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Full Day | Max. 12 Participants
Workshop Outcomes
- Improve strategic foresight and recursive thinking
- Build awareness of your own cognitive processes
- Anticipate unintended consequences of decisions
- Refine internal models through prediction error learning
- Challenge implicit assumptions and mental shortcuts
Topics Covered
- Meta-cognition and reflective reasoning
- Second- and third-order thinking in strategy and ethics
- Model updating, Bayesian reasoning, and learning loops
- Counterfactuals, simulations, and “what-if” scaffolds
- Tools for structured thinking in uncertain environments
Location
- Willing to work remote
- Willing to work interstate
- Willing to work internationally
How can this workshop be delivered?
- Face to face
Overview
Deep-dive into recursive thinking, prediction error correction, and mental model refinement
Most strategic failures aren't due to a lack of thinking—they're due to a lack of thinking about thinking. This course is designed to build meta-reasoning: the capacity to monitor your own thought processes, refine mental models, and think in terms of consequences, not just actions.
Participants will learn how to engage in second-order and even third-order reasoning—seeing not just what’s likely to happen, but what will happen because of that. It’s ideal for leaders and analysts who need to predict behaviour, manage dynamic systems, or make decisions with cascading effects.
This is not theoretical philosophy—it’s cognitive software for complex strategy.
Workshop Outcomes
- Improve strategic foresight and recursive thinking
- Build awareness of your own cognitive processes
- Anticipate unintended consequences of decisions
- Refine internal models through prediction error learning
- Challenge implicit assumptions and mental shortcuts
Topics Covered
- Meta-cognition and reflective reasoning
- Second- and third-order thinking in strategy and ethics
- Model updating, Bayesian reasoning, and learning loops
- Counterfactuals, simulations, and “what-if” scaffolds
- Tools for structured thinking in uncertain environments
Who is this workshop for
Senior strategists, defence analysts, economists, think tank staff, and leadership cohorts
Handouts/materials provided
All materials provided
What to bring
Nothing to provide
Facilitator
About the facilitator
Brad Dunn is a software executive with over 25 years of leadership experience across the Asia-Pacific region. He has held executive roles in multiple public companies and served as the CEO of two others. Brad has also published articles in magazines and industry journals on contemporary management culture and has extensive, hands-on experience transforming organisations toward stronger, market-leading positions.
Now specialising in neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and decision science, Brad focuses on helping individuals enhance the quality of their decisions in uncertain and complex environments. He designs and delivers workshops that enable leaders to think strategically, reduce cognitive bias, and adapt to complexity. His work integrates behavioural science with systems thinking, with particular attention to how disruptions from artificial intelligence are reshaping organisational dynamics. Brad’s goal is to equip teams with the tools to make clearer, faster, and more rational decisions in high-stakes contexts.
Key Expertise
- Product Management
- Software Leadership
- Critical Thinking
- Decision Science
Industry Focus
- Software
- Applied Sciences
About the facilitator
Brad Dunn is a software executive with over 25 years of leadership experience across the Asia-Pacific region. He has held executive roles in multiple public companies and served as the CEO of two others. Brad has also published articles in magazines and industry journals on contemporary management culture and has extensive, hands-on experience transforming organisations toward stronger, market-leading positions.
Now specialising in neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and decision science, Brad focuses on helping individuals enhance the quality of their decisions in uncertain and complex environments. He designs and delivers workshops that enable leaders to think strategically, reduce cognitive bias, and adapt to complexity. His work integrates behavioural science with systems thinking, with particular attention to how disruptions from artificial intelligence are reshaping organisational dynamics. Brad’s goal is to equip teams with the tools to make clearer, faster, and more rational decisions in high-stakes contexts.
Key Expertise
- Product Management
- Software Leadership
- Critical Thinking
- Decision Science
Industry Focus
- Software
- Applied Sciences
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