Schulich School of Business

Futureproof Your Organization

Schulich School of Business

Change Management

About Programme

Build Strategic Agility and Lead with Resilience.

Move beyond reactive leadership with the tools to anticipate change, influence adoption, and unlock innovation traction. In this 3-day program, you’ll explore strategic foresight, entrepreneurial behaviours, and persuasive communication to futureproof your organization from both offense and defense. Learn to lead with clarity in complex environments—and turn vision into impact through storytelling and data visualization.

Drive Innovation and Navigate Change with Confidence

Take this program alongside Strategic Innovation and Creative Leadership and Unleashing Innovative Momentum to earn the Masters Certificate in Innovation Leadership .

This program equips you with practical, future-focused tools to tackle today’s challenges and tomorrow’s uncertainty. Through design thinking and creative problem-solving, you’ll learn to anticipate trends, uncover emerging risks, and respond with agility using strategic decision-making and user-centered thinking. Strengthen your leadership skills, enhance your emotional and cultural intelligence, and apply change management strategies to drive lasting impact. You’ll also build an entrepreneurial mindset to reimagine products, services, and processes—collaborating across teams, inspiring others through persuasion and influence, and cultivating a culture of creativity and innovation that sustains momentum across your organization.

Programme Content

Day 1: Strategic Foresight

Learn the tools for futureproofing and innovation. Equip yourself with powerful strategic foresight tools to anticipate future trends and challenges. Gain the skills to analyze potential futures and prepare your organization to navigate uncertainties effectively. Explore various strategic foresight methodologies and learn how to apply them to ensure your organization remains resilient and adaptive in a rapidly changing environment.

Day 2: Entrepreneurship

Be equipped with an entrepreneurial mindset and persuasion skills. Delve into the characteristics and behaviors of successful entrepreneurs. Learn how to cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset to drive innovation and navigate uncertainty effectively. Master the art of influence and persuasion. Gain insights into techniques to garner support and drive the adoption of innovative ideas within your organization.

Day 3: Innovation Traction

Turn great ideas into action. Focus on how to build traction for innovation by communicating with clarity, influencing stakeholders, and sustaining momentum across teams. Learn how to use storytelling and data visualization to inspire alignment, drive adoption, and create lasting organizational impact. You’ll leave with practical strategies to close the loop between innovation and execution—ensuring your ideas don’t just spark interest, but deliver results.

Programme Audience

Develop the ability to identify and capitalize on emerging trends, using strategic foresight to position their organization ahead of the competition.

Learn to foster a culture of innovation and drive creative solutions to business challenges. Ideal for managers and senior managers.

Gain the skills to lead enterprise-wide innovation initiatives, cultivating resilience and adaptability within their organizations.

Programme Benefits

Strategic Learning for Busy Professionals

This 3-day intensive program delivers actionable tools in strategic foresight, influence, and innovation traction—so you can make an immediate impact without stepping away from your day-to-day responsibilities

Lead the Future of Work

Develop sought-after skills in futureproofing, entrepreneurial thinking, and storytelling. Position yourself as a resilient, forward-thinking leader ready to guide your team through uncertainty and change

Learn from the Pros

Train with Schulich ExecEd’s award-winning faculty—recognized innovation practitioners and thought leaders with real-world experience in strategy, transformation, and leadership.

Accelerate Your Career with Confidence

Gain the skills, tools, and mindset to lead with purpose, influence stakeholders, and unlock new opportunities. Whether advancing in your current role or exploring a new path, this program sets you up for long-term success.

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