Program Details & Speakers
“The Art of Business & The Art of War: Using Military Strategies to Combat Challenges in Today’s Business World“
Our program is divided into two independent sessions of 10 virtual private webinars each. At the end of the first session, we offer a complimentary public webinar.
Webinar Platform: Zoom
Webinar Format: Interactive Sessions - Video Cameras On - Breakout Rooms - Q & As - Polls - Webinar Feedback Questionnaire.
Webinar Times: All private webinars will take place on week days as follows:
- Block I: from 9-11 AM New York Time
- Block II: from 12-2 PM New York Time
Main Outcomes:
- Acquire Relevant Military Strategies to Conquer the Business World;
- Get a Competitive Business Edge; Learn from World-Class Experts... the Best in the Field!
Additional Possible Outcomes:
- Receive Credit Hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR Re-Certification;
- Receive an Executive Certificate in Leadership for each full part that you complete;*
- Become a VIP member of AFEE's closed “International Community of Leaders Club.”
Assessment of Learning for Accreditation & Credits: To receive an Executive Certificate in Leadership and/or Credit Hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR Re-Certification, participants need to complete the following:
- Formative Assessment: During Each Webinar
- Summative Assessment: At the End of All Webinars (in the form of a project).
* Receiving an executive certificate in leadership for each part you complete would entail attending all webinars in this part and fulfilling the assessment and package requirements.
All Certificates will be presented by AFEE & IFWE, and will reflect the number of webinars attended along with webinar details (titles and speakers).
Seats are limited. Applications are subject to Board approval.
Combined Introductory Video Clips
(April Session, in Order of Webinar Offering)
April Session
Strategic Planning
- Objectives: the Link between Desired Ends and Available Means
- Assumptions: the Necessity of Ground Truth to Strategic Planning
- The Tenets of Military Leadership
- Determining an Effective End State and Applying it to Strategy
- Identifying the Components of the Continuous Planning Cycle and How to Use them to Assess and Modify the Quality of a Plan
- Leadership Mind Games: Red Teaming. How to Successfully Play the Role of a Competitor and Gain Feedback from that Perspective
- Environmental Scanning (which Involves Market Intelligence)
- Contingency Planning
Strategic Decision-Making
- The Concept of Mission Command and its Key Tenets
- Military Decision-Making Process and two of its Key Elements: Leader’s Intent and Briefbacks
- Organizational Learning: The After Action Review
- OODA Loop in Decision-Making (Decision-making occurs in a recurring cycle of Observe–Orient–Decide–Act)
- Game Theory Simplified for Business Decision-Makers
- Developing a Military Culture of Learning to Combat Challenges
- Embracing the Staff Ride Process (gaining insight and wisdom from the past for present-day application)
Principles of War in Business
- Principles and Characteristics of War Applied to Business
- Strategies to Better Clearly Define the Mission, Communicate Expectations, Get Buy-in, and Mobilize Forces and Resources
Soft Leadership Skills
- Communicating Strategically: Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom
- Correctly Applying Military Values to Leadership
- Ways to Delegate Command and Authority
- Identifying the Three Aspects of Military Art and how to Leverage them in a Business Setting
- How to Foster Healthy Disagreement in your Teams
- Creating a Culture of Constructive Criticism
- How to Run a Team Meeting with More Efficiency
- Successful Negotiations in Complex Environments During a Crisis
- The role of the negotiator and negotiation principles
- The barriers to progress in negotiations and drivers for success
- Ways to deal with different types of people
- Examining the Conduct of Diplomacy—what Works and what Doesn’t
- How to Develop Mentoring Strategies for Talented Subordinates
June Session
Strategic Planning
- The Importance of Selecting from among Several Courses of Action
- Developing Tasks and Properly Assigning Them to Achieve Objectives
- Measuring Progress and Staying on Track
- Creating a Cyclic Analysis Framework to Better Meet Business Goals
- The Components of Successful Planning in a Dynamic Environment
- Mission Statement and Achievable Goals
