credentialsandcapabil ities

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To help leaders and their people
develop and master the agility,
adaptability, speed and resilience to
thrive and survive in volatile, uncertain,
complex and ambiguous (VUCA)
business environments.
M E T H O D
We distill contemporary military
thinking, principles and practices in
dealing with VUCA environments
adapting and applying them to
contemporary business.
E N D S TAT E
Our clients are confident, equipped and
empowered to lead, plan and execute
in their disrupted environment.
W H Y
M I L I TA RY
P R I N C I P L E S ?
Military work is risky, pressured,
and fast-changing. It calls for
seemingly contradictory
capabilities: absolute clarity
about the mission at a high level,
extraordinary adaptability on
the ground, to be responsive and
creative, to be fast learners,
comfortable with error and
ambiguity.
These are the same skills that
companies today need to prevail
in a climate of intense economic
uncertainty.
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A P P R O A C H
VOLATILITY
COMMAND
PHILOSOPHY
UNITY OF
PURPOSE
OODA
LOOP
ORGANISATIONAL
DESIGN
CONCEPT OF
OPERATIONS
SCENARIO
PLANNING/
WARGAMING
AMBIGUITY
UNCERTAINTY
MISSION COMMAND
COURSE OF
ACTION
DEVELOPMENT
COMPLEXITY
PHASE 1
U N D E R S TA N D I N G E N V I R O N M E N T
‘VUCA’ is how the Military understand disruption. Discussion of the concept.
Articulating the nature of the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity in
your industry, sector or business. Many organisation struggle to orientate
themselves to a newly disrupted environment. To use a geographic analogy,
where before they developed strategy and capability to operate in the jungle,
they now find themselves in a desert.
PHASE 2
D I S T I L L I N G M I L I TA RY P R I N C I P L E S
Discussion and understanding of core Military principles and practices (specific
to leadership, strategic planning, execution and resilience) What are they?, Why
are they relevant?, How can they be adapted?
PHASE 3
O R G A N I S AT I O N A L D E S I G N
How these can be adapted, applied to lead, plan and execute with agility,
adaptability, speed and resilience.
H O W
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C L I E N T S
Leadership Development and Coaching
Disruption/ VUCA Readiness
Resilience Assessments
Course of Action Development
Scenario Planning & Wargaming
Capability Assessment
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W O R K
C O N S U L T I N G
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Leadership/ Management Team Offsites
Strategic Planning
Execution and Implementation
Resilience for Leaders, Individuals
T R A I N I N G
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W O R K S H O P S
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D E V E L O P M E N T
Leadership, Strategic Planning, Execution, Resilience
B E N E F I T S
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L E A D E R S H I P
S T R A T E G I C
P L A N N I N G
E X E C U T I O N
R E S I L I E N C E
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C L I E N T S
Learn, develop high-performance teams and lead
them in volatile, uncertain, complex and
ambiguous environments.
Learn and apply agile, adaptive strategic planning
methodologies and processes that give
consideration to multiple courses of action, stress
tested against market and competitive responses
using scenario planning and wargaming.
Develop skills in agile, adaptive execution planning
and implementation that deliver ‘faster than
market’ solutions.
Understand the impacts of volatile, uncertain,
complex and ambiguous environments upon human
behaviour. Develop strategies for leaders and
individuals to apply adaptive thinking and
behavioural responses that will build a more
resilient organisation.
W H AT
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C L I E N T S
S AY
"A valuable and unexpected resource harnessing generations of
military practices and process for defining success in volatile,
uncertain, complex and ambiguous business environments”
CEO - Healthcare Industry
“A way of defining and developing leadership skills for the
modern business environment. I would recommend this course
to any contemporary leader”.
CEO - Government Regional Development Organisation
“An area of great need in business in the current climate.
Logical, informed perspectives on leadership and management
concepts with excellent military and business content and
experience to illustrate concepts”.
Management Consultant
"Tim Keeffe is an excellent, articulate facilitator with great
subject matter knowledge and a gentle approach - quite the
opposite of archetype one would expect".
CEO - Private and Family Enterprise.
M A N A G E M E N T
T E A M
Damian Coren is a proven creative leader and business growth
specialist with both board and advisory board experience. He
has extensive brand strategy, marketing and new product
development experience forged in developed and developing
markets for blue-chip consumer and b2b brands including
Coca-Cola, United Technologies, General Motors and local
Australian SaaS start-up, Konect Technologies.
