What is the Certified Innovation Strategist?

The Certified Innovation Strategist is a globally recognised professional certification by the Global Leadership Institute (GLI), designed to equip professionals with advanced competencies in Strategy & Business Development.

How long does this certification take?

The programme is 10 Weeks and can be completed at your own pace through our self-paced online option, or alongside live virtual sessions.

Is this certification globally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are internationally recognised and carry CPD credits, making them valuable for career advancement worldwide.

What level is this certification?

This is a Intermediate Level certification, suitable for professionals with relevant experience or background in the field.

You can enrol by emailing info@certifications.ac, contacting us via WhatsApp at +254 722 223 084, or filling the enrolment form below.

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Executive Summary

Certified Innovation Strategist

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Innovation Strategist (CIS) delivers a rigorous Intermediate-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in strategic leadership, organisational management and business transformation.

This 10 Weeks programme is structured around recognised global leadership and management competency frameworks, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CIS holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification

Certified Innovation Strategist

Acronym

CIS

Who Should Enrol?

Managers and Team Leaders
Heads of Department and Directors
Senior Executives and Aspiring Leaders
Business Owners and Entrepreneurs

Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

All study materials and study guide
Access to GLI online learning portal
Online examination and assessment
Digital certificate and digital badge
Physical certificate (shipped to you)
CPD credits for professional bodies
GLI alumni network membership
Facilitator and tutor support
Resource downloads and reference library
Automatic enrolment confirmation

Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Career Advancement

Accelerate your career towards executive, director and C-suite leadership roles

Professional Recognition

Credential aligned with recognised global leadership and management competency frameworks

Leadership Capability

Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex strategic leadership functions

Organisational Impact

Design and implement strategic leadership systems that drive performance and measurable results

Compliance Readiness

Master the standards, compliance and ethical governance central to strategic leadership

Global Employability

Qualify for strategic leadership roles across corporates, public institutions, NGOs and enterprises worldwide

Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

✦Strategic Thinking, Vision and Direction Setting

✦Leading Teams, People and High Performance

✦Decision-Making, Problem-Solving and Execution

✦Emotional Intelligence and Authentic Leadership

✦Organisational Strategy, Transformation and Growth

✦Professional Ethics and Governance

Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

Click any module to explore the detailed curriculum topics included in this certification.

Foundations and Strategic Context of Certified Innovation Strategist

Certified Innovation Strategist: industry context, trends and professional standards
Theories and models of leadership and management
The manager's roles, responsibilities and mindset
Leadership versus management and when each is needed
Situational and adaptive leadership
Values, purpose and authentic leadership
The organisational context and operating environment
Self-awareness and the leader's identity
Building credibility and executive presence
Ethics and responsible leadership
Personal leadership development planning

The Innovation Discipline

Innovation portfolio and the three horizons
Prototyping, experimentation and design thinking
Innovation culture, incentives and psychological safety
Product launch and go-to-market sequencing
Preparing financial statements
Corporate strategy and portfolio choices
Scaling a validated model
Organisational design and operating models
Organisational resilience and adaptive strategy
Intellectual property and defensibility of innovation
Long-term value creation
Building strategic relationships and coalitions
Negotiation strategy and tactics
Interpreting financial statements

Sourcing Ideas Worth Testing

Jobs to be done and customer insight
Management accounts and dashboards
Value innovation and uncontested market space
Business models for new tech
Ethics and responsible innovation
Scaling innovation to production
Time management and personal productivity
Values-based decision-making
Productivity and effectiveness measurement
Designing a strategic or change intervention
Innovation platforms and experimentation
Technology strategy and investment
Cost management and value creation
Budget vs actual and variance

Running an Assumption-Led Pipeline

Discovery-driven planning and assumption testing
Minimum viable offer and validated learning
Measuring innovation performance
Measuring ERP value
Digital learning strategy
Innovation and experimentation in learning
Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
Design review and quality assurance
Client feedback and satisfaction
Data, records and confidentiality tech
Cost and profitability analysis
Forecasting and planning
Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches

Balancing the Portfolio

Innovation portfolio and the three horizons
Measuring innovation performance
Business model design and unit economics
Innovation and fintech partnerships
Cost-to-serve and value-for-money analysis
Time value of money and discounting
Pricing, contribution and product decisions
Attachment and developmental theory
Managing risk and difficult cases
Designing a governance, compliance or policy solution
Codes of conduct and values
Organisational design principles and structures
Attrition, engagement and productivity analytics

