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Mastering Strategy
Thinking, integrating, enacting
Across three days, strengthen your strategic leadership through real-world cases, peer learning and reflection. Refine your ability to craft and execute strategy that drives clarity, alignment and transformation within your organisation.
3 Days
Overview
This intensive three-day program explores strategy as a dynamic process of thinking, integrating, and enacting.
Through case studies, peer learning, and guided reflection, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of how strategic clarity and alignment are achieved in complex organisations.
The program emphasises conversation-driven insight over pure analytics, helping leaders refine their strategic approach and create the conditions for successful execution.
Dr David Blyth
Dr David Blyth is a strategic advisor and educator with over 20 years’ experience working with boards and senior leadership teams. His engaging approach blends practical insight with deep expertise in strategy and leadership.
Dr David Blyth brings over 20 years of experience as a strategic advisor, consultant and facilitator to boards, executives and senior leadership teams. His engaging and interactive teaching style integrates practical experience with expertise developed over 25 years teaching on MBA programs. David has served as Executive Director (CEO) of an SME and held board positions for a decade, including five years as Chair and Deputy Chair.
He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at The University of Western Australia, where he has taught business strategy on the MBA program for nearly 10 years. David holds a Doctor of Business Administration in transformational leadership and has been a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors for more than 10 years.
Who should attend?
This program is designed for General Managers and above working within medium to large organisations who are responsible for shaping, communicating, and implementing strategic direction.
Content
Day 1: Setting the Stage
- The essence of strategy
- Reframing the strategic context
- Competitive advantage – beyond 'strengths and weaknesses'
- Crafting strategy.
Day 2: Strategies Thematics
- Deepening your position
- The growth challenge
- Strategic innovation and disruption
- Competitive dynamics.
Day 3: Execution as a Differentiator
- Developing an execution culture
- Leading the transformation
- Stakeholder engagement
- Adaptive leadership.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the essence of strategy and reframe your strategic context
- Identify sources of competitive advantage beyond traditional analyses
- Deepen your understanding of strategic positioning and growth challenges
- Explore strategic innovation, disruption, and competitive dynamics
- Build an execution culture that supports transformation and adaptive leadership
- Strengthen stakeholder engagement and alignment across your organisation.
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