ITK Lectures + workshops
Navigating today's interconnected business environment
Geopolitics has significantly changed the nature of American business, forging a new generational paradigm.
How American business proceeds in this new environment is still unknown.
With an endless news cycle, a continuous flow of global trade, protectionist laws, and committed geopolitical powers, American business is being shaped from many directions and far beyond America's shores.
Decisions made in Beijing now influence actions in Brussels, which then compel policy in Washington, DC.
The ability to manage this dynamic, geopolitical business communications environment, coupled with an underlying cultural phenomenon rejecting the establishment, makes this new environment more challenging for American government officials, policymakers, voters, and CEOs of multinational companies.
The pace for addressing political challenges has increased, and problems have expanded due to a globally diverse network of stakeholders.
American voters have spoken and demanded a more significant share of the profits.
The traditional capitalist ideal of being responsible solely to shareholders is gone.
Capitalism now involves numerous stakeholders, including governments, media, bloggers, consumers, non-governmental organizations, investors, employees, and citizens.
For Chief Communications Officers and executives responsible for corporate affairs, public affairs, and communications, simply put, many more people will hold you accountable and want a say in your business.
The best business leaders can grasp the intersection of history, politics, geography, culture, and economics to achieve their business objectives.
The best business leaders are skilled at geopolitical business communications to achieve their business objectives.
The best geopolitical business communicators can consume the Financial Times and Vanity Fair equally.
The best geopolitical business communicators speak in London boardrooms and speak with Detroit union activists.
Geopolitics has significantly changed the nature of American business, forging a new generational paradigm that the best geopolitical business communicators can successfully influence and shape.
ITK Lectures + Workshops - Navigating today's interconnected business environment - will help you navigate global business issues at the intersection of globalization, disruption, and politics.
ITK Lectures + Workshops lives and breathes at the intersection of globalization, disruption, and politics, home of the world's most savvy participants.
ITK Lectures + Workshops are available in 45-minute, 90-minute, 180-minute, and 360-minute lecture and workshop formats and are customized to meet your global business objectives.
ITK Lectures + Workshops will focus on three buckets of learning:
+ A Battle for Ideas
+ America's Role in the World
+ Shaping the Future
ITK Lectures + Workshops can cover these suggested topics:
Lectures:
Keynes vs. Hayek: The Development of Bretton Woods, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund
80’s Deregulation: How Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan took on the USSR and the Warsaw Pact
Communications: How the Media, Journalists, Bloggers, and Social Media are Covering Globalization
The G20: America's Role in the International Economic Order
America Responds to the 21st Century Global Economy: Protectionism vs. Trade
US-Russia Relations
US-China Relations
Transistor Radios, Fast Fashion, and Supply Chains
Stakeholders and NGOs in the International Area: Shaping Public Affairs
The Evolution of Employment - From Cash to Career to Calling
Lectures:
How to Be a World-class Geopolitical Business Communicator
How to Use the E-STOCK™ Framework
How to Use the TWIN™ Framework
ITK Lectures + Workshops start at $5,250 and can be designed with a syllabus, supplemental reading materials, and must-read books to accommodate any size team or audience you need.
Caracal Founder + Chief Communications Strategist Marc A. Ross serves as the keynote lecturer and workshop leader but other experts and specialists from Caracal’s global network can be added to meet your global business objectives.
