The Spanish transformation consulting company launches the training program ‘Interpreting the world to make profitable decisions’, coordinated by the geopolitical expert Pedro Rodríguez, for managers, directors, sales teams and high-performance professionals
In a globalized world like the current one, geopolitics, understood as the relationship between geography and power, has become a fundamental discipline for companies with international interests. Being able to interpret their signals is key to making the most strategic decisions for the business, especially in a context of uncertainty and crisis like the current one. For Watch&Act, a consultancy specializing in business transformation processes, geopolitics will increasingly influence market flows and the evolution of organizations, and it is a pending issue that Spanish managers must take into maximum consideration.
“The crisis in Ukraine and everything that stems from it is a clear example of the geopolitical conditions that affect companies in all countries today. Some of our clients have wondered how they would have approached investments in Ukraine had they foreseen the Russian invasion, or how they should react now if they have significant business activity in Russia. For this reason, at Watch&Act we have set out to give them tools to help them find the answers”says Luis Fernando Rodríguez, CEO of Watch&Act.
The company has just launched the training program ‘Interpreting the world to make profitable decisions’, which offers practical training on Geopolitics and International Relations (IR) so that company managers can adopt strategic business measures taking into account other perspectives that can impact your bottom line.
A program tailored to the interests of each organization
It is a proposal ‘in company’ created to suit each organization, proposed as a program of 13 sessions, each one on a highly topical topic, which are pre-selected and adapted according to the interests of the business, and taught by an expert in the field. In addition, during this year two calls will be given in an open format to which managers from different companies will be able to register.
The program has been designed and structured by Pedro Rodríguez, journalist, professor of RR.II. at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE and an expert in Geopolitics, and is aimed at managers and members of boards of directors, commercial teams and high-performance professionals.
Topics include content on the current world order/disorder; globalization and its questioning; populism and the retreat of democracy; the Europe of Brexit and the ‘post-Merkel’ era; the redefinition of the Middle East; the situation in Latin America; China’s hegemony in a global world; Putin’s Russia; the Africa of post-colonialism; the United States in the 21st century; terrorism, cybersecurity, energy security or climate change.
Among the speakers, all of them top level, are academics, analysts, diplomats and Army officers with proven experience in the topics included in this new training program for companies.
“Geopolitics is like the movement of tectonic plates: from time to time there is a violent seismic shock that changes everything. The invasion of Ukraine is one of those earthquakes, capable of radically altering the world order born of the Cold War. In addition, it has led us to question globalization head-on, starting with value chains as generators of wealth. Companies and their managers cannot manage their interests apart from all this, and with this training program we hope to give them the keys to be able to make their decisions in this framework of profound change”points out Pedro Rodríguez, coordinator of the geopolitical training program promoted by Watch&Act.