Applicants must:

•have a university degree (any discipline) or a professional qualification. Applications are also invited from mature non-graduates with significant management experience

•have a number of years’ experience as a senior manager

•satisfy IMI as to their general suitability and ability to deal with the work requirements of the programme

For whom:

The typical participant will have had general management experience at CEO level or will be at the top of a major corporate function within the organisation such as financial controller, production director, marketing manager. They will come from large and small indigenous companies, multinational subsidiaries, as well as the state, semi-state and financial services sectors. The average age of participants on the programme will be about forty, with a range above and below this. It is only in exceptional circumstances that participants who are not in their early thirties at least will have had the breadth of experience required or the authority to implement the change which is an integral part of the programme.