Strategic Decision-Making: Risk & Responsibility
Foster stakeholder accountability while making well-rounded, ethical decisions in complex scenarios.
A key challenge in responsible decision-making is recognizing the full range of legitimate interests that are relevant and identifying ways to address those interests while managing uncertainty. Decision-making often goes beyond optimizing a single metric such as ROI. It requires integrating diverse factors such as feasibility, efficacy, fairness, reputation, social impact, and compliance. Given the variability in outcomes, decision-makers must also be able to effectively manage and improve resiliency throughout the process.
Strategic Decision-Making: Risk & Responsibility offers a hands-on learning environment for leaders eager to excel in ethical and effective decision-making. This program focuses on creating organizational structures that drive desired outcomes, avert foreseeable risks, and uphold ethical standards. It empowers you to navigate technical and non-technical factors while promoting stakeholder accountability.
Participants in our program will gain the skills needed to make responsible and well-rounded decisions that consider a variety of interests and manage potential downsides effectively. The program’s hands-on approach prepares leaders to balance growth and caution, ensuring they can design organizational structures that drive positive outcomes, mitigate foreseeable risks, and uphold ethical standards. By the end of the program, participants will be equipped to foster accountability among stakeholders while making well-rounded, ethical decisions in complex scenarios and fostering confidence, reliability, and trust as leaders.
“The hardest problem to solve is one you haven’t clearly formulated. My goal is to promote responsible decision-making by helping decision makers understand and engage what might otherwise be an invisible aspect of a decision, namely, its evaluative component."—Alex John London, Ph.D., K.L. Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies; Director, Center for Ethics and Policy; Chief Ethicist, Block Center for Technology and Society
Key Takeaways
- Analyze real-world challenges and strategies for managing bias and stakeholder interests.
- Master the key elements of decision-making, ranging from problem formulation to action execution.
- Build effective governance structures that weigh centralized vs. decentralized approaches.
- Anticipate potential setbacks aspects, balancing ethical, social, and business goals.
Who should attend?
Ideal for professionals at all levels—from executives to start-up founders—this program equips you with essential tools to advance your career and leverage human-AI collaboration.
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