The New Reality
In an AI-native, platform-driven world, disruption isn’t an anomaly—it’s the operating environment. Today’s technology leaders are no longer delivery specialists; they are enterprise architects shaping strategy, challenging legacy thinking, and enabling growth across the organisation.
Yet despite holding some of the most complex portfolios in the C-suite, many technology leaders need to build levers, influence, and enterprise capability to lead at the level their roles demand.
The Leadership Shift
The future belongs to leaders who can operate horizontally—navigating silos, influencing sceptics, setting enterprise direction, and converting digital ambition into commercial outcomes. Technical fluency is no longer enough. What’s needed is strategic agility, emotional intelligence, and the ability to lead through complexity and scale.
The Korn Ferry Chief Digital Leader Accelerator is a high-impact, immersive development experience designed to close that leadership gap—fast. It equips senior technology leaders with the enterprise leadership needed to lead boldly, influence broadly, and deliver strategically in a world defined by constant disruption.
About the Accelerator
Over two days, participants will work alongside senior peers from across the economy, engaging in experiential learning, tailored insight, and facilitated dialogue with leaders who have driven change at global scale. Through this immersive format, participants will:
- Define their enterprise leadership mandate
- Build influence across the boardroom and beyond
- Accelerate GenAI adoption and digital strategy execution
- Translate complexity into clarity, and strategy into outcomes
This is not a training course. It’s a leadership accelerator. It’s where technologists become enterprise CXOs. It’s where digital authority meets enterprise impact.
Who Attends
The Accelerator is designed for senior technology leaders who are:
- Already leading sizeable digital portfolios, transformation, architecture, engineering, data or platforms
- Operating in complex stakeholder environments without full ownership of outcomes
- Preparing to step into Executive Committee or enterprise-wide leadership roles within the next five years
This programme is built for those already operating at scale and ready for enterprise influence.
What to Expect
A Personalised Leadership Blueprint
Before the programme, participants complete a full Korn Ferry leadership assessment, benchmarked against a tailored success profile for senior digital leaders. Each participant receives a personalised data-driven leadership blueprint highlighting strengths, risks, and opportunities.
Pre-Programme Briefing
Participants join a 1:1 briefing call to explore personal priorities and challenges so the experience can be tailored to their context and accelerate impact immediately.
The Two-Day Immersive Experience
Across two days, senior digital leaders will:
- Know their leadership edge: Receive in-person feedback and explore the impact of their leadership style
- Understand their career market: Hear directly from Korn Ferry Executive Search partners who have placed hundreds of CIO-level roles globally
- Engage with global digital leaders: Participate in facilitated case studies with leaders who have delivered transformation at scale
- Turn ideas into enterprise outcomes: Apply practices that have fuelled some of the world’s most radical digital success stories
- Build a lasting peer network: Learn in a cohort of senior leaders facing similar challenges
Participants leave with a clear, actionable Leadership Proposition that guides their onward leadership trajectory.
Where and How
The Accelerator includes:
- Pre-programme leadership assessment
- 1:1 briefing call
- Two-day in-person experience
- Executive dinner with faculty and peers
Location: Korn Ferry Offices, St James’s, London
Dates: Should you wish to participate, please complete the expression of interest form and indicate your preferred date option from the following:
- March 2nd and 3rd 2026
- March 23rd and 24th 2026
When completing the expression of interest form, please indicate your preferred date in the free text box.
Fee: £8,500 + VAT
Participation: By application or nomination only
For additional information regarding the program, please view the event brochure.
To apply to enroll for one of the available dates, please complete the short form.
