Events

How do we help managers support their teams?

As AI reshapes roles, decisions and productivity, what becomes the real human edge? Join senior leaders to explore how we keep people, culture and leadership at the centre of a tech-driven world.

What does a CEO need when ambition is high?

AI is changing how businesses work, how we lead and what we need from the people joining our organisations. This session explores what that means for business owners—from supporting today’s workforce to understanding how education is preparing tomorrow’s graduates.

Discover how the moments that stop us in our tracks can fundamentally reshape our relationship with work. Dr Anthony Klotz, who coined “The Great Resignation”, explores how leaders can recognise these “jolts” and turn them into opportunities for greater engagement, wellbeing and retention.

Drawing on a four-month study of a leadership team in a large design agency, this session explores how introducing deliberate micro-pauses can help teams avoid autopilot under pressure, improve decision-making, and sustain performance across the wider organisation.

The problem: Talent and L&D teams face growing demands, competing priorities and limited capacity. Adding more activity can leave little space for the work that matters most, yet stopping things can be difficult to justify.

When AI and uncertainty challenge the lessons of experience, how do we help senior leaders make better calls? Join Hamish Forsyth to explore emerging findings from our community survey and the latest evidence on practical ways L&D can build and measure executive judgement.

Organised for community members in the Midlands and beyond to come together

In an environment defined by disruption, agility and resilience are no longer optional. This conversation focuses on how learning can equip people and organisations to adapt, thrive and lead confidently when change is the only constant.

As AI transforms the world faster than experience can predict it, this session explores why generational intelligence is becoming leadership's greatest advantage.

Why professional relationships quietly determine who gets traction, support, and results.

Change today is continuous and disruptive, causing many initiatives to fail when approached with outdated assumptions. Michael Hudson advocates building “change fitness” through grounding, broader perspective, and adaptive action.

Drawing on four decades of leadership and organisational transformation, this session explores group behaviour, toxic systems and embodied leadership. Blending lived experience with Wilfred Bion’s thinking, it offers an experiential look at leading with awareness, resilience and presence.

Beyond AI Tools, Reimagining Work, Roles and Structures

How do you make performance management something that genuinely improves performance, rather than just another annual process?

Everyone is talking about AI adoption. Far fewer organisations are seeing meaningful value from it. Our latest research suggests the problem isn't the technology, it's the human conditions required to make it work.

Leadership, Culture and Performance in a Changing World