This development programme is for individuals with significant management experience, who have the drive and ambition to take their leadership development to the next level.
Leadership for a Complex World
For the Change Makers
At a glance
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Thrive in the face of complexity
For the Change Makers
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Leading your organisation
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Benefits of the programme
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The workshops
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Our faculty
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Leadership for a Complex World
At a glance
Thrive in the face of complexity
This programme is designed to challenge you to lead and build organisations that can thrive in the face of complexity and uncertainty. It achieves this by blending the latest academic insights with practitioners’ ‘lived experience’. Based on years of experience, research and working with organisations, large and small, the four workshops of this programme are all interconnected and have been identified as some of the key pillars of enablement. The Leadership for a Complex World programme will equip you with the skills and insights required to lead your organisation through periods of complexity and transition, allowing you to foster an environment which focuses on collaboration and adaptability. Through this part-time executive development programme, you will be challenged to apply your insights to the resolution of either a personal leadership challenge or important business challenge. During the four two-day workshops, you will build agility, resilience and sustained growth for your business, against the backdrop of unprecedented global challenges and heightened uncertainty.
This course will be taught by WBS, both on campus at Warwick Conferences, as well as at The Shard in London, where we utilise the exceptional facilities. Warwick Conferences facilities allows the cohort to come together to learn and be inspired right on campus. WBS’s London location on the 17th and 13th floors of the iconic Shard building, in the heart of one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities, combines facilities specifically designed for executive-level learning, with easy access to London’s international airports and transport hubs.
“The role of leadership is now about designing organisations that are as nimble as change itself. Creating organisations that can innovate, adapt and thrive in the face of fierce competition and relentless waves of change, is where the true value of leadership now resides.”
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Programme details
Leading your organisation
You will work on your own business challenge
A major benefit of joining the programme will be the space it provides for you to think more strategically about the critical issues you are facing at work. You will have a new forum and network to draw on as you work through a key ‘workplace strategic challenge’, maximising the opportunity for change and improvement. This process is primarily an opportunity to do two things: ■ Apply the concepts from the programme to a real-life strategic challenge ■ Leverage the resources of the programme to deliver value and impact for your business.
Themes that are critical to business in today’s economy will inform and shape the content of each workshop. These include key drivers of change that every business leader needs to understand and grapple with, as well as enablers of growth. We’ll be focusing on leading through complexity and dealing with unique problems that have never or rarely been faced before, and the need for leadership to be more adaptable, collaborative and enabling of others.
We will explore the broader ‘Tides of Change’ faced by many companies:
Technology Recent advances in computing power and a new generation of ‘digital natives’ have accelerated us into a true digital age. How we process information is undergoing radical changes that will impact every industry and function.
Environment and Ethics It is vitally important for almost every company to consider and anticipate the effects of both physical changes to the planet and its resources, as well as the political and social responses to these hot issues.
Institutional Change Structural changes are affecting every industry and sector, from regulatory and globalised change, all the way down to shifts in the engagement of individuals.
A toolset for business impact
Executive coaching One-to-one executive coaching will provide the space you need to focus your strategic vision, sharpen your thinking, and reflect on your leadership style and areas for development.
Global business expertise You will learn from Warwick Business School’s passionate and engaging faculty, who will push, encourage and champion you to develop your thinking, resilience and leadership. You will also gain access to key business leaders as speakers, and as part of the wider WBS business network.
Peer learning This will be a key thread through the workshops and project process of the programme. You will discuss and debate ideas in a creative environment, peers will provide a sounding board and challenge for your new thinking.
Across the workshops, peer learning, coaching and your strategic challenge, you will develop insights, experiences and new skills. You will be encouraged to build these into your specific set of tools to achieve impact for your personal leadership growth, and to deliver for your business.
Social Values We’ve experienced three decades
of significant social change, with more to come. Social unrest may be a short- term consequence, but new threats and opportunities also arise as customer and staff expectations evolve.
Demographics Ageing populations, generational
divides, migration, urbanisation and youth underemployment are critical and irreversible trends reshaping society. We are only just beginning to understand their impact on our businesses.
