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Strategic Leadership Executive Training Course

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Training Locations Kenya (Nairobi, Mombasa, Malindi, Kisumu, Nakuru, Nanyuki) · Tanzania (Dodoma, Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam) · Dubai UAE · South Africa (Pretoria, Cape Town) · Istanbul · Accra · Banjul more ▾
Groups & Payment Groups of 5+ receive one complimentary place — see group rates. Payment due at least 1 month before (Europe & Asia) or 2 weeks before (Africa programs).
Upcoming Training Schedules 14 locations
Location Duration Next Start Date Dates Available Action
Nairobi, Kenya 5 days Oct 12, 2026 91 dates
Accra, Ghana 5 days Oct 12, 2026 45 dates
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 5 days Oct 12, 2026 46 dates
Cape Town, South Africa 5 days Oct 19, 2026 46 dates
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 5 days Oct 12, 2026 45 dates
Dubai, UAE 5 days Oct 12, 2026 67 dates
Istanbul, Turkey 5 days Oct 12, 2026 44 dates
Kampala, Uganda 5 days Oct 19, 2026 44 dates
Kigali, Rwanda 5 days Oct 19, 2026 47 dates
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 5 days Oct 26, 2026 45 dates
Mombasa, Kenya 5 days Oct 12, 2026 45 dates
Pretoria, South Africa 5 days Oct 19, 2026 45 dates
Singapore 5 days Nov 9, 2026 44 dates
Zanzibar, Tanzania 5 days Oct 12, 2026 46 dates

Strategic Leadership Executive Training Course

Course Description

The Strategic Leadership Executive Training Course is an intensive executive development programme designed to strengthen the strategic leadership, executive management, decision-making, governance, and organisational transformation capabilities of senior leaders operating in complex and rapidly changing environments. The programme equips executives with practical approaches for developing organisational vision, defining strategic priorities, translating strategy into measurable results, leading high-performing teams, and aligning people, resources, systems, and organisational culture with long-term objectives. Participants explore contemporary strategic leadership principles, executive leadership competencies, strategic thinking, corporate strategy, organisational performance, strategic planning, leadership effectiveness, stakeholder management, corporate governance, change leadership, innovation, and results-based management to strengthen their ability to provide effective leadership at institutional and enterprise levels.
The course provides executives with practical tools for strategic analysis, environmental scanning, scenario planning, strategic decision-making, problem-solving, risk management, organisational performance management, resource allocation, and strategy execution. Participants learn how to analyse internal and external environments, anticipate emerging opportunities and threats, evaluate strategic alternatives, establish organisational priorities, formulate effective strategies, and convert strategic plans into coordinated implementation programmes. Particular emphasis is placed on executive decision-making under uncertainty, evidence-based leadership, critical thinking, systems thinking, financial awareness, performance measurement, accountability, and the effective use of organisational information to support strategic choices and sustainable institutional growth.
The Strategic Leadership Executive Training Course also focuses on leading people, organisational culture, communication, stakeholder engagement, negotiation, influence, emotional intelligence, conflict management, succession planning, talent development, and executive team effectiveness. Participants examine how strategic leaders build trust, communicate organisational purpose, inspire employees, manage resistance, develop leadership capacity, create high-performance cultures, and mobilise stakeholders around shared strategic objectives. The programme explores transformational leadership, adaptive leadership, ethical leadership, inclusive leadership, collaborative leadership, coaching, delegation, employee engagement, organisational learning, innovation leadership, and change management as essential competencies for executives responsible for leading organisations through uncertainty, disruption, growth, restructuring, digital transformation, and institutional reform.
By the end of the Strategic Leadership Executive Training Course, participants will have strengthened their capacity to formulate strategy, make complex executive decisions, lead organisational transformation, manage strategic risks, improve governance, strengthen organisational performance, and build resilient institutions capable of delivering sustainable results. Through executive discussions, practical exercises, leadership assessments, strategic simulations, group activities, and general case studies, participants will translate strategic leadership concepts into practical organisational actions. Each participant will develop a Strategic Leadership Executive Action Plan addressing leadership priorities, strategic objectives, stakeholder engagement, organisational performance, change initiatives, leadership development, risk management, and measurable actions that can be implemented within their organisation.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

1.     Understand contemporary strategic leadership principles and their application to executive management, governance, organisational performance, and sustainable institutional development.

2.     Strengthen strategic thinking, systems thinking, critical thinking, foresight, and executive decision-making capabilities for complex and uncertain organisational environments.

3.     Develop and communicate compelling organisational vision, mission, strategic direction, priorities, values, and long-term institutional objectives.

4.     Conduct strategic environmental analysis and use evidence, organisational intelligence, stakeholder information, and emerging trends to support executive decisions.

5.     Formulate effective corporate and organisational strategies and translate strategic objectives into practical implementation plans, programmes, performance indicators, and accountability mechanisms.

6.     Lead organisational change, transformation, innovation, restructuring, digital transformation, and institutional reform while effectively managing resistance and stakeholder expectations.

