All LSE executive education participants are required to have:

• Fluency in English.
• A good undergraduate degree or significant work experience in a relevant role(s).
• Minimum two years’ professional experience. Typically our participants have more than ten years’ work experience.

This course will propose you an awakening journey into both the psychology and modelling of decisions, and will be highly interactive. Morning lectures will discuss how to make decisions, both when there is sufficient time to conduct analyses and when there is only time to choose intuitively. During the afternoons, you will gain hands-on experience on framing and modelling decisions under tough conditions, thus experiencing directly the benefits of the balance between intuitive and deliberate decision-making. 

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During the highly interactive five days, participants will update their own personal mindware for decision making and boost their strategic decision making capabilities on three key fronts:

• Become aware of systematic cognitive biases and traps that operate on individuals and groups;
• Learn how to effectively develop winning solutions for the key traps in strategic decision making;
• Discover how to recognize when you have the “green light” on the decision making process and it is time to go ahead and commit to the developed recommendation.

The course will be taught by:

• Dr Barbara Fasolo

Dr Barbara Fasolo is Associate Professor of Behavioural Science in the Department of Management. She is an expert on choice processes and choice architecture and one of the top-10 teachers in the Department of Management at LSE. Read more here

• Dr Valentina Ferretti

Dr Valentina Ferretti is Associate Professor in Project Appraisal and holds a PhD in Decision Analysis. She is the winner of the LSE Teaching Award for Inspirational Teaching in Risk and Decision Analysis. Read more here

• Professor Paul Willman

Professor Paul Willman is an Emeritus Professor of Management in the Department of Management and Academic Director of LSE’s Executive Courses. He has taught on MBA and Executive MBA programmes at Oxford University, Cranfield School of Management, Budapest University of Economics, Ecole de Ponts ParisTech, London Business School and TRIUM. Find out more here

 Zarpina Kabir, Head of Northern Europe, Advertising, Adobe

"The principles I learned are already coming into the framework of my day-to-day – I’ve started to stop and think during my decision-making process, balancing strong solutions with strategic objectives."

Read Zarpina's full profile here.

Dennis Kollman, Divison Manager, Strategic Account Management, Hermes Germany

"We learned not only about how to make important decisions, but also a lot about our own biases that come into play every moment of our lives, when we make everyday decisions, as well as the big ones. The decisions I make now are more conscious, and based on facts." 

Read Dennis' full profile here.

Amy Nicholson, Product Manager, Financial Times

"It was such a fantastic experience for me. It was planned and delivered incredibly well: the combination of learning and the social aspect made it a stand-out week."

Read Amy's full profile here.

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