Reimagining Opportunities and Risks for Performance
Business leaders and senior managers today face unprecedented challenges amid macroeconomic volatility and geopolitical uncertainty. These include fluctuating markets, supply chain disruptions and logistic capacity constraints, skill shortages, regulatory changes, and technological advancements. The ability to craft and implement effective organizational strategies is also complicated by unpredictable global events and diverse stakeholder expectations. Leaders must balance short-term pressures with long-term vision, foster resilience and take calculated risks in such an environment of constant change. This course equips executives with the tools and frameworks needed to thrive in such uncertainty, enhancing strategic agility and better alignment of risk management mechanisms to strategic imperatives.
This immersive course offers a deep dive into maximising business opportunities while managing the risks in this challenging environment. Participants will be primed to enhance their capability to make their organisational strategies more adaptive and resilient and lead effectively, by managing risks across various emerging dimensions to boost performance in such uncertain environments.
Key Takeaways and Benefits
This course empowers you to evaluate and embrace opportunities with confidence. Stimulate a proactive mindset, emphasising adaptability, resilience, and strategic agility with a judicious dual focus on risk and opportunity. Participants learn to embrace change and lead with confidence amidst ambiguity. To do so, the course leverages the dynamic capabilities framework to present the contemporary thinking on topics such as scenario planning and risk management in context of evolving considerations such as the rise of third-party ecosystems, environment, social and governance (ESG) and concludes with an immersive discussion on enablers and impediments to implementation.
Walk away equipped to navigate and succeed in challenging environments, leveraging the insight gained from what the more astute organisations across your peers are doing more effectively.
On this programme you will;
- Enhance strategic agility: Learn to adapt quickly to gain strategic advantage in today’s evolving business landscape, mitigate risks effectively, and build resilience to withstand and recover from unexpected challenges and crises.
- Improve decision-making: Gain and understanding of tools and frameworks for making informed decisions amidst ambiguity and complexity.
- Bridge the gap between strategic intent and actual performance: Learn how to overcome barriers hindering organisational alignment and strategy execution.
- Reinforce leadership skills: Develop the ability to lead confidently and inspire teams during times of uncertainty.
- Understand contemporary considerations in strategy development and implementation including ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance)
- Review factors affecting the management of rapidly growing third-party ecosystems to drive organisational redesign.
Participant Profile
This programme, is designed for business owners and mid to senior level managers with some exposure to crafting and implementing organisational strategies, mid to senior level managers seeking to gain insights to keep their organisation relevant to the changing environment with a dual focus (i.e., to protect and improve business performance) and business leaders who strive to be more proactive in implementing new ideas, staying ahead of the competition, and by learning to thrive amid adversity.
This is a 3 day blended learning programme. Two mornings are expertly delivered online from our live, interactive classroom, and experience two days are on campus at The William J. Clinton Leadership Institute at Riddel Hall, Queen’s University Belfast.
Our Clinton Leadership Institute Learning Management System will support your learning throughout with videos, podcasts and reading materials.
February 2025 Dates |
Time |
Module |
Delivery Mode |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19/02/2025 | 13:30-17:00 |
Module 1: Understanding and navigating uncertainty and change |
Online |
| 25/02/2025 | 09:30-16:30 |
Module 2: Strategy and governance: A marriage made in heaven |
On Campus |
| 26/02/2025 | 09:30-16:30 |
Module 3: Newer opportunities create new risks |
On Campus |
| 04/03/2025 | 13:30-17:00 |
Module 4: Mind the “execution gap” |
Online |
Dr. Sanjoy Sen is presently engaged in an emeritus position as the global head of research and eminence for the Extended Enterprise team at Deloitte, bringing over 35 years of experience to his role as a former partner at Deloitte and PwC. He specialises in Strategy and Governance, assisting organisations in crafting organisational strategies and strengthening corporate governance mechanisms to establish risk management frameworks aligned to their strategy.
He also co-directs the MSc programme in Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy at Aston University, Birmingham and is a member of the Academic Council at the Global Risk Management Institute. Dr Sen previously served as a Senior Visiting Fellow at the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University, focusing on their executive MBA programme. By background, he holds a doctorate in business administration from Aston Business School and is also a chartered accountant and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).
We have a range of package options to support your Senior Executive experience with executive coaching and mentoring. Please contact us directly to discuss your requirements. Please email: Sue.Burns@qub.ac.uk
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