Executive Roundtable – A Strategy for Uncertainty

28 February 2024

Adaptive strategy applies complexity thinking to the art of high-level planning to enable firms to build resilience in the face of uncertainties.

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Executive Roundtable – What is Organisational Strategy?

18 July 2023

Do you have an organisational strategy that is distinct from your business strategy? How do you go about designing an organisation that truly delivers growth and unlocks value for your business?

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“Leading Extraordinary Performance™” Programme 2024

In this programme, you learn how to create Potent Environments, expand your view of what’s possible, and equip and mobilise your teams to deliver the extraordinary. We don’t transfer knowledge to you. Instead, you’ll get lasting, life-altering personal insights that will empower you to lead and deliver results beyond what you currently know how to do. You’ll engage in deep enquiries to release you from your current limitations. Your insights will be immediately valuable. Plus, they can’t be ‘unseen’; you’ll create a lasting foundation for a new level of leadership.

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Executive Roundtable – Beyond Budgeting

6 September 2022

In 2005 Equinor (formerly Statoil - the Norwegian State oil company), decided to abolish traditional budgeting and Bjarte led this effort, called ‘Beyond Budgeting’. The effects of this decision and what they learned has gained international attention and Bjarte became the Chairman of the Beyond Budgeting RoundtableEurope.

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Executive Roundtable – What is Inclusive Leadership?

16 November 2021

Cassi Mecchi describes himself as “A social activist who's secretly infiltrated the corporate sector”. Over the past 10 years he has led on Diversity and Inclusion in companies like Google and Spotify and is currently Netflix’s Director for Inclusion for EMEA. Guided by Cassi, we inquired into questions like “What does inclusive leadership look like on a daily basis?” and “How do I foster a culture that promotes inclusive leadership?”.

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Executive Roundtable – Running a Boss-Free Business

7 September 2021

Luke Kyte helped Reddico go all the way with self-management. They have no managers, no approvals, no budgets and you can pick your own coach. This was a chance to take a peek into a world of ultimate employee empowerment and ask ourselves as leaders where we could be loosening the reigns in our own organisations.

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Executive Roundtable – Turning The Trust Dial To 11

15 July 2021

This Executive Roundtable looked at a question that our co-host, Tom van der Lubbe, Co-Founder & Viisionair at pioneering financial firm Viisi, has been exploring throughout his career, what happens when we trust all the way? Having handed over virtually all decision making to the staff themselves, Viisi is one the Netherlands fastest growing companies and a winner for the Greatest Place to Work for the last three years running.

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Executive Roundtable – Leading on Shifting Group

9 March 2021

This Executive Roundtable is responding to a request from our co-host, Charlotte Eimer, Head of Change for BBC News, where we will explore how we can keep up the momentum and team morale when the road to recovery is constantly shifting. Charlotte will share her own experience of being in the midst of this at BBC and we would love to have your participation in our inquiry.

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Global collaboration transforms safety

18 November 2020

As CEO of HeliOffshore, Gretchen brought together a set of fierce competitors and in 5 years created a global collaborative environment to deliver a breakthrough in safety. She has just stepped down from this position to take a seat on the board. She is also on the board of the Flight Safety Foundation and was a member of the “US DoT Special Committee Review of the FAA Certification of the 737 MAX”.

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