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Strategy for Emerging Leaders

Programme impact

Experience strategic thinking

Insight driven strategy takes knowledge and understanding. Can you understand the choices you have to make, and the nature of emerging technological threats to incorporate into your own strategy?

Good for you
Good for your organisation

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.

Who attends

Right for you

3 years professional experience

required

This course is designed for new and incoming leaders who want to understand and apply core business strategy concepts to their own business areas and the wider organisation. Participants should have at least 3 years of professional experience and have recently taken on, or plan to take on, a strategic role in the near future.

Programme content

A strategic step forward

Explore the role of business models in building sustainable competitive advantage and learn frameworks for analysing and shaping organisational strategy.

What you learn
How you learn
Your learning experience

Explore key themes over the course of five days developed through insights from academic research and practical application, you will learn the benefits and core skills required to apply strategic thinking to your decision-making.

Introduction to strategy: Focus on what strategy is and isn’t, share your objectives and existing knowledge with the group, and start to explore some simple case discussions that will expose you to the challenge of doing strategy well in practice.

Market-based strategy: You’ll be encouraged to think about the relationship between strategy, the nature of your industry, and trends in the market. Engage in discussions about profit pools and sources and paces of growth, as well as the challenges of spotting emerging trends and strategic opportunities.

Resources and capabilities: Discuss the difference between externally driven opportunities and those that originate from organisational resources and capabilities. You will think through what makes your own organisation’s differentiators and their potential link to future success.

Platform-based strategies: Understand the differing natures of strategies that require a more ecosystem-based approach to competition, where competitors might become collaborators, and the technology that can make it easier or harder to compete.

The future of strategy: Explore contemporary and future challenges facing your business, as well as strategic leaders’ ability to manipulate various influential factors and trends to your benefit.

Strategy in context: In one final session, you will be encouraged to think about different levels of strategic thinking and strategic ownership within your organisation. This will include considering the difference between multi-divisional strategic choices, those that happen within one business, and how strategy can influence and effect change. You will also reflect on your new skills and how you can apply them going forward.

Middle East Iteration

Access our world-renowned faculty, immersive learning methods and breakthrough ideas in the heart of London. Due to increased regional interest, LBS has included extra iterations of programmes for Middle East professionals. The programmes deliver all the content and insights from the global cohort, with the additional opportunity to network closely with peers working and living in the Middle East.

Certificate in Management

This programme can also be taken as part of the Certificate in Management. Enhance your leadership and business skills with a comprehensive learning journey tailored to you and create a personalised curriculum to shift your career to the next level.

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Experts in the field

Absorb the experience and passion of our faculty, who combine academic research and real-world business expertise.

How to apply

Submit your application through our online application form.

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Fees

The fee for the programme is £8,300.*

The programme fee covers all required study materials, programme activities, as well as refreshments and most meals. It also includes access to a well-appointed gym with a swimming pool. It does not include accommodation.

We offer a 25% discount for London Business School Alumni and for those who have completed four eligible Certificate in Management or Certificate in Finance programmes.

For more information on what the programme fee covers, please speak to our Client Relationship Manager. *Fees are subject to change

A programme for every ambition

Grow your organisation by reinvigorating your strategic thinking and embracing the future with our suite of programmes

Contact us

Whether you are an individual or an organisation/group looking for a programme, get in touch and we can help find the best solution for you.

Richard Sturdy

Client Relationship Manager

Richard Sturdy

+44(0)20 7000 7325