IAEA Nuclear Leadership Programme

Objectives

The purpose of the event is to provide a venue for participants from all nuclear organizations to actively strengthen their own, their organizations, and the industry’s performance through an intensive focus on leadership capabilities for a dynamic and changing nuclear landscape. The programme will provide participants with the knowledge, skills and practice to improve leadership capabilities and strengthen human and organizational resilient performance within the nuclear organization and broader industry.

Target Audience

This event is targeting early-to-mid career managers and professionals working in governmental bodies, regulatory bodies, technical support organizations, operating organizations and other organizations from across the nuclear industry, with 5-10 years of experience in the nuclear industry and who want a deeper management/leadership experience with peers from the broader international field.

Member States are welcome to provide more than one nominee in both groups of targeted participants.

Approach and Benefits

Through practical exercises, tools, and real-world scenarios, the expected benefits of this program are to increase leadership effectiveness and promote greater resilience, both personally and institutionally, across all core organizations.

Some of the tools covered by the school curriculum include:

• Relationship building: trust and influence;
• Emotional intelligence: Self, social and environmental awareness;
• Systemic thinking: Seeing the whole;
• Reflection: Making meaning;
• Engagement: Leading with purpose.

Goals and Outcomes

• Establish trust, psychological safety, and professional connection to support collaboration and mutual influence across diverse contexts;
• Enhance self-awareness and interpersonal effectiveness to lead with empathy, composure, and clarity under pressure;
• Develop the ability to see interdependencies between human, organizational, and technical systems to lead in complex, high consequence environments;
• Create space to synthesize learning, examine assumptions, and connect personal experience to professional growth and leadership ability;
• Activate leadership purpose, align values with action, and commit to behaviours that strengthen resilient performance and positive impact.

Participation and Registration

In All persons wishing to participate in the event must be designated by an IAEA Member State or should be members of organizations that have been invited to attend. ?In order to be designated by an IAEA Member State or invited organization, participants are requested to submit their application via the?InTouch+ platform?to the competent national authority (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Permanent Mission to the IAEA or National Atomic Energy Authority) or organization for onward transmission to the IAEA by? 25 July 2025.

Key Deadlines

25 July 2025:? ? ?Deadline to send?Participation Form (Form A)?to the competent national authority for onward transmission to the IAEA. Participants who are members of an organization invited to attend are also requested to send?Participation Form (Form A)?through their organization to the IAEA by the above deadline.

For more information, including on registration and participation, please see the?Information Sheet.