The Advanced Strategy Program—Live-Online

By attending this program, you will explore key themes in:

Strategic Growth and Value Creation

• Gain the frameworks to design and implement the right growth strategies to unlock value.
• Discover how to leverage growth to strengthen your organization’s competitive position.

Organizational Culture and Agility

• Develop a culture that drives organizational growth, increases profitability, and enables leaders to navigate the unknown.

Strategic Foresight and Market Positioning

• Learn how strategists analyze and select products and services to meet tomorrow’s needs.
• Increase your ability to predict and anticipate changes in highly competitive markets.

Application and Impact

• Apply Booth’s evidence-based frameworks to real-world challenges, translating strategic insight into action that drives measurable organizational success.

Format
100% live-online (synchronous) sessions. There is no online (asynchronous) self-study work.

Program Duration
Seven weeks, 2–3 hours per week

Frequency
Offered twice per year, Spring and Fall

A High-Impact Learning Format
Leaders receive Booth’s rigorous content in short, digestible sessions. Each session builds upon itself—unlocking the program teachings into a practical roadmap of learning. Participants will apply concepts in real-time through business case analyses, puzzles, and solution-driven problem-solving practices. Moreover, sessions include a Q&A time, allowing an exclusive opportunity to explore concepts with program faculty. 

Live Online Session Schedule

• Sessions are generally held on Fridays from 11 A.M. – 1 P.M. CT.
• View the upcoming cohort session schedule. 

Set the stage for the program’s journey through the world of corporate strategy. Explore a case study to search for direct answers to a series of central questions about strategy, such as:

• How to find the best way to grow?
• How to estimate the likelihood of that best  route being a success?
• What do we do if the best way to grow won’t work?

One of the most distressing situations an executive may experience is being blindsided.

• Gain the tools to explore the future in a thoughtful and structured manner.
• Explore a process of ideas and how skilled strategists develop insights.
• Analyze an insurmountably successful company within a wildly competitive industry - an industry famous for the death of many incumbents.

Examine the role of uncertainty in strategic planning, identify the factors that drive success, and learn how organizations can adapt in highly competitive environments.

Through a real-world case study, you’ll analyze how a large organization successfully executed a turnaround strategy in the face of intense competition. 

Successful organizations are disciplined about where they compete—and where they don’t. This session examines how leaders evaluate products, services, and growth opportunities to create sustainable value.

You’ll explore the challenges of determining which offerings are most critical to success and learn practical frameworks for making these decisions. Through a case study, you’ll follow a small business as it navigates a pivotal product strategy decision in a competitive market.

Why do some companies emerge as market leaders while others fall behind? This session explores the drivers of growth and competitive success in dynamic industries.

Through case studies from the global technology sector, you’ll examine how organizations navigate uncertainty, respond to competitive pressures, and capitalize on opportunities to achieve sustained growth.  

Strategy and execution are inseparable. Successful growth strategies depend on organizational alignment, culture, and effective management, yet leaders often underestimate these connections. 

Through an analogy drawn from science and a series of business cases, this session explores the dilemma of strategy versus execution—and why understanding both is critical to long-term success.

Powerful strategists have a plan for how their firms will grow. Like a highway roadmap, it has intended routes and side roads but also has a set designation and travel timetable.

• Explore what strategy plans look like and how they are implemented.
• Discover how growth is sustained when one road ends.
• And, you’ll follow a wildly successful company in a rather mundane, yet intensely competitive, industry and visualize their amazing success.