Equip your leaders with new mindsets and capabilities to lead with purpose in a complex world

The ICMIF Advanced Management Course was relaunched as an in-person event in 2023, featuring new content on leading with purpose and how to activate strategy in purpose-driven organisations.

The new-look course was a resounding success, with two sets of dates needed to cope with the unprecedented demand from ICMIF members in both 2023 and 2024. In the two years since the relaunch, 89 participants from 34 member organisations from 23 countries have attended the course.

For over 20 years, managers from more than 100 ICMIF member organisations from 50+ countries have praised ICMIF’s Advanced Management Course (AMC) for the ways in which the course helped them to enhance both their own performance and that of their organisation. From 2025, the focus of the AMC will continue to be to make it easier for leaders and managers to increase their company’s organisational agility and therefore its ability to thrive in a complex world, while harnessing the power of purpose. Participants will acquire tools and frameworks, built on insights from behavioural economics, to transform the culture of how networks of teams make sense of evolving challenges and work together to drive the organisation to fulfil its purpose.

Participants have reported that they emerge from the course seeing the world clearer, with a new set of collaborators and friends from around the world that act as both a support and a challenge network, and emerging with a set of actions and new behaviours for themselves.

Who should attend?

This course is aimed at senior managers and leaders of change from mutual or cooperative insurers who lead teams which are required to tackle complex situations, formulating strategies to achieve their organisation’s purpose, and leading programmes that translate strategy into action.

Participants of the Advanced Management Course include a mix of technical insurance and non-technical people, reflecting the typical make-up of a mutual/cooperative insurer.

Participants must be comfortable holding strategic conversations in English.

Course fee

GBP 3,850 including all accommodation (up to 5 nights) and meals during the course.

Benefits of the course

Alumni of the Advanced Management Course report improved outcomes following their attendance on the course. Participants emerge with new approaches to help them maximise their impact in a complex world. In particular, they will learn how to overcome three critical challenges when tackling complex problems:

• People are not rational.
• Expertise is important, but no longer sufficient.
• Most of people’s behaviour is automatic.

Prior participants describe improved personal performance after the course when leading and managing in conditions of uncertainty and ambiguity by them applying the AMC’s mental models, conceptual frameworks and simple tools for:

• Harnessing the power of purpose. 
• How to activate strategy in purpose-driven organisations.
• Working as a team to tackle complex situations.
• Effective collaboration.
• Developing psychological safety.
• Thinking and innovating strategically as a team.
• Leading across cultures.
• Building a purpose-driven learning system.
• Peer to peer consultancy and translating learning into value. 

Alumni of the Advanced Management Course report improved outcomes following their attendance on the course. Many describe it as “the fog clearing” as the models, frameworks and tools they have acquired during the course are put into use once they have returned to the workplace. What may have previously seemed like unrelated areas of leadership and management become a simple, integrated, mutually reinforcing approach to finding solutions to their challenges. In this way, prior participants have said they arrive with expertise and leave with wisdom.

For more information on the Advanced Management Course in general and details of forthcoming courses please contact Mike Ashurst.