Strategic Planning for Security and Development
Develop global strategies while understanding their inherent security risks
2-Day Program
About the Program
This 2-day Program focuses on global strategies and their inherent security risks. Global businesses, government agencies, international organizations and non-governmental organizations operate in an increasingly complex and changing strategic environment. New rising powers, non-state actors, transnational networks, and regulatory frameworks represent just some of the key drivers which influence and shape the globalization agenda. Knowledge of these global trends, their origins, and their impact on domestic and international security is critical for an organization pursuing any entry or middle-to-senior management position in global organizations.
Based on the experience of global private sector organizations, and international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Bank, knowledge of the integrated impact of global trends must also be augmented by core skillsets in areas such as strategic analysis, critical thinking and problem-solving. Such skill sets are important for both the headquarters and field-based management of large programmes which promote international stability and growth.
Who should attend
This 2-day program is designed for managers working at all levels of both private and public sector organizations who are engaged in global operations across a broad spectrum of contexts, ranging from post-conflict (Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Afghanistan, and South Sudan) to middle-income countries (Botswana, Libya, South Africa and Tunisia).
Organizational benefits
- Understand how new rising powers, non-state actors, transnational networks, and regulatory frameworks are influencing and shaping the globalization agenda
- Clarify global trends, their origins, and their impact on domestic and international security
- Improve global risk assessment and management
Personal benefits
Learn new approaches to analytics
- Undertake effective analysis and global risk assessment and management
- Make informed strategic decisions across a range of innovative options
- Prioritize activities and tasks subject to resource constraints
- Effectively monitor and evaluate the progress of a strategy, and its affiliated policies and projects
- Utilize a range of tools and methodologies which will enhance your strategic capacity in the context of security and development
Program content
The Program is built around the following themes:
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Strategic Planning for Security and Development
The Program provides a rare opportunity for participants to engage in intellectual debates with leading international experts on global trends and to explore the way in which these trends impact on organizational strategy.
- Learn about a range of useful tools and methodologies which enhance their strategic capacity as future leaders in their field.
- Engage in real-life exercises and simulations which enable the trialling of tools and methodologies learned in class.
- Develop a network with like-minded individuals from different organizational backgrounds and to identify best practice from a wide range of experiences.
Session Leaders
Session leaders include senior professors from Queen's School of Business and knowledgeable experts from industry. These outstanding teachers are constantly in touch with today's business world through real-world business experience, Board memberships and their own consulting practices.
Dr. Ann Fitz-Gerald - Management and Security, Cranfield University
Dr. Ann Fitz-Gerald is an Associate Professor in Cranfield University’s Department of Management and Security at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. As well, she is Director of the Cranfield Centre for Security Sector Management. She holds degrees in Commerce, International Relations, War Studies and Security & Defence Management. She currently serves on the Boards of the Institute for Research on Public Policy, Saferworld, the Canadian International Council (CIC), and the Security Sector Advisory Group for UK Trade and Investment. She also chairs the International Working Group on National Security.
She has worked on national security, stabilization interventions and security sector reform for 18 years, has worked for a wide range of bilateral and multilateral organizations, and is widely published in her field. Her work has included the facilitation of national security strategy processes in post-conflict, developing and developed states. She has helped advise on national security processes in Botswana, Lebanon, Indonesia, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and, most recently, Afghanistan. Her most recent book is an edited volume entitled From Conflict to Community: A Combatant’s Return to Citizenship.
