Navigating government, community, media, and institutional relationships in politically and economically volatile contexts — with integrity and strategic clarity.
Complex environments require leaders to operate across government, regulators, communities, civil society, media, investors, employees, and partners whose interests may not align. Stakeholder management is therefore not public relations; it is the disciplined work of understanding power, legitimacy, risk, and relationship over time.
“A stakeholder map becomes useful only when it changes how a leader listens, sequences decisions, and builds legitimacy.”
We cover mapping stakeholder landscapes with real accuracy, building constructive government and regulatory relationships, engaging community and civil society stakeholders authentically rather than performatively, and managing public and media communication both proactively and in crisis. As the closing course in Global Management Contexts, it brings together the uncertainty and cross-cultural material from the two courses before it into the most externally-facing of the three.