The 11-month program is tailored for veteran executives and senior leaders with more than eight years of industry experience who are looking to move into the C-suite. It is structured to create skill sets in change leadership, uncertainty and risk management and team innovation. The program also covers building growth plans, accelerating market entry, fostering teamwork and enhancing customer-centric decision-making.

Himanshu Rai Director of IIM Indore stated at the launch that the CEOs Program at IIM Indore prepares top leaders to steer disruption with wisdom, resilience and intent. The curriculum integrates academic scholarship and cutting edge practice to develop strategic depth, digital literacy and stakeholder credibility.

The development includes three days of campus immersion intended to foster leadership networks. Participants engage in forums that facilitate the sharing of industry knowledge and cross-pollination of ideas, thus enhancing functional expertise and leadership ability. The learning curriculum is organised around four primary themes: technology and analytics, consumer behaviour and customer centricity and strategy and leadership.

The curriculum enables cross functional competence customer focus and data based decision making so that leaders can drive growth, manage risk and institutionalise innovation at scale in markets, industries and business cycles.