The Global Strategists Seminar
Wed Jun 14, 18:00 - Wed Jun 14, 22:00
The Blackwing
ABOUT
Date: 14th June
Time: 18:00
Venue: The Blackwing
Join us as we host renowned global Strategist Abdullah Verachia, at the Pencil. A session not to be missed.
Abdullah will provoke us by asking : Has the World gone off its AXIS and what does this mean for you?
Key aspects he will cover include
How do you Reset the NOW, rewire the NEXT and thrive in an era of disruption
Are the economic, political, competitive and social changes the most significant that we have seen since World War 2?
Leveraging the now into the next. What mega-shifts are reshaping our future?
What trends will lead to 2025.
What does sector fluidity mean for who are your real competitors
how do you build a competitive strategy and thrive in an era of disruption
Abdullah serves as the CEO of The Strategists where he leads a world class team that play an active role in assisting companies and organisations craft competitive future strategies and innovation. He also serves as senior faculty at GIBS and head of the Harvard Business School Senior Executive programme for Africa
Known as the disruption expert, he has significant expertise in strategy, competitiveness and sector trends and facilitates a number of high-level strategy sessions and breakaways for companies and governments and also speaks globally in this area. He led the team that crafted the 2017 - 2030 Gauteng Economic Development Strategy with the Premier and Executive Council. He also led the 2017 Mauritius Competitiveness foresight strategy. He also plays a lead role on the Oxford University and Gates Foundation programme on South Africa in a Digital Age.
Abdullah has built a number of disruptive and truly innovative companies. He is thus able to fuse experience, insight, strategy and expertise into a beautiful tapestry that has relevance and application to companies and organisations around the world. He is a Harvard Business school alumnus. He holds a Bachelors in Law and a Masters in Management (cum laude). He has also completed executive programmes on strategy and shared value and also on Competitiveness, with Professor Michael Porter’s Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, at Harvard Business School. He also completed an executive programme at University of Oxford’s Said Business School as well as an executive programme on broadcast technology at Columbia Business School. He is currently reading toward his PhD in dynamic capabilities and strategy
Abdullah authored the best-selling book Disruption Amplified: Reset, rewire, reimagine everything. He has been asked to present at some of the world’s leading institutions including the School of Public and International Affairs at Colombia University in New York, Tedx Euston in London, the OECD in Paris and Casa Asia in Madrid amongst others.