Culture, Incentives and Candour

Innovation culture, incentives and psychological safety
Measuring innovation performance
Innovation portfolio and the three horizons
Scaling technologies and business models
Lessons learned and development
Yield, productivity and profitability metrics
Driving effective, ethical outcomes
Designing and facilitating groups
Advisory service design and delivery
Behaviour change and adoption of innovations
The value of customer-centricity
Innovation in service delivery
Journey and process redesign

Measuring What Early Work Produces

Measuring innovation performance
Discovery-driven planning and assumption testing
Innovation culture, incentives and psychological safety
Corporate portfolio strategy and parenting advantage
Income capitalisation and investment value
How insurance works: risk pooling and the value chain
Insurance products and lines of business
Working with organisations on wellbeing
Professional roles, boundaries and settings
Ethical principles and codes of practice
Event planning timelines, run sheets and production schedules
Manufacturing strategies: make-to-stock, make-to-order and batch versus flow
Managing boundaries and dual relationships

Capability Building

Development banking and project finance
Message development and testing
Supplier development and innovation
Continuing professional development
Career pathways and professional development
Measuring development impact
Cognitive load and learning science
The learning and development profession
Learning strategy and business alignment
Learning cultures and the learning organisation
Learning transformation and modernisation
Microlearning and mobile learning
Social and collaborative learning
Emerging learning technologies
Feedback and developmental conversations

Leading Innovation

Ethical decision-making under pressure
Public speaking and thought leadership
Prioritisation and focus
Reflective practice and self-leadership
Ethical leadership and integrity
Diversity, inclusion and inclusive leadership
Leadership impact and organisational health metrics
360-degree feedback and leadership assessment
Capstone scoping: a real leadership challenge
Setting strategic priorities and choices
Strategic decision-making under uncertainty
Decision support and insight
Writing advisory reports that drive decisions
Backlogs, user stories and prioritisation
Servant leadership and self-organising teams

Change and Adoption

Agile and digital transformation projects
Measuring change and project impact
Baseline setting and change control
Sales and marketing transformation
Measuring growth and transformation impact
Designing an intervention or programme
Digital and market transformation
Customer experience transformation
Digital and self-service transformation
Measuring CX transformation impact
Digital transformation in banking
Technology governance and change control
Foreign exchange and hedging
Change management and adoption
Sustaining transformation and benefits

Evidence and Analytics

Portfolio of evidence and reflective practice
Data-driven decision support and analytics
Complaint data and learning
Net Promoter Score and satisfaction metrics
Service analytics and dashboards
Text and interaction analytics
Data privacy and consent
Data ethics and customer privacy
Service quality and turnaround metrics
Data protection and customer privacy
Data, analytics and customer insight
Data visualisation for finance
Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
Record-keeping and data protection
Evidence-based improvement

Stakeholders and Sponsorship

Managing expectations and influence
Influencer and affiliate marketing
Sponsorship and negotiation selling
Evidence-based practice
Partnership building and multi-stakeholder platforms
Stakeholder mapping and collaboration
Influencing and presenting insights
Managing difficult stakeholders
Stakeholder mapping in banking
Negotiation and influencing
Stakeholder communications
Stakeholder mapping and engagement
Stakeholders and users of financial information
Stakeholders, agency and accountability
Trends: ESG, transparency and stakeholder capitalism

Customer and Market Research

Designing voice-of-customer programmes
Sustaining strategic customer focus
Customer and journey analysis
Customer experience strategy
Customer journey mapping
Voice of the customer programmes
Reducing customer effort
Customer effort and sentiment analysis
CRM systems and customer data
Customer service technology stack
Social media customer care
Campaign or go-to-market plan
Building strategic customer relationships
Customer success and retention
Customer lifetime value and profitability

Teams and Collaboration

Collaboration and teamwork
Facilitation and workshops
Virtual and distributed teams
Leading project teams
Team development and effectiveness
Coaching and developing team members
Managing virtual and cross-cultural teams
Building high-performing project teams
Sustaining ethical, effective practice
Team leadership in sales and marketing
Facilitation, training and public presentation skills
Team diversity and inclusion
High-performance team rituals and cadence
Productivity, collaboration and workflow tools
Managing distributed and digital teams

