Strategy turns ambition into reality.
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Success is rarely chance, it's mostly planned.
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Strategy turns ambition into reality. --- Success is rarely chance, it's mostly planned. ---
Strategic Finance for Growth Leaders
Turning vision into successful businesses.
Executive Education
This practical two-day programme explores how organisations plan for growth, evaluate strategic opportunities, assess markets, allocate capital and make long-term commercial decisions. You'll learn how experienced business leaders use financial thinking to build stronger organisations, evaluate risk and create sustainable value.
Level:
Executive Education
CPD Certification
Duration:
2 Days
9 am to 5 pm each day
Next Dates:
18th to 19th November 2026
24th to 25th March 2027
Location:
Dundee, Scotland
Investment:
£1,275 plus VAT
Thinking beyond next month's results.
Most financial reporting looks backwards. Great leaders spend far more time looking forward.
Whether you're considering business growth, entering new markets, launching products, investing in new technology or acquiring another company, every strategic decision carries financial consequences.
This programme explains how experienced leaders evaluate opportunities, build long-term plans and make better commercial decisions in uncertain environments.
Strategy turns ambition into reality.
The future isn't chance. It's planned.
Why is this programme different?
Many strategy programmes focus on frameworks.
Many finance programmes focus on reporting.
This programme connects commercial strategy with financial reality.
You'll explore how successful organisations assess markets, value market share, understand competitive position, evaluate investment opportunities, verify funding requirements, and create long-term value using practical strategic finance to help deliver long-term ambition.
Executive education should change the way you think.
Great businesses don't simply react to the future. They build it.
This programme combines strategic leadership, commercial finance and real-world business experience to help leaders make better long-term decisions.
What you'll learn
This programme explores the strategic thinking, financial planning and commercial judgement that underpin sustainable business growth.
Together we'll explore:
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Understand how successful organisations balance short-term performance with long-term value creation.
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Learn how market size, competitive positioning and industry structure influence strategic opportunity.
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Understand why some businesses scale successfully while others struggle despite growing sales.
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Build practical business plans that connect strategy, operations and financial performance.
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Learn how strategic assumptions become financial forecasts and decision-making tools.
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Understand how organisations evaluate investment opportunities and prioritise limited resources.
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Explore mergers, acquisitions, restructuring and why successful integrations require more than buying businesses.
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Learn how experienced leaders prepare for uncertainty using scenarios rather than predictions.
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Understand which measures really matter when managing long-term performance.
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Bring commercial thinking, financial understanding and leadership judgement together to make better strategic decisions.
Who should attend?
This programme is designed for leaders responsible for shaping the future direction, growth and long-term success of their organisation.
It is particularly valuable for:
Managing Directors
CEOs
Business Owners
Finance Directors
Commercial Directors
Strategy Directors
General Managers
Senior Leaders
Investors
Entrepreneurs
Future Executive Leaders
No advanced finance qualifications are required. Participants should have a good understanding of their organisation and a desire to strengthen their strategic thinking, commercial judgement and long-term decision-making.
By the end of the programme you'll be able to...
✔ Build stronger long-term business plans.
✔ Evaluate strategic opportunities with confidence.
✔ Assess markets and competitive positioning.
✔ Develop practical financial models.
✔ Understand growth strategies and investment decisions.
✔ Evaluate acquisitions and restructuring opportunities.
✔ Improve board-level commercial discussions.
✔ Make commercially stronger strategic decisions.
Meet your programme leader
Heather Ogilvie
Heather Ogilvie is a former Group Strategist, Chief Financial Officer, and Chartered Accountant, an International Turnaround Specialist and Executive Advisor with more than thirty years' experience helping organisations transform, grow, and improve commercial performance.
A Financial Times Women in Business Mentor and founder of the charity MoneyMinds Scotland SCIO, Heather is passionate about helping people build confidence with money and understand how businesses really work. She has taught hundreds of people about business, finance and commercial decision-making, and is known for explaining complex concepts in simple, practical and memorable ways.
Heather believes finance shouldn't be intimidating. It should give people the confidence to ask better questions, make better decisions, and contribute more effectively to both their organisation's and their own personal success.
Why Ogilvie Business School?
At Ogilvie Business School, all education is delivered by experienced practitioners who have led organisations, solved real business challenges and understand what it takes to create lasting commercial success.
Our programmes combine practical experience with structured learning, giving participants knowledge they can apply immediately within their own organisations.
We believe great executive education doesn't simply increase knowledge.
It changes the way you think.
Why Choose This Programme
Learn from a former Group CFO, Chartered Accountant and international turnaround specialist who has led strategic planning, acquisitions, business transformation and long-term growth across global organisations.
✓ Practical strategic finance built on decades of real boardroom experience.
✓ Learn how successful businesses plan, grow and create long-term value.
✓ Improve the quality of your strategic decisions and commercial judgement.
✓ Apply practical tools immediately within your own organisation.
✓ Small executive cohort.
✓ CPD Certificate on successful completion.
✓ Membership of the Ogilvie Business School Alumni Network.
Programme Fee
£1,275 plus VAT
Your programme fee includes:
Two full days of expert teaching
Course materials
Refreshments and lunch
Certificate of Completion
Membership of the Ogilvie Business Alumni Network, with access to networking opportunities, programme updates and exclusive alumni offers
Ready to shape the future of your organisation?
Whether you're leading a growing business, planning your next stage of expansion or preparing for major strategic decisions, understanding strategic finance gives you the confidence to lead with greater clarity and purpose.
Join us in Dundee for two practical days that will change the way you think about growth, investment, and long-term business success.