STRATEGIC Thinking & Planning to Maximize Your Leadership Performance

Tuesday, April 1, 2025
1 – 4 p.m. ET
(Noon – 3 p.m. CST | 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. PT)

Research involving 250,000 executives found that a leader’s most important role is setting strategic direction. But only one out of every four leaders has received guidance on how to develop critical strategic thinking and planning skills that are crucial for success. As Indra Nooyi, former Chairman & CEO of PepsiCo. said, “The single most important skill needed for any leader today is strategic acuity.”

Join Rich Horwath — New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 8 books on strategy — in a highly interactive 3-hour workshop to gain new knowledge, skills, and tools to think, plan, and act strategically.

Which of the following challenges does your team face?

  • Lack of strategic direction and a clear, concise plan
  • Losing to the competition
  • Stuck in the tactical weeds in meetings
  • Inability to make strategic trade-offs
  • Stuck in the status quo with no innovation
  • No common language and understanding of strategy
  • Too reactive to fire drills
  • Too many priorities
  • Lack of collaboration, causing silos
  • Repeating the same strategies and tactics year after year

Rich has helped more than one million leaders around the world, from organizations including Google, FedEx, ESPN, and Blue Cross & Blue Shield develop their strategic thinking and planning skills to set direction, create advantage, and maximize their leadership performance.

Google
FedEx
ESPN
BlueCross BlueShield

“Rich, your Strategic Thinking workshop is best in class and highly recommended for all levels of leadership. Well designed, highly effective, and interactive.”

Rasheeda Clark, President of Wendy’s, Flynn Group

Here are the topics you’ll learn and practice:

  • Applying a consistent set of business planning terms
  • Understanding a clear definition of strategy
  • Using the 3A Strategic Framework to think, plan, and act strategically
  • Seeing the big picture of your business
  • Discovering ways to create new value for customers
  • Determining areas of competitive differentiation
  • Making strategic trade-offs
  • Reallocating resources
  • Improving prioritization
  • Solving key challenges

Strategic Thinking and Planning Tools

In addition to gaining new knowledge and a robust strategy tool kit, you’ll also receive the following value-added materials included with your registration fee:

Pre-Workshop

  • Free access to the Strategic Quotient (SQ) Assessment (normally $99) to baseline your strategic thinking mindset and behaviors.
  • Free copies of Rich’s two most recent Harvard Business Review articles titled:
    • “How to Become a Better Strategic Thinker”
    • “The Most Strategic Leaders Excel in 4 Disciplines”
  • Videos from Rich on Strategic Thinking & Planning
  • Infographics on Strategic Thinking & Planning

Workshop

  • The STRATEGIC book Discussion Guide
  • The STRATEGIC Workbook in an editable PDF

Post-Workshop

  • Certificate of program completion
  • The STRATEGIC Journal — structure and stimulate your strategic thinking and planning (included in Strategic Fitness System)
  • The STRATEGIC Desk Calendar — 365 days of strategy quotations, insights, and questions to stimulate your strategic thinking throughout the year (included in Strategic Fitness System)
  • STRATEGIC book poster outlining the key material from the book (digital format)
  • The Strategy Espresso Microlearning Series — three free months of weekly content in 3-5-minute bites of articles, videos, audios, and infographics with a question to apply to your business
  • The Strategic Fitness System — three free months of access to the executive development platform that includes 50 workouts (video, article, template, insight journal); StrategyPrint, a 2-page strategic planning tool; a glossary of business planning terms; the STRATEGIC Journal digital version; daily insight practice quotes; and membership in the interactive forum

Why this program versus others?

Expert Thought Leader

Unlike many programs delivered by people who have READ one book on the topic, Rich, who has been described as “the world’s foremost expert on strategic thinking” by Chief Executive Magazine, has authored more books on strategic thinking (8) than anyone in history and the most popular articles on strategic thinking in the Harvard Business Review.

Real-World Experience

Rich has worked as a chief strategy officer, as CEO of the Strategic Thinking Institute, and has helped more than one million people over the past 23 years develop their strategic thinking and planning skills across a variety of industries,  functional areas, and  countries around the world. He will help you apply the concepts and tools to your specific business, so you can leave the program feeling confident, having already practiced them, and be ready to use them the very next day at work.

Valuable Proprietary Tools for Free

You’ll have access to proprietary tools such as the SQ (Strategic Quotient) Assessment, STRATEGIC Workbook, STRATEGIC Journal, STRATEGIC Desk Calendar, STRATEGIC Poster, Strategy Espresso Microlearnings, and Strategic Fitness System — more than $1,000 of resources — all for free, as Rich is including them as his thank you in the registration fee.

Investment: $495

In today’s competitive environment, it’s be strategic … or be obsolete.

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