Performance Management

Capacity and performance management
Setting objectives, indicators and targets
Linking CX to business performance
Performance management in service
Coaching for performance
Banking KPIs and branch scorecards
Sales performance and pipeline management
Social performance and outreach
Investment principles and objectives
System performance and tuning
Performance management systems and cycles
Balanced scorecard and KPI frameworks
Strategy execution and the balanced scorecard
Managing team performance and dynamics
Performance management systems and KPIs

Risk and Governance

Cybersecurity and information governance for leaders
Managing risk and controls
Risk assessment and safety planning
Contract types and risk allocation
Contract governance and compliance
Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
Security governance and management systems
Likelihood, impact and risk rating
Risk treatment and countermeasures
Intelligence-led risk assessment
Risk registers and reporting
Project governance frameworks
Leading project governance
Financial risk in projects
Risk identification and analysis

Financial Discipline

Cost estimation and budgeting
Time and cost control
Strategic alignment of investments
Marketing planning and budgeting
Value-based and dynamic pricing
Budget, ROI and feasibility analysis
Pricing strategy
Carbon markets and climate finance
Negotiation with buyers, suppliers and financiers
Access to finance, grants and investment
Financial and technical feasibility analysis
Cost-benefit and investment appraisal
Project budgeting and financial control
Funding, cash flow and financing
Treatment planning and review

Technology Enablement

Digital transformation and IT strategy
Digital procurement and the future of the profession
Bancassurance and digital insurance models
Content strategy across platforms
Social media management: platforms, communities and algorithms
Telehealth and digital care delivery
Managing complexity and comorbidity
Ethics of technology in practice
Automation in project delivery
Emerging project technologies
Digital disruption and modern go-to-market
Digital and data-driven go-to-market
Digital marketing strategy
Email and marketing automation
Marketing technology stack

Quality and Process

Automation, RPA and straight-through processing
Process and control documentation
Quality assurance of audit
Competitive bidding processes
Continuous improvement of delivery
Business process mapping
Process optimisation and RPA
Feasibility, cost and quality analysis
Quality assurance and standards
Continuous improvement of programmes
Process re-engineering and shared services
Reporting quality and governance
Psychometric and screening tools
Outcome and process measures
Continuous improvement and retrospectives

Communicating the Case

Executive communication and presence
Cross-cultural communication
Sustainability reporting and disclosure
Proposal development and donor reporting
The media and telecommunications landscape
Workplace and organisational contexts
Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
Integrated and sustainability reporting
Communicating financial results
Professional case study and presentation
Communicating with families and carers
Regulatory reporting and audits
Control monitoring and reporting
Crisis communications
Ethics in communications

Operating Model and Capacity

Resource allocation and capital discipline
Fundraising diversification and local resource mobilisation
Reinsurance and capacity management
Capacity planning and line balancing
Change talk and readiness
Geology, exploration and resource estimation
Resource planning and levelling
Portfolio and resource management systems
Capacity and resource optimisation
Conflict resolution over land, water and resources
Land rights, tenure and equitable resource use
Productivity and efficiency improvement
The procurement cycle and operating models
Customer-centric operating models
Operational efficiency and productivity

Positioning and Proposition

Brand and reputation as strategic assets
Agile marketing and experimentation
Marketing and sales ethics
Brand safety and responsible marketing
Sustainability and responsible marketing
Marketing and sales KPIs and dashboards
Customer and brand health metrics
Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
Designing a marketing or sales strategy
Marketing strategy and the mix
Brand strategy, identity and equity
Integrated marketing communications
Duty of care and risk management
Content marketing and editorial
SEO and search marketing

Advisory and Problem Solving

Issue and problem management
Goal setting and action planning
Problem loans, restructuring and recovery
Advisory and needs-based selling
Root-cause analysis and problem solving
Structured problem-solving and root-cause analysis
Peer support and consultation
Psychoeducation and workshops
Leading groups and workshops
Capstone scoping: a real technology problem
Debugging and problem solving
Capstone scoping: a real financial problem or decision
Influencing and advising leaders
Problem definition and analysis
Public consultation and engagement

Responsible Innovation

Building trust and engagement
Professional ethics and responsibility (PMI)
Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
Professional standards and ethics
Habit change and behaviour design
Accountability and follow-through
Corporate social responsibility and community impact
Emerging tools and innovation
Ethics and fair customer treatment
Professional ethics in customer service
Responsible and ethical service
Ethics and integrity in banking
Professional ethics and banking conduct
Integrity, confidentiality and conflicts
Responsible and sustainable banking

