2026 Programme
Leading through Disruption: Strategy, Agility, and Influence
Orchestrating Strategy in a Fractured World: Leading with Foresight, Agility, and Influence. See what matters sooner, align on no regret moves, and build a strategy rhythm that creates traction. You will strengthen political agility, sharpen communication, and convert uncertainty into momentum.
Faculties
Professor Christian Stadler
Best-selling Strategy author in 2024 with over a million citations by Harvard Business Review, Stanford, Forbes among others. Help hundreds of organisations globally to thrive and one of the most sought-after Strategy speaker.
Professor Nic Cheeseman
Former Professor and Director of the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. Has advised world leaders including the Secretary-General of the UN, Presidents of Nations as well as Global CEOs.
Professor Neal Hartman
Head of the Department of Managerial Communication, MIT Sloan School of Management.
Teaches management and intercultural communication with an emphasis on teamwork, conflict and conflict resolution, leadership, and cross-cultural communication globally including at the University of Cambridge and for global C-suite leaders.
The Rt Hon Graham Stuart MP
Member of Parliament for Beverley and Holderness (elected in 2005; continues to serve) and world sought-after speaker.
Has held ministerial roles including Minister for Investment and Minister for Exports; also served as Minister of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (Feb 2023-Apr 2024).
DATE
7 – 21 February 2026
Leading with Foresight, 7th of February ─ Professor Christian Stadler
- Foresight systems that translate weak signals into strategic choices
- Scenario portfolios, trigger points, and option valuation for executives
Leading with Agility, 14th of February ─ Nicholas Cheeseman
- Risk radar: geopolitics, regulation, energy, currency, and supply networks
- Operating rhythms for fast yet responsible decision making
Leading with Influence, 21st of February ─ Graham Stuart MP and Professor Neal Hartman
- Communicating strategy to investors, employees, and citizens
- Coalition building across government, industry bodies, and communities
VENUE
Virtual
COST
£2,000 but is £1,500 after discount
The fee is £1,300 for payment made on or before the 15th of January.
(cover study materials and certificate)
* Fees are subject to fluctuations in Pounds(£) to Naira(N) Rate
METHODOLOGY
- Guided self-study
- Virtual Life sessions via technology
- Interactive simulations
- Role-play
- Group discussions
- Gamified experience
- Case Studies – ensuring a dynamic learning environment
For enquiries, please call +447425883791 or email [email protected]
Volatility is now the baseline. This virtual programme blends guided self-study on our learning platform with live, high-impact sessions on Zoom to help leaders move from firefighting to orchestration. We start with the leader, then scale to the enterprise. You will learn to read weak signals with clarity, set a direction that holds under pressure, and turn strategy into actions that teams can own. We draw on cases of organisations that have navigated sanctions, subsidy shifts, currency swings and regulatory shocks, and we translate those lessons into a rhythm you can run with your top team. Expect a practical journey: visionary leadership and communication, emotional intelligence and trust, disciplined execution and agile teamwork, data-informed choices and ethical judgement. You will practise scenario design, align around no-regret moves, and shape option paths that protect downside while keeping upside open. Executives will gain actionable tools to align governance, incentives and culture so progress endures. Every module links directly to profitable growth for private firms and reliable service delivery for public agencies, with a focus on cash, cost to serve, compliance, citizen satisfaction and reputation. You will leave with a one-page strategy cadence, a live scenario set with trigger points, and a coalition map that extends influence beyond formal authority. This is strategy as stewardship: clear, human, values-anchored and evidence-informed. It balances performance and prudence and turns uncertainty into an advantage that lasts.
SUB-TOPICS
- Visionary leadership and strategic communication that builds trust and unlock strategic value
- Cognitive Agility: Leading AI-Empowered Organisations that Learn, Adapt, and Evolve
- Turning great strategy into great performance at pace.
- Emotional intelligence and psychological safety for high-performance teams.
- Scenario practice and early-signal sensing for faster, wiser choices.
- Inspiring agile execution: from corner-office intent to frontline action.
- Leading change with clarity using simple, proven steps.
- Hybrid and distributed leadership that sustains performance and wellbeing.
- Data-informed decisions and conflict resolution that strengthen legitimacy.
- Resilience habits that make progress stick beyond the crisis. Strategic benefits for the organisation
- Stronger delivery in tough conditions stimulates profitable growth; lifts service levels and compliance in government.
- Shorter cycle from sensing to decision to action, with clear owners, review points and simple measures for effective and efficient achievement of goals
- Higher stakeholder confidence through steady, credible narratives that align capital, talent and partners around shared strategic outcomes.
Strategic Benefits for Leaders - Better judgement and decision-making quotient under uncertainty through practical foresight tools, scenarios and reflective practice.
- Greater capability to influence coalitions across; functions, the enterprise, sectors and communities to unlock enduring progress.
- A repeatable strategy cadence that sustains momentum, protects legitimacy and compounds advantage over time.
