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C-Level Solutions specializes in the creation of scenario events and other interactive moderated program formats that bring together high-level audiences for collaborative, engaging, lively joint planning or brainstorming sessions. Ranging in size from 25-1,000 participants, these programs can be shaped to help clients explore alternative futures, develop strategies, game-out responses to potential threats or opportunities, or simply to brainstorm on critical issues. Drawing on the same techniques that have been used by the U.S. national security community and some of the world's most innovative major corporations, these events utilize the latest technologies to link every participant in the event together as part of a wireless network. The network enables C-LS to produce live polls of the attendees, to capture their thoughts, answer the questions most on the minds of organizers, conduct market research and communicate anonymously their views as the program format and the organizers require. Results are instantly presented on large rear-projection screens and integrated into the multi-media or PowerPoint elements that help guide and drive the scenarios. The events typically employ the active moderating approach of C-LS which makes every single participant an active speaker in the programâ€"an approach that makes particular sense with c-level and other top tier audiences that are not comfortable being passive participants in typical event formats. The moderator will typically introduce the discussion with carefully selected, well-known, outside experts and then will use the polling technology, the scenario format and his or her own skills to draw in each of the participants in the room until an exchange is under way that is truly open and captures the intellectual contributions of all present. The approach has been hugely successful where employed and is embraced not just for its content but also for its fast-paced, interactive, sometimes irreverent approach which allows audiences to anticipate change and work better as a team. Such programs should be used for:· Strategic planning· Training· Team building· Cultivating relationships with prospective and current clients and collaborators· Brainstorming and Creative Development· Crisis management· Management retreats· War-Gaming alternative futuresTopics for scenario and other interactive sessions can be tailored to the precise needs of individual clients. Past sessions in which C-LS principals have participated have included:· Future implications of biotechnology· Next stages in the War on Terrorism· Consequences of regional unrest in Central Asia for business· Impact of the information revolution on emerging markets· U.S. political outlook· Global and regional macroeconomic outlook· Outlook for a wide variety of individual sectors· Trends in institutional and individual investing· Coming developments in Latin America, Asia, the U.S., Europe and the Middle East· The future of reforms in each of these regions· Consequences of changing regulations in the communications industry· Other legal and regulatory changes from intellectual property law to those sweeping financial markets· Next generation trends in defense and security· Post-Castro Cuba· The transforming nature of demographic changes worldwide· Implications of upcoming trade talksIn short, this approach can be effectively tailored to virtually all topics and C-LS specializes in adding value in the conception as well as the execution and management of these programs.