Creating clarity when the annual plan can no longer keep pace
A three-hour seminar with Holger Nils Pohl and Bruno Pešec. Cologne. In English.
Markets revise themselves quarterly. Boards expect direction monthly. Teams want answers weekly. The annual strategy, written once and defended for twelve months, is often obsolete by the time it is approved.
The leaders who navigate the next twelve months well are not the ones with the best annual plan. They are the ones who can re-create clarity in a room, in an hour, when the situation shifts again.
This seminar is about how to do exactly that.
Who this is for
This seminar is designed for the senior leaders and managers who carry responsibility for innovation, strategy, and growth within enterprises and large SMEs.
What you will leave with
- A working frame for strategic clarity. The Clarity Framework, applied to the questions senior leaders actually face: where are we, where are we going, what is in the way, what do we decide now.
- A diagnostic for the initiatives you already run. How to apply the framework to clarify the strategic bets already in motion and shape the ones still ahead.
- A method for keeping strategy alive. How to turn a static plan into a Living Strategy your team can update, challenge, and use without waiting for the next offsite.
- Two practitioners' working judgment. What experienced operators actually do when they have ninety minutes with a leadership team and a decision cannot wait.
- A shared language your team adopts. A visual discipline for thinking, drawing, and deciding together. Simple, transferable, and still in use three months later.
- The room itself. A small group of senior peers wrestling with the same question.
- A working session, not a presentation. You begin using the tools in the first hour.
The session
The Clarity Framework: three phases, three activities, infinite possibilities
Strategy fails in the meeting before it fails in the market. Most leadership teams have the right information and the right people in the room, yet still leave without alignment. Holger shows how to fix that, in real time. Drawing on seventeen years of facilitating strategic conversations for senior leaders, he introduces a visual discipline for thinking, deciding, and aligning under pressure. You will see the method demonstrated live, then leave with a way of working you can apply in your next leadership session, board prep, or stakeholder conversation.
Clarity before commitment: four questions that will make or break your strategy
Building on the framework Holger introduces, Bruno walks you through four questions every strategic initiative must answer. He demonstrates how leaders can apply the framework to clarify existing initiatives and shape future ones. You will leave with the full toolbox for creating strategic clarity, ready to apply at any time, so you can deal proactively with changes in your market and industry.
Details
Language: English
Datum: October, 7th, 2026
Ort: Cologne, Germany
Dauer: 13 - 16:00 Uhr
Including Snacks and beverages
Your Hosts
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Holger Nils Pohl
Most strategy decks die in the room where they were presented. Holger Nils Pohl is one of the few practitioners in Europe who can change that, by helping leadership teams see what they actually mean.
For seventeen years, he has facilitated the strategic conversations organisations cannot afford to get wrong. His method, visual thinking applied to real decisions in real time, has been refined across hundreds of workshops and boardrooms.
Author of Creating Clarity and other books, endorsed by Alexander Osterwalder, Holger trained as both communication designer and carpenter. He brings a designer's eye and a craftsman's hands to making the invisible visible.
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Bruno Pešec
Most companies talk about innovation. Very few actually profit from it.
Bruno Pešec has helped senior leaders unlock €1 billion in new revenue and open doors to €28 billion in market opportunities, not by preaching theory but by working inside organisations across defence, manufacturing, financial services, education, and healthcare.
A trusted advisor, keynote speaker, author, and doctoral researcher on corporate innovation, Bruno has worked with DNV, DNB, and Kongsberg Group, co-founded Norway's largest Lean Startup community, and trained with Toyota. He combines rigorous academic thinking, hard-won experience, and a direct voice that cuts through noise.
