Description

A focused course, tailored for you

Investment Banking MD's Practice Authorship Playbook

How a Managing Director authors a practice fragment the bank's LOB protects through restructuring.

Junior MD seats survive on practice authorship. Senior MDs survive on the book. The cycle reads them differently.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

When the firm restructures around revised priorities and location strategy, the MD bench gets reviewed too. Senior MDs above your level are protected by book economics. Newer MDs and senior VPs in MD seats are read on a different criterion: whether a practice fragment in the firm's franchise has their byline.

The MDs who survive the cycle are the ones who already authored at least one practice fragment the bank sells. A sector thesis the LOB endorses externally. A product practice referenced by name. A methodology in the firm's catalogue.

This course is the three artefacts, the cadence, and the 90-day path to practice-authorship framing. Plus a hand-built implementation playbook against your live coverage.

What you walk away with

An authored practice fragment in the LOB catalogue with your byline.
A publishable sector thesis the LOB quotes.
A weekly practice-state artefact the head-of-LOB adopts.
A clean translation from 'MD on a sector' to 'authored-practice MD' on a franchise fragment.
A defensible answer when the operating-model review asks which practice your work is associated with.
A 90-day plan from generic MD coverage to authored-practice framing.

The 12 modules

Module 1. Reading the operating-model statement for MD-level implications

Restructuring based on revised priorities and location strategy reaches the MD bench in specific ways. The diagnostic for the junior-MD layer.

Module 2. Book economics vs practice authorship

Senior MDs are protected by book economics. Junior MDs are protected by practice authorship. The structural difference. The three artefacts authorship requires.

Module 3. Your authored practice fragment

Identify one franchise fragment you could author under your name: a vertical, a structuring pattern, a research methodology. The catalogue entry. The byline negotiation.

Module 4. Publishable sector thesis

Structure of a publishable sector thesis the LOB quotes. The format the firm endorses externally. The thesis that travels.

Module 5. Weekly practice-state artefact for the head of LOB

Format, cadence, content the head-of-LOB adopts. Three worked examples calibrated for IB MD audiences.

Module 6. Working with research, ECM, DCM, and M&A partners

Authored practice fragments overlap research, ECM, DCM, and M&A. The collaboration pattern. The credit-sharing.

Module 7. External market positioning for authored-practice MDs

Authored-practice MDs are positioned externally as much as internally. The external positioning the firm endorses. The talks, the panels, the publications.

Module 8. Client conversation patterns rooted in the thesis

The thesis drives client conversations. The conversation pattern that converts published authorship into mandates.

Module 9. Working with research analysts as co-authors

Research analysts can co-author practice fragments. The work split. The credit-sharing that holds across publications.

Module 10. Scope statement: MD vs Senior MD / Head of Practice

Two overlapping seats. The scope statement that puts you in the head-of-practice track defensibly.

Module 11. Promotion mechanics inside investment bank MD ranks

Internal path from MD to head of practice or vertical. The promotion artefact.

Module 12. Your 90-day move to authored-practice framing

Day-by-day plan. Practice fragment scoped in week one. Sector thesis v1 in week two. Weekly artefact running in week three. Head-of-LOB conversation in month two. Authored-practice conversation in month three.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

Modules 1 and 2 cover the diagnostic for a junior MD at a bank facing an operating-model review.

Modules 3 to 5 produce the three artefacts (practice fragment, sector thesis, weekly artefact) every authored-practice MD has.

Modules 6 to 9 cover the cross-product cadence and external positioning.

Modules 10 to 12 cover scope, promotion, and 90-day execution.

What you get with this course

The 12-module course delivered as text plus downloadable templates.
Templates for the practice fragment, the sector thesis, and the weekly practice-state artefact.
A hand-built implementation playbook generated for your specific seat (investment banking MD at a bank in an operating-model review cycle).
Three worked examples of the weekly practice-state artefact (calibrated for different MD sector profiles).
Scripted talking points for the head-of-LOB conversation about authored-practice framing.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Day 1: Practice fragment scaffold drafted; sector thesis target chosen.

Week 1: Practice fragment v1 written; sector thesis v1 drafted.

Month 1: Weekly practice-state artefact landing with head-of-LOB; authored-practice conversation scheduled.

Before and after

Before

You run an MD coverage book. Deals close. Clients renew. The LOB catalogue does not list a practice fragment with your byline. The operating-model review is being discussed. The head-of-practice conversation has not started.

After

Your practice fragment is in the LOB catalogue. The sector thesis is what the LOB quotes externally. The weekly practice-state artefact is what the head-of-LOB adopts. The operating-model review names your seat as authored-practice. The head-of-practice conversation is scheduled.

What happens if you do not address this

Operating-model reviews at investment banks reach the MD bench within one or two cycles. Junior MDs without an authored practice fragment land in the redistribution outcome. The window to author is the weeks before the next review.

Who it is for

For Managing Directors and senior Executive Directors in investment banking, M&A advisory, capital markets, and equity research at large banks running operating-model reviews.

Who this is NOT for. Associates and VPs (the MD-level move does not yet apply). MDs in pure deal-execution seats with no practice or coverage scope. MDs at firms not in active operating-model review.

How it arrives

Text-based course via LMS, plus downloadable templates and the hand-built implementation playbook.

Time investment. Roughly 12 hours of reading and 15 to 20 hours producing your real artefacts against your live coverage.

Why $199 is the right number

Internal IB MD training is general (compliance, supervision). External IB content covers analyst training, not the authored-practice move at MD level. A senior head-of-practice mentor would cover maybe four of these 12 modules informally. $199 buys the focused playbook plus the implementation document for your live seat.

FAQ

Will the head of LOB actually adopt my weekly artefact?

Module 5 is built so the artefact lands as a time-saver in the head-of-LOB's existing reading. Three worked examples included.

What if my coverage is across two adjacent sectors?

Module 3 covers that case. Two-sector practice fragments can be framed as a single thesis if the structural connection is named. Worked example included.

Why pay for this instead of reading free banking-career content?

Free content covers career framing. This covers the authored-practice move at junior-MD level during an operating-model cycle. Different artefacts, populated for your live seat.

What if my firm restricts external publication?

Module 7 covers that case. Authored-practice work can be internal-only if the firm restricts external publication; the artefacts still survive the operating-model review. Worked example included.

What is in the implementation playbook for me specifically?

A draft practice fragment against your real coverage; a draft sector thesis; a 90-day visibility plan with conversations against your head-of-LOB and Senior MD bench.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.