This course helps public sector professionals and decision-makers understand strategic thinking and risk management. Participants will explore how to define long-term goals, evaluate risks, and build effective strategies to navigate today's complex and uncertain environment. It's ideal for those involved in strategic planning, policy, or executive roles who seek to make smarter, value-driven decisions and lead with confidence in government and regulatory organizations.

This course is designed to explore the concept of strategic thinking, planning and business decision-making and the tools, mechanisms and best practices that assist in developing sound risk management strategies. The primary focus is on how strategic thinking and planning defines the vision of where you want to be and determines the path to get you there using a risk assessment process designed to control and direct the organization’s operations so that the mission and objectives are fulfilled.

Our goal is to provide a highly interactive and integrative professional development environment where participants discuss and address challenges faced by senior executives, boards of directors, and managers and study methods to enhance critical thinking, decision making, developing, deploying, monitoring and continuously improving corporate strategies and processes.

We will do this by bringing forth various issues that impact strategy planning, long-term value creation, overseeing risk management, and responding to business sustainability concerns. Through utilization of presentations, group discussions and experiential exercises designed to engage leaders and deepen their learning, we will explore different ways of designing strategy and managing risk that will focus resources on the activities that create strong value and competitive advantages.