EXECUTIVE LEARNING MASTERCLASSES · By Costas Markides Innovation is a word we are using too much...

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London Speaker Bureau presents Executive Learning Masterclasses – tailored workshops and seminars by some

of the world’s finest business leaders. Minimum theory; maximum hands-on tools and best practices from

those who “have been there, have done that” – for your corporate training programmes and team meetings.

EXECUTIVE LEARNING MASTERCLASSESTailored workshops with outstanding

speakers for your organizational

development

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Foresight leaders have realised that to execute their strategy they need to succeed both in their

daily business, and also by implementing their strategic and transformation initiatives. Leading

transversal projects successfully has become a critical skill for senior executives and middle

management. Research done by the Project Management Institute (PMI), Forrester, McKinsey &

Company reveals that many organisations fail when implementing their strategic initiatives,

wasting millions of dollars, and missing exceptional growth opportunities.

This unique masterclass provides you with a structured framework for exploring leading-edge

ideas in strategy implementation and project leadership to ensure that your organisation achieves

its vision and strategic objectives.

MASTERCLASS LEADER: Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez Antonio has spent more than 20 years researching what successful companies and governments

have in common as a key driver in successful implementation of their long-term vision. He is

one of the few world experts who combines teaching, advising and keynotes, with a corporate

senior role in a leading multinational. This distinctive mix gives him an edge on what works and

what doesn’t, making his masterclasses engaging, hands-on and exceptionally practical. He has

experience in the pharma, banking, telecom, technology, consulting, energy, and public sector

industries. Antonio has been nominated Thinker of the Month by Thinkers50. His concepts, such as

the ‘Hierarchy of Purpose’, have been featured in Harvard Business Review. He is past chair of the

global Board of Directors of the PMI.

What is covered:

Developing a culture that drives execution – focus, alignment and discipline

Creating a roadmap for growth – translating ideas into value

We have defined our strategy carefully – what is next?

Select the right projects that will help your organisation compete in the future

Prioritisation – an essential ingredient for successful execution

Understanding the importance of capacity to optimise the number of projects

Making sense of complexity – becoming an agile organisation

Project management tool-kit: most practical way to assess if projects will

deliver value

Delivering transversal projects in a matrix – influencing without authority

The essential role of the executive team in delivering successfully strategic

initiatives

Value and Expected Outcomes:

Understand what you need to do to accelerate your organisation’s strategy

execution

Learn how to drastically reduce the size of your projects while achieving more

impact

Share ideas and concepts that work and can be applied in your organisation now

Understand how to become an innovation-driven and agile organisation

Learn how to attract talent and keep employees engaged, motivated and high-

performing

“Antonio has a knack for breaking complex topics down into easy-to-grasp subjects. In addition, participants also appreciated his ability to apply management and strategy topics to real-life challenges, shedding light on quick yet effective ways to efficiently solve everyday problems. In short: Antonio is a brilliant, savvy presenter whom I would like to hear again and again and again.”IBM Strategy Senior VP

GROWTH, AGILITY, TRANSFORMATION: ACCELERATE THE EXECUTION OF YOUR STRATEGYBy Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez


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What is covered:

Costas will lead you through a tailored series of discussions and exercises highlighting

the most important elements of successful strategic innovation:

Assumptions and decision-making: questioning is not enough – what are the sacred

cows in your organisation?

How to innovate: focusing on your business and looking outside for ideas

Your organisational environment and changes you would like to see

Beyond creativity: how do you know if your idea is any good? Selling your ideas to

win emotional commitment from your employees

The knowing-doing gap and what to do about it


Ideal mixture of world-class academic concepts and real-life business examples

to trigger innovation where it is most needed. Inside track on some of the most

inspirational recent case studies, examples, and best practices

Sincere discussion with your top team, sparking new ideas and insights

Putting your particular business in focus

Recommended reading:

Professor Markides’ book, All the Right Moves: A Guide to

Crafting Breakthrough Strategy was shortlisted for the Igor

Ansoff Strategic Management Award in 2000. Similarly,

his Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical

Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets (with the late

Paul Geroski), was on the shortlist for the Financial Times-

Goldman Sachs Management Book of the Year in

2005. In Game-Changing Strategies (2008), Professor

Markides explores how established firms can use business

model innovation to break the rules in their markets

and how to respond when a disruptive business model

invades their markets.