- Adaptive Planning and Execution
- Organization and Resourcing to Achieve Objectives
Strategic Decision-Making
- National Security Decision-Making in the U.S. Government and the Lessons for the Business World
- How Efforts to Increase Safety and Reliability can Decrease Safety and Reliability
- Utilizing the Wisdom of the Workforce (all employees) for Strategic and Operational Success: Adaptive Leadership and Mission Command
- Recognizing the Utility of the “Observe, Orient, Decide, Act” Loop (OODA Loop) Construct
- Risk Mitigation: Threat and Competition Analysis
Principles of War in Business
- The Operational Art of War - Relevant Business Applications
- Principles of War (including Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, Machiavelli and/or others) Applied to Business
Soft Leadership Skills
- Diplomacy & Innovation
- Leading Vs. Managing
- Strategic Communication
- Training, Teamwork, and Team Building
- How to Be Mission Driven and Head to Success
- Esprit de Corps – Instilling Pride, Loyalty and Focus on Mission and Objectives
Topics & Dates - April Session
The Art of Business & The Art of War:
Using Military Strategies to Combat Challenges in Today's Business World:
April 19 to 23
(+Apr. 24, Complimentary Public Webinar)
Apr. 19
Tom Ruby, Ph.D., Colonel, USAF (Ret.); CEO of Bluegrass Critical Thinking Solutions; Former Vice Dean, Air Command and Staff College.
Title: Military Principles for Business Success: Turning Available Means into Desired Ends
Apr. 19
Francis H. Kearney III, Lieutenant General, US Army (Ret.); President of Inside Solutions LLC; Former Senior Special Operations Forces Commander, Center for Naval Analysis; Former Deputy Director for Strategic Operational Planning, National Counter-Terrorism Center.
Title: Military Processes: “How to Think, Not What to Think.”
Apr. 20
Mark Kimmitt, Brigadier General, US Army (Ret.); Former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, State Department; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East Policy; West Point/Harvard Business School/School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS).
Title: Communicating Strategically: Corporate Communications on the Battlefield and in the Boardroom.
Apr. 20
Scott Bethel, Brigadier General, USAF (Ret.); Founder and CEO of IntegrityISR; Former Vice Commander, Air Force ISR Agency (AFISRA); Former Senior Drone Operations Director and Analyst and the Air Force's Senior Targeteer; Former Commander for the Training of All DoD Intelligence Personnel; Master’s Degree in Strategic Intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College. [ISR: Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance]
Title: Leading like a General – Military Leadership Principles for the Modern Executive.
Apr. 21
Dean Dudley, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics at United States Military Academy, West Point.
Title: Game Theory: The Art of Strategic Decision Making
Apr. 21
Daylian Cain, Ph.D., Yale University; Award-Winning Faculty Member.
Title: Leadership Mind Games: Red Teaming. How to Successfully Play the Role of a Competitor and Gain Feedback from that Perspective.
Apr. 22
Jonathan Crawford, Managing Director & Owner, Calliance Ltd. for Security Risk Management and Hostage Incident Management Response and Training; Former Chief of Mobile Training, United Nations Department of Safety & Security (UNDSS); Former UN Focal Point for Kidnap & Hostage Incidents; Former Metropolitan Police Officer in the UK (Hostage Crisis Negotiation Unit).
Title: Successful Negotiations in Complex Environments During a Crisis.
Apr. 22
Matthew S. A. Feely, Ph.D., Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.); Faculty Instructor, United States Army War College; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School, Columbia University.
Title: Contingency Planning: Utilizing Environmental Scanning and a Phase Construct in the Face of a Crisis.
Apr. 23
Hon. David Schenker, Senior Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.
Title: Principles of War and Military Strategies Applied to the Business World.
Apr. 23
John P. Abizaid, Four-Star General, US Army (Ret.); Former United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Principal Partner, JPA Partners, LLC; Former CENTCOM Commander; Former Distinguished Chair, Combating Terrorism Center; Former Member of CIA External Advisory Board; Former Board Member of USAA, RPM, Virtu Financial; Army Ranger Hall of Fame Inductee.
