A Corporate Leader’s Toolkit
- Programme details
- Topics
- Benefits
- Who should attend
- Faculty & speakers
- Dates & fees
- Reserve a place
- Contact us

Overview
Economic volatility, regulatory change and digital disruption are the new normal. Leaders require new ways to manage and respond dynamically to complex risks and uncertainties. Which strategic risks are critical to avoid – or essential to take? Now is the time to take a broader view beyond the traditional areas of operational, financial and compliance risk.
This programme offers a deeper understanding of the complexities of risk and its sources. Drawing upon a wider set of disciplines, we will equip you with new ways of thinking and tools to exploit risk strategically for competitive advantage. We will help you think about risk in the Cambridge way. You will be able to identify current risks and anticipate emerging risks, and to seize the opportunities hidden within them.
Why Cambridge?
- Cutting-edge academic research from a business school with 19 research centres, including the Centre for Risk Studies. This is their flagship programme
- Small class sizes to intensify value and learning
- Focused and concentrated programme to maximise your use of time.
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Topics
- Behavioural decisions and reactions – recognising innate behaviours
- Managing behaviours in yourself and others: checklists and heuristics
- Complex decision-making environments: components and tools
- Disruption and scenarios: profiting from uncertainty
- Risk management: applying frameworks to your organisation
- Organisational structure, culture and governance
- Catastrophe test scenarios
- Applying frameworks to your organisations.

Benefits
- Develop an awareness of how risks occur in immediate and longer-term contexts
- Learn how to manage risks to create competitive advantage
- Take away a toolkit and a set of checklists that you can use and adapt in your own organisation.

This programme counts towards the Cambridge Judge Business School General Management Certificate of Achievement. On completing the GMCA you will be eligible to become an associate member of Cambridge Judge Business School’s global network of graduates and business-focused University of Cambridge alumni, faculty and staff.
Who should attend
You will be:
- A senior leader responsible for executing strategy, in a position to effect change, either within your strategic business unit, or on a wider level
- A senior executive tasked with scenario planning; for example, Chief Risk Officers or executives in risk management roles
- An executive looking to address the future challenges of the organisation
- An executive looking to bring their team together, to scenario plan, understand and anticipate unforeseen risk.
- An executive who wishes to identify ways that the organisation can maintain competitive advantage and risk avoidance
Faculty & speakers
Daniel Ralph
Professor of Operations Research
PhD (University of Wisconsin)
Kishore Sengupta
Reader in Operations Management
MBA, PhD (Case Western University)
Dates & fees
Dates |
Duration |
Fees * |
---|---|---|
29 September-1 October 2021 |
3 days |
£3,300 + VAT |
VAT is charged at the prevailing rate, which is currently 20%; e.g. £3,300 + 20% = £3,960.
* Fees include instruction, materials, lunch and breaks. Preferential rates may be available for groups, University of Cambridge alumni and members of the School’s Alumni Association. Please note prices pre-registration are subject to change.
For information regarding payment terms, cancellation rights, transfer policies and fees, please see our terms & conditions documents:
Terms & Conditions for Self-funded Applicants (pdf, 277KB) (updated 4 September 2019)
Terms & Conditions for Organisation-funded Applicants (pdf, 295KB) (updated 4 September 2019)
Registration closes at midday two working days before the programme start date.
Participants are expected to attend the full programme.
Please ensure that you have read our Frequently Asked Questions, which provide important additional information about our face-to-face programmes, in particular during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reserve a place
Our programmes are very popular and tend to fill quickly. We cap the group size at 25. It is therefore advisable to reserve a place on specific sessions. This will simply keep your place until you are able to send in the application form, and we will remain in touch with you to inform you when the programme is almost full.
If you have any questions or would like to have a chat about this programme and how it could benefit you or your organisation, please get in touch with the programme advisor:
Elizabeth McDonald
Corporate Business Development Director
Tel: +44 (0)1223 765496
Mob: +44 (0)7548 708065

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