DISRUPT YOUR STRATEGY FOR WINNINGBy Costas Markides

Innovation is a word we are using too much lately, but things rarely change just because we

bring this issue on board. There are some ‘sacred cows’ in every business that just can’t let you

really think outside your box. In this masterclass devoted to strategic innovation, Professor

Costas Markides works with your executive team to help you rethink some of the most orthodox

assumptions, recreate a strategy for today’s new world and rebuild your organisation to reach new

targets.

As leaders, your top team will then have to work with your employees to win their emotional

commitment to change – a quite separate challenge. Costas will enable them to make this

commitment with techniques used by leaders such as Steve Jobs and John Chambers.

MASTERCLASS LEADER: Costas MarkidesRegularly ranked among the world’s top 50 business thinkers by Thinkers50, Professor Costas

Markides is recognised as one of the foremost experts on strategy and innovation. His work

explores how established companies can pursue radical or disruptive innovation and how they can

compete with two business models in the same industry. He is currently Professor of Strategy and

Entrepreneurship and holds the Robert P Bauman Chair of Strategic Leadership at London Business

School, together with numerous consulting projects with clients all over the world.


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Genius is flourishing – and so is risk. The first Renaissance confronted leaders with a stark choice

between two strategic attitudes: wait-and-see, or audacity. Hesitate until the chaos of the age

settled into some new order – or be liberated from conventional caution by existential threats and

historic possibilities.

And today, we face the same stark choice. The vast majority of today’s corporations have dropped

anchor rather than brave the biggest storm in living memory. Instead of investing, companies

hoard cash and buy back their own shares. In this unique masterclass, Chris will help you assess

your readiness for the second Renaissance.

MASTERCLASS LEADER: Christopher KutarnaChris is co-author of Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance, a

bestselling, internationally acclaimed book published by Bloomsbury and St Martin’s Press. He has

been a Governor General’s Medallist twice and a Commonwealth Scholar, and is now a fellow of the

Oxford Martin School with a doctorate in politics from the University of Oxford. Previously, Chris

was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in New Zealand, Australia and China.

What is covered:

A primer on the ‘second Renaissance’. What better way to stretch our expectations

for the future than to explore what has already happened under similar

circumstances? Chris will help you to put on the same glasses that helped him to

foresee the biggest political shocks of the 21st century.

Are you Renaissance-ready? Chris condenses the chief corporate wisdom of the

first Renaissance into six categories of behaviour that together inform your team or

organisation’s capacity to magnify flourishing genius and mitigate flourishing risk.

The Renaissance Readiness Index™. Chris charts the strengths, vulnerabilities and

development priorities of your team or organisation against all six categories via

a proprietary survey of 47 specific indicators (administered to all participants prior

to the masterclass). Chris interprets the results and facilitates a dialogue on their

implications.


A clear, inspiring recognition and renewal of the burden today’s leaders bear

A fresh assessment of skills and attitudes demanded by the environment versus

those practised within the organisation

Identification of critical development needs for the team or organisation

A business case for a fresh executive development agenda

Refinement of existing development budget

ARE YOU RENAISSANCE-READY? THRIVING IN AN AGE OF DISCOVERYBy Christopher Kutarna

“Chris dares to ask—and answer—the big, essential questions: where do we come from, what are we doing wrong—and right!—and where are we trying to go?”Christine Lagarde, International Monetary Fund

“Supercalifragilisticexpidélicieux! Everyone was really energized and wanted to get to work immediately to create a tremendous movement inside IKEA.”Jonas Eklöf, Leadership Development, IKEA


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Words like ‘disruption’ and ‘game-changer’ have recently become part of standard management

and media vocabulary. From financial services to farming, energy to electronics, communications

to cars, we read stories every day of ‘game-changing’ events and companies. So often these are

presented with great wisdom in hindsight, whereas what practising executives need is better

competitive foresight – the ability to see and analyse game-changing signals in advance, figure

out their consequences, and decide what to do about them.

