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This programme equips leaders to use scenario planning to explore plausible alternative futures, identify critical uncertainties and test whether current strategies remain resilient under changing conditions.
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, scenario-planning frameworks, strategic analysis, case discussion and application to organisational challenges. Participants will examine major drivers of change, identify critical uncertainties and develop alternative perspectives on how future conditions may evolve. Structured strategic dialogue will be used to test assumptions and evaluate implications. The methodology focuses on applying scenario thinking directly to strategy, investment, risk and executive decision-making.
Online
Date: 9th – 13th Nov 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 16th – 20th Nov 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 23rd – 27th Nov 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
In Person
Date: 9th – 13th Nov 2026
Location: London
Fee: £4,495
In Person
Date: 16th – 20th Nov 2026
Location: London
Fee: £4,495
In Person
Date: 23rd – 27th Nov 2026
Location: Dubai
Fee: £4,495
In Person
Date: 30th – 4th Nov 2026
Location: Madrid
Fee: £4,495
Online
Date: 21st – 25th Dec 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 28th – 1st Dec 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 7th – 11th Dec 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Introduction
This LOCEPX Training course equips leaders to use scenario planning as a practical strategic tool for making stronger decisions in uncertain and rapidly changing environments. This LOCEPX Training course enables participants to move beyond single-outcome planning, explore plausible alternative futures and test whether today's strategic choices remain credible under different conditions.
Organisations frequently build strategies around assumptions about markets, customers, technology, regulation, competition and economic conditions that may change significantly. Future Choices™ provides leaders with a structured approach for identifying critical uncertainties, constructing meaningful scenarios and examining their implications for organisational strategy and decision-making. Participants will learn how to distinguish scenarios from forecasts, identify the forces that could materially reshape their operating environment and use alternative futures to expose vulnerabilities, opportunities and strategic choices. The programme places particular emphasis on turning scenarios into executive action by stress-testing existing strategies, identifying early indicators of change and determining which decisions should be made now, delayed, adapted or protected. Participants leave able to use scenario planning as an ongoing leadership discipline rather than an occasional planning exercise.
Strategy and corporate planning professionals
Transformation and innovation leaders
Risk and investment professionals
Functional and business unit leaders
High-potential leaders with strategic responsibilities
Senior Leaders Strategy Leaders Transformation Leaders Risk & Planning Leaders
Participants will leave the Programme with stronger strategic capability and practical approaches that can be immediately applied within their organisations.
A structured scenario-planning methodology
Stronger understanding of critical uncertainties
Practical techniques for constructing alternative futures
Improved ability to test strategic assumptions
Greater capability to identify strategic vulnerabilities
Stronger assessment of future opportunities and risks
Practical approaches to strategy stress-testing
Greater confidence in future-focused decisions
Identify critical strategic uncertainties
Develop plausible alternative future scenarios
Analyse implications across different futures
Evaluate strategy against changing conditions
Apply scenarios to executive decisions
Improved preparedness for strategic uncertainty
Stronger identification of future risks and opportunities
More resilient organisational strategies and investments
Reduced dependence on single-future assumptions
Better anticipation of potential strategic disruption
Core Areas
Understanding scenario planning and its strategic value
Scenario planning versus forecasting and prediction
Understanding uncertainty in strategic decision-making
Recognising assumptions embedded within strategic plans
Identifying different sources of future uncertainty
Understanding the limits of conventional planning
Connecting scenarios with executive decision-making
Establishing the strategic question scenarios must address
Analysing forces shaping the operating environment
Identifying technological, economic and market drivers
Understanding social, political and regulatory developments
Recognising emerging organisational and workforce shifts
Distinguishing predetermined trends from uncertainties
Assessing the potential impact of different drivers
Identifying critical uncertainties affecting strategy
Prioritising uncertainties for scenario development
Principles of effective scenario construction
Developing coherent alternative future conditions
Combining critical uncertainties into scenario structures
Exploring interactions between different drivers of change
Creating sufficiently differentiated future scenarios
Testing scenarios for plausibility and strategic relevance
Avoiding unrealistic or overly simplistic scenarios
Understanding implications within each alternative future
Testing existing strategy against alternative scenarios
Identifying strategic vulnerabilities and dependencies
Evaluating opportunities across different futures
Assessing investments and priorities under uncertainty
Identifying robust and flexible strategic choices
Understanding strategic options and contingency responses
Recognising decisions that may need to change
Strengthening organisational resilience through scenario thinking
Translating scenario insights into strategic action
Identifying decisions that should be made now
Determining what should remain flexible
Developing indicators and early-warning signals
Monitoring which future conditions may be emerging
Integrating scenarios into strategy review
Embedding scenario thinking into executive conversations
Developing an organisational scenario-planning agenda
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