Discover why building resilience and agility: strategic, operational and behavioural, is critical to revitalise and refine your business for uncertain times.
Develop the leadership capabilities to help you succeed in difficult times, and enable you to build resilience at every level of your organisation.
Analyse and understand your current context, and get to grips with scenario planning to ensure your business is ready for the future.
Master the tools and frameworks needed to define and execute your strategy in an unpredictable world.
Build your confidence in identifying complexity and where problems are most likely to arise so that you can determine where resilience is required.
Understand the key organising principles for making your business more resilient, and how these can be turned into new management practices.
Gain new perspectives, insights and tools that will help build individual and team resilience.
Reflect on your own resilience as an individual and develop strategies to succeed when faced with difficult circumstances.
Revitalise your business through new strategic, operational and behavioural management practices that build organisational resilience and agility.
Equip your organisation with the capabilities and new ways of working needed to compete when market conditions change.
Learn how to prepare for future shocks, strategically and operationally, by building the organisations capabilities to monitor and interpret future risks.
Build a more resilient team of leaders that foster a working environment that encourages and enhances resilience and agility within your organisation.
Right for you
This programme is designed for mid to senior level managers looking to shape their organisation’s strategy and create a context where their people are empowered to deliver results.
Attendees include:
Mid-level managers
Senior managers
Managers of non-for-profit organisations
Managers of government organisations
5
5+
years of management experience
required
Programme content
Build resilience and agility
Sustain success by placing strategic, operational and behavioural resilience at the heart of your organisation.
Explore the concepts and frameworks needed to ensure your organisation can adapt to a shifting business context.
Build an understanding of agility loops, scenario planning and how to approach difficult decision making through uncertain times.
Operational Resilience
Increase your awareness of the potential sources of risk in your supply chains and how you manage finance and information.
Discover how risk-management decisions are made within a complex adaptive system, and how they can be applied in your own, personally designed, management experiment.
Behavioural Resilience
Learn about team dynamics and how your role affects the people you manage.
Focus on your individual responsibilities as a leader and build the capabilities to motivate your people during difficult times.
Join a dynamic online learning experience designed to help you build a truly resilient organisation.
Learn at your own pace: Explore three modules, each covering a different area of resilience, at a pace to suit your schedule.
Exclusive digital content: Gain access to videos from our expert faculty, specially curated articles, interviews with guest speakers, a podcast and further reading materials.
Develop an action plan enabling you to effectively engage your stakeholders and communicate your business priorities to revitalise your organisation.
Experts in the field
Access some of the world’s leading thinkers whose cutting-edge research in organisational resilience and agility is grounded in real-life practicality.
Julian Birkinshaw
Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Academic Director of the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Julian’s main area of expertise is in the strategy and management of large multinational corporations, specifically corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, change management and subsidiary headquarters relationships.
Recent Clients
Rio Tinto, ABN Amro, UBS, Tata Group, Exxon.
Experience
Professor Julian Birkinshaw was ranked 46th in the 2017 Thinkers50 list of the top global management thinkers. Consultant and executive educator with companies all over the world. He is the author of 15 books, including Fast/Forward, Becoming a Better Boss, Reinventing Management and Giant Steps in Management, and more than 90 articles in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review.
Kathleen’s current research examines professional women’s critical decisions. She translates those findings into practical tips that women can use to boost their influence and effectiveness. Kathleen also advises firms on how to pull down the barriers that stop women from realising their ambitions.
Recent Clients
Danone, Nestle, Air Liquide, KPMG, Deutsche Bank, Prudential, World Economic Forum, Johnson Matthey and Young Presidents’ Organization.
Experience
Kathleen’s corporate consulting aims to help managers make smarter decisions, negotiate better strategic partnerships, build more effective networks, and foster high levels of sustained engagement and outstanding performance. The empirical research that backs her teaching and consulting appears in top-tier academic journals. That work also has been honoured by awards from leading professional organisations, including the Academy of Management and the International Association for Conflict Management.
Programme Director; Guest Lecturer of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Academic Focus
An expert in leadership and strategy execution, David integrates theory and practice based on his experience in business management and as a consultant, alongside his ongoing research into adaptive leadership – which focuses on the ability of teams and organisations to thrive through uncertain and complex situations.
Recent Clients
Generali, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Ipsen Biotech, Gulf Business Machines, SAP, Pertrofac, Dubai Airports, Nestle.
Experience
David has 35 years of experience in business, consulting and academia. He is a consultant, researcher, sought-after speaker and author working with business leaders across Europe, the US, the Middle East, Africa, China and India. In 2019, he was cited on the Thinkers 50 Radar of top global management thinkers.
David has held senior positions in academia as head of department, and in business as a managing director. As an entrepreneur he has successfully grown and sold ventures in business consulting and software. David is also known for designing and facilitating executive programmes that are experiential, memorable and impactful.
In 2019, David co-authored, “What Philosophy Can Teach You About Being a Better Leader”. The book is an account of how we can reconnect companies, people and shareholder interests. It answers perennial leadership concerns regarding strategy formulation and execution, people engagement, key performance indicators and generational differences through the lens of philosophy.
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Jérémie Gallien
Professor of Management Science and Operations and Chair, Management Science and Operations Faculty
Professor Gallien’s research focuses on pushing the frontier of supply chain management and global health delivery through collaborations with leading firms and organisations. He has published, consulted and taught extensively in the areas of operations and supply chain management, and serves on the editorial boards of leading journals.
An experienced consultant and industry collaborator, Dr Yang’s main areas of research and teaching are supply chain finance, FinTech, business analytics, value chain management, risk management, and platform economy. His research has appeared in top management and finance academic journals.
Tom Ryan is an experienced management educator and consultant who has had a long relationship with London Business School since completing his MBA here. That relationship initially included teaching on degree and executive education programmes. He later led the school’s custom executive education business in which capacity he worked with a broad spectrum of school faculty and other contributors to create programmes that provided solutions to the needs of our clients and staff. He has also contributed to the development of a number of learning simulations. He has advised a number of business schools on their own strategy and has published several papers on the topic.
As a consultant, his focus is on working with senior leadership teams in knowledge-based organisations to improve strategic and financial performance through clear market positioning and the development of necessary resources and capabilities. A key component of his approach is holding up a mirror to client organisations to provide an objective view of their reality.
Tom’s early career was as a chartered accountant, spending five years in audit with PwC and EY, before holding financial management positions in the entertainment, computer manufacturing and advertising industries. After his MBA he worked as a management consultant with AT Kearney in New York.
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Certificate in Management
This programme can also be taken as part of the Certificate in Management. Enhance your leadership approach, hone your business skills and curate your own curriculum with a blend of online and in-person learning.
You can apply to the programme of your choice online. Acceptance is not automatic and your application will be reviewed by our team of Programme Consultants to ensure the best fit between applicants and programmes.
Spaces on our programmes can fill up quickly so we encourage you to apply early and to ensure that your application submission is as comprehensive as possible.
Yes. We can hold a provisional place for you for up to two weeks. Please be aware that completed applications take priority over provisional reservations, and programmes often fill up several months in advance, so ensure you submit your completed application as soon as you can. You can reserve a place online, by phone or by email.
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