Thinking Strategically

• Understand the components of an effective strategy
• Evaluate how an organization can respond successfully to change and devise appropriate strategies to do so
• Understand the core ideas underlying strategic planning processes
• Tesla case study to comprehend its business model

The Future AI Dimensions

• Physical AI and humanoid robotics: how AI is moving off the screen and into the physical world
• Spatial computing and always-on AI agents: the next interface layer for work and customer experience
• Quantum-AI convergence: what it is, and why it matters for long-range strategic planning
• Tools to identify the best ideas for AI-driven business model and product transformation
• Understand processes to create platform and ecosystem business models in an AI-native world

Reframing Intelligence: Leading in the Age of Agentic AI

• Understand the cognitive capabilities, limits, and economic characteristics of perceptive, generative, and agentic AI
• Build a repeatable framework for evaluating any future AI advance on its actual business merits, not the headlines
• Reframe AI fluency as a leadership discipline — the same unlearn-and-rebuild instinct that drives entrepreneurial thinking, applied to AI

Getting Things Done

• A framework of simple but effective levers that have been shown to improve performance considerably
• This session has three goals: to make you more effective, to equip you to teach others to be more effective, and to give you a framework that will help you implement tools and concepts to get things done

Systems Thinking

• Learn about the DSRP model
• Understand mental models – What you think vs What is real
• Engage the ecosystem around you to generate new innovation possibilities
• Understand the relationships and systems that create new possibilities

Managing Complexity

• Learn how to systematically think back on your experiences and draw lessons from them
• Learn to manage the decision process rather than just the decision to add more value

Innovating at AI Speed: New Growth Models and Business Design

• Identify new AI-enabled business models, products, and revenue streams that go beyond automation
• Understand how AI reshapes business scope, pricing, incentive structures, and competitive clock speed
• Learn to anticipate and act on shifts in economic power across your industry ecosystem — the next wave of disruption, now AI-specific

Dynamics of Decision Making

• Learn through real-life scenarios where our credibility will be tested
• Learn to manage your credibility to be more effective
• Understand the importance of leader integrity and its relation to organizational success

Emotional Intelligence

• Measures to assess your emotional intelligence
• Learn techniques for managing and using emotions as a leadership tool

Competitive Strategy in an AI-Disrupted Marketplace

• Identify chokepoints and sources of leverage in your value chain as AI reshapes competition
• Apply a structured framework to test, refine, and scale your organization's response to new AI-enabled entrants
• Lead through competitive uncertainty with composure and purpose, converting threat into a clear-eyed strategic response

Power and Influence

• Understand network density and how networks must be broad, connective and dynamic
• Understand the characteristics of influential leaders
• Importance of networking and how to leverage networks and influence authority

Communication and Story Telling

• 3 components of executive presence – Gravitas, Communication, and Appearance.
• 5Cs framework to project executive presence from the book ‘Composure’
• Learn the top 5 self-sabotaging behaviors that could affect one’s executive presence, non-verbal cues to avoid
• Understand the common narrative arc and tools for effective storytelling
• Translate key messages through sticky stories and communication

Advanced Negotiation Strategies

• Learn about negotiation vocabularies like BATNA, Reservation Price, Trip Wire, Bargaining Zone and Target
• Learn about the two dimensions of negotiation – the distribution and integration side (how to divide and expand the pie)
• Understand the concept of logrolling
• Create more situations where win-win is a possibility
• Manage your emotions more effectively in negotiation situations

Financial Acumen

• Margin vs turnover, Operating Leverage & Financial Leverage
• Understand how to evaluate capital investments; key cash flow concepts; decision making tools, payback period and its cut off rule
• Fundamentals of understanding the income statement & balance sheet, return on assets, sales revenue and net income
• Application of financial ratios, understanding the company’s financial position, performance, and prospects

Leading in Crisis: AI Shocks, Wars, and Supply Chain Chokepoints

• Understand today's overlapping crisis drivers: AI-driven disruption, geopolitical conflict, and supply chain chokepoints
• How to continually evaluate, adjust, and build an offensive mindset in the modern environment
• Keep an eye on the future by assessing, adapting, and sustaining momentum

The Capstone Project is where the program comes together. Over the course of the journey, participant teams apply the strategy, leadership, and execution concepts from the CXO curriculum to a real, complex challenge from their own organization or industry — working through problem framing, diagnosis, strategic choices, and an implementation roadmap, before presenting their recommendations to a live panel.

From Business Challenge to Strategic Action