New updated Book of Knowledge contains most of the information that you need to pass the SPP and SMP exams. However, it might not be the easiest document to make sense of.
Here comes Systems Thinking to the rescue! The Global Partners at the Haines Centre for Strategic Management will review The Systems Thinking Approach® and help you apply it to BOK 3.0 in order to understand it better. And thus, better prepare you for the exams.
The session will be delivered by the Global Partners of the Haines Centre for Strategic Management.
It will be offered twice – once for North Americans at 9 am EDT on April 4 and once for Australia and Eastern Asia at 12 pm AEST on April 5.
Valerie is an IASP Pioneer that helped set up IASP and create the SPP and SMP exam questions. She delivered the original exam preparation course.
Valerie is excited to help members to pass the exams with an updated version of the original exam prep workshop. She’ll be delivering the workshop April 25 & 27 and May 2 & 4 in North American times zones and co-leading with Lewe for Australia & Eastern Asia on May 9, 11, 16 & 18.
She is located in Western Canada and has an interesting background in both technical and people disciplines with a Co-Op Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and an MBA (Minor in HR) from the University of Calgary.
She has been facilitating and training in strategic planning and Strategic Management for over 25 years. Recently some of her clients include for profit organizations like energy companies, associations for Optometry and Pharmacists, and governments like Town of High River, Town of Black Diamond and the Alberta Government.
Dr. Atkinson takes the Systems Thinking Approach® to everything he does. He belongs to the Haines Centre "family" which is taking systems thinking into the mainstream so that we all can think more strategically. Lewe will be co-leading the webinar series with Valerie for Australia and Eastern Asia: May 9, 11, 16 & 18.
His clients ask him to help in Systems Thinking, Program Evaluation, Facilitation, Social Impact Assessments, Strategic Planning, Strategic Management, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Economic Analysis, Change, and Technology Transfer & Adoption.
Lewe is located in Australia and has worked with a broad range of clients including cattle associations, start-ups and social services.
Stephen is a master trainer and consultant. He has over 20 years of experience as a strategic management consultant and coach from his base in Singapore.
He has worked inhouse with over 100 companies, trained over 2,300 senior managers from 39 countries in strategic thinking, from companies such as Hitachi, Toshiba, INTEL, Citibank, UOB Bank, Changi Airport, Petronas, BPMI Gas, Astra, etc., and developed the competence of CSOs and Strategy Leads from organizations like Port of Tanjong Pelepas (Malaysia), Sabre Travel Network M.E. (Bahrain), Insular Life Assurance Company (Philippines), Oil Sector Services Company (Kuwait), Baiduri Bank, Cash Converters (Singapore), Central Bank of Kenya, Centre for Strategic & Policy Studies (Brunei), over a dozen Government Ministries, and more.
Kerrin brings a unique perspective. Kerrin has over 15 years of experience working with not-for-profits, particularly community controlled indigenous organisations, specialising in their corporate structuring, governance advice and training, strategic planning and management, risk governance and management and company secretarial services and advice.
She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Women in Technology Board Readiness Program, has completed a Certificate in Governance and Risk Management from the Governance Institute of Australia, undertaken the January in Tucson indigenous governance program at the University of Arizona, completed the Risk Management for Corporate Leaders executive education program at Harvard Business School. She is also Director at Institute for First Nations Governance Professionals Ltd.
This workshop, like all of our workshops, is based upon The Systems Thinking Approach®.
At the Haines Centre, we have operationalized over 50 years of scientific research started by Ludwig von Bertalanffy (the father of General Systems Theory) and many other world-renown systems theorists, including the Society for General Systems Research into The Systems Thinking Approach®.
Our Key Strengths are:
innovation
"leverage knowledge to secure traction for innovation solutions in the organization"
vision
"champion new insights with key stakeholders to view issues from different perspectives"
integration
"engage and build relationships to create sustainable collaborative partnerships"
facilitation
"facilitate safe environments for self-reflection and learning in the organization"