Programs
Our programming ranges from 90-minute working sessions to full day workshops and multi-week courses. In addition to the offerings below, contact us to discuss customized programs that work for you or your team.
Leadership Programs
One-Day Workshop
The Wisdom Advantage: Practical Behaviors for Leading with Insight and Judgment
This one-day workshop focuses on identifying and practicing wise behaviors as a leader.
You will discover how the concept of wisdom can be mapped to specific leadership behaviours. You will be introduced to skills and approaches that help you frame judgment. You will have an opportunity to practice behaviors that support your colleagues and team members with empathy, while speaking up for core values.
One-Day Workshop
Partnering with AI: Managing the Role of Human Judgment in Decision Making
This hands-on workshop is designed to help managers concerned about getting the most out of AI tools. While AI can analyze data, generate options, and speed up problem-solving, it cannot navigate human complexity.
In this program, you’ll learn how you and your team can complement AI by applying uniquely human skills and abilities. Using a variety of exercises, the workshop will leave you with practical strategies for blending technology with judgment, empathy, and perspective to make better and more effective decisions.
One-day Workshop
Future Sight and Future Proof: Staying Ahead of What’s Coming
The future won’t wait, so the ability to anticipate change and adapt quickly has become a core leadership skill. Future Sight and Future Proof is a hands-on workshop designed to help you see what’s coming and prepare to thrive in it.
You’ll learn to use scenario planning and other foresight tools to explore the future of your industry, then turn those insights into concrete strategies for resilience and relevance. Build the competencies that keep you (and your team) future-ready in an uncertain world.
4-6 Week Course
Wise Leadership: Cultivating Judgment, Perspective, and Presence
Wise leadership begins with self-awareness and grows through deliberate practice. This multi-session program explores how to lead with clarity, judgment, and humanity in complex environments.
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Participants learn to broaden perspective, make sound decisions under uncertainty, and communicate with authenticity and influence. Sessions blend discussion, applied exercises, and research-based insight to develop habits that strengthen wisdom in action.
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Whether you are just starting on your leadership journey, or are an establish leader, this course will help you cultivate the calm insight and compelling presence that define true wisdom in leadership.
4-6 week Course
Turning Strategic Thinking into Strategic Success
Today’s leaders are constantly challenged to navigate uncertainty, spot opportunity, and make sound judgments under pressure. Strategic thinking is the mindset that makes this possible; allowing you to see patterns others miss, adjust when plans fail, and act decisively when the path ahead isn’t clear.
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This short course explores how to think and act strategically in real time. Instead of static planning methods, it emphasizes flexibility, perspective, and intelligent improvisation. Through case analysis, interactive discussions, and hands-on exercises, you’ll learn the components of strategic thinking, and how they can be developed through practice and application.
4-6 Week Course
Beyond Cause and Effect: Systems and Complexity Thinking for Leaders
In a world defined by volatility and interdependence, traditional linear thinking is no longer enough. Leaders need to understand both the components of a system, and how the whole evolves.
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This course offers practical ways to analyze (and act within) environments where outcomes can’t be predicted, and where small changes can have outsized effects. Across multiple sessions, you’ll learn how to map interdependencies, detect patterns, and apply adaptive methods to guide action in dynamic environments.
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You will leave this course with a richer understanding of how systems behave, and a practical toolkit for leading, managing, and making decisions in dynamic environments.
Governance Programs
90- Minute Workshop
Emotion, Compassion and Duty: Governance with Purpose
Effective boards make wise decisions, but not emotionless ones.
This 90-minute session explores how emotion, compassion, and duty intersect in governance. Participants will learn why empathy and emotional regulation are critical to sound judgment, and how understanding the emotional dimension of decision-making can strengthen trust, purpose, and moral clarity at the board table. Drawing on insights from neuroscience and leadership research, this session will challenge directors to move beyond detached rationality toward a more balanced, purposeful form of leadership.
90-Minute Workshop
Recruiting for Wisdom: Building Better Boards
Choosing new directors is one of a board’s most important responsibilities; Boards that recruit for wisdom build stronger teams, make better decisions, and govern with greater foresight and integrity.
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But wisdom is often the hardest quality to recognize in a candidate.
This short workshop helps board members identify, assess, and prioritize the qualities that make directors truly wise. Using an integrated interview and evaluation kit, you will earn to frame insightful questions, interpret responses, and assess candidate perspectives, judgment and vision.
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Interactive practice and a take-away set of tools make the session engaging and immediately useful.
