Strategy in complexity
Traditional approaches to strategy and strategic planning no longer meet the demands of today’s complex world.
Organizations face a mismatch between espoused strategy and reality, with processes failing to capture attention or imagination. As contexts shift—through technological advancements, societal expectations, environmental challenges, and market disruptions—strategies struggle to remain fit-for-purpose, leaving stakeholders searching for clear direction.
Equip your board, executives, and strategy teams to grow their inner capacity to lead in complexity. Support your strategic leaders to transcend conventional approaches, embrace clarity, and confidently meet stakeholder needs in this rapidly changing world.
Strategic leadership for complex times
How Cultivating Leadership can help
Cultivating Leadership can partner with you to build strategic muscle, helping leaders and teams develop more adaptive mindsets and ways of being. This includes developing habits for complex times, asking different questions, taking multiple perspectives, seeing systems, and experimenting to learn.
Our Strategy in Complexity framework guides leaders and governance teams to:
- Discern: Identify the nature of the challenge present, from strategic risks to stakeholder misalignment, and determine the right tools to address them, at the right time horizon.
- Notice: Spot trends, patterns, and polarities to uncover valuable insights to make sense of complexity and discover the clarity needed for better governance decisions.
- Orient: Align your direction with clear purpose and collective intention, even amidst uncertainty.
- Tune-In: Listen to and embrace diverse perspectives and be open to feedback, enabling governance systems to stay responsive and adaptive.
- Unleash: Foster psychological safety and create a culture of experimentation where people can test and iterate solutions, creating momentum for innovation.
- Evolve: Develop governance capabilities to meet the demands of an ever-changing working environment.
Key outcomes
Our approach equips individual leaders with tools and insights, enabling them to move with greater agility, confidence and curiosity. This results in:
- Enhanced team capability to create a more adaptive and sustainable organization.
- Increased trust and confidence from shareholders and key stakeholders.
- The ability to move decisively through an uncertain and complex future.
Customized to fit your needs
Our work is designed to meet you where you are. We partner with you to co-create strategies tailored to your unique context, offering a range of formats:
- Tasters: 60–90 minutes
- Workshops: Half-day, full-day, or multi-day sessions
- Integrative programs: combining coaching, mentoring, and actionable tools
- Strategy development: Sessions to draft and refine strategies in real time.
Move forward with enhanced strategic capability for navigating the complexities of today’s world.
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