Roughly 40% of program time is a shared leadership core taken by the full cohort — leadership in regulated environments, financial literacy, crisis and reputation management, change leadership, AI governance, and stakeholder strategy. The rest is track-specific work with people who hold your job.
IRB administrators and coordinators stepping into, or newly in, a management role.
Explore the track →Physicians, scientists, and general counsel who hold ultimate institutional responsibility for the HRPP — often without formal preparation for it.
Explore the track →Directors responsible for the strategy, budget, and staffing of the human research protection program as a whole.
Explore the track →High-potential mid-career professionals identified by their institutions as future directors.
Explore the track →This is where the cross-track network gets built: administrators, IOs, and executives working the same cases from different seats.
Leadership fundamentals adapted to compliance-heavy, risk-averse institutional cultures.
Common Rule, FDA parallel track, OHRP/FDA posture, state variation — and how institutional politics actually work.
Reading a research office budget, cost recovery, staffing models, vendor and IRB-software contracts.
Handling an adverse event, a media inquiry, a federal for-cause review, or a whistleblower complaint.
Moving a program from compliance-driven to trust-driven; managing resistance from investigators and boards.
What AI in research tools means for oversight, informed consent, and institutional policy.
Managing up to IOs and deans, across to investigators and sponsors, and toward participants and communities.