, and building your personal brand. Enroll now!

Online Executive Presence Certificate Program | ISB Online

Access asynchronous content by ISB faculty, designed for flexible, self-paced learning.

Hours of Pre-recorded Videos by ISB Faculty

Engage in Live-Virtual sessions offering interactive learning and real-time insights from ISB Faculty.

Hours of Live-Virtual Teaching Sessions by ISB Faculty

Engage in Live-Virtual sessions offering interactive learning and real-time insights from leading industry experts.

Hours of Live-Virtual Sessions by Industry Experts

Sharpen your negotiation skills through a cutting-edge, AI-powered negotiation bot designed to simulate real-world dynamics.

AI-powered Negotiation Bot Simulations

Analyse, discuss, and benchmark your insights against expert responses for deeper learning.

Integrative Thinking Activities

Gain strategic insights and practical skills through the high-impact Workshop on Executive Presence.

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Explore how self-awareness and emotional intelligence form the core of effective leadership. Learn to recognise emotional and behavioural patterns, apply self-management strategies, and align your actions with intent. Leverage proven frameworks, including Marshall Goldsmith’s, to address derailers and build a personalised development plan for continuous leadership growth.

The Leadership Essentials track is beneficial for any leader or manager who wants to enrich their leadership style and improve team productivity with the knowledge and techniques of effective leadership.&nbsp;The course on Leading Self is a part of the Leadership Essentials track. This track is highly relevant for professionals:<ul><li>Who lead themselves and their teams with a dynamic leadership style, manage multiple stakeholders, motivate teams for performance, and align teams through change.</li><li>Who face challenges like delegation, conflict management, and leading change. They must build their personal leadership brand for better career prospects.</li><li>Who, across organisational functions like Finance, Operations, Marketing or Technology, have got additional team responsibilities.</li><li>Who lead teams to accelerate customer growth and business targets as entrepreneurs.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Leading Self

<ul><li>Enhance emotional intelligence through self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills</li><li>Examine emotional patterns and behavioural habits that influence leadership performance</li><li>Apply self-management techniques to navigate emotional triggers</li><li>Recognise and address behavioural derailers using Goldsmith’s framework</li><li>Build a personalised development plan for long-term adaptability and growth</li></ul>

The course on Leading Self will help you appreciate the importance of enhancing your self-awareness to create a strong foundation for your leadership. This course will empower you with ways to understand and acknowledge your strengths and vulnerabilities. By gaining a greater understanding of your emotions and their impact on performance, you will identify what tend to be your habitual attitudes, thoughts, and behaviours. You will learn ways to build yourself up to achieve your personal and professional goals. You will also learn ways to adjust to new role demands and to work on your personal development consciously and consistently.&nbsp;

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Understand how intuition, schemas, and cognitive biases shape judgement and decision-making. Learn decision models and practical strategies to reduce bias in individual and group contexts. Develop a structured, reflective approach to thinking that supports better choices in both personal and professional settings.

In today’s evolving hybrid work environments, effective management across diverse locations and skill sets is crucial. The Critical Thinking course, integral to the Management Essentials track, is designed for professionals eager to:<ul><li>Enhance their understanding of stakeholder management, conflict resolution, and the cultivation of high-performance teams.</li><li>Improve team efficacy on varied projects and make pivotal decisions that impact customer value propositions.</li><li>Positively influence others, establish a professional identity, and advance in managerial or leadership roles.</li><li>Refine communication skills, boost confidence, and develop negotiation abilities.</li><li>Address the dynamics of employee motivation and lead agile teams to achieve customer satisfaction and drive business growth.</li></ul>

Critical Thinking

<ul><li>Understand how intuition, schemas, and cognitive biases shape judgement</li><li>Explore canonical decision models and their application in everyday decisions</li><li>Identify common cognitive and motivational biases in individual and group contexts</li><li>Apply structured thinking to analyse problems and evaluate alternatives</li><li>Use practical interventions to reduce bias and support more balanced decision-making</li></ul>

