Course summary
This intensive programme, delivered in partnership with Evolved, builds practical capability that can be applied immediately in real-world settings. Moving beyond traditional training, it focuses on proven approaches such as Systems Thinking, the Vanguard Method, and Adaptive Operating Patterns. Participants leave with hands-on tools and frameworks they can deploy rapidly to accelerate delivery, sharpen strategic clarity, and achieve measurable business outcomes.
Who is this course for?
This transformative executive 5-day Mini-MBA programme is designed specifically for senior leaders who need to drive immediate organisational performance while navigating complexity and uncertainty, such as:
- C-Suite executives
- Senior stakeholders
- Product and portfolio leaders
- Change management leaders, transformation leaders, and executives
- Leaders responsible for strategy execution and delivery performance
Course outcomes
By completing this executive 5-day Mini-MBA, participants will be able to:
See their organisations as they truly are – from the customer and stakeholder perspectives, understanding real demand and failure demand, while improving value.
- Create and maintain clarity – articulate compelling purpose, align strategy with daily work and establish transparent progress tracking.
- Lead continuous emergent strategy – facilitate collaborative strategy development that adapts based on evidence and feedback.
- Drive outcome-oriented work by adopting effective Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and creating adaptive feedback loops.
- Design coherent measurement systems – build balanced metrics with counter-metrics that inform learning rather than control behaviour.
- Lead ethically in complexity – balance performance imperatives with stakeholder responsibility and values-based decision-making.
- Apply systems thinking – view organisational challenges systemically rather than as isolated problems requiring isolated solutions.
Course structure
The course is delivered in a five-day workshop format, structured to enable immediate practical application.
- Distinguishing value demand from failure demand
- Understanding customer and stakeholder perspectives
- Introduction to the Vanguard Method
- Mapping end-to-end workflows
- Identifying delays, rework, and systemic constraints
- Using demand data for evidence-based decision-making
- Articulating a compelling organisational purpose
- Aligning strategy with operations
- Understanding the multiplicity of stakeholder expectations and limits
- Tools for cutting through noise and complexity
- Creating transparent progress tracking mechanisms
- Strengthening trust through transparent communication
- Moving from annual planning to continuous emergent strategy
- Catalysing participative strategy development and evolution
- Introduction to principled approaches to strategy alignment
- Hands-on exercises
- Connecting strategic intent with outcomes
- Real-time strategy adaptation based on feedback
- Moving from output-focused to outcome-oriented objectives
- Effective use of OKRs to create adaptive feedback loops
- Balancing short-term goals with long-term ambitions
- Addressing variation, complexity, and demand
- Connecting team objectives directly to strategy
- Avoiding common OKR pitfalls
- Designing balanced measurement systems with counter-metrics
- Measuring what matters (not just what's easy to measure)
- Avoiding gaming and vanity metrics
- Evidence-Based Management™ and Logic Model application
Discounts and offers
Groups
If you are booking as a group or institution, please contact us before you book as you may be able to benefit from our 15% group or corporate discounts.
Returning short course delegates
We offer a 10% discount to returning short course delegates. If you’re not booking your first short course or professional qualification with us and this discount is not applied to your course at checkout, please contact us.
UoW undergraduate/postgraduate students, alumni and colleagues
We also offer a 20% discount to our undergraduate and postgraduate students, alumni, and colleagues. To receive your discount code, please contact us before booking your course.
Deadline for course bookings
Limited places available. Booking closes 14 days before the course start date or once all places are filled.
Our tutors
John Anthony Coleman
John Anthony Coleman is an executive guide and Co-Founder of Evolved Institute. He specialises in organisational effectiveness, adaptability, and ambidexterity, helping leaders balance immediate execution with long-term strategy. John supports scale-ups and Fortune 500 companies across energy, finance, FMCG, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications.
John mentors executives on problem definition, fostering high-performance environments, and adaptive capability. He also hosts podcasts on organisational change and product development, and is active in professional communities advancing modern organisational practice.
Nader Talai
Nader Talai is the Founder of Value Glide and Co-Founder of Evolved Institute, with over 30 years of technology experience and more than two decades specialising in organisational transformation and business agility. He partners with organisations to build adaptiveness and achieve measurable improvements in performance and team well-being through practical, sustainable change.
Nader began his journey in 2002 with Scrum and has since developed deep expertise in lean and adaptive approaches, systems thinking, and organisational design. He works with tier-one global organisations to deliver results-focused transformations.
Booking information
Thank you for your interest in this new course. Bookings will open soon - fill in our enquiry form to be the first to know when bookings open. If you have questions about the course in the meantime, please contact us via the details at the bottom of this page.
Westminster Executive Education Programme
This course is part of the Westminster Executive Education Programme.
The Executive Education Programme is an empowering experience designed to boost skills and career prospects. Attendees can choose from four specialised courses, Digital Marketing Strategy, Strategic Leadership, Strategic Financial Leadership, and Data Analytics and Business Intelligence, each taught by experienced academics and practitioners. You will have opportunities for networking and site visit events.
Find out more on the Westminster Executive Education Programme page.