Join Kuldip Reyatt and Cathy Glass for an evening presentation and drinks reception, as we explore the challenges of achieving excellence in board and strategic leadership practice. Hear about key insights into how major UK and Global corporations are developing their senior leaders. Engage in the discussion of how culture critically influences board and strategic leadership practice and development.

your hostsKULDIP REYATT is Founder/Director of Strategic Visioning Partners. Kuldip works across many business sectors with strategic leaders to improve individual executive, leadership group, and organisation-wide performance. His prior career involves senior management in ‘Blue Chip’ corporations and

international management consultancies, and board membership of a UK charity. A practitioner-scholar, qualified in Company Secretarial Practice, Finance, and Marketing, with an MBA from a leading UK business school, he is also at the final stages of his doctorate. Practice and scholarship are focussed on excellence in board leadership, strategic leadership practice and development, strategic visioning and transformation, all for the development of successful organisational futures. Kuldip regularly presents at global leadership conferences; with several leadership articles in the pipeline, his work is already published in ‘Emergent Models of Global Leadership’, ‘Leadership: The Key Concepts’, and ‘Leadership Development outside China’.

CATHY GLASS is Director of Consulting UK at Mettle Group. Cathy is a specialist in organisational culture research and designing culture change. Adept at diagnosing the nature of organisational culture and the dynamics of groups, Cathy has a sharp perception of the impact culture has on business outcomes. Cathy has worked closely with some of the UK and

Australia’s largest companies - on the culture they have and how to change it to get the desired business results - across a number of industry sectors, including higher education, health, human services, pharmaceuticals, financial sector and manufacturing. A psychologist by training, Cathy has a BSc Hons (Behavioural Science) and holds postgraduate qualifications in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

where and whenWHERE Private Room 1 & 2, One Aldwych Hotel, London, WC2B 4RHWHEN 6:00pm arrival for a 6:30pm startDATE Tuesday, 29th January 2008RSVP Friday, 18th January 2008To avoid disappointment please confirm your attendance with Rhian Coward, Head of Project Coordination, Mettle Group UK, by emailing rcoward@mettle.biz

Are your strategic leadership and culture supporting or inhibiting your organisation’s journey towards a successful future?

One of the key challenges that businesses face is the need to establish exactly what leadership, and particularly strategic leadership, means in specific organisational contexts. Contrary to much of the ‘pop leadership literature’, strategic leadership is not about people in leadership positions doing strategy. Kuldip proposes that the fundamental responsibility of authentic strategic leadership is to provide meaning and purpose for the activities of all people within the organisation through effective and ethical strategic visioning.

We will explore culture and sub-cultures at multiple levels of the organisation, in order to explain how culture fundamentally affects strategic leadership practice and development. Cathy Glass, Director of Mettle Consulting, will share case studies of how the Mettle Leadership and Mettle Culture Gauges have been utilised to navigate key leadership, culture and organisation challenges.

“…the fundamental responsibility of authentic strategic leadership

is to provide meaning and purpose for the activities of all people within the organisation

through effective and ethical strategic visioning.”

achieving excellence in board and strategic leadership

Global leadership research persistently highlights that there is a critical shortage of good strategic leaders, not just in the UK, but around the world. Failures in strategic leadership contribute to a weakening in economic competitiveness, organisational underperformance, and are at times counted in lives and livelihoods lost. Therefore, what should be done about this global phenomenon, which applies to business corporations, public services, and the third sector?

Based on several years of intensive research into excellence in board and strategic leadership, Kuldip Reyatt proposes the transformation of strategic leadership practice and development of good strategic leaders. These activities demand substantial investment over the long-term, they require sponsorship at the highest level in organisations, and crucially should form part of the culture. As a result, achieving excellence in board and strategic leadership should not be the exception, but become ‘the way we do things around here’.

Kuldip’s presentation will draw on insights from four key streams of research – Excellence in Board Leadership; the Strategic Visioning Experiences of more than 50 of the UK’s most prominent CEOs; Executive and Strategic Leadership Development in the UK, which involves several of the UK’s major corporate, public service, and third sector organisations; and The Future of Strategic Leadership Development. Kuldip will not only provide insights from the UK, but also what is emerging from the international phases of these research projects.