Your First Steps to Becoming a CEO
Explore the CEO journey with expert guidance from ambition to appointment
Overview
In this first session of the Aspiring CEO Programme, we explore the crucial early steps on the path to CEO leadership. You’ll gain practical insight into how to present yourself externally as a credible candidate, while also identifying the common areas of development that new CEOs often overlook. We’ll discuss how to navigate executive and governance relationships, assess your own readiness to take the leap into a CEO role, and learn how to approach internal conversations about your ambitions with confidence and clarity. This session is designed to give you the tools, awareness, and perspective to move from aspiration to action in your CEO journey.
Objectives
By attending this session, delegates will take away clear, practical action points to help you progress towards your first CEO role, whatever stage of the journey you are at and will gain insights from:
- First-time CEOs who have recently navigated the transition into leadership.
- Board members and stakeholders involved in CEO appointments.
- Experienced CEOs sharing lessons learned across multiple roles and appointment processes.
- Develop a realistic understanding of the CEO journey — from the application process to life in the role — to distinguish between the aspiration and the reality.
Other webinars in this series
Top Tips for applications and interviews (part 2)
What to expect in your first 100 days (part 3)
Fees
Member rate: £49.00 + VAT
Non Member Rate £99.00 + VAT
Special offer: Book all 3 webinars in this series and get one 1 free.
2025-11-20 AELP Webinar: Your First Steps to Becoming a CEO
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