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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
Value and Expected Outcomes:
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.
Value and Expected Outcomes:
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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