With an entrepreneurial flair and a passion for creativity and
innovation, his teams have been responsible for delivering top
and bottom line growth, market share gains and marketing
programs that have been recognised internationally.
Damian Coren
Managing Partner
In 2015, Damian established his own company, The Disruption
Group). In an age of increasing disruption, driven by emerging
technologies, blurring lines of industries and competition from
traditional and non-traditional players, The Disruption Group
mission is help enterprise combat disruption by creating
disruption. The design methodology to transition companies
from passive to active market disruption is built around
preparing business to initiate disruptive innovation, enabling
disruptive innovation with precision execution and empowering
disruption by building people and infrastructure capability.
Damian holds a Bachelor of Business from QUT, is a Member of
the Australian Institute of Company Directors, an Associate
Director – Amplifi Governance and Committee Member –
Defense in Business.
M A N A G E M E N T
T E A M
Tim Keeffe is a leader with 20 years experience in the
Australian Army. During this time he served with distinction
on operations (Iraq 2005) and in domestically as a Logistics
Officer. While In Iraq Tim led the development of Transport
Operations training for soldiers in the new Iraqi Army.
During this time he actively led and mentored Australian,
Iraqi and American soldiers and officers in a complex and
often challenging environment. Tim is an experienced
planner and manager, having managed logistics operations
throughout his career.
Tim Keeffe
Principal Consultant
Tim is passionate about training and development of future
leaders; reflected by his ongoing service in the Army Reserve
instructing Officers in Command, Leadership, Management
and Operational Planning. He is now bringing that
experience and passion to the private sector through The
Disruption Group.
Tim has a BA (Hons) from the University of New South Wales,
a Grad Cert (HRM) from the Queensland University of
Technology, and a Masters of Engineering (Logistics
Management) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology. Tim is a graduate of the Royal Military College
of Australia (Duntroon), the Army Logistics Training Centre,
and the Australian Defence Force Academy. Tim holds a
Cert IV (Training and Education) and is undertaking studies
through the Life Coaching Academy.
M A N A G E M E N T
T E A M
Carolyn Harrop has been a practicing psychologist serving
within the Australian Defence Force (ADF) for over 11yrs.
She has served on operational deployments with the
Australian Navy, Army and Air Force across a variety of
theatres of war and on peace-keeping operations. Her
deployments have ranged from East Timor, the Soloman
Islands, Fiji, Iraq and allied bases throughout the Middle
East.
Carolyn Harrop
Principal Consultant
Her roles within the ADF have included critical incident
psychological support, assessment, mental health
interventions, counselling, resilience training (pre and post
potential stress and trauma), suicide intervention, mental
health training and organisational culture assessments.
Fundamental to her role, was her responsibility of assisting
military commanders in developing and sustaining a resilient
fighting force.
She has also held positions on military Regional Mental
Health Teams, critical incident teams and provided
psychological interventions to returned servicemen through
Vietnam Veterans and Veterans Families Counselling Service
(VVCS). For the past four years, she has also been
responsible for assessing and predicting coping and
resilience potential in candidates applying to serve in the
ADF.
Carolyn completed a Bachelor of Psychology, Management
and Marketing through Monash University before completing
her Grad Dip Science in Psychology with Merit at the
University of Sydney. She has since completed a diverse
range of training in trauma; counselling; stress and anxietyrelated disorders and their management; and a wide range
of clinical interventions associated with cognitive and
emotional development and resilience. She is a registered
psychologist with AHPRA.
M A N A G E M E N T
T E A M
Leon D. Young is the Founder of Future Strategic
Thinking. He has 20 years experience in the
military, deployed on operations, been part of
joint, coalition and international operational
planning headquarters and provided input and
advice on strategic policy.
He has taught post-graduate courses on strategy,
capability and future studies. He is a member of
the Association of Professional Futurists, World
Futures Society, Australian Society of Operations
Research and is recognised international speaker
on futures.
Leon holds a BSc, MSc in Operations Research and
is currently completing his PhD in Computational
Strategic Thinking Models. He is also a former
Chief of Defence Force Fellow.
Leon D. Young
External Consultant Emergent Strategy and His professional interests include quantifying risk
Futurist through scenario development, futures education,
strategic decision making and logistic modelling.
www.futurestrategicthinking.com
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