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Strategic Decision Making for Leaders

Draw on management science and psychology, as well as the concepts around the power of data and AI in decision-making to help make better holistic decisions for your organisation.

Upcoming Sessions
Location
Fontainebleau
Duration
4 days
Fees
9,450

Content Overview

Strategic Decision Making for Leaders is an intensive four-day programme built around interactive simulations that bring together proven techniques drawn from management science and psychology for improving decision-making. The programme also connects human decision-making to data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) exploring the new decision-making paradigms such as Agentic AI. 

Participants sharpen their critical thinking skills, learn to overcome bias, and build effective, holistic decision‑making processes to address challenges and capture organisational opportunities.

Enhanced decision-making for sustainable leadership

  • Explore practical frameworks drawn from management science and psychology to better understand your and others' behaviour.
  • Leverage psychological insights, decision-making models, and behavioural economics to influence outcomes for long-term organisational impact, with opportunities to observe diverse behavioural responses in simulated settings.
  • Learn what nudges* are, and why governments and organisations use them to influence the behavioural choices and decision-making of groups and individuals.

Data Analytics & AI for Decision-Making

  • Gain a foundational understanding of modern AI systems from traditional machine learning (“predictive AI”) to the newer Generative and Agentic AI examined through practical use-cases that highlight their strengths and limitations in practice.
  • Learn how AI interacts with human decisions and how this reshapes decision-making and organisations.
  • Learn how to systematically identify and evaluate opportunities for data-driven analytics and AI tied around newly introduced concepts.

Decision-making with Strategic Interactions

  • Learn scientific tools for incorporating decisions of others (competitors, value chain partners, employers/employees, regulators, and more) into your decisions.
  • Actively apply  these tools in interactive simulations designed to mirror real-world decision environments.

Building a high-performing team

Develop critical thinking

  • Discover how the strategic decisions influenced by cognitive biases can hinder your organisation, with examples drawn from real cases and simulated decision contexts.
  • Improve individual and team judgement through practical applications to real-world situations and insightful experiments to grow technical familiarity.
  • Learn to manage the rigorous decision-making process to avoid common traps and pitfalls more effectively, with opportunties to practice under controlled, high-pressure scenarios.

Improve long-term decision-making processes and drive sustainability

  • Understand the typical steps in a large organisation’s decision process, including the implications on risk management and leading change
  • Discover how to design effective decision processes and navigate common traps encountered in the rigorous process of decision-making.
  • Explore how sustainable decision-making processes can help your organisation avoid the pitfalls of a short-term focus, particularly in large organisations regularly exposed to severe risks and uncertainties.

*Nudges are light-touch behavioural change interventions. Learn more