ABOUT THE COURSE

Geopolitical uncertainty now affects a large majority of leaders, alongside continuing climate, technological and market disruption, requiring executives and boards to build strategic resilience and scenario-planning capability rather than relying on operational crisis-response protocols alone.

This comprehensive ten-day programme builds strategic-level resilience capability distinct from Devimpact’s operational Crisis Leadership and Emergency Management course: geopolitical and macroeconomic scenario planning, strategic risk-appetite setting under uncertainty, resilient organizational design, and long-horizon decision-making frameworks for boards and executive teams facing sustained disruption.

Participants leave with an organizational resilience strategy and a set of scenario plans for their institution’s most significant disruption risks, together with practised experience in board-level strategic crisis decision-making through extended simulation exercises.

TARGET PARTICIPANTS

This programme is designed for:

• Executives and senior leaders responsible for organizational resilience
• Board members and risk-committee members
• Strategy and corporate planning leaders
• Heads of risk, security and business continuity
• Senior leaders in geopolitically or economically exposed sectors

COURSE DURATION

• Classroom – 10 Days
• Online – 14 Days

COURSE OBJECTIVES

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

• Apply scenario-planning methodology to geopolitical and macroeconomic disruption
• Set strategic risk appetite under conditions of sustained uncertainty
• Design resilient organizational structures and strategies
• Lead board-level strategic decision-making during prolonged disruption
• Distinguish strategic resilience leadership from operational crisis response
• Build long-horizon contingency and resource-reallocation strategies
• Evaluate organizational resilience using structured assessment frameworks

COURSE CONTENT

The Strategic Disruption Landscape

• 2026 geopolitical volatility evidence
• Disruption-type taxonomy
• Strategic vs operational crisis distinction
• Self-assessment of organizational exposure
• Case introduction

Scenario Planning Methodology

• Scenario-planning frameworks
• Driving-forces identification
• Scenario-narrative construction
• Scenario-workshop facilitation
• Practice exercise

Geopolitical Risk Analysis

• Geopolitical-risk assessment tools
• Political-risk monitoring
• Trade and regulatory disruption analysis
• Geopolitical-case exercise
• Monitoring-framework design

Macroeconomic and Market Disruption

• Macroeconomic-risk indicators
• Market-shock scenario analysis
• Currency and inflation risk basics
• Macroeconomic-case exercise
• Practice exercise

Strategic Risk Appetite Under Uncertainty

• Risk-appetite frameworks
• Setting appetite amid volatility
• Board risk-appetite communication
• Risk-appetite workshop
• Documentation practice

Resilient Organizational Design

• Resilience-by-design principles
• Structural flexibility options
• Resource-reallocation mechanisms
• Design-case exercise
• Practice workshop

Disciplined Resource Reallocation

• Rapid-reallocation frameworks
• Portfolio-prioritization under stress
• Reallocation-decision practice
• Reallocation-case exercise
• Simulation practice

Board-Level Strategic Decision-Making

• Board decision-making under uncertainty
• Strategic-option evaluation frameworks
• Board-simulation preparation
• Decision-case exercise
• Practice simulation

Long-Horizon Contingency Planning

• Contingency-planning methodology
• Trigger-point identification
• Multi-scenario contingency design
• Contingency-plan drafting
• Practice exercise

Communicating Strategic Uncertainty

• Stakeholder communication under uncertainty
• Investor/donor communication practice
• Managing public and market confidence
• Communication role-play
• Case exercise

Technology and Data in Strategic Resilience

• Horizon-scanning tools
• AI-assisted scenario analysis
• Data-informed resilience monitoring
• Technology-case exercise
• Evaluation-criteria practice

Cross-Sector Resilience Lessons

• Cross-sector case comparison
• Financial-sector resilience practice
• Public-sector resilience practice
• NGO/humanitarian resilience practice
• Lessons-synthesis exercise

Organizational Resilience Assessment

• Resilience-assessment frameworks
• Self-assessment application
• Gap-identification exercise
• Assessment-report drafting
• Peer review

Sustaining Strategic Resilience Capability

• Embedding scenario planning as practice
• Governance of ongoing resilience work
• Resilience-culture building
• Sustainability-case exercise
• Practice workshop

Capstone: Extended Board-Level Crisis Simulation

• Multi-day extended simulation briefing
• Sequential scenario-injects exercise
• Board-level decision rounds
• Structured after-action debrief
• Resilience strategy finalization

Capstone Presentation and Resilience Strategy

• Resilience-strategy finalization
• Scenario-plan finalization
• Presentation to simulated board panel
• Peer and facilitator feedback
• Post-programme implementation plan

PRACTICAL OUTPUTS

Participants will develop or work with the following tangible outputs during the programme:

• Organizational resilience strategy
• Scenario plans for top disruption risks
• Strategic risk-appetite statement
• Long-horizon contingency plan
• Organizational resilience self-assessment report

TRAINING APPROACH

The programme combines expert-led scenario-planning instruction, geopolitical and macroeconomic case analysis, structured risk-appetite workshops, and an extended multi-day board-level crisis simulation with sequential facilitator injects across several disruption scenarios, culminating in participants presenting a defended organizational resilience strategy to a simulated board panel.

ORGANIZATIONAL BENEFITS

Sponsoring organizations can expect the following benefits:

• Stronger strategic resilience against geopolitical and macroeconomic disruption
• More disciplined, faster strategic resource reallocation
• Improved board-level crisis decision-making capability
• Better strategic communication during sustained uncertainty
• Clear complementary strategic-tier resilience alongside operational crisis-response capability
• Reduced strategic surprise through structured scenario planning

CERTIFICATION

Participants who successfully complete this course will receive a Certificate of Course Completion from Devimpact Institute, recognizing the knowledge, practical skills and competencies developed through the programme.

CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS

This course can be customized and delivered as an in-house programme to address the specific policies, systems, sector context and capacity-development priorities of an organization. The course duration, modules, case studies and practical exercises may be adjusted following a training needs assessment.