Built on JP Wilson’s proprietary “Ascend” model, the programme equips participants with a practical framework for leading strategy from the boardroom to value realisation in the marketplace. It takes directors through the full strategic arc: formulating growth strategy through disciplined strategic choices, creating value through innovation governance and corporate venture, accelerating value through artificial intelligence and leadership succession, stress-testing value through threat emergence and scenario planning, and ultimately realising value through disciplined execution and oversight.

Across seven modules, each 30-minute segment is paired with a hands-on participant intervention, enabling directors to apply concepts, test assumptions, and sharpen board-level judgement in real time. The programme concludes with a Boardroom Dialogue and Strategy Wrap-Up, consolidating the day’s insights into actionable board practice. Participants leave with a practical toolkit for shaping, challenging, governing, and stewarding strategy at the board table.

Course Objectives

1. Apply JP Wilson’s "Ascend" model to formulate growth strategy at the board level, distinguishing the board's role in strategy formulation from management's role in execution.
2. Exercise innovation governance by structuring board oversight of innovation pipelines, R&D investment, and stewardship of long-horizon bets without stifling experimentation.
3. Evaluate corporate venture opportunities as levers for value creation alongside the core business.
4. Establish AI guardrails at the board level, balancing the strategic upside of artificial intelligence against ethical, operational, and reputational risks.
5. Lead leadership and succession planning by mapping organisational compass to executive competence, ensuring leadership capability is aligned with strategic direction.
6. Anticipate and stress-test threats through scenario planning, and identify emerging disruptors before they materially impact the business.
7. Drive disciplined execution by setting the board's expectations for strategic milestones, accountability mechanisms, and course-correction triggers.
8. Integrate boardroom judgement through a case study, translating frameworks into practical decisions amid shareholder change and market uncertainty. 
   

Programme

• 8.30am  Registration
• 9.00 am Opening: Introduction to Strategy Formulation at the Board (Recapitulation)
• 9.15 am The Case: FlyMight Airlines
• 9.30 am Module 1: Growth Strategy Formulation with JP Wilson’s “Ascend” model, Participants’ Intervention: Ascend Model Development
• 10.10 am Module 2: Value Creation - Innovation Governance, Participants’ Intervention: Innovation Stewardship
• 10.50 am Break
• 11.00 am Module 3: Value Creation: Corporate Venture, Participants’ Intervention: Corporate Venture Leadership
• 11.40 am Morning Wrap-Up
• 11.50 am Lunch: (1) Strategic Perspectives . (2) “The Strategy Report” by SID & JP Wilson
• 12.50 pm Module 4: Value Acceleration: Artificial Intelligence, Participants’ Intervention: Artificial Intelligence Guardrails
• 1.30 pm Module 5: Value Acceleration: Leadership & Succession, Participants’ Intervention: Mapping Compass to Competence
• 2.10 pm Break
• 2.20 pm Module 6: Value Protection: Threat Emergence, Participants’ Intervention: Scenario Planning
• 3.20 pm Module 7: Value Realisation: Execution, Participants’ Intervention: A Disciplined Board
• 4.00 pm The Boardroom Dialogue
• 5.00 pm The Strategy Wrap-Up
• 6.00 pm End

CPD Hours : 8

SID members: $610.40 (incl. 9% GST)
Non-members: $795.70 (incl. 9% GST)

SID Corporate Members may utilise their complimentary vouchers - please write in to [email protected].

SPEAKER

Dr Wilson Chew is the Chair at J.P. Wilson, a Southeast Asia growth and transaction strategy firm for private clients. He was the former lead partner for strategy at the Entrepreneurial and Private Clients practice of PwC. Wilson spent over 20 years in enterprise growth strategy, served over 200 entrepreneur and family-led companies, and led 140 strategy engagements including 12 public listings in Asia, 26 private transactions and two national scale-up initiatives with the Singapore Government. He served as Chair for the Fortrec Group, Deputy Chair of National Arthritis Foundation and Independent Director of Swee Hong.

Registration

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