7.     Build, motivate, coach, and lead high-performing executive teams while strengthening organisational culture, employee engagement, accountability, collaboration, and leadership development.

8.     Apply effective executive communication, stakeholder engagement, negotiation, influence, conflict management, emotional intelligence, and relationship-management approaches.

9.     Strengthen corporate governance, ethical leadership, strategic risk management, organisational resilience, accountability, compliance, and responsible executive decision-making.

10.  Develop a practical Strategic Leadership Executive Action Plan for improving leadership effectiveness, strategy execution, organisational performance, transformation, and sustainable results.

Organization Benefits

Organizations whose executives participate in this training will benefit through:

1.     Stronger strategic leadership capacity among executives, directors, senior managers, and other organisational decision-makers.

2.     Improved alignment of organisational vision, strategic objectives, leadership priorities, resources, operations, and performance expectations.

3.     Enhanced quality, consistency, speed, and accountability of executive decision-making across the organisation.

4.     Improved strategy formulation, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, performance management, and achievement of organisational objectives.

5.     Stronger organisational culture characterised by accountability, collaboration, innovation, ethical leadership, employee engagement, and results orientation.

6.     Increased leadership capacity to manage organisational change, uncertainty, disruption, institutional reforms, digital transformation, and emerging strategic challenges.

7.     Improved executive communication, stakeholder engagement, negotiation, collaboration, partnership development, and management of organisational relationships.

8.     Stronger corporate governance, strategic risk management, organisational resilience, ethical decision-making, accountability, and institutional sustainability.

9.     Improved leadership succession, talent development, executive team effectiveness, employee motivation, organisational learning, and leadership continuity.

10.  Development of practical strategic leadership action plans that support measurable organisational performance, sustainable growth, innovation, transformation, and long-term institutional success.

Target Participants

The Strategic Leadership Executive Training Course is designed for Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), Managing Directors, Executive Directors, Board Members, Board Secretaries, Directors, Deputy Directors, Commissioners, Permanent Secretaries, Principal Secretaries, senior government officials, policymakers, Chief Operating Officers (COOs), Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), Chief Strategy Officers, Chief Human Resource Officers, Chief Information Officers (CIOs), programme directors, project directors, regional directors, country directors, heads of departments, senior managers, business unit leaders, entrepreneurs, consultants, governance professionals, strategy managers, transformation leaders, public-sector executives, development-sector leaders, NGO executives, institutional leaders, and other senior decision-makers responsible for strategy, leadership, governance, organisational performance, transformation, people management, or institutional development.

Course Outline

Module 1: Strategic Leadership, Executive Mindset and Organisational Direction

1.     Understanding strategic leadership, executive leadership competencies, leadership effectiveness, strategic management, and the changing role of senior executives.

2.     Developing strategic thinking, systems thinking, critical thinking, executive judgement, organisational foresight, and a long-term leadership perspective.

3.     Defining and communicating organisational vision, mission, core values, strategic intent, leadership priorities, and long-term organisational direction.

4.     Understanding transformational, adaptive, situational, ethical, authentic, inclusive, collaborative, and servant leadership approaches in executive management.

5.     Developing executive self-awareness, emotional intelligence, leadership credibility, resilience, personal effectiveness, and an executive leadership presence.

6.     Executive Case Study: Evaluating how a newly appointed executive leadership team establishes strategic direction, leadership priorities, organisational values, and stakeholder confidence during a period of institutional transition.

Module 2: Strategic Analysis, Foresight and Executive Decision-Making

1.     Conducting environmental scanning and strategic analysis using SWOT, PESTLE, stakeholder analysis, competitive analysis, organisational capability assessment, and industry intelligence.

2.     Applying strategic foresight, scenario planning, trend analysis, systems thinking, horizon scanning, and emerging-risk assessment to long-term organisational planning.

3.     Strengthening executive decision-making using evidence, organisational data, strategic intelligence, critical analysis, judgement, and structured decision frameworks.

4.     Making strategic decisions under uncertainty, ambiguity, complexity, resource constraints, competing priorities, incomplete information, and rapidly changing environments.

5.     Evaluating strategic alternatives using organisational value, financial implications, stakeholder interests, risk exposure, feasibility, sustainability, and long-term impact.

6.     Executive Case Study: Analysing a major strategic investment decision where executives must balance financial constraints, stakeholder expectations, organisational risks, emerging opportunities, and long-term institutional objectives.

Module 3: Strategy Formulation, Execution and Performance Management

1.     Understanding the strategic management cycle covering strategic analysis, strategy formulation, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, learning, and continuous strategic adjustment.

2.     Developing corporate strategies, business strategies, departmental strategies, strategic objectives, strategic initiatives, implementation plans, and organisational priorities.

3.     Translating strategy into measurable results using strategic performance indicators, KPIs, scorecards, performance dashboards, targets, milestones, and accountability frameworks.

4.     Aligning organisational structures, financial resources, human resources, technology, operational processes, projects, programmes, and budgets with strategic objectives.

