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From Pressure to Perspective

Strategic Resilience: Leading through Conflict, Crisis and Complexity

Strategic Resilience: Leading Through Conflict, Crisis, and Complexity is a 2.5-day intensive leadership programme that guides you from strategic insight to high-stakes decision-making and effective collaboration on complex challenges.

Each module builds on the previous one and culminates in an integration session where you identify concrete next steps and apply your learning directly in your leadership practice.  


What you will gain from this programme

  • Understand the conditions under which businesses can either contribute to or mitigate conflict.
  • Apply peace-positive leadership strategies to build resilience and stakeholder trust.
  • Master fundamentals of crisis readiness, perspective flexibility, and decision-making under pressure.
  • Experience crisis simulation and evaluate real-time leadership patterns.
  • Engage with complexity using visual tools that reveal systems, spark new thinking, and foster collaboration.
  • Leave with a personal toolkit for navigating uncertainty, enabling strategic alignment, and communicating with impact during high-stakes moments 


Assessment

No formal exams. Assessment is based on peer feedback and reflection assignments.

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Elco van Burg

Prof. dr. ir. Elco van Burg is full professor of Organizational Theory and Head of the Organizational Theory Section at the School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He specializes in designing organisational processes with purpose, including initiatives that foster peace. He has led numerous societally engaged research consortia—on topics ranging from the future of work to elderly care—and has hands-on leadership experience in complex, conflict-prone settings through his involvement in a social enterprise start-up in the rural highlands of Papua, Indonesia, since 2014.

Curriculum Strategic Resilience

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Would you like more information about our parttime leadership programmes? Or would you like to discuss incompany possibilities? Please contact us.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
School of Business and Economics for Professionals
1081 HV AMSTERDAM

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