Ivey Business School

Energy Sector Strategic Leadership Accelerator

Ivey Business School

Public Sector

About Programme

The electricity sector is at an inflection point. As electrification accelerates, regulatory landscapes shift and new technologies emerge, leaders must anticipate change, balance competing priorities, and drive long-term growth.

The Energy Sector Strategic Leadership Accelerator prepares senior leaders to navigate this complex transformation. At Ivey, you'll work through real industry challenges, testing strategies and decisions in a hands-on learning environment. The program is built for leaders ready to act, not just analyze. You'll return to work with the confidence, tools, and frameworks to influence decision-making, manage stakeholder relationships, and lead your organization through disruption and opportunity.

Programme Content

What You'll Take Away from the Program

The Energy Sector Strategic Leadership Accelerator prepares leaders to think ahead, manage uncertainty, and make bold decisions as the energy sector transforms. You'll return to work with practical strategies and a sharper perspective on the market forces shaping the industry.

Big-Picture Thinking: Balancing Strategy and Execution

Understand how market shifts, policy changes, and investment trends impact your business.
Learn to make tough decisions—where to invest, what risks to take, and how to align operations with long-term goals.

Adapting to Market Shifts and Changing Regulations

Get ahead of policy changes, electrification trends, and shifts in customer demand before they impact your business.
Build the flexibility to respond quickly to new regulations, technology breakthroughs, and shifting customer expectations.

Leading Stakeholder Negotiations and Building Influence

Refine the skills needed to navigate complex discussions with government regulators, Indigenous leaders, and industry partners so you can keep projects moving forward.
Gain the skills to negotiate competing interests, secure buy-in, and align stakeholders behind a shared vision.

Scenario Planning: Stress-Testing Your Strategy

Work through real-world energy sector simulations to test strategies before they're needed.
Develop frameworks to assess risks, opportunities, and strategic trade-offs.

Innovation and Resilience: Leading Through Change

Explore the latest advances in clean tech, grid modernization, and energy innovation—and determine where they fit your business strategy.
Strengthen adaptive leadership to guide your organization through disruption and position it for long-term success.

Programme Audience

This program equips senior leaders across the electricity sector to drive electrification, infrastructure investments, and strategic transformation.

Participants come from a wide variety of organizations, including:

Electric Utilities & Local Distribution Companies
Provincial Crown Corporations
Independent Power Producers
Clean Tech Startups & Energy Services Firms
Industry Associations & Consultants
Regulators and Policymakers

This cross-disciplinary learning experience will benefit leaders from diverse functional backgrounds, including strategy, operations, regulatory affairs, finance, human resources, and engineering.

Ideal participants include:

Visionary Energy Leaders: Senior executives who lead growth, sustainability, and innovation.
Strategic Planners & Policy Makers: Decision-makers who align corporate strategies with regulatory and market shifts.
Stakeholder Managers: Professionals who build relationships with government bodies, Indigenous communities, and private-sector partners.
Change Agents: Leaders who advance clean technology, electrification, and infrastructure projects.
Cross-functional leaders: Executives who bridge day-to-day operations with long-term strategy, ensuring their organizations stay agile and competitive.

Programme Benefits

Develop a strategic perspective on electrification, policy shifts, and investment trends, allowing you to make high-stakes decisions with confidence.
Navigate market disruption and regulatory complexity with an understanding of how emerging technologies and evolving policies impact your organization.
Strengthen your ability to manage relationships with government, Indigenous partners, regulators, and industry stakeholders and ensure the progress of key projects.
Use real-world simulations and scenario planning to stress-test strategies, anticipate risks, and prepare for unexpected challenges.
Engage with senior energy leaders from across Canada, building a network of peers sharing insights, challenges, and solutions.
Return with practical, immediately applicable strategies that align operational needs with long-term industry transformation.
Equip senior leaders with the foresight to anticipate regulatory, technological, and market shifts, ensuring the organization stays ahead of change.
Strengthen stakeholder engagement and negotiation capabilities, allowing leaders to secure buy-in from regulators, Indigenous communities, and industry partners.
Build organizational resilience by preparing leaders to assess risks, explore alternative strategies, and make data-driven decisions.
Ensure leaders bring back practical, tested solutions that address current business challenges, integrating insights from peers and industry experts.
Position the organization as a proactive player in electrification, infrastructure investment, and clean energy innovation.
Expand connections with utilities, policymakers, and private-sector firms, creating new opportunities for collaboration and industry-wide impact.

Testimonials

"I think it exceeded expectations. It was a fantastic environment in the classroom. The profs are top-notch. Adam and Guy did an amazing job of facilitating the conversation, making everyone's input and opinions feel valued."

Mike Bell

Director Business Development OEC

"My entire team came with me, and to be able to spend the time with them and talk through some of the challenges that we have in the sector as a whole, but also specifically in our current organization, has been extremely valuable for us. To be able to be in a room with people within the sector, people from their regulator, ISO, we have some private contractors in the room, and to get to hear a lot of different perspectives has also been very valuable to us."

Kelly McCann

Interim CEO NT Power

"It just gives you that baseline understanding that you can build on, take that knowledge back to your organization and transfer that over. So definitely something I would highly recommend to anybody who's in the energy sector and trying to broaden their understanding of the sector."

Devin Chaudhary

Product Safety Manager Electrical Safety Authority

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