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risks and opportunities, test strategic assumptions and make informed choices without losing organisational direction.
Download Course BrochureFlexible delivery options to suit your leadership team and organisational needs.
Duration
3 Days
Certificate
LOCEPX
Level
Executive / Senior Leader
Format
Instructor-led workshops, discussions, case studies and simulation
Delivery Mode
The course combines executive facilitation, strategic frameworks, contemporary case analysis, scenario thinking, peer discussion and application to organisational challenges. Participants will examine different forms of uncertainty and assess their implications for strategic choices. Facilitated strategic conversations will encourage challenge, reflection and cross-sector learning. The methodology focuses on helping leaders apply disciplined strategic thinking when circumstances are changing and reliable answers are not readily available.
Online
Date: 23rd – 27th Nov 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 30th – 4th Nov 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 2nd – 6th Nov 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
In Person
Date: 2nd – 6th Nov 2026
Location: London
Fee: £4,495
In Person
Date: 9th – 13th Nov 2026
Location: London
Fee: £4,495
In Person
Date: 16th – 20th Nov 2026
Location: Dubai
Fee: £4,495
In Person
Date: 23rd – 27th Nov 2026
Location: Madrid
Fee: £4,495
Online
Date: 28th – 1st Dec 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 7th – 11th Dec 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 14th – 18th Dec 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Introduction
This LOCEPX Training course equips leaders to maintain strategic clarity and make confident choices when organisations face uncertainty, disruption and rapidly changing conditions. This LOCEPX Training course develops the capability to distinguish temporary volatility from significant strategic change, challenge existing assumptions and adapt direction without losing organisational focus.
Uncertainty can push leadership teams towards two extremes: continuing with established plans despite fundamental change, or reacting constantly to every new development. Neither creates resilient strategy. Strategy Under Pressure™ provides leaders with practical approaches for interpreting uncertainty, identifying emerging risks and opportunities, evaluating strategic assumptions and determining when to stay the course, adapt or fundamentally rethink direction. Participants will explore strategic resilience, scenario thinking, decision-making under uncertainty and the leadership disciplines required to balance immediate organisational pressures with longer-term priorities. The programme strengthens leaders' ability to provide clarity when answers are incomplete, maintain alignment through disruption and create strategies capable of evolving as circumstances change.
Strategy and business planning professionals
Functional and business unit leaders
Transformation and change leaders
Programme and portfolio leaders
High-potential professionals assuming strategic responsibility
Senior Leaders Strategy Leaders Business Leaders Transformation Leaders
Participants will leave the Programme with stronger strategic capability and practical approaches that can be immediately applied within their organisations.
Stronger strategic thinking under uncertainty
Improved environmental interpretation capability
Practical approaches to testing strategic assumptions
Greater understanding of strategic resilience
Stronger scenario and contingency thinking
Improved ability to identify strategic signals
Greater confidence in adapting strategic direction
A practical approach to leading strategy under pressure
Analyse uncertainty affecting strategic direction
Identify emerging strategic risks and opportunities
Challenge assumptions under changing conditions
Adapt strategy while maintaining organisational focus
Apply resilient strategic leadership approaches
Stronger organisational resilience during uncertainty
Improved identification of emerging strategic risks
Faster recognition of significant environmental change
Better balance between stability and strategic adaptation
Greater leadership alignment during periods of disruption
Core Areas
Understanding uncertainty in contemporary organisations
Different forms and sources of strategic uncertainty
Distinguishing volatility, complexity and structural change
Understanding how uncertainty affects strategic assumptions
Recognising the limitations of traditional planning
Balancing strategic direction with organisational adaptability
Understanding leadership behaviour during uncertainty
Establishing strategic clarity when answers are incomplete
Monitoring the external strategic environment
Identifying trends, disruptions and emerging developments
Distinguishing strategic signals from short-term noise
Recognising early indicators of significant change
Assessing potential threats and emerging opportunities
Understanding interconnected risks and dependencies
Interpreting stakeholder and market shifts
Developing stronger strategic awareness across leadership
Identifying assumptions underlying current strategy
Assessing whether strategic assumptions remain valid
Recognising cognitive and organisational rigidity
Challenging established thinking constructively
Stress-testing strategy against changing conditions
Evaluating strategic vulnerabilities and dependencies
Determining when adaptation becomes necessary
Avoiding reactive strategic decision-making
Understanding strategic resilience
Building flexibility into strategic choices
Applying scenario thinking to uncertain environments
Developing alternative strategic responses
Balancing commitment with adaptability
Evaluating strategic options under uncertainty
Managing strategic trade-offs during disruption
Creating organisational preparedness for alternative futures
Maintaining strategic focus during disruption
Making decisions with incomplete information
Communicating direction during uncertainty
Creating leadership alignment around strategic priorities
Balancing immediate pressures with long-term value
Determining when to maintain, adapt or reset strategy
Embedding strategic review and learning
Developing a leadership agenda for strategic resilience
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STRATEGY & LEADERSHIP
Leading Strategy in Uncertain Times
Strategy Under Pressure™
Stay strategically focused, adapt with confidence and lead effectively when the environment keeps changing.
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