Overview
This talk presents a practical and forward-looking journey into strategic leadership designed for today's rapidly evolving world. As leaders confront unprecedented complexity, exponential change, and shifting global dynamics, the need for adaptive, purposeful leadership has never been greater.
The session unpacks a four-part learning journey tailored to equip leaders with the mindset, tools, and foresight needed to navigate disruption and shape resilient organisations. It addresses the defining forces of our era AI disruption and geopolitical instability highlighting their impact on decision-making, ethics, and strategic positioning.
Participants will explore how to lead with purpose in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world, develop systems thinking and influencing capabilities, foster cultures of innovation and trust, and build legacies grounded in values and sustainability.
Through frameworks like VUCA Prime, psychological safety, scenario planning, and ESG strategy, the programme connects real-world risks to practical leadership responses. Leaders will leave better prepared to align strategic vision with culture, lead across networks and sectors, and make values-based decisions that deliver long-term value in a rapidly changing global landscape.
Why you should Attend
- The rules of leadership have changed. What worked yesterday won't get you through tomorrow. In a world where AI advances outpace regulation, geopolitical tensions shake entire industries, and market shifts arrive without warning playing it safe is now the biggest risk of all
- This four-module learning experience is built for those who refuse to lead reactively. It’s for leaders who want to be ahead of the curve not caught off guard
Are your current strategies robust enough for what's coming?
Do your teams know how to adapt when the ground shifts beneath them?
Are you influencing across silos or stuck inside one?
- This is your opportunity to gain strategic clarity, build future-proof decision-making capacity, and lead with a legacy mindset before uncertainty becomes crisis
- By joining this programme, you'll learn how to anchor your leadership purpose in unpredictable times, this has the knock on effect of influencing and aligning cross-functional teams in volatile environments
- This is not just a talk it's your strategic advantage
Areas Covered in the Session
- Lead with Strategic Purpose: Cultivate a future-focused mindset, navigate VUCA environments, and align personal and organisational purpose in response to global shifts like AI and geopolitical risk
- Think, Act, and Influence Strategically: Apply systems thinking, scenario planning, and stakeholder engagement to make sound decisions and drive cross-functional alignment in uncertain contexts
- Build a Strategic Culture: Foster innovation, trust, and inclusion through psychological safety and emotional intelligence, enabling resilient and high-performing teams
- Lead Globally and Ethically: Operate across borders with integrity, integrate ESG principles, and shape a legacy rooted in sustainability, collaboration, and ethical impact
Who Will Benefit
- Executives
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Team Leaders
- Anyone who is not a Project Manager but wishes to learn about Project Management
Speaker Profile
Claudio Chiste is the CEO of the Centre for Leadership & Coaching. He has served as the Chairman of Coaches & Mentors of South Africa (Comensa) for the Western Cape, the Comensa Social & Ethics Committee and as President of the Cape Chapter of the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa (PSASA). He is a certified Master NLP Practitioner and Master Life Coach.
Claudio’s intrinsic values have influenced his belief in making a difference for the common good, by helping others to adopt a mindset of resilience, and engendering a culture which embraces leadership, regardless of seniority. Claudio is a firm believer that nothing is instant, only instant coffee, results take time. The important thing is to progress, creating non-intimidating micro-goals on a daily basis.
His varied background allows him to have a multi-angled approach, with a background as a leader whilst a combat officer in the South African Navy, and as a specialist banker in London with Investec Bank, during which time he was in charge of an international award-wining business association focused on promoting both business and the next generation, called Shipping Professional Network London (SPNL) serving as chairman for 8 years.
He holds a Master of Science from City St. George's, University of London, a Bachelor of Commerce with Honors from the University of Cape Town, and a Bachelor in Military Science, majoring in Mathematics and Nautical Science from the South African Military Academy. He is currently a PhD candidate at Stellenbosch University, focusing on Leadership.