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Senior Executive Forum
The Senior Executive Forum is an immersive residential program designed to equip senior leaders with the strategic and adaptive leadership capabilities required to thrive in complex organisational environments.
This is a unique opportunity to learn from distinguished Harvard Business School faculty, as you navigate complexity, innovation and strategic transformation.
2.5 Days (Residential Program)
DoubleTree by Hilton Perth Waterfront
1 Barrack Square
PERTH WA 6000
Leadership Strategy and Courage
The 2026 Senior Executive Forum explores how leaders make and hold strategic positions that challenge convention and create value. Distinguished Harvard Business School faculty, Professors Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Tiona Zuzul, will lead a thought provoking and immersive program of Harvard Business School case studies designed to challenge your thinking as senior leaders.
Participants will take part in a dynamic learning experience that examines how leaders make complex decisions, maintain their strategic direction and create enduring value when the path ahead is ambiguous. You will uncover what it takes to craft bold, differentiated strategies and align people, resources and culture behind them.
In today’s world of disruption and uncertainty, leadership demands more than adaptability. It calls for courage. The 2026 Senior Executive Forum invites senior leaders to explore how bold strategic choices shape the future through clarity of purpose and conviction of direction.
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2026 Professors
Leading this year’s Forum are Professors Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Tiona Zuzul from Harvard Business School, distinguished experts in strategy and leadership.
Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, is a globally recognised authority on competitive strategy and the impact of digital technology on corporate performance. An award-winning educator and co-host of the TED podcast After Hours, Professor Oberholzer-Gee brings deep insight into how organisations create value and sustain competitive advantage in turbulent environments.
Professor Tiona Zuzul, Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, studies how leaders’ thinking and communication shape strategic decisions and organisational outcomes. Named one of Poets & Quants’ Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors and a Thinkers50 Radar honouree, she helps leaders navigate complexity and make courageous choices that drive innovation and growth.
Together, Professors Oberholzer-Gee and Zuzul will guide participants through an immersive exploration of strategy, decision making and the courage to commit when the stakes are high.
Professor Tiona Zuzul
Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Tiona Zuzul is an Associate Professor in the Strategy Unit. She teaches the MBA elective Making Difficult Decisions, a PhD seminar in Strategy Research Development, and contributes to various executive education programs. Professor Zuzul studies how leaders’ cognition and communication shape the decisions and behaviors that drive organizational outcomes. She was named a Poets & Quants 40 Best Under 40 Business School Professors and a Radar Thinker by Thinkers50, the global ranking of management experts.
Professor Zuzul's work has been published in leading journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, and the Strategic Management Journal, and has earned awards from the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society (including its inaugural Research Methods award).
Before joining HBS, Professor Zuzul was an Assistant Professor at the London Business School, and at the University of Washington, where she received both the MBA Professor of the Quarter and PhD Faculty Mentor awards. Prior to her academic career, she worked in consulting.
Professor Zuzul holds a doctorate in Strategy from Harvard Business School, MSc with Distinction from the London School of Economics, and AB with Honors from Harvard College. She serves on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and the Strategic Management Journal.
Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Felix Oberholzer-Gee is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. An award-winning instructor, his academic work and consulting are focused on competitive strategy and the effects of digital technology on corporate performance.
His research has been published in the very best, peer-reviewed journals of his profession and profiled by media outlets around the world, including Financial Times, Le Figaro, New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
Oberholzer-Gee teaches competitive strategy in the HBS MBA program and in executive education courses such as the Harvard General Management Program. He serves as faculty chair of the Senior Executive Leadership Program for China, the Driving Digital Strategy and the Managing Turbulence programs. He has held various leadership roles at HBS, including chair of the MBA program and Senior Associate Dean for the school’s global research centres.
He is a cohost of the popular TED podcast After Hours. Among his happiest times are when he is cooking and eating (not necessarily in this order.)
Experience the world-famous Harvard case study method, where you will analyse, dissect and interpret real-world business case studies before applying these insights to your own organisation.
This highly interactive, discussion-driven approach fosters a deeper understanding of the issues and will strengthen your ability to transfer those insights into your role, your team and your broader organisation.
Through dynamic sessions and workshops, you will learn how to:
- Make high stake decisions with clarity and conviction in complex and uncertain environments
- Frame and communicate strategic choices that inspire confidence and mobilise action across your organisation
- Identify opportunities for value creation by aligning purpose, people and performance
- Hold bold strategic positions that differentiate your organisation and drive long term advantage
- Balance adaptability with commitment, knowing when to pivot and when to stay the course
- Lead with courage, influence and integrity to shape the future rather than react to it
Who should attend?
For over 30 years, the Senior Executive Forum has attracted top-tier leaders from Western Australia, across Australia, and Southern Asia.
Past participants have included:
• CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CLOs and Business Unit Heads
• Owner-Managers, Clinical and Engineering Executives
• Senior leaders on the path to the highest levels of their organisations
About the venue
Participants on the AIM WA Senior Executive Forum will be accommodated at the DoubleTree by Hilton Perth Waterfront, where the program will be conducted for two and a half days.
The DoubleTree by Hilton Perth is next to Elizabeth Quay and the iconic Bell Tower on the Swan River waterfront.
Quayside paths are on your doorstep and are 10 minutes from downtown Perth and Kings Park and Botanic Garden. Take in views from the rooftop pool and bar and enjoy the 24-hour fitness centre.
Enquire today to secure your place at the 2026 Senior Executive Forum.
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