When employees experience you as a leader or manager, they experience you as someone with better judgment. This course will introduce you to canonical decision models and emphasise how, despite the availability and knowledge of data, our understanding of the world, intuition and, ultimately, judgment are significantly influenced by schemas or abstract representations of events and cognitive biases. When we become aware of these influences on our thought and intuition, we can avoid serious judgment errors that derail effective decision-making and, ultimately, our progress. We begin by reviewing the role of "intuition" in decision-making. Next, we uncover some of the biases that stem from such intuition-based approaches. Then, we discuss some effective interventions that can reduce the impact of these biases on decisions, both at the individual level and in group decision-making. The learnings from this course will help you analyse problems from multiple perspectives and arrive at prudent and well-thought-out decisions and judgments in all aspects of your life.&nbsp;

Master the art of storytelling to connect, inspire, and communicate with impact in professional and public settings. Learn to craft meaningful narratives, build credibility, and engage audiences with clarity and confidence. Explore practical lessons from iconic speeches to develop your own authentic storytelling style.

In today’s dynamic hybrid work settings, it’s imperative for managers and newcomers to adapt swiftly, leading teams across various locations and disciplines. The Art of Storytelling course, integral to the Management Essentials track, is specifically designed for professionals seeking to:<ul><li>Enhance their skills in stakeholder management, conflict resolution, and fostering high-performance teams</li><li>Elevate team efficiency on diverse projects and undertake pivotal decisions that enhance customer value</li><li>Impactfully influence others, establish a strong workplace presence, and propel their managerial or leadership trajectories.</li><li>Refine communication abilities, boost self-confidence, and hone negotiation tactics</li><li>Tackle the intricacies of motivating employees and spearhead agile teams to achieve customer satisfaction and drive forward business achievements</li></ul>

Art of Storytelling

<ul><li>Understand the power and purpose of storytelling in communication</li><li>Identify key elements that make stories impactful and audience-relevant</li><li>Develop confidence, clarity, and connection in public speaking</li><li>Distinguish effective from ineffective storytelling in business contexts</li><li>Learn from real-world speeches to shape your personal storytelling presence</li></ul>

The course will take you, step-by-step, towards becoming a sharper speaker and storyteller. By immersing in a set of case studies spanning various sectors and geographies, you will open up to key principles and their practical application towards professional and personal impact and success. You will recognise the value of brevity and authenticity to connect, the impact of sharp “logos” and “pathos” towards impactful speaking and storytelling, and the power of structured practice towards sharpening this craft. Global case studies of renowned speakers like Shashi Tharoor, Kiran Bedi, Steve Jobs, Amy Cuddy, Ronald Reagan and Ngozi Adichie will open your eyes to various styles and structures that can create a connect (or disconnect) with the audience and impact likeability. In the end, you will come out with tools and a new mindset to become a stronger and more confident content planner, audience connector and storyteller.

Learn how to craft a personal brand that reflects your strengths, values, and leadership identity. This course helps you articulate your journey with authenticity, communicate confidently in high-stakes situations, and build lasting connections. Draw insights from real-life public figures to shape a personal brand strategy that resonates with teams, stakeholders, and broader audiences.

In the evolving landscape of today’s hybrid work settings, effective leadership across diverse locations and disciplines is crucial. The Building Your Personal Brand course, a key component of the Management Essentials track, is tailored for professionals aiming to:<ul><li>Enhance their capability in stakeholder management, conflict resolution, and developing high-performance teams.</li><li>Improve team efficiency across varied projects, making pivotal decisions that positively affect customer value.</li><li>Assert influence, forge a distinct professional identity, and advance managerial or leadership paths.</li><li>Refine communication skills, bolster confidence, and master negotiation techniques.</li><li>Tackle employee motivation challenges and steer high-performing, agile teams towards achieving customer satisfaction and driving significant business results.</li></ul>

