Executive Master's in Business Administration on Future Ready Business Leadership

Turn a live business issue into an action plan.

6 months. 6 training days. Program guidance throughout the program duration. Complete a team project for submission and presentation during Session 3, then reinforce your learning through LMS assignments.

The Executive Master's in Business Administration on Future Ready Business Leadership is approved, endorsed and awarded by CMI. It is a six-month, non-academic professional development programme, not an MQA-accredited academic degree or a regulated qualification.

How the 6 months work

Work your issue beside managers carrying similar decisions.

6 training days across 3 scheduled sessions, while you continue in your role. Complete the workshops and submit and present your team project during Session 3 as part of the six-month programme. Reinforce your learning with a programme assignment using the Leverage Management System (LMS) as part of the six-month programme.

A facilitator guiding Executive Master's in Business Administration on Future Ready Business Leadership participants at a workshop table
Facilitated learning connects each framework to the decisions participants already carry.

Workshops and team project

A team project developed through the workshops

Complete 6 training days across 3 scheduled sessions, program guidance and a team project on a current issue within your own responsibility. Successful completion is recognised with the Executive Master's in Business Administration on Future Ready Business Leadership. Recognised management and leadership development that you can include on your professional profile.

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LMS reinforcement

Put the learning into practice

Reinforce your learning with a programme assignment using the Leverage Management System (LMS) as part of the six-month programme. Program guidance throughout the programme duration, with LMS access and digital resources.

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Who it is for

For people whose decisions affect more than their own desk.

Corporate managers and leaders, business owners and start-up entrepreneurs who want to strengthen their business thinking, lead teams and turn ideas into action.

01

Corporate managers

Strengthening day-to-day decisions, team performance and execution.

02

Corporate leaders

Connecting strategy, people and performance across the organisation.

03

Business owners

Building a stronger management system around a growing company.

04

Start-up entrepreneurs

Testing assumptions, shaping a business model and planning the next stage of growth.

Built for the people carrying the decision

For corporate managers and leaders, business owners and start-up entrepreneurs.

The programme welcomes corporate managers and leaders, business owners and start-up entrepreneurs with a minimum of five years’ working experience.

Company enrolment & HRD Corp

For employer-led HRD Corp funding, the company must be HRD Corp-registered, have available levy and submit the application before training. A founder or owner may be included where the company confirms the participant is on its payroll. Contact us for the programme details your HR team needs.

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What you learn to do

Seven disciplines, applied to the decision you already carry.

Practise each discipline on your own business issue, using case studies, group discussion and practical activities, moving it from a vague problem to a written action plan the people who act on it can follow.

See how the FAST™ method works
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Trace the wider system

Examine causes, dependencies and likely consequences before deciding.

02

Test the foundations

Separate verified constraints from assumptions, then build options from the evidence.

03

Combine analysis and invention

Develop options that balance strategic logic, user needs and practical constraints.

04

Structure complexity

Organise complex information into a decision that can be explained and acted upon.

05

Review five perspectives

Evaluate each decision through five defined business perspectives.

06

Connect strategy to delivery

Use Draw, Drive, Define and Deliver as one coherent planning process.

07

Connect people and business

Consider human capability, innovation and commercial requirements together.

Curriculum

12 modules. One plan your team can act on.

Each module builds toward the same output: reasoning the people who depend on your decision can follow, from future foresight and customer-centred innovation to transformation and stakeholder trust.

M01

Future Foresight

Sense the business landscape

M02

JTBD

Customer-centred innovation and growth

M03

FAST™ — Framework Adaptive Systems Thinking

Adaptive systems-based thinking

M04

Critical Issues

Problems and opportunities

M05

Strategic DNA

4D Strategic Crafting

M06

SBAP

Strategic Business Action Planning

M07

Transformational Leadership

Principled and situational

M08

Team Intervention

Coaching for acceleration

M09

Integrated Systems

Systems perspective and review

M10

Organisation Transformation

BOLT leadership

M11

Influence by Design

Strategic presence and precision

M12

Stakeholder Ecosystem

Trust and influence networks

Included in the fee

Training, program guidance, tools and project support.

6 training days across 3 sessions

Face-to-face, faculty-led workshops at The FoodTree Restaurant, Glenmarie (Subang), Malaysia.

Practical learning activities

Case studies, simulations, diagnostics, profiling, group discussions and experiential activities.

Program guidance

Program guidance throughout the programme duration, with LMS access and digital resources.

The Leverage Management System (LMS)

Reinforce your learning with a programme assignment using the Leverage Management System (LMS) as part of the six-month programme.

Team project

Submit and present your team project during Session 3.

Executive Master's in Business Administration on Future Ready Business Leadership

Attend all six training days and complete the team project. Missed sessions must be made up in a subsequent cohort. Upon successful completion, you will be awarded the Executive Master's in Business Administration on Future Ready Business Leadership.

Programme award: Executive Master's in Business Administration on Future Ready Business Leadership
Executive Master’s in Business Administration on Future Ready Business Leadership

Recognising your achievement

Your award on completion.

Upon successful completion, you will be awarded the Executive Master's in Business Administration on Future Ready Business Leadership.

The programme is recognised by CMI (UK) against the CMI Professional Standards.

Across six months, you build your business thinking through faculty-led workshops, program guidance, a team project and LMS reinforcement.

Explore what you’ll learn

Published 2027 dates

Plan for English Cohort 19.

6 training days run across 3 scheduled weekend sessions. Explore the January, February and March 2027 workshop dates below.

CohortLanguageSession 1Session 2Session 3Days / timeEnquire
Cohort 19English23–24 Jan20–21 Feb27–28 MarSat–Sun
9am–5pm
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Subject to employer eligibility, available levy and HRD Corp approval. The Executive Master's in Business Administration on Future Ready Business Leadership is approved, endorsed and awarded by CMI. Successful participants are awarded the Executive Master's in Business Administration on Future Ready Business Leadership. It is not an MQA-accredited academic degree or a regulated qualification. HRDC claims are subject to employer eligibility, available levy and approval. Personal data is processed under Malaysia's Personal Data Protection Act 2010 [Act 709], as amended.

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Explore whether the programme is right for you.

Tell us the decision or business issue you are weighing, and choose a call, online meeting, in-person meeting or email. We will answer questions about suitability, dates, fees, recognition and employer-led HRD Corp funding. An enquiry does not commit you to enrol or pay.

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