Learning Objective: Learn techniques and approaches to increase team and individual performance by implementing strategic leadership skills. Ever wonder what separates “good” from “great?” Of all the leadership advice out there, what works? What are the top key strategies we need to manage ourselves, people, and competing values? The most effective leaders think ahead, keep the big picture in mind, and plan to get results. Leaders will share their winning strategic moves and skills you can use to thrive and move to the next level. The key to success is planning a strategy and using the science of leadership to give you an edge. At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to: a. Understand the top five strategies used to get results. b. Review critical leadership knowledge and techniques that have transformed industries. c. Identify personal leadership strategies.

2. Strategic Executive Leadership:
Discover Essential Leadership Skills That Change the Game
Oct 7, 2022
Seminar #1120

3. GETTING TO KNOW Dr. Jeannice Fairrer Samani, MBA - Presenter

4. Currently serving World Wide Technology (WWT) as Organizational Strategy Consultant with their Solutions Consulting &
Engineering org, Dr. AJ has served several other multi-national and global organizations.
Dr. AJ has a heart of service, a passion for learning and sharing knowledge, and enjoys contributing to the enhancement of
people, processes, and systems at every opportunity. Hence, her doctoral studies relative to Strategic Foresight (e.g., Futures
Studies and Systems Dynamics) sparked her inherent interest and persistently hold a special place in her heart.
Dr. Aria Jones holds a Professional Doctorate in Strategic Leadership & Strategic
Foresight. Having achieved a Master’s degree in Information Systems and a Bachelor’s
degree in Business Management, Dr. AJ’s education and professional experience have
been foundational to her success as a leader throughout her career.
A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, she relocated to St. Louis, Missouri in 2003 by
invitation of the love of her life (i.e., her life partner of 22 years and counting). Since
then, her relentless pursuit of higher education and continuous improvement has
persisted.
For nearly 20 years, Dr. AJ has worked full-time, leading custom software development
projects and teams within reputable Healthcare, Financial Services, and Technology
firms.
GETTING TO KNOW Dr. Aria Jones, DSL - Panelist

5. What comes to mind when you think of
Essential Executive Leadership skills?

6. By the end of this seminar, you will know:
• What it means to be a Transformative Leader ™
• How using Strategic Foresight can help you
‘Change the Game’

7. Learning Objectives:
Discover techniques and approaches to increase Team and Individual
performance by implementing Strategic Leadership skills. By…
• Understanding the top five strategies used to get results.
• Reviewing critical leadership knowledge and techniques that have transformed
industries.
• Identifying personal leadership strategies.
• Planning a strategy and using the Science of Leadership to give you an edge.

8. Set the Stage as an Innovator:
Change the Game!

9. Trust
Chart a course to earn trust,
deliver sustainable outcomes
and make lasting impact on
business and society. For
today. For good.

10. WHY BUILD A
STRATEGY?

11. Top Five Strategies To Get Results
Get Your Team
Directly Involved in
the Vision
Let People Know Exactly
How They Contribute to the
Vision and Mission
Develop Detailed Strategies
and Systems
Divide and Conquer
Never Lose Sight of Ways
to Innovate

12. Develop Detailed
Strategies and Systems
In life, as in football, you won’t go far
unless you know where the goal posts
are!
~ ARNOLD H. GLASGOW

13. Get Your Team Directly
Involved in the Vision
Create the highest, grandest vision
possible for your life, because you
become what you believe.
~ OPRAH WINFREY
Your vision is the reason people want
to work for you.

14. Never Lose Sight of
Ways to Innovate
The only way you survive is you
continuously transform into something
else. It’s this idea of continuous
transformation that makes you an
innovation company.
~ GINNI ROMETTY, CEO IBM

15. Let People Know Exactly
How They Contribute to
the Vision and Mission
Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress; working
together is success.
~ HENRY FORD

16. Divide & Conquer
If you want to do a few small things
right, do them yourself. If you want to
do great things and make a big
impact, learn to delegate.
~JOHN C. MAXWELL

17. What strategies resonate with you?
Get Your Team
Directly Involved in
the Vision
Let People Know Exactly
How They Contribute to the
Vision and Mission
Develop Detailed Strategies
and Systems
Divide and Conquer
Never Lose Sight of Ways
to Innovate
Poll

19. Leadership Knowledge:
Techniques That Have
Transformed Industries

20. STRATEGIC
LEADERSHIP

21. Six Skills of Strategic Leaders

22. Elements of Strategic Leadership

24. Strategic Foresight
Designing & Creating Desired Futures

25. Strategic Foresight
Designing & Creating Desired Futures
Strategic – adjective. 2c. of great
importance within an integrated whole or to a
planned effect; 3. designed or trained to strike
an enemy at the sources of its […] power
(Merriam-Webster, 2022).
Sources: Merriam-Webster. (2022). Strategic. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strategic; Merriam-Webster. (2022). Foresight. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foresight.
Foresight – noun. 1. an act or the power of
foreseeing: prescience; 2. provident care:
Prudence; 3. an act of looking forward: a view
forward (Merriam-Webster, 2022).