4-6 Month Course
The Wise Board: Enhancing Judgment, Perspective, and Purpose
Great boards are defined not by the expertise of their members, but by the quality of their collective vision and decision-making. This multi-session program helps directors and governance professionals strengthen how boards think, decide, and communicate together.
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Through guided discussion, real-world scenarios, and practical tools, participants explore how wisdom emerges at the group level—balancing analysis with perspective, independence with collaboration, and duty with empathy.
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The program builds habits that improve board deliberation, foresight, and trust, helping your board make wiser decisions and provide more purposeful leadership in an increasingly complex world
Half-day Workshop
Leveraging the Entrepreneurial Mindset: For Owners and Those who Advise them
Advising entrepreneurs requires more than business expertise, it demands insight into how founders think. This interactive half-day workshop explores the self-awareness and mental adaptability that drive entrepreneurial success.
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You’ll learn how to recognize and strengthen the thinking habits that fuel innovation, resilience, and opportunity recognition in yourself and others. Through practical frameworks and case examples, you’ll discover how successful founders pause, reflect, and make wiser decisions in complex and fast-changing environments.
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Designed for entrepreneurs and the advisors, mentors, and ecosystem leaders who support them, this session equips you to build and encourage the mindset that turns uncertainty into strategic advantage.
Half-day Workshop
Compelling Advice: Using Framing and Reframing to Develop Winning Recommendations
Wise consultants and advisors know that great analysis isn’t enough — your recommendations have to land.
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This half-day workshop explores what makes advice compelling, from how you shape your ideas to how you communicate them.
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In the first half, you’ll learn how to generate, refine, and prioritize strong recommendations through best practices such as prioritization, stakeholder mapping, and effective data presentation. The second half focuses on two powerful tools for recommendation delivery: framing (drawn from design thinking), and reframing (using narrative techniques). Through hands-on exercises and discussion, you’ll learn how to make your advice both persuasive and actionable.
Career and Personal Development
Half-Day Workshop
AI and the Future of Human Work: Thriving in the Age of Machines
Artificial Intelligence is transforming businesses and organizations in every sector. Processes are being automated, output volume is growing exponentially, and decision making is taking place at the speed of thought. Jobs are changing, or in many cases, simply disappearing.
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But AI has limitations. Without human collaboration, machines can make major mistakes or waste time and effort on pointless activities.
This master class will focus on identifying the constraints on AI, and the human skills that complement them. We will then explore practical suggestions on honing those competencies that will be most valued in the new world of work.
Half-Day Workshop
Advising with Confidence: Strategic Thinking and the Imposter Syndrome
Advisors and consultants often face the challenge of adding value in areas where they lack direct experience. This half-day workshop explores how to move past the “imposter syndrome” by cultivating the habits of effective strategic thinkers. Participants will learn how to frame complex problems, surface hidden assumptions, and guide clients toward better decisions—even without deep subject-matter expertise.
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Through practical tools and examples, you’ll build the confidence and cognitive strengths needed to deliver insight, clarity, and strategic value in any setting.
1 Day Workshop
Critical Thinking for Business: Develop your Reasoning and Decision-making Skills
In a world of rapid change and constant information, clear reasoning is a competitive advantage.
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This full-day workshop will help you to analyze complex situations, challenge assumptions, and make better decisions. You’ll learn practical tools for evaluating arguments, recognizing bias, and understanding how motives, language, and logic shape choices.
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By developing your critical thinking skills, you’ll communicate with greater precision, collaborate more effectively, and strengthen your judgment as both a professional and a leader.
3-Session Mini-Course
Wisdom at Work: Turning Experience into Lasting Impact
Every team needs someone who can see the bigger picture — a trusted advisor whose judgment and perspective elevate everyone around them.
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This workshop helps experienced professionals transform their expertise into practical influence and wise leadership. Through reflection, discussion, and practical tools, you’ll learn how to apply judgment with clarity, communicate with credibility, and guide others through complexity and change. In a world increasingly shaped by AI and automation, human wisdom has never been more valuable. Wisdom at Work shows how to use your experience to position yourself as a valued voice of reason and perspective.
3 Session Mini-Course
Everyday Strategy: Practical Skills for Smarter Decisions
Strategic thinking is a habit that can support any decision, from major corporate plans to how to invest some personal time.
This course introduces practical tools you can use to make clearer, more confident decisions in daily work and life. Each short session blends discussion and practice using proven frameworks to analyze goals, resources, and context.
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By applying structured approaches to small, low-risk problems, you’ll build the habits and reflexes needed when the stakes are higher. The result: better decisions now, and a stronger strategic mindset for the challenges ahead.