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Experiential learning
Benefits of the programme
For you as a leader ■ Challenge, refresh and reset how you think about your business ■ Learn with a group of peers from other sectors and industry backgrounds ■ Take time out to reflect on your impact as a leader in challenging times ■ Utilise executive coaching to support your personal leadership journey ■ Acquire new frameworks and tools to enhance executive decision-making ■ Renew your vision, ambition, and energy to drive the business forward ■ Grow your professional and personal networks alongside business leaders and global experts. For your business ■ Develop strategic insights to accelerate growth and increase the value of your business ■ Identify a critical strategic challenge and produce a concrete action plan ■ Investigate unique industry insights and learn directly from high-performing organisations ■ Access talent resource from MBA and Masters students to action your ideas ■ Participate in the latest WBS professional networks and events to remain up-to-date ■ Sharpen the organisational focus on productive innovation ■ Strengthen organisational agility and resilience.
WBS introduced me to new skills and techniques that have helped me develop my leadership style, and also gain confidence in my own abilities Andy Mathias
Marketing Manager, North Europe Region, Bridgestone Europe, Middle East & Africa.
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Workshop details
The workshops
One: Strategy & Decision Making
Two: Leadership & Collaboration
Three: Agility & Adaptability
Four: Engagement & Performance
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The performance of an organisation has many dimensions from the ability to develop and sustain a clear competitive advantage to the ability and motivation of all its employees to consistently deliver over time. High levels of employee engagement correlate with high levels of performance and leadership’s role in embedding
As business leaders we aspire to build organisations that are as nimble as change itself, yet research informs us that most change programmes fail with record numbers of organisations going out of business, not because they are out-competed, but because they fail to adapt. In effect, they are internally-focused rather than externally-focused. Like so many aspects of leading an organisation there is no one formulaic answer to addressing its complex challenges. However, there is a direct relationship between the degree of change and turbulence an organisation faces and its ability to be agile and adaptive. The more turbulence the greater the need for agility. Learning outcomes
We recognise the world of work is changing exponentially, ranging from climate change through to revolutionary developments in new technologies. This dramatically impacts all organisations in a variety of ways. The challenge for developing and implementing effective strategy is to navigate those changes, ensuring sustainable strategic advantage is achieved. Exponential change requires today’s leadership to look way beyond traditional planning cycles, to read the signals in the environment, to interpret the signals and take appropriate action. Consequently, the challenge becomes one of developing a deeper understanding of how, as humans, we make choices and decisions and how we mitigate the inherent unhelpful biases we all carry to achieve the positive outcomes we seek. Learning outcomes This workshop will help you develop a deeper understanding of strategy and strategic thinking and the implications for implementation. In addition, you’ll develop greater personal awareness of how decision processes actually work, ranging from intuition through to data-driven rationale analysis.
We work in an era where leadership is less about ‘having all the answers’ and increasingly about creating an environment where multiple perspectives are brought together to resolve complex, adaptive challenges. Collaboration both between functions within organisational boundaries and between players across other organisational boundaries. Collaboration is now seen as an essential capability, but many organisations still struggle with having an inward-looking silo mentality in the way they are organised and work. Learning outcomes This workshop will help you understand the nature of leadership required to continuously ‘lubricate the wheels’ of collaboration, identifying and overcoming many of the silo related barriers in its way. In doing so, you’ll learn how to create a culture where collaboration is normalised, expected, valued, and rewarded.
a strong sense of purpose, meaning and belonging are recurring themes. Learning outcomes This workshop will not only
draw on insights from previous workshops but take a deeper dive into the behavioural science of why people commit and the conditions that need creating to make this happen. It will include different perspectives from other disciplines such as the arts where the concept of rehearsal is central to high performance. It will also explore the human aspect of engagement including building trust, working in teams and the influence of emotions with all the implications for leadership.
This workshop explores the characteristics of agility and
adaptability and their implications for leadership, and the capability profile of the organisation. At the heart of agility resides critical components which this workshop explores such as innovation capability, the degree of experimentation, leadership’s role, the capacity for learning and the acceptance (or not) of failure.