26. Strategic Foresight
Designing & Creating Desired Futures
• Is an organizational, social, and personal practice that allows us to
• Create functional and operational views of alternative futures and possibilities
• Become better prepared for potential threats
• Become more apt to capitalize on hidden opportunities
• Mine the external environment for trends and issues, and
• Leverage those insights to
• Create maps of the emerging landscape
• Test our current strategy
• Develop breakthrough innovations, and
• Create transformative change
Sources: The Futures School. (2015). What is strategic foresight? https://thefuturesschool.com/2015/01/what-is-strategic-foresight/

27. Strategic Foresight
Designing & Creating Desired Futures
• An atypical planning approach based on the conceptual planning from the
future back to the present, rather than from present to toward the future (Marsh et
al., 2002)
• The capability to envision what will or could occur in the future using proven
methodologies that contribute to sound, forward-looking decision-making (Global
Centre for Public Service Excellence, 2014)
• Is most effective when used as a philosophy that runs in the background of an
organization (The Futures School, 2015)
• The operating system enabling all other processes (The Futures School, 2015)
Sources: Global Centre for Public Service Excellence. (2014). Foresight as a strategic long-term planning tool for developing countries. United Nations Development Programme; Marsh, N., et al. (2002).
Why strategic foresight? In Strategic Foresight: The power of standing in the future, (pp. 1–13). Crown Content; The Futures School. (2015). What is strategic foresight?
https://thefuturesschool.com/2015/01/what-is-strategic-foresight/.

28. Strategic Foresight
Source: Marsh, N., McAllum, M., & Purcell, D. (2002). Why strategic foresight? In Strategic Foresight: The power of standing in the future, (pp. 1–13). Crown Content.
• “… planning from the future back to the
present”
• “… not the typical approach … from the
present towards the future”
• “Backcasting” – a process of developing
coherent insights on what the future might
look like, unrestricted by what we see today
• A calculated method by which to think,
engage, discover, and act differently for the
achievement of optimal outcomes

29. Strategic Foresight: Application
When designing and executing strategy, it is imperative to maintain systemic awareness, which involves the
continuous practice of Strategic Foresight.
Source: Marsh, N., McAllum, M., & Purcell, D. (2002). Why strategic foresight? In Strategic Foresight: The power of standing in the future, (pp. 1–13). Crown Content.
Strategic Foresight delivers the freedom to think the unthinkable through creating and evaluating scenarios; it
offers a range of possibilities depending on current responses to such possibilities (Marsh et al., 2002).
Integrating Strategic Foresight into strategy development necessitates and empowers new ways of thinking,
engaging, learning, and acting (Marsh et al., 2002).
Using Strategic Foresight results in more coherent, insightful viewpoints of possible futures unobstructed by
how things look today (Marsh et al., 2002).

30. Source: Canton, J. (2015). Future smart: Managing the game-changing trends that will transform your world. Da Capo Press.
Strategic Leadership + Strategic Foresight

31. Change the Game!
Decide
Anticipate
(Foresight)
Interpret
Learn
Challenge
Interpret
Be
Agile
Be
Empathetic
Intersection of Strategy +
The Science of Leadership
Be
Curious
Fairrer Samani Group @ 2022

33. References: Dr. Jeannice Fairrer Samani, MBA
Fairrer Samani, J., Fifth Wave of a Transformative Leader ™ preorder
Fairrer Samani, J., Transformational Leadership https://youtu.be/cAH_gwdihUo
Fairrer Samani, J., How to become a Transformative Leader
Fairrer Samani, J., Interview The American University in Cairo, Egypt. Being the
only women in the Boardroom
Stephen R. Covey, Principle-Centered Leadership
HBR at 100: The Most Influential and Innovative Articles from Harvard Business
Review's First Century
Building Trust: https://hbr.org/2022/02/how-business-can-build-and-maintain-trust

34. References: Dr. Aria Jones, DSL
Canton, J. (2015). Future smart: Managing the game-changing trends that will transform your world. Da Capo
Press.
Global Centre for Public Service Excellence. (2014). Foresight as a strategic long-term planning tool for
developing countries. United Nations Development Programme.
Jones, A. (2022). 2022 Annual Research Roundtables: Strategic Foresight. Regent University.
https://www.regent.edu/school-of-business-and-leadership/news/annual-research-roundtables/virtual-hub/
Marsh, N., et al. (2002). Why strategic foresight? In Strategic Foresight: The power of standing in the future,
(pp. 1–13). Crown Content.
Merriam-Webster. (2022). Foresight. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foresight
Merriam-Webster. (2022). Strategic. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strategic
The Futures School. (2015). What is strategic foresight? https://thefuturesschool.com/2015/01/what-is-
strategic-foresight/