Doing business in a complex world

Today’s executives operate in an environment shaped by uncertainty, geopolitical fragmentation, technological disruption and growing ideological polarization. Established business models are being challenged, signals are increasingly difficult to interpret, and the assumption that the future will resemble the past is no longer valid. While the notion of “polycrisis” is now widely acknowledged, its concrete implications for strategy and decision-making remain difficult to grasp.This executive online program enables decision-makers to step back and make sense of the deep forces reshaping the global business environment. The program provides analytical frameworks and anticipation tools to better understand systemic change, test the robustness of strategic choices, and adapt organizations to fast-evolving and uncertain global realities.

Explore the evolving role of leaders in an age of uncertainty and systemic disruption. Identify the mindsets and capabilities required to navigate complexity and inspire action.

Decode the geopolitical, economic and technological forces reshaping the global order. Gain analytical frameworks to better understand today’s fragmented and volatile world.

Analyze the structural trends transforming industries and markets. Learn how to distinguish noise from signal to make sharper strategic decisions.

Anticipate failure before it happens. Apply the pre-mortem method to identify hidden vulnerabilities in your strategy and strengthen resilience.

Deepen the pre-mortem exercise through collective intelligence. Turn identified risks into actionable strategic adjustments.

Understand how ideological polarization and strategic dogmatism affect business environments. Develop approaches to operate effectively in increasingly divided societies.

Discover why anticipation is a strategic advantage, not a speculative exercise. Learn how foresight enhances long-term performance and risk mitigation.

Rehabilitate imagination as a core leadership capability. Explore how creative thinking fuels strategic innovation in uncertain contexts.

Engage in structured scenario-building to explore alternative futures. Stress-test your assumptions and expand your strategic options.

Synthesize insights from the program to redefine your leadership posture. Clarify what it truly takes to lead responsibly in a complex world.

Online courses over a period of 10 weeks:

Weekly live class sessions. Mix of asynchronous and synchronous content

This program is designed for a wide array of senior executive profiles: - Consultants advising industries that are ripe for change will explore what make some business models more successful than others in the global context. - Executives in big companies can hone their toolbox to transform their business and industry operates. - Finance and insurance experts may find insights on what a new world means in terms of new rules and risk assessment. - Entrepreneurs will find opportunities to fix broken and unsustainable practices of the past.

5 years' professional experience as an executive, director, manager, etc.