Entrepreneurial Practice

Growth strategy and demand generation
Data-driven growth
Wellbeing and resilience coaching
Measuring coaching outcomes
Managing growth, risk and resilience
Growth mindset and continuous learning
Working with referrers and multidisciplinary teams
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC)
Governance and organisational value
Public, private and non-profit governance
Crisis and reputation communication
Strengths, flow and engagement
Meaning, purpose and values

Sustainable Innovation

Sustainability certification and standards
Sustainable and green banking
Control environment and risk assessment
Emerging assurance areas (ESG)
Sustainability, ESG and integrated value
The regulatory and legal environment
ESG principles and frameworks
Sustainability strategy and materiality
Environmental governance and climate risk
Governance of ESG and reporting
Sustainability standards (GRI, ISSB)
Continuous environmental improvement
Integration with quality and environment
Corporate social responsibility and sustainability
Supply markets and the enabling environment

Delivery and Execution

Measuring programme success
Professional writing and reports
Leading campaigns and sales projects
HACCP principles and prerequisite programmes
Governance of the CX programme
Loyalty programmes and rewards
Leading service projects and change
Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
Leading banking projects and change
Delivery and facilitation plan
Voice, communication and delivery
Project management maturity assessment
Developing the project business case
Realising and measuring project value
Capstone scoping: a real project or programme

Legal and Regulatory

Team leadership in governance
Risk, legal and feasibility analysis
Compliance frameworks and programmes
Compliance monitoring and testing
Regulatory impact assessment
Employment relationship and the psychological contract
Psychoeducation and public communication
Legal and regulatory responsibility
Environmental legal compliance
Legal, cost and feasibility analysis
Legal and other requirements
Vehicle financing, insurance and total cost of ownership conversations
Customer retention in the vehicle ownership cycle
Vehicle documentation, compliance and consumer protection
Regulation of transport: authorities, conventions and licensing

Partners and Supply

Goal setting and contracting
Procurement and contract value
Procurement and contract management
Vendor selection and management
Partnering and co-creation with customers
Negotiation with clients and partners
Supply market analysis
Contract law and formation
Contract exit and renewal
Employment law framework and contracts of employment
Supply analysis, gaps and scenario planning
Evidence-based practice and research literacy
Procurement and stock management for health commodities
Contractor and visitor safety
Procurement and supply chain: scope and value

Professional Leadership Practice

Project management standards (PMI, PRINCE2)
Stakeholder and sponsor management
Organisational change management
Building project management maturity
Lessons learned and knowledge management
Value and benefits management
Requirements gathering and management
Earned value management
Communication planning and management
Negotiation and conflict management
Document and configuration management
Practice management systems
Programme management principles
Value management and business value
Revenue management and yield

Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

Establish a comprehensive understanding of Certified Innovation Strategist principles aligned with recognised global leadership and management competency frameworks
Apply evidence-based methods to improve strategic leadership, organisational management and business transformation
Master strategic thinking, vision and direction setting and leading teams, people and high performance
Apply decision-making, problem-solving and execution and emotional intelligence and authentic leadership in real-world settings
Lead risk management, quality and compliance relevant to your field
Design stakeholder engagement and professional communication strategies
Use data-driven decision-making and performance-measurement tools effectively
Apply internationally recognised best practice to advance your career in strategic leadership

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CIS certification?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with recognised global leadership and management competency frameworks. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

Who should enrol in the CIS?

This certification is ideal for Managers and Team Leaders, Heads of Department and Directors, Senior Executives and Aspiring Leaders and Business Owners and Entrepreneurs, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in strategic leadership, organisational management and business transformation with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CIS certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 10 Weeks and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CIS internationally recognised?

What is the cost of the CIS certification?

The Certified Innovation Strategist is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 349 and Live Virtual at USD 549. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CIS certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CIS?

The Certified Innovation Strategist is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CIS?

The Certified Innovation Strategist carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CIS while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CIS?

Graduates progress towards executive, director and C-suite leadership roles. The CIS strengthens your expertise in strategic leadership, organisational management and business transformation and positions you for advancement across corporates, public institutions, NGOs and enterprises.

Certified Innovation Strategist

Certified Innovation Strategist

Certification at a Glance

Who Should Enrol?

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Core Competencies You Will Develop

Programme Modules

What You Will Achieve

How to Get Certified

Common Questions

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