By utilising cutting-edge research which has been applied widely in the public and private sector, you will discover how to implement customisable frameworks, techniques, and strategies into your organisation that focus on embracing complexities and uncertainty within business.

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Throughout the course, you will hear from leading industry experts, network with a variety of business leaders and work with other delegates to apply core aspects of the course to your organisation.

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During your time on this course, you will gain several stand-out learning experiences, including:

Applied Learning – A learning environment created by the course facilitator that draws on the experience and input of your course peers.

Knowledge Transfer – A steady stream of feedback from participating peers with diverse business backgrounds to help build your leadership skills.

Reflection – A rare time-out to contemplate your own leadership capabilities and challenges while engaging with our world-class faculty.

Network Expansion – An expanding professional network drawn from your peers.

Personal Growth – An expanding self-awareness of your own leadership competencies and how they can be honed.

Behavioural Change – An adoption of new rationales and mindsets that improve your managerial skills.

• Develop a refreshed mindset, thinking outside the box on organisational ambiguity
• Learn to live with ambiguity, rather than avoiding it
• Discover alternative ways of designing data visualisations to cope with uncertainty
• Explore how to reframe challenges into opportunities
• Gain expert insights through real-world case studies and industry speakers

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• Suggest improvements to your organisation’s governance practices to better manage complex problems and challenges
• Implement customised models and frameworks to cope with conflicting demands, ambiguity, and uncertainty
• Begin to build an opportunist attitude towards hurdles within your organisation’s culture
• Strengthen decision-making processes through teamwork and diffused leadership
• Seek ways your organisation can profit from inevitable tensions surrounding complex decisions

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This course is designed for senior business and government leaders who are curious, open-minded, and willing to explore new approaches to solving their business’s problems.

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Whether you are a programme leader, are involved in business innovation, or perhaps your role focuses on strategic planning, this course will provide you with practical management insights which encourage you to rethink how you govern complexity, engage your team, and communicate with key stakeholders.

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Paolo Quattrone is a Professor of Accounting, Governance and Society at Alliance Manchester Business School. He has extensive experience researching uncertainty and discovering counterintuitive and innovative solutions to highly complex business scenarios.

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Paolo has a wide range of experience delivering professional development programmes, and through his enthusiastic, highly applied approach to teaching, he connects theory with practice to allow delegates to deconstruct conventional management styles and make way to explore unique approaches to complex challenges.

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Paolo also incorporates elements of the Maieutic Machine into his teaching, a set of principles that help managers improve the quality and maturity of decision-making practices in the face of uncertainty.

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