MASTERCLASS LEADER: Gordon Hewitt Gordon Hewitt is one of the original and foremost thinkers in this area, and is recognised as a

worldwide authority by senior executives, CEOs and boards. His work over the past two decades,

often in partnership with the late C.K. Prahalad, has been at the leading edge of thinking about

corporate competitiveness and corporate governance in the new world economy. Gordon retains

long-standing academic posts at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and Duke

Corporate Education. He is working with CEOs and boards of major corporations around the world.

What is covered: Gordon Hewitt will present a practical model of disruptive foresight and game-changing

strategy. This will enable participants to do five key things:

Spot and decipher early signals of competitive disruption in their industry

Analyse the forces driving disruption and their likely consequences

Consider realistic strategic options to benefit from disruption

Ensure the organisation acquires the capabilities to handle game-changing

challenges

Drive a deep mindset shift throughout the organisation, well beyond the legacy of

traditional change management models

Gordon will provide participants with ‘new game’ ways of:

Drawing a more relevant map of their competitive arena, and the identity of new

game competitors

Developing a more accurate scorecard of competitive performance, especially when

market share is not a reliable indicator of influence share

Getting beyond traditional SWOT analysis and industry positioning, and developing

new game methods of doing strategy

Enabling the organisation to treat disruption as an opportunity rather than a threat,

delivering breakthrough forms of innovative value to clients and customers

Creating new executive mindsets for new competitive games, rather than better

processes for existing games

This workshop enables executives to develop relevant techniques to:

Analyse their market environment, the changing basis of competition, and find

potential areas for disruption

Formulate and implement strategy in a ‘new game world’

Take collaborative venturing to a new level across the organisation, while still

holding executives accountable for divisional performance

Identify the core assumptions and orthodoxies in their own dominant logic, and

show how to bring them in line with new competitive realities

“The phenomenon of disruption is like waking up slowly and painfully from a bad dream and discovering that the competitive map deeply embedded in your brain has evaporated.” Gordon Hewitt

HOW TO THRIVE IN A GAME-CHANGING WORLD By Gordon Hewitt


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London Speaker Bureau represents and works with some of the most

influential people in the world, from politicians and economists

to thought leaders, futurists and entrepreneurs. Between them,

they cover a vast range of topics, from management and finance to

technology, education, innovation, motivation and the environment.

We have expanded our services far beyond traditional keynotes:

providing our clients with the opportunity to invite outstanding

global leaders and business experts as trainers, boardroom advisors

and individual coaches for their management teams.

Our unmatched network of 18 international offices allows us to

provide speakers and trainers from all over the world, to suit all

types of briefs and budgets be they small or large, in-house or

external. If you want some ideas on how we can assist, please do

contact us now.

Nenad PacekRenowned Global Strategist and Expert on Emerging Markets

Nassim TalebFormer Trader, Risk Specialist and Author

Linda YuehAdjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School, BBC Presenter and Author

Andy XieRenowned Economist who accurately predicted the South East Asian Financial Crisis and the US Subprime Financial Crisis

Robert MazurLong Term Undercover US Federal Agent

Roger FlynnTransformational Change CEO

Isaac GetzOne of the World Leading Management Thinkers

Joe DiVannaAuthority on intersection of banking, strategy and technology

OUR GLOBAL SPEAKERS ON STRATEGY INCLUDE:

Pippa MalmgrenFormer Chief Advisor to President Bush for Economic Policy and Financial Markets

Marcel FratzscherGermany’s leading economist

Jeroen van der VeerFormer Chief Executive of Shell

Richard ShirreffDeputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe 2010-14

Heidi Crebo-RedikerFormer Chief Economist at the US State Department

Kjell NordstromSwedish economist, co-author of Karaoke Capitalism and Funky Business

Adrian BradshawRecent Deputy Supreme Allied Commander NATO Europe

John CoatesDerivatives Trader turned Behavioural Neuroscientist

Stephen KingGlobal Economist and Bestselling Author

Mishal KanooChairman of The Kanoo Group, one of the largest group of companies in the Gulf region

Ricardo SemlerVisionary leader with employee-centric approach to management

Gerd LeonhardRenowned European Futurist

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