Key details
- Programme typeOn campus open programme
- LocationOn campus
- Start date9 Jun 2025 - Open
- Duration1 week, full-time
- DepartmentDepartment of Management
Overview
Risky times call for a new type of leadership
The stakes have never been higher than they are in our current reality. How you respond to the unique challenges of today will shape outcomes for you and your organisation for years to come. Navigating this kind of uncertainty calls for a new kind of leadership. It means understanding the nature of risk, its psychology, its impact on individuals and organisations and how it manifests in organisational culture. This intensive, five-day programme gives you the broader psychological understanding, the behavioural frameworks, the practical toolkit and the mindset to not simply manage risk in your business, but to lead it.
Impact
A profound and transformational learning experience for you. Immediate and actionable insights for your organisation.
Programme content
Key topics:
How you learn
Leading Risk in Organisations is delivered by leading LSE faculty from the disciplines of organisational behaviour, accounting, management and sociology. You leverage all of these different perspectives to build a complex, multifaceted and multidimensional understanding and approach to leading risk in your own organisation. The programme is a highly interactive, hands-on and experiential week that integrates theory with case work and real-world application, as you are given the opportunity to explore risk management in your company – and to build a tailored action plan for future development with expert input and advice from faculty.
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Who attends?
This programme is designed for professionals who have some experience of managing risk or experience of working within a role where risk is inherent. Participants include:
- Managers and senior managers with responsibility for risk management.
- Participants working in organisations where risk management is a core activity.
- Participants from public or private sector organisations, including those who do not have a specific risk management function, yet there are elements of risk in their role sand organisations.
- Entrepreneurs who need to manage the risks associated with establishing and growing their business.
- C-suite participants seeking to develop their understanding of risk and organisational risk management processes.
Why LSE?
At LSE we understand the complex interconnectedness of the challenges facing our world. As Europe’s foremost social science university, we know that it is only by managing this interconnectedness that you can secure sustainability and success in business. All of our world-class programmes for business leaders leverage the fullest benefits of our renowned, interdisciplinary expertise – the science, the economics, the political and institutional interplay that underscores global business – so that you emerge with the fully rounded understanding, the integrated mindset and the leading-edge strategic tools to navigate complexity and spearhead meaningful change.
Faculty
The programme is taught by:
Dr Emma Soane
Assistant Professor of Management
Brittany Jones
Dr Tom Reader
Associate Professor
Department overview
The Department of Management at LSE is a world-class centre for research and education in business and management, that draws fully on the LSE tradition of inter-disciplinary academic excellence. Ranked #2 worldwide for business and management by the QS World University Rankings 2019, the department informs and inspires the very best in management in practice by challenging and enhancing understanding of people, teams, organisations and markets, as well as the economic, psychological, social, political and technological contexts in which they operate worldwide.
Fees and entry requirements
Tuition fee: £7,450
This covers all tuition, course materials, daily lunches and networking events. You will receive an LSE certificate of completion at the end of the course.
Entry requirements
All LSE executive education participants are required to have:
- Fluency in English, proficiency level or working knowledge of the language is essential.
- A good undergraduate degree or significant work experience in a relevant role(s).
- Minimum five years’ professional experience. Typically our participants have more than ten years’ work experience, but we will consider those with less experience who have enjoyed an accelerated career path to a senior level.
- Participants should have some experience of managing risk or experience of working within a role where risk is inherent (e.g. setting up a business).