Building Your Personal Brand

<ul><li>Understand the fundamentals of personal brand-building</li><li>Articulate strengths and weaknesses to create a compelling leadership narrative</li><li>Communicate with clarity and confidence in interviews and key conversations</li><li>Learn from the personal branding journeys of public figures</li><li>Develop an actionable brand strategy to connect with diverse audiences</li></ul>

The course blends theory and practice. We will dive into cases and stories of people from around the world, as well as from across sectors, who have built and sustained their personal brands in a unique manner, You will be pushed, with exploratory and introspective exercises, to create your brand narrative by understanding and articulating your strengths and weaknesses. Real-life cases of people like Indra Nooyi, Zach Wahls, Shah Rukh Khan and Kiran Sethi will be used to provide examples on how to create, sustain and even rejuvenate your personal brand, through effective storytelling. Sharp interviewing as well as the power of vulnerability to connect will also be explored towards interactive brand building. The set of learnings and exercises will enable you to differentiate the narrative of yourself, to become more relatable and likeable to your teams and stakeholders.&nbsp;

Master the fundamentals of negotiation by exploring how to claim and create value, resolve disputes, and build lasting relationships. Learn to apply structured frameworks and adapt strategies across a range of negotiation scenarios. Step into a lifelike business case with a cutting-edge, AI-powered negotiation bot. Designed to mirror real-world dynamics, the bot enables participants to apply concepts like value claiming, anchoring, BATNA, and objection handling in a live, text-based negotiation - followed by structured feedback to support continuous improvement.

Today's hybrid work environments require all managers and those newly entering the role to accelerate their management styles to lead multi-location and multi-skilled teams. The course on Effective Negotiation and Persuasion is a part of the Management Essentials track. This track is meant for professionals who want to:<ul><li>Gain insights on managing stakeholders, dealing with conflicts, and building high-performance teams. Optimise team performance across multiple projects and make critical decisions influencing customer value propositions.&nbsp;</li><li>Influence people, create a workplace identity, and boost managerial or leadership career journeys. Sharpen communication, and build confidence and negotiation skills.</li><li>Resolve challenges of employee motivation and lead high-performance agile teams as entrepreneurs while delivering customer delight and accelerating business outcomes.</li></ul>

Effective Negotiation and Persuasion

<ul><li>Understand value claiming and value creation in negotiation</li><li>Explore distributive, integrative, and dispute-based negotiation types</li><li>Recognise negotiation opportunities in everyday personal and professional settings</li><li>Use structured frameworks for preparation, goal-setting, and alignment</li><li>Apply tactics like anchoring, BATNA, and objection handling</li><li>Practise in a live, AI-powered simulation with feedback-driven learning</li></ul>

This course explains value claiming and value creation as two broad sources of value in negotiations and specific negotiation strategies that allow one to claim and create value. The course additionally presents a systematic approach to resolving conflict and disagreement, negotiating effectively as a team, and dealing with the prospect of being deceived while negotiating. The course is designed not only to help learners achieve their professional goals but also to help them build trustworthy and fruitful relationships with others both in their professional and personal life.&nbsp;

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Professor Ramnarayan is a Visiting Faculty at the Indian School of Business. Earlier, he was a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, a visiting faculty member at the Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and a guest professor at the University of Bamberg, Germany.&nbsp;

Professor Deepa Mani, Deputy Dean of Academic Programs &amp; Digital Learning at ISB, specialises in the intersection of technology, organisation, and society. Her research, published in leading journals, has significantly impacted business practice and policy. Awarded the INFORMS ISS Practical Impacts Award in 2022, she advises government committees, coaches' organisations, and leads executive education on digital transformation and technology management.

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Professor Mankad is a professor of practice at Tufts University Fletcher School and the Friedman School of Nutrition. He is a visiting faculty at the Indian School of Business and Harvard Business School. He is an expert in Leadership and Global Communication. His career spans a rich and diverse array of fields, including media, management consulting, and non-profit leadership.

