Everything's urgent. Everything's reactive. Everything's running through you?
You've been told to be more strategic. Nobody's shown you how.
Thursday Nov 19, 2026 | 10:00 AM | GMT
If you’re constantly busy, making decisions under pressure, and still expected to think long-term, prioritise clearly and lead with confidence - you’ll recognise the tension.
Everything's urgent, everything's reactive and everything's running through you.
In this free, live 60-minute masterclass, Charlie Curson shares what actually builds strategic capability.
Charlie is the author of the international bestseller Be More Strategic and a Business Book Awards 2026 Leadership finalist. He draws on 25+ years working with leaders in 300+ organisations across 30+ sectors.
You have capable people, you have strategy documents, and you run planning cycles. But your leaders still get pulled into operational noise. Every 6–12 months, you reset but still something doesn't stick.
If you want to stop reacting and start thinking more strategically, this session will show you where to begin.
I am an accredited leadership coach, strategic advisor and founder of Mandarin. I help build
strategic capability in leaders and their teams, so they lift their heads, prioritise what matters and make the decisions others avoid.
It started early in my career, doing strategy analysis, when I watched a CEO take a strategy worth millions and put it on the shelf behind him. Everyone wanted strategy. Nobody seemed able to define it, create it or coach it.
I have spent 25 years since working out how.
I have worked with thousands of leaders in 300+ organisations across 30+ sectors, globally, from Audi, BP, Unilever, McDonald’s, Visa, Barclays and L’Oréal to fast-growing, founder-led scale-ups. I am a Leadership Circle Profile practitioner and angel investor, and have worked first-hand alongside Olympic champions, Royal Marines and Michelin-starred chefs, bringing lessons from elite performance into the teams I work with.
My book, Be More Strategic : 12 Essential Practices to Build the Life and Career You Want, is an international bestseller and a Business Book Awards 2026 Leadership finalist. I am also the founder of the Strategic Capability Accelerator, a 12-month programme for leaders who are done firefighting.
My mission is to make strategic capability something people build far earlier in their careers and use in their lives as much as their work.
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