Join Professor Stuart Orr to find out what you need to know about scenario planning and how to use it

This session is designed for VET professionals interested in strengthening their ability to navigate uncertainty. 

Led by Professor Stuart Orr and Dr Paul Hunter, the session introduces the value of scenario planning for vocational educators and training providers, with practical examples from the Australian VET sector.

Join the session to unpack what scenario planning is, and the five reasons why scenario planning matters - especially in a changing training market, with regulatory shifts, funding pressures, digital delivery growth, skills list changes, and employer demand. 

A five-step framework will then be introduced, offering a clear path to applying scenario planning in your context. You will see how to use these steps to help:

  • Clarify priorities
  • Reduce risk
  • Improve responsiveness in uncertain environments.


Applicable to CEOs, owners, managers, trainers and anyone seeking relevant and realistic professional development, the session will run for up to 60 minutes including live Q&A with the audience. 


Complimentary registration is offered for the live event and all who attend will be able to trigger a certificate on the day as a record toward PD activities.


The session gives a snapshot of scenario planning which features in the 'Designing Long-Term Strategy' learning module. 

It introduces us to the mindset for strategic thinking and concepts of strategy planning upon which the 'Strategic Concepts' learning programs are based.

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Professor Stuart Orr

Stuart has extensive experience in business performance improvement, having worked for companies such as Asea Brown Bovari, run a successful management consulting business and consulted for many of Australia's largest businesses. 

He has also had a successful international career as a Professor in Strategic Management and as a member of a number of international and domestic boards, including President of one of Australia's largest NGOs. 

Stuart is regularly interviewed for articles in international magazines such as Forbes and Bloomberg and speaks on international and domestic radio and television programs on issues of domestic and international strategy.

Stuart has published extensively – some of his recent books are The Corporation of the Future (2022), Strategic Management, Essentials Edition (2021) and Innovation and Internationalisation: Successful SMEs’ Ventures into China (2019).

Stuart has worked with Paul Hunter to develop the content for the Strategic Concepts learning programs

Session Presenters

Dr Paul HunterPaul is a professional nudger (someone who uses behavioral psychology to influence people's decisions and behaviours by gently guiding them to act in their own best interest), a professional management consultant, author, teacher and researcher. He applies knowledge obtained from independent research, authoring activities and invention of future focused content to advise CEOs and other C Suite executives on strategy, leadership, organisational structuring and strategic change.

Paul has authored four business strategy books and has qualifications in Business, up to a Doctorate of Business Administration. Paul ensures change is realised by applying dynamic ways of thinking, formulating and implementing strategy; challenging wicked strategic problems, breaking tradition or obliterating content lying dormant in the ‘too hard’ basket.

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Paul has developed the Strategic Concepts learning programs that introduce the Third Wave Strategy framework