Navigating Uncharted Waters: Scenario Planning for Board Excellence

Overview:
The business landscape is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). Boards of directors are under immense pressure to steer their organizations through these turbulent waters. Scenario planning is a powerful tool that can equip boards with the foresight and agility needed to navigate these challenges and emerge stronger.

Two takeaways from our recent PRISM conference were that board members should be “noses in and fingers out” from an operating standpoint and that they need to focus the CEO and management on predicting and shaping the future direction of a company.

Scenario Planning is a discipline that helps boards and management develop a process-driven approach to excel in both these areas through:
· Understanding our volatile whitewater world
· Enhancing Strategic Foresight
· Building Organizational Resilience
· Improving Decision-Making
· Aligning Stakeholders

Please join the SoCal Chapter as fellow PDA member Dr. Leonard Lane makes the case for Scenario Planning, offers case studies to demonstrate its value, and develops the key elements needed to forge a Scenario Planning Process.

After the program, stay for our annual Holiday Gathering, meet and greet other PDA members, and join us for food and refreshments!

Registration
$25 Member Registration Fee
$35 Non-Member Registration Fee

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Speaker

Dr. Leonard Lane UCI Professor

Professor Leonard Lane is an Emeritus Continuing Lecturer, Strategy with a special emphasis in International Business and Supply Chain Orchestration at the Paul Merage School of Business and a Senior Advisor to the Group Chairman Fung Group, Hong Kong. He is a seasoned international executive with over 50 years of global experience who has led multiple fortune 1000 firms strategic planning process as well as working with Sustainability/Compliance functions, supply chain redesigns and the development of Innovation hubs in Shanghai and Hong Kong for the Fung Group. Professor Lane works closely with the Merage Institute helping Israeli entrepreneurs in developing U.S. market entry strategies and has taught in the Institutes 45+ Program in Israel. He has been a professor at UCI since 2005 where he continues to teach the schools core Global Business and EDGE classes, is a featured speaker on the Future of Globalization in a White Water World and published author of two books The Power of Benchmarking and Competitive Intelligence 2.0, Competing in a Digital World as well as numerous articles and posts. Dr. Lane serves as an Advisor to the boards of Dray Alliance and Nutek, Israel. He also served as an Advisor to the Chairman and CEO of Ceradyne Inc.
Dr. Lane received his bachelor’s in Political Science with minors in International Relations and Macro-economics and MBA from the University of Southern California, his DBA from Case Western Reserve University and is a certified EN-ROADS Ambassador. Dr. Lane served in the U.S. Marine Corps and is a Canadian and Hawaii Ironman finisher.

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