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A high-impact, intensive lab spread over 4-weeks, focused on elite coaching and real-world application, centred on :
“Your Geopolitical Strategic Challenge — Current and Future”

What Is This Lab?

The Red Team Strategic Lab (on short the Red Lab) is a hands-on, advanced strategic foresight and warning programme for those who need to create operationally relevant strategic models under conditions of deep uncertainty for political and geopolitical risks.

Over 4 weeks, you will:

  • Apply structured analysis foresight and warning methodologies to a real strategic challenge;
  • Build and refine your own analytical model (graph of variables);
  • Gain expert-level feedback and personal coaching;
  • Work alongside a small cohort (max. 5) in confidential, interactive sessions.

Led personally by Dr. Hélène Lavoix (PhD, 30 years experience in international relations, close to 20 years of international experience in strategic foresight & warning), this Lab offers direct access to high level expertise.

Why a Lab?

This isn’t just training — it is a focused, collaborative space.

Working on your own real-world topic, you’ll test ideas, challenge assumptions, and sharpen your strategic thinking. The interaction between participants — each addressing different but equally complex issues — enriches the process and enhances learning. Expect serious discussion, diverse perspectives, and grounded debate.

What You Get

✔️ 16h30 of live cohort training and practice (5 half days sessions = 7 applied sessions + 5 teaching moments);
✔️ 6h +9h: 6h of one-to-one coaching with Dr Lavoix, including detailed review and correction of your model (approx. 9h of thorough expert feedback per trainee on top of the 6h of coaching);
✔️ Unlimited access over 6 months to the Red Team Analysis Online Course – Anticipate the Future: Build Your Strategic Model for Geopolitical Risk and Crisis – From Process to Model: A Step-by-Step Course in Strategic Foresight and Early Warning; including material, pdfs, videos, reading lists.
✔️ Structured PDF preparation guide and full training schedule;
✔️ Certificate of Completion.

You will leave the Lab with:

  • A completed analytical model you can reuse and adapt;
  • A replicable methodology for future foresight and warning work;
  • A deeper understanding of strategic complexity and uncertainty;
  • Practical experience applying foresight and warning to a global issue that concerns you.

Are you an alum of our online course?
As a returning participant, you are eligible for an exclusive discount on the Lab.
Contact us for details: [email protected]

What kind of topics can you work on?

You choose the strategic question. Past and potential themes and topics include:

  • Escalation risks in the Taiwan Strait
  • Securing energy for a 2050 Net Zero objective and impacts
  • Securing national critical mineral supply chains
  • Emerging tech and asymmetric threats in conflict zones
  • Emerging threats to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
  • State collapse and regional spillover
  • Strategic competition in the Arctic
  • Polarisation and domestic instability in democratic regimes
  • Narco-trafficking in … [your region, substance, etc., to be defined]
  • Darknet drug trafficking or terrorist financing
  • Organised crime
  • etc.

If your topic deals with complexity, uncertainty, and involves national or international security, it is suitable for the Lab.

Who is this for?

This program is ideal for:

  • Professionals, analysts and officers working in national or international security (conventional and unconventional);
  • Policy researchers and think tank professionals;
  • Risk or intelligence analysts in sensitive or uncertain environments;
  • Professionals preparing for strategic or long-term missions.

You don’t need to be a technical expert — but you do need to be serious about building high-level foresight and warning skills and analytical capabilities.

Format and Time Commitment

  • Lab Duration: 4 weeks (sessions do not exceed half a day to consider busy schedules).
  • Start Date: Registration closed for this session – next session: pending date (register interest below)
  • Total Time Commitment:
    • Before the lab (or during, as needed):
      • Expect to spend at least 7h covering 5 key units and 4 software tutorials (out of the full 12 units) from the online course “Anticipate the Future…”.
      • Additional time may be needed for readings and exercises. Completing the entire course is optional but highly recommended for those who want to go further.
    • During the lab:
      ~24h of self-paced prep. and work;
      16h30 of cohort sessions;
      6h of one-to-one expert coaching.

Sessions are held online (Zoom) + support by email (with attachments). Confidentiality is respected. All live times are listed in CET.

Language

We welcome applications from around the world (restricted to time zone compatibility, see below). The training will be conducted in English. If the entire cohort is francophone, a French version may be organised instead.

Time Zone Compatibility

To ensure a dynamic and high-quality learning experience for all participants, we will do our best to accommodate a wide range of time zones in this edition of The Red Team Strategic Lab.

Live cohort sessions will be held between 09:00 and 19:00 CET/CEST (Paris time), with the aim of finding the most workable overlap for the confirmed group.

We will explore tailored solutions to ensure meaningful participation, even across challenging time differences.

Individual coaching sessions will be arranged flexibly, based on mutual availability, and can take place outside the main cohort time window when necessary.

Program Outline

From strategic concerns to dynamic models and their use.

  • Clarify and refine your question;
  • Identify variables, actors, and causal relationships;
  • Build your first strategic graph;
  • Use your graph for analysis and policy alternatives;
  • Explore temporal (dynamic) graph techniques;
  • Design early warning indicators using your model;
  • Apply your model for strategic early warning.
  • Receive tailored feedback and coaching throughout.

Application & Selection

This is a high-touch, selective program. To ensure deep feedback and guidance, places are strictly limited.

Only a maximum of 5 participants per cohort are selected to ensure quality and tailored support.
A short application is required.

To apply:

  • Fill out the short form below.
  • Indicate your background and motivation.
  • We’ll review applications and confirm within 7 working days.

Upon acceptance, we’ll send you payment instructions. Once payment is cleared you will receive your preparation guide and access to the online course.

Application Deadline Special Launch Edition – Registration closed

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Questions?

If you’d like to clarify whether this program is right for you, you can email Dr. Helene Lavoix directly at [email protected].

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