5.     Establishing effective strategy execution systems covering leadership accountability, performance reviews, implementation monitoring, organisational learning, corrective action, and continuous improvement.

6.     Executive Case Study: Transforming an ambitious five-year organisational strategic plan into an executable portfolio of strategic initiatives, annual priorities, performance indicators, leadership responsibilities, and measurable results.

Module 4: Leading People, High-Performance Teams and Organisational Culture

1.     Building high-performing executive and management teams through shared purpose, accountability, trust, collaboration, role clarity, effective delegation, and performance expectations.

2.     Applying emotional intelligence, executive communication, active listening, coaching, mentoring, feedback, motivation, influence, and relationship management in leadership.

3.     Developing organisational culture aligned with strategy, values, innovation, ethical conduct, accountability, employee engagement, collaboration, learning, and performance excellence.

4.     Managing workplace conflict, difficult conversations, executive disagreements, organisational politics, competing interests, interpersonal challenges, and cross-functional collaboration.

5.     Strengthening leadership succession, talent management, leadership pipelines, workforce development, knowledge transfer, employee empowerment, and organisational continuity.

6.     Executive Case Study: Rebuilding a fragmented leadership team experiencing low trust, departmental competition, declining employee engagement, communication challenges, and weak accountability for organisational results.

Module 5: Change Leadership, Innovation and Organisational Transformation

1.     Understanding organisational change, transformation leadership, institutional reform, restructuring, digital transformation, innovation, and strategic organisational renewal.

2.     Diagnosing organisational readiness for change and identifying stakeholder concerns, cultural barriers, resistance, leadership gaps, implementation risks, and transformation opportunities.

3.     Developing effective change management strategies covering executive sponsorship, stakeholder engagement, communication, participation, capacity building, implementation, and reinforcement.

4.     Leading innovation through creativity, experimentation, organisational learning, technology adoption, continuous improvement, agile thinking, and calculated strategic risk-taking.

5.     Building organisational agility, adaptability, resilience, innovation capability, crisis preparedness, and leadership capacity for operating successfully in uncertain environments.

6.     Executive Case Study: Leading an organisation through digital transformation and restructuring while managing employee resistance, operational disruption, stakeholder expectations, organisational culture, and performance requirements.

Module 6: Governance, Strategic Risk, Stakeholder Leadership and Executive Action Planning

1.     Understanding corporate governance, board-management relationships, executive accountability, ethical leadership, transparency, compliance, organisational integrity, and responsible decision-making.

2.     Identifying and managing strategic, financial, operational, reputational, technological, regulatory, environmental, human-resource, and organisational risks.

3.     Developing organisational resilience, business continuity, crisis leadership, strategic risk responses, contingency planning, and executive decision-making during disruptions.

4.     Mapping, analysing, prioritising, and engaging internal and external stakeholders through executive communication, negotiation, influence, consultation, partnership building, and relationship management.

5.     Measuring strategic leadership effectiveness through organisational performance, stakeholder outcomes, employee engagement, leadership development, governance, strategic execution, and sustainable value creation.

6.     Executive Case Study and Capstone Exercise: Developing and presenting a Strategic Leadership Executive Action Plan integrating organisational strategy, leadership priorities, stakeholder engagement, governance, strategic risk management, transformation initiatives, performance indicators, and a 90-day implementation roadmap.

General Information

1.     Customized Training: All our courses can be tailored to meet the specific needs of participants.

2.     Language Proficiency: Participants should have a good command of the English language.

3.     Comprehensive Learning: Our training includes well-structured presentations, practical exercises, web-based tutorials, and collaborative group work. Our facilitators are seasoned experts with over a decade of experience.

4.     Certification: Upon successful completion of training, participants will receive a certificate from Foscore Development Center (FDC-K).

5.     Training Locations: Training sessions are conducted at Foscore Development Center (FDC-K) centers. We also offer options for in-house and online training, customized to the client's schedule.

6.     Flexible Duration: Course durations are adaptable, and content can be adjusted to fit the required number of days.

7.     Onsite Training Inclusions: The course fee for onsite training covers facilitation, training materials, two coffee breaks, a buffet lunch, and a Certificate of Successful Completion. Participants are responsible for their travel expenses, airport transfers, visa applications, dinners, health/accident insurance, and personal expenses.

8.     Additional Services: Accommodation, pickup services, flight booking, and visa processing arrangements are available upon request at discounted rates.

9.     Equipment: Tablets and laptops can be provided to participants at an additional cost.

10.  Post-Training Support: We offer one year of free consultation and coaching after the course.

11.  Group Discounts: Register as a group of more than two and enjoy a discount ranging from 10% to 50%.

12.  Payment Terms: Payment should be made before the commencement of the training or as mutually agreed upon, to the Foscore Development Center account. This ensures better preparation for your training.

13.  Contact Us: For any inquiries, please reach out to us at training@fdc-k.org or call us at +254712260031.

14.  Website: Visit our website at www.fdc-k.org for more information.

 

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