Strategy for Emerging Leaders

The course is led by Jessica Spungin an award-winning teacher with extensive strategy experience having previously worked as a Partner in McKinsey & Company. She is joined by Professors Sendil Ethiraj and Sarath Balachandran both experts in strategy alongside other distinguished faculty members.

Take the concepts learned in the classroom into practice immediately in live small group environments including site visits and experiential GenAI-driven workshops. Learn how to use AI and large language models to enhance your ability to diagnose understand and develop strategic insights.

Examine real-world case studies engage in class discussion and lectures and develop an understanding of the benefits of taking strategic approaches to decision-making.

Participate in facilitated reflection activities to apply your learning to your own personal business environment.

Meet the challenges facing new leaders head-on building strategy skills and awareness and drawing on recognised key concepts to make better future-focused decisions.

Develop confidence in your ability to fact-find including understanding the right conversations to have and the tools that will support your growth into a strategic thinker.

Establish a strategic mindset reevaluating the way you think about strategy and the ideas that make up the field.

Learn how to think on both an organisational and individual level about what strategy means to you as you build it into an essential tool for furthering your career.

Understand the relationship between corporate and business unit strategy as you explore the global impact of strategic viewpoints in an ever-changing world.

Put your strategy theory into practice with experiential opportunities including simulations and discovery visits.

Prepare your leaders to confidently make the strategic decisions that will establish broader organisational success.

Expose your executives to the fundamental elements of strategy with opportunities to practice deploying strategic concepts.

Provide new leaders with the chance to create functional strategies that will impact the areas they lead as well as the wider business.

Benefit from the insights of some of LBS’ leading faculty in the field of strategy applying their unique insights into the challenges facing your organisation.

Empower your executives to grow your business using a deeper understanding of the impact and implications of their strategic decisions.