Join us for the next two segments of the Strategy Imagination Forum (SIF), where Professor Richard Whittington, President-Elect of the Strategic Management Society, continues the conversation with two speakers from the SMS-moderated panel, Developing a Long-Term Strategy, recently featured at The CEO Forum’s Transformative CEO Summit: A Quarter Century of Reflections & The Journey Ahead.
SMS partners with The CEO Forum, which hosts quarterly gatherings of top CEOs to address today’s most pressing business challenges. Click here to watch the recording of Richard’s panel.
In this upcoming webinar, Richard is joined by Jennifer Colosimo, author and President of Franklin Covey’s Enterprise Division. Together, they’ll explore how to place people at the center of strategic planning—discussing who to include in the process, how to define what’s negotiable, the role of pilot programs, the importance of execution, and the value of staying curious in a rapidly changing world.
This conversation expands on the original panel discussion and offers deeper insights into building long-term value and leading through uncertainty with purpose and agility.
The Strategy Imagination Forum is designed to foster practitioner-academic dialogue, provide practical insights, and support strategic engagement on emerging issues.
Register here for the first segment, Building Long Term Strategy in Fast-Moving Times, with Bill Canady, Chairman of OTC Industrial Technologies and CEO of Arrowhead Engineered Products (AEP) and Richard Whittington, SMS President-Elect and Professor at Oxford University.
Price: FREE for SMS Members, $19 for Non-Members
Speakers:
Jennifer Colosimo is a senior executive with 30 years of experience leading teams and organizations to achieve profitable growth through strategy execution across go-to-market, digital, operational, and talent transformation. She is currently Enterprise President of FranklinCovey (NYSE:FC), a global leadership company operating in 160 countries, where she oversees strategic planning, sales, consulting and coaching services, employee and customer experience, and revenue operations. Jennifer serves on the board of FranklinCovey Japan Co Ltd and on the Audit and Finance Committee of a nonprofit women’s foundation, with additional nonprofit board experience. She is also the co-author of Great Work, Great Career with Stephen R. Covey and Strikingly Different Selling.
Richard Whittington is Professor of Strategic Management at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. He has held visiting positions at Harvard Business School, HEC Paris, the University of Toulouse and the University of Technology Sydney. He is currently President-elect of the Strategic Management Society. He has published singly or jointly eleven books, including a history of strategy: ‘Opening Strategy: Professional Strategists and Practice Change, 1960 to Today’ (OUP, 2019). His co-authored textbook ‘Exploring Strategy’ is ranked by the Financial Times 2021 Teaching Power index as the most influential strategy textbook worldwide (recorded on nearly 3,000 course syllabi). He has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of St. Gallen.