Title: The Art of Business & The Art of War: Developing a Military Culture of Learning to Combat Challenges in Today's Business World.
Complimentary Webinar:
Apr 24 (at 12:00 PM NY Time- Public Webinar)
Deb Lewis, Colonel, US Army (Ret.), West Point’s 1st Class w/Women; Harvard MBA; Engineer who Led a $2.1B Construction Program in a Conflict-Ridden Combat Area; Founder of Mentally Tough Women, USA.
Title: 'Armor Up' with Mental Toughness: Turn Your Stressful Battles into Sweet Victories & Liberate the Best in Your Team.
Topics & Dates - June Session
The Art of Business & The Art of War:
Using Military Strategies to Combat Challenges in Today's Business World:
June 7 to 11
Jun. 7
Hon. David Schenker, Senior Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.
Title: National Security Decision-Making in the U.S. Government and the Lessons for the Business World.
Jun. 7
Mark Kimmitt, Brigadier General, US Army (Ret.); Former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, State Department; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East Policy; West Point/Harvard Business School/School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS).
Title: Leading or Managing? From the Military to the Business World.
Jun. 8
Tom Ruby, Ph.D., Colonel, USAF (Ret.); CEO of Bluegrass Critical Thinking Solutions; Former Vice Dean, Air Command and Staff College.
Title: Military Principles for Business Success: The Dirty Details of Planning and Follow-Up
Jun. 8
Scott Sagan, Ph.D.; Professor of Political Science; Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University.
Title: When Redundancy Backfires in National Security and Business: How Efforts to Increase Safety and Reliability Can Decrease Safety and Reliability.
Jun. 9
Annie Patenaude, U.S. Army, Retired Officer; Managing Director, AMP Analytics; Fellow, Military Operations Research Society; Former Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton; Former Director, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Readiness); Former Assistant Professor of Mathematics, United States Military Academy, West Point.
Title: Military Planning Process Applied to Business Strategies: Create a Cyclic Analysis Framework to Better Meet your Business Goals.
Jun. 9
Kevin C. Holzimmer, Ph.D.; Professor of Comparative Military Studies at Air University’s Air Command and Staff College (ACSC); Former Professor at the US Air Force Research Institute and at the School for Advanced Air and Space Studies; Worked on Policy Concerns with Gen. David H. Petraeus’ USCENTCOM Joint Strategic Assessment Team; Conducted Fieldwork in Charting a U.S. Air Force Strategy Based Upon President Obama’s “Pivot to Asia” Speech; Ph.D. in Military History from Temple University.
Title: Strategic Leadership in a Dynamic Environment: Universal Lessons from Senior Military Officers (focus on diplomacy, communication, innovation, teamwork).
Jun. 10
Matthew S. A. Feely, Ph.D., Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.); Faculty Instructor, United States Army War College; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School, Columbia University.
Title: Utilizing the Wisdom of the Workforce for Strategic and Operational Success.
Jun. 10
Richard A. Stewart, Major, US Marine Corps (Ret.); Principal Consultant, KBR, Inc.; Author of "Sunrise at Abadan: The British and Soviet Invasion of Iran, 1941."
Title: Applying Principles and Methods of Military Strategy to Effective Business Planning.
Jun. 11
PJ Dermer, Colonel, US Army (Ret.); One of the Army’s foremost Middle East regional experts; Former Senior Advisor, Office of the Vice President of the USA, 2002 – 2003. Has advised, mentored and written extensively for the nation’s senior military and civilian leadership. Had the unique opportunity to operationalize national level strategy on the ground in the Middle East.
Title: The Operational Art of War and its Application (as it may or may not) to the Business Community.
Jun. 11
Francis H. Kearney III, Lieutenant General, US Army (Ret.); President of Inside Solutions LLC; Former Senior Special Operations Forces Commander, Center for Naval Analysis; Former Deputy Director for Strategic Operational Planning, National Counter-Terrorism Center.
Title: The Principles of War (including Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, Machiavelli and/or others) to Improve Global Business Strategies.
