Leadership through Disruption and Economic Uncertainties

Leadership through Disruption and Economic Uncertainties

Course Details

  • Cost - ₦700,000
  • Duration - 3 Days
  • Date: June 9 - 11, 2026
  • Application Deadline - June 8, 2026

Corporate Nominations And Enquiries

  • Corporate organisations are invited to nominate senior executives for participation.
  • For enquiries or nominations, please contact:
  • Tel: 091 678 5316
  • Email: registrar@jhu.edu.ng
  • You may also submit your organisation’s details, and a member of our team will respond promptly.
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  • Application Deadline : June 8, 2026
  • Location : In-Person

Course Description

We live in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times, as successful leaders, we need to prepare in advance for any possible scenario by adopting strategies that will allow us to win in the global competitive market place.

Since volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) are basic structural features of today’s global business environment, leaders must confront these dilemmas by understanding the driving forces of STEEP (Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, and Politics) and its applications in their respective industries.
According to Donald McGannon who said that, leadership is action, not position.

Leadership attracts universal attention because it is all around us. The essence is service, meeting needs and solving problems. The ultimate test of leadership is the ability to initiate and create change. Managers are appointed by other people. Leaders appoint themselves.

Therefore, deciding to be a leader is a choice we have to make on our own.

 

Objectives of the Program

  1. To learn to become comfortable with uncertainties and disruptions without losing focus and make shifts continually.
  2. To improve awareness of change, as organizations must be prepared for any form of disruption by making their choices to either be a surprise, alternative or expected future.
  3. To increase preparedness and agility by moving forward courageously in the midst of uncertainty.
  4. Allow better strategic decisions by discovering and framing uncertainties using trends.
  5. To live in today but think about tomorrow by having a natural bias toward action by being proactive.
Agenda

Day 1- Registration and Check-In

  1. Leadership Assessment Deployment
  2. 1st Session: Disruptive Leadership
  3. HBR Case Study 1: 6 Strategies for Leading through Uncertainty by Rebecca Zucker & Darin Rowell
  4. 2nd Session: Navigating through the VUCA World
  5. HBR Case Study 2: The Closure of the Strait of Hormuz; the Oil Shock is here and we are beginning to feel it by Thomas Stackpole
  6. Recap & Q&A

Day 2- 3rd Session: Leadership during Disruption & Economic Uncertainties

  1. HBR Case Study 3: To Lead through Uncertainty, Unlearn your Assumptions by Annie Peshkam
  2. HBR Case Study 4: Will the Iran war deliver a long-predicted global recession? by Phillip Carlsson-Szlezak & Paul Swatz
  3. Q & A

Day 3- 4th Session: Full Proof Leadership

  1. HBR Case Study 5: AI Wars by Andy Wu & Anna Yang
  2. Action Plan & Review
  3. Q&A
  4. Certificate Distribution.
Actionable Outcomes (Organizational & Individual)
  1. Leaders can be magnified or diminished by the qualities of those around them. Courage and Character are needed in these uncertain times.
  2. Leadership is most essential during periods of transitions, when values and institutions are losing their relevance and the outlines of a worthy future are in controversy.
  3. Embrace Agility
  4. Develop Strategic Foresight
  5. Build Robust Networks
  6. Cultivate a Learning Culture
  7. Leverage Technology
  8. Leaders are inevitably hemmed in by constraints. Thus, leader’s instincts, guts and judgement are essential.
  9. The test of leadership remains the capacity for analysis, strategy, courage and character.
Target Participants
  • C- Suite Leaders
  • Decision makers
  • Senior Management Executives
  • Senior Managers in diverse companies
  • Public Sector Leaders.
Recommended Texts, Articles & Journals
  1. Anwar, M. F., Danna, F. E., Ma, J. F. & Pitre, C. J. (2021). Love as a Business Strategy, Resilience, Belonging and Success. Lioncrest Publishers, Houston, TX.
  2. Harvard Business School Publishing Case Studies
  3. Kissinger, H. A. (2022). Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy. Penguin Press, New York.
  4. Kouzes & Posner (2012). The Leadership Challenge (5th edition). How to make extraordinary things happen in organizations. Jossey- Bass, John Wiley & Sons Inc.
  5. Northouse, P. (2013). Leadership Theory & Practice (6th Edition), Sage Publications Inc.
Facilitators

Kish Global Consultants: Reshaping African Leadership outcomes for good. 

Facilitators include

Prof. 'Biodun Adedipe

Dr. Seye Awojobi

Mrs. ‘Laide John, ACCA

The programme is led by Prof. ‘Biodun Adedipe and other senior strategy and governance experts with extensive executive and board-level experience.

The faculty combine macroeconomic insight, strategic advisory expertise, governance depth, and executive education experience to deliver a highly rigorous and practical learning environment.

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