Break Through with Strategic Thinking

Do you wish to make more strategic decisions with greater impact on your organization’s performance?

This course will provide a set of principles and practices to perform strategic analysis allowing participants to have more confidence in the decisions and impact they wish to have.  The course will include case studies to help guide the learning path, along with practical exercises to enhance participants’ learning experience.

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn what is Strategic Thinking and why it is important;
• Understand how to plan and execute complex strategies that meet the goals of your organization;
• Gain more insight on the impacts of external and internal forces on your strategy and how to balance the two;
• Understand the relationship between your leadership role at work, the value you create, and how that relates to the strategic goals of your organization;
• Identify your critical success factors and the barriers that contribute to everyday operating performance.

Program Faculty

Sanjay J. Dhebar, MBA is an author, top ranked facilitator and consultant with a passion for sales, marketing and strategy.
Sanjay Dhebar enjoyed an exciting and varied career in the Healthcare and Consumer Package Goods Industry as a senior leader for 15 years. Specifically, he mastered expertise in business development as well as marketing and sales leadership while working for national and global companies and their brands.
Sanjay coaches and develops senior leaders in organizations including Four Seasons Hotel, Roche, TD Bank, NN Group, Mercedes Benz, Samsung, Teva, Four Seasons, and Sick Kids Foundation. He uses the ‘case study’ methodology in his teachings drawing on best practice approaches across sectors. Sanjay has developed a respected process and practical approach called “The Business Workout”, which enables business leaders achieve better performance and success. Recently he published his book “Tool Box for Performance Driven Leaders” to compliment his keynotes on this topic.
Furthermore, Sanjay is a faculty member at McMaster University, DeGroote School of Business and the University of Salzburg Business School in Austria. Sanjay builds on his decade long international teaching experience, and his expertise to develop cutting edge experiential curriculum design.
Sanjay holds an Honours BA in Public Policy from Ryerson University and an MBA in Marketing from the University of Leicester, UK. Recently he completed a digital marketing certificate from MIT Boston and certificate from the Disney Institute on Quality Service.

Dr. Haniyeh Yousofpour PhD, MBA, PMP, PE Certified is a Harvard educated award winning business professor and consultant with a passion in organizational change management, negotiation and effective communication, and effective utilization of human capital.
Dr. Yousofpour is an expert in Human Resource Management, Change Management and Conflict Resolution.
Dr. Yousofpur has a PhD in Business Administration specializing in HR and OB, an MBA in Finance and BSc in psychology and sociology. Furthermore she is a certified project management professional (PMP), certified six sigma (CSSGB) process excellence professional as well Emotional Intelligence Certified facilitator.
Dr. Yousofpour has led multiple change management initiatives and has provided integrative strategic management consulting services to multinational Fortune 500 companies including Johnson and Johnson, Toyota, Pfizer, Bausch and Lomb. She has also delivered numerous executive education training globally focusing on Change Management, Conflict Resolution, Strategic Thinking and Influential Leadership in addition to delivering keynotes at several international conferences.
Dr. Yousofpour’s integrative and distinctive approach; relying on a thorough assessment of the organization culture, goals, resources, limitations and human capital; enables her to design a customized and attainable solution to align organization strategy and resources scalable to a diverse range of clients.
In addition to her consulting practice, Dr. Yousofpour teaches various university graduate level courses globally and has received multiple teaching awards for her teaching excellence.