Professor Madan Pillutla’s research uses social and psychological perspectives to &nbsp;understand organisational behaviours. Before joining ISB, he taught at The London &nbsp;Business School. He has won numerous teaching awards at LBS, where he introduced the popular Negotiations elective and directed successful executive education programmes.

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“I really appreciate the variety of learning activities, including videos, quizzes, and discussion forums. This kept me engaged and helped me to retain the information. The instructor was always available to answer questions and provide feedback.”

Principal Program Manager

Nitin Madan

“It was an eye-opener with respect to self-awareness. With different videos and case illustrations learnt what to do and what to stop, to become a leader.”

People Partner Manager

Tinu Antony

“The programme gave me newer perspectives and some realistic tools and resources to incorporate into my development journey.”

In today's competitive business environment, executives must project influence and inspire diverse stakeholders. The programme on Mastering Executive Presence equips executives with skills to build their leadership potential by gaining self-awareness, mastering storytelling and building a distinctive brand for themselves, enabling them to confidently navigate complex settings.

Experience enhanced learning through our meticulously crafted Integrative Thinking Activities, designed to hone your problem-solving skills and broaden your strategic mindset.

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Come together to strengthen your network and build lifelong connections with your cohort in person at the ISB campus. On successful completion of the track you will be invited for a half-day session, culminating in a valedictory on campus.*

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Hear industry and academic experts on the nuances of business, management and leadership in our MasterClasses carefully curated to complement the frameworks learnt as part of the courses.

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<ul><li>Enhance leadership impact and influence to navigate complex business settings effectively</li><li>Establish a strong personal brand and executive presence to drive organisational or business success&nbsp;</li></ul>

"It is a focused learning path, a part of the area which I have been wanting to improve and I am absolutely delighted to have made the choice of attending it via ISB. I was doubtful in the beginning about the relevance, as I live in France, and the context of my ecosystem has changed a lot. EU does not have one of the most anglophone environments. I feel confident and self-sufficient to evolve learnings from this course to my present eco-system."

Senior Executives and Business Owners 

<ul><li>Augment leadership presence and credibility to advance career growth and future opportunities&nbsp;</li><li>Cultivate executive presence early to be recognised for higher leadership roles&nbsp;</li></ul>

“Indeed, it is a great program to go for. It entails key learnings which are relevant and outdo current professional requirements. Whether the Art of Storytelling, Self Branding, or Leading Self, it has much to offer and relates to our day-to-day activities. It has clearly laid out how theoretical analogies can be implemented in the practical world &amp; I am putting some into daily practice.”

Mid-level Managers and Aspiring Leaders

<ul><li>Build influence, authority, and stakeholder confidence in new roles or industries</li><li>Enhance influence skills to drive sales and business outcomes effectively&nbsp;</li></ul>

“Good learning experience. This programme came at a relevant time for me when I am transitioning to a new role. I have noted many takeaways from this programme.”

Transitioning Professionals and Sales Leaders

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Whether you are a functional specialist, a team leader, or have oversight of strategic initiatives, this programme will help you navigate the complex business landscape, evaluate trade-offs, and craft business strategies for greatest business impact. If you are a,&nbsp;<ul><li>seasoned leader holding executive-level positions within your organisation, you will find this programme useful in enhancing your leadership impact and influence</li><li>middle management professional, this programme can help advance your career by augmenting your leadership presence and credibility</li><li>first-time manager or an aspiring manager, you can cultivate executive presence early in your career to be identified for future leadership roles</li><li>business owner or entrepreneur, this programme can help you establish a strong personal brand and leadership presence to drive business success</li><li>professional transitioning to new roles, industries, or leadership positions, you can use this learning intervention to build greater influence, authority and stakeholder confidence in your new role</li><li>sales or business development professional, this programme can enable you to enhance your influence and persuasion skills to drive business numbers &nbsp;</li></ul>

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