Equip your leaders with new mindsets and capabilities to lead with purpose in a complex world
For more than 25 years, the ICMIF Advanced Management Course (AMC) has supported over 500 managers and leaders from more than 100 member organisations in 50+ countries. Throughout this time, the course has continued to evolve—adapting its structure when needed (including a brief online delivery period) and using each iteration as an opportunity to refine and strengthen the learning experience.
Participants over the years have praised ICMIF’s Advanced Management Course (AMC) for the ways in which the course helped them to enhance both their own performance and that of their organisation. For 2026, the focus of the AMC will continue to be to make it easier for leaders and managers to increase their company’s organisational agility and therefore its ability to thrive in a complex world, while harnessing the power of purpose. Participants will acquire tools and frameworks, built on insights from behavioural economics, to transform the culture of how networks of teams make sense of evolving challenges and work together to drive the organisation to fulfil its purpose.
The new structure of the course means the full programme can now be delivered over four days instead of five and this streamlined format is also reflected in updated pricing for 2026.
Participants have reported that they emerge from the course seeing the world clearer, with a new set of collaborators and friends from around the world that act as both a support and a challenge network, and emerging with a set of actions and new behaviours for themselves.
You can hear the feedback and testimonials from participants of one of our more recent courses in this video.
Who should attend?
This course is aimed at senior managers and leaders of change from mutual or cooperative insurers who lead teams which are required to tackle complex situations, formulating strategies to achieve their organisation’s purpose, and leading programmes that translate strategy into action.
Participants of the Advanced Management Course include a mix of technical insurance and non-technical people, reflecting the typical make-up of a mutual/cooperative insurer.
Participants must be comfortable holding strategic conversations in English.
Course fee
The 2026 fee was GBP 3,000 including all accommodation (typically four nights) and meals during the course.
Forthcoming dates
Dates for the next course in 2027 in Manchester (United Kingdom) will be confirmed soon.
Course fee:
The 2026 course fee was GBP 3,000 including all accommodation (typically four nights) and meals during the course
For more information about the Advanced Management Course, download the course flyer, or contact Mike Ashurst, Senior Vice-President, Reinsurance & Learning, to discuss the programme and the benefits for you and/or your organisation.
If you would like details of all ICMIF learning services in one place, download the full ICMIF Learning Services brochure.
“It's a unique opportunity to bring a lot of like-minded people from like-minded organisations together, but with very different cultural backgrounds. That's a real benefit of the ICMIF model.”
Glenn Croasdale, Chief Client Officer, FMG (New Zealand)
Benefits of the course
Alumni of the Advanced Management Course report improved outcomes following their attendance on the course. Participants emerge with new approaches to help them maximise their impact in a complex world. In particular, they will learn how to overcome three critical challenges when tackling complex problems:
- People are not rational.
- Expertise is important, but no longer sufficient.
- Most of people’s behaviour is automatic.
Prior participants describe improved personal performance after the course when leading and managing in conditions of uncertainty and ambiguity by them applying the AMC’s mental models, conceptual frameworks and simple tools for:
- Harnessing the power of purpose.
- How to activate strategy in purpose-driven organisations.
- Working as a team to tackle complex situations.
- Effective collaboration.
- Developing psychological safety.
- Thinking and innovating strategically as a team.
- Leading across cultures.
- Building a purpose-driven learning system.
- Peer to peer consultancy and translating learning into value.
Alumni of the Advanced Management Course report improved outcomes following their attendance on the course. Many describe it as “the fog clearing” as the models, frameworks and tools they have acquired during the course are put into use once they have returned to the workplace. What may have previously seemed like unrelated areas of leadership and management become a simple, integrated, mutually reinforcing approach to finding solutions to their challenges. In this way, prior participants have said they arrive with expertise and leave with wisdom.
NEW: Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) required for travel to the UK
Please note, the UK government has introduced electronic travel authorisation (ETA) for visitors who pass through the UK border, including people from the USA, Canada, and Australia. As of January 2025, all eligible non-European visitors must apply for an ETA to travel to the UK.
From 2 April 2025, eligible Europeans also need to apply for the ETA in order to travel to the UK from that date onwards. From April 2025, all visitors to the UK who do not need a visa for short stays and who do not already have a UK immigration status will need an ETA.
Eligible visitors should apply for their ETA through the UK ETA smartphone app, which is quick and simple to use and enables most applicants to receive a decision in hours. Visitors can also apply on the GOV.UK website if they do not have access to a smartphone.
For more information on the Advanced Management Course in general and details of forthcoming courses please contact Mike Ashurst.