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Advanced Management Program
The Advanced Management Program is AIMWA’s flagship executive development experience. An immersive journey designed to elevate your leadership and expand your ability to influence at scale.
Overview
The Advanced Management Program is designed for leaders who are ready to step beyond management and into true executive influence.
In this immersive experience, you will refine how you think, decide and lead. Expanding your capacity to navigate complexity, inspire others, and shape the future of your organisation.
Across six transformative days, you will step away from daily demands to think deeply about your leadership. You will explore what it means to lead strategically, challenge assumptions, and redefine how you create impact at the organisational level.
Guided by expert faculty and accomplished executives, you will engage in dynamic learning experiences, from case studies and simulations to personalised coaching. Each session is grounded in real-world relevance, helping you translate insight into immediate action.
You will learn alongside senior leaders from a diverse range of industries, gaining fresh perspectives and building a trusted network of peers who share your ambition for growth and excellence.
By the end of the program, you will leave with renewed clarity, confidence, and strategic insight. Ready to make bold decisions, drive transformation, and shape the future of your organisation with purpose and vision.
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Our Participants and Faculty
Who is it for
Take the next step toward executive excellence. The Advanced Management Program is for:
- Senior Managers with over seven years’ experience who want to elevate their leadership impact
- Senior Managers aiming to move into executive leadership
- Experienced professionals across functions such as finance, HR, IT, and operations who are ready to expand their influence and lead more broadly.
Discover how the Advanced Management Program can transform your leadership journey. Download the brochure today.
What you will gain
Experience a transformative journey that refines your leadership, strengthens your influence and expands your executive perspective.
- Expand your strategic perspective by exploring contemporary strategy, finance, and the role of artificial intelligence in executive decision-making.
- Enhance your leadership impact. Gain 360° insight into your strengths and opportunities through individual coaching and leadership assessment.
- Strengthen your decision-making by pressure-testing your thinking through Harvard Business School simulations and case studies that mirror real executive challenges.
- Build negotiation and influence skills by sharpening your ability to lead through complex discussions and achieve outcomes that create long-term value.
- Engage in candid dialogue with peers and experts. Learn directly from C-suite leaders under Chatham House Rules, sharing experience and insight in a trusted environment.
Meet the Presenters
The Advanced Management Program brings together accomplished leaders who share real-world insights on strategy, leadership and change.
Each speaker brings a wealth of experience and practical wisdom, creating an inspiring and interactive learning experience. Hear their stories, challenge your thinking, and take away ideas that drive lasting impact.
What past course attendees say
Inside The Advanced Management Program
Frequently Asked Questions
Participants attending AMP are usually preparing to step into their first executive role and want to build leadership capability and managerial depth as their responsibilities grow. Participants often bring at least seven years of experience and may already manage people or be recognised as emerging senior leaders. If you are unsure whether the program suits your career stage you can contact our Executive Education Team for a personal review.
The six day residential AMP blends diverse teaching styles to explore the critical topics leaders need most. Content is grounded in current research and many presenters are published experts in their fields. Alongside strong academic rigor the program is highly experiential. Each session focuses on applying contemporary leadership and management concepts to real organisational settings through interactive teaching guided discussion Harvard style case studies and individual or small group exercises. Case material draws on both Australian and global contexts.
Key areas include:
- Strategic Thinking
- Leadership
- Team Dynamics
- Finance
- Negotiation Strategy
- Work Life Balance
- Psychological Safety
- Artificial Intelligence
- Global Markets and Investments
The program also emphasises values based leadership and personal wellbeing. Participants build leadership self awareness through a 360 degree assessment individual coaching and immersive leadership activities. A wide mix of learning approaches ensures variety and flexibility to suit different learning preferences.
The program starts at 10am on a Sunday and finishes at 5pm the following Friday.
The program’s content sessions are delivered at the Aloft Hotel, Rivervale. The program is residential given the immersive nature of the program and the early morning starts and evening finishes.
You will be transported by coach to and from the UWA Club on the UWA Campus or the Chatham House Rules dinner.
Yes, currently we are offering discounted coaching packages of three one- hour sessions of coaching.
These sessions can be conducted with your choice of either your AMP debriefing coach or another coach from the Executive Education Coaching Panel.
Each program features two industry leaders. The first provides an after-dinner address on the opening night of the program. This session typically focuses on leadership in a broader social context, featuring CEO’s and industry leaders who have been successful in a sphere other than the purely commercial and/or who are providing senior leadership in a broader community context.
Previous speakers have included former CEO of Perth Airport, Kevin Brown; former APM Commissioner of Police, Karl O’Callaghan; Chief Nurse and Midwifery Officer, Department of Health, Catherine Stoddart and former CEO of Fremantle Ports and former Agent General, Kerry Sanderson AO.
Our Wednesday night dinner is a Chatham House Rules Session and participants frequently tell us that it’s one of the highlights of the program. This session provides you with the opportunity to engage with captains of industry in an informal discussion about life, management and leadership. In these sessions national/ international business leaders share their wealth of experience and knowledge generously.
Previous industry speakers include:
- Director Fortescue People, Linda O’Farrell
- Founder and Executive Chairman of the Doric Group, Harry Xydas
- Managing Director and former Chief Operating Officer of ATCO Australia Pty Ltd, Steven Landry
- Former HBF Managing Director, Rob Bransby.
To ensure you get maximum benefit from the AMP, you will be provided with pre-program readings, exercises and surveys four weeks before the program commences.
You will form professional connections and friendships with local and international peers from diverse industry sectors.
Upon completion of the AMP, you’re eligible to join the alumni network of the UWA Business School.
If you’re not already a Professional Member of AIMWA, then you’ll be entitled to join with a one-year complimentary membership to encourage you to keep focusing on your leadership and management development.
The fee is $9,900 including GST. This fee includes the cost of the
- Program
- Accommodation
- Transport during the program
- Meals (one night at own expense
- Program materials for the duration of the program.
All other costs are the responsibility of the participant.
If you choose the AMP Coaching Package, this covers all the inclusions listed above plus:
- Three one-hour coaching sessions following the program with a coach of your choice from the AIM WA+UWA Business School Executive Education panel.
The AMP coaching package is available for an additional $1100 GST inclusive.
Please contact Executive Education if you would like to add a coaching package to your booking.
The AMP is a residential lock-in program, with an intensive agenda of activities across the six days. The program is delivered at the Aloft Hotel in Rivervale. At the end of the day you can relax in comfort in your deluxe guest room, enjoy a workout in the hotel gym or take a dip in the heated outdoor pool.
Resilience is no longer only an emergency management responsibility.
In this program, you will explore how to anticipate disruption, decide with incomplete information and communicate clearly when the pressure is highest.
In uncertain and rapidly shifting environments, leaders need the ability to think beyond the immediate horizon.
This five day program builds your capability to explore alternative futures, anticipate strategic risks and convert scenario insights into clear, practical actions for your organisation.
Corporate value is often shaped by how organisations are governed and who holds influence.
In this program, you will explore how conflicts between shareholders, managers and other stakeholders affect decision making, accountability and market value.
Effective negotiation requires more than tactics. It demands awareness, clarity and the ability to adapt in the moment.
This program blends contemporary negotiation research with personalised coaching to help you recognise your natural style, refine your approach and build the skills to lead constructive, confident and outcome-focused negotiations.