GDI-PDP · Stage 6 · Division II
Advanced Programme in Professional Directorship.
The professional director, formed.
A twelve-month integrated formation for serious professional directorship. Integrates all five certificate disciplines with enterprise inquiry, regulator or investor dialogue, a board-paper clinic, a multi-party decision lab and an assessed capstone.
12 months · 600–680 hours
Convened for
Who this is for.
- §Sitting non-executive directors seeking full professional formation
- §Executives on a two-year path to a first serious board appointment
- §Committee chairs preparing to chair the board
- §Investor, family-office and public-sector nominee directors
On completion
What you will be able to do.
- ·Integrate the five board disciplines into a coherent director practice
- ·Sustain evidence-led judgement across strategy, capital, risk and people
- ·Lead a governance intervention from diagnosis to defended outcome
- ·Assemble a professional portfolio fit for a serious chair or nomination
Curriculum
Course content and modules.
Each module follows the GDI learning rhythm — Prepare, Interrogate, Practise, Produce, Reflect — and closes with board-usable evidence.
01
Block 1 · Months 1–2
Diagnostic & Board-Entry
Individual diagnostic, GDI-EC01 residency and appointment readiness.
02
Block 2 · Months 3–4
Strategy & Capital Stewardship
GDI-EC02 residency, enterprise inquiry and investor dialogue.
03
Block 3 · Months 5–6
Assurance & Risk
GDI-EC03 residency, audit-committee clinic and regulator seminar.
04
Block 4 · Months 7–8
Leadership & Culture
GDI-EC04 residency, chairing practicum and succession lab.
05
Block 5 · Months 9–10
Future & Sustainability
GDI-EC05 residency, cyber tabletop and transition-plan critique.
06
Block 6 · Month 11
Capstone & Decision Lab
Applied governance capstone and multi-party decision laboratory.
07
Block 7 · Month 12
Integrated Simulation & Viva
Integrated board simulation, portfolio submission and final viva.
Assessment Architecture
How you are assessed.
- Certificate blocksFive discipline residencies — 40%
- Professional portfolioAssembled board record — 10%
- Applied capstoneGovernance intervention — 20%
- Integrated simulationLive board exercise — 20%
- Viva & development planOral defence — 10%
Board-Ready Evidence
What you take back to the board.
- ·Diagnostic and development plan
- ·Five certificate-block deliverables
- ·Professional director portfolio
- ·Applied governance capstone
- ·Integrated board simulation and viva
Apply for the next cohort.
Admissions are by application and interview. Cohorts are limited.