The design of the program incorporating the GTs and addressing the key competencies aligned with the Applied Executive Leadership Challenge  (AELC) will ensure that the program graduates can impact their organisations at all levels and in doing so contribute to KSA’s Vision 2030 plans to achieve a sustainable NFP sector in the country.

 The individual AELCs were designed to have meaningful impact while remaining flexible enough to accommodate participants' schedules. The challenges required participants to engage with their organisation in setting and framing their challenge, then creating and submitting a challenge framework and finally a presentation of emerging findings and future plans through a report and an elevator pitch type presentation.

The commitment of the program fellows to this challenge was exceptional, the average mark being 78% with five scoring in excess of 85%.

All AELCs are being carried forward into the individual fellows organisations ensuring genuine impact.

Despite overall programme feedback being universally positive (90%+), a feedback session with program fellows has been held to capture delivery and content feedback to be considered for the next program delivery.

Graduating fellows will identify colleagues to attend the next cohort and will act as mentors for these individuals. This mentorship model will be carried forward into future cohorts ensuring that all organisations benefitting from the program have a number of key employers equipped wit the knowledge and skills to carry learning into practice.

From the outset the program sponsor committed to 3 cohorts;  to ensure there is sustainability within each  organisation taking part. Three subsequent years of individuals embarking on a similar learning experience, initiating and delivering an AELC will ensure that each organisation experiences real change and meaningful impact.