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Global expertise
Our faculty
Umar Taj Associate Professor of Behavioural Science Umar’s interest lies in helping
Tina Kiefer Professor of Organisational Behaviour Tina has worked extensively in executive education, with
Piers Ibbotson Associate Professor (Entrepreneurship & Innovation) In 1990, Piers became an Assistant Director with the Royal Shakespeare
We believe that business should be used as a power for good. Our faculty of research and teaching academics are constantly striving for excellence in everything they do, from the latest ground-breaking research impacting society, to inspiring our students. Members of our faculty include:
public and private institutions apply the latest insights from behavioural science to improve decision making. His current projects span the domains of HR, tech, health, finance, security, politics, education and international development. Umar is the founder of Nudgeathon™ - a crowd-sourcing platform in which diverse teams of stakeholders come together to find behavioural solutions to social problems. He is also the founder of Behaviour Insight™ - a tech-based behaviour change solution that systematically identifies barriers to behaviour change and guides the user to develop successful interventions. He delivers regular training and facilitation workshops and has provided his service to over 50 global institutions.
organisations ranging across different sectors, including banks (UBS), insurance companies (PatriaHelvetia, Deutscher Ring), the pharmaceutical industry, police forces (in UK and Canada), and government organisations (local Government, specialised service organisations) in different countries. Her research focus is on the daily experience of ongoing change and innovation, positive and negative emotional processes at work, justice processes, cultural implicit leadership theories, leadership behaviours in change, toxic and harmful work experiences’, and of budget cuts for public sector employees.
Company working alongside some of the best directing talent in the British theatre. It was this experience, observing the techniques and approaches of directors, working to tight deadlines with dynamic creative groups that began his interest in the transfer of skills from the Arts to Business. Piers set up his own training and development consultancy in 1998 and became a regular contributor to senior management programmes in the UK and around the world, introducing leaders and senior managers to concepts and techniques from the creative arts.
Keith Grint Professor Emeritus Keith Grint is Professor Emeritus at WBS where he was Professor of Public Leadership until 2018. He spent
Tamara Friedrich Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation Tamara Friedrich has over 15 years of experience as an organisational
Alan Matcham Course Director Alan is an internationally experienced educator, programme director, speaker, author and facilitator. He designs
and delivers experiences which help business leaders and managers find more helpful ways of thinking and behaving in the face of an exponentially changing world. Alan is a former Executive Director of the Management Innovation Lab (MLab) at London Business School, an applied learning centre dedicated to identifying new models of management fit for the 21st century. He was also a former Director of the Leading-Edge Forum Executive Programme, a global research organisation dedicated to addressing the key issues at the intersection of business and technology.
10 years working in various positions across a number of industry sectors before switching to an academic career. His research interests include leadership, mutiny and resistance.
psychologist focusing on the topics of creativity, leadership, teamwork, and entrepreneurship. Tamara’s work on leadership has primarily focused on collective forms of leadership.
Dimitrios Spyridonidis
Pietro Micheli Professor of Business Performance & Innovation Pietro has worked with over 50 organisations as mentor, consultant
Associate Professor (Entrepreneurship & Innovation) Dimitrios has taught leadership and leadership
and trainer. These include: Amec, BAT, BP, British Energy, Emirates Group, KLM, Morgan Carbon, Orange, Shell, Veolia Water, Wartsila, Council of Europe, UK Department of Health, House of Lords, National Audit Office, UAE Government and the United Nations. Pietro’s research and consulting interests focus in two main areas – design and innovation management. He has worked in the areas of design thinking, strategic design and new product development.
development around the globe including the UK, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, South Africa, Malaysia and Hong Kong. At Warwick Business School, Dimitrios is the Programme Director of the Executive MBA and the Executive Diploma in Strategic Leadership & Change. Dimitrios is at present on the editorial board of Human Relations. Dimitrios’ core research interests are Leadership and Innovation.
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Next steps
To cope with an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world, requires effective leadership. This means a clear vision, an ability to lead strategically and fostering an environment that builds adaptability and agility. Our research influences companies and organisations across the public and private sectors, helping to build the leaders of tomorrow.
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