Sally Wells - VISTAGE CHAIR
Sally’s background encompasses both the corporate and entrepreneurial sides of business leadership. She has managed hundreds of people, and been CEO/MD of businesses in a variety of different sectors including logistics, education, recruitment, psychometric profiling and publishing. Over the last 12 years she improved the profitability of an international recruitment company by 500% before selling her shares to explore a new startup in education. Sally is running a private advisory group for CEO’s in the London region, to provide support, challenge and development for CEO’s, MD’s and business owners from a wide range of non-competing industries.
Having worked with SME’s and multi-million-pound global organisations, Sally now sits at board level for many high-profile organisations, advising business leaders and heading up transformation initiatives.
Sally’s assertion for enhancing a business’ competitive position is to put its people first, investing in the development of their skills and capabilities. As with any successful transformation, this must be driven from the top. To grow the business, one must grow the leader. This central philosophy has prompted Sally to get more involved with local business leaders in and around London with the aim of contributing to their continuous professional development.
Vistage offers a unique combination of resources for accelerating business performance: monthly meetings with non-competitive business peers in a private advisory group; one-to-one executive coaching & mentoring sessions; expert speakers and interactive workshops; a rich online library of content, best practices, webinars, and more. Access to a global member network of more than 21,000 business leaders.
For more information on the Vistage Chief Executive programme, or the power of the private advisory group, feel free to contact Sally directly. Alternatively, we often have events that you can come along to in order to sample what Vistage has to offer.
Dr Lynda Gratton - 09:10 AM
Session Outline:
Lynda is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School where she directs ‘Human Resource Strategy in Transforming Companies’, considered the world’s leading programme on human resources. Lynda is the founder of the advisory practice HSM and since 2008 has led the Future of Work Research Consortium which has brought together executives from more than 100 companies.
Biography:
Over the last 20 years, Lynda has written extensively about the interface between people and organisations. Her ten books cover the link between business and HR strategy (‘Living Strategy’), the new ways of working (‘The Democratic Enterprise’), the rise of complex collaboration (‘Hot Spots’ and ‘Glow’) and the impact of a changing world on employment and work (‘The Shift’ and ‘The 100-Year Life’ (co-authored with Andrew Scott). In 2012 ‘The Shift’ received the business book of the year award in Japan and has been translated into more than 15 languages. In 2015 ‘The Key’ won the CMI Management Book of the Year. In 2016 ‘The 100 Year Life’ was shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year award and became one of the bestselling books in Japan. In 2020 Lynda and Andrew published ‘The New Long Life – a framework for flourishing in a changing world’. Lynda is a regular columnist for MIT Sloan Management Review and has written for a range of press including the Financial Times and the Sunday Times.
Lynda’s work has been acknowledged globally – she has won the Tata prize in India; in the US she has been named as the annual Fellow of NAHR and won the CCL prize; whilst in Australia, she has won the AHRI prize; she has received the Best Teacher Award at London Business School. Lynda is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and chaired the WEF Council of Leadership. She has served on Prime Minister Abe’s “Council for designing the 100-year-life society” and is currently a member of the international advisory board of Equinor.
Dr Chris Brauer - Competitiveness in Economic Recovery: Leadership, Strategy and Results - 10:40 AM
Session Overview:
Based on his 2020 research into 1,500 organisations Dr Chris Brauer introduces blueprints for competitiveness and growth in UK organisations in the private, public sectors and different markets innovating through the pandemic crisis, Brexit, and the rapid acceleration of digitalisation.
There will be a strong focus on the requirements for talent, tech, future readiness, and innovation in UK organisations, and with lots of other focus areas around opportunities and challenges.
What are the traits of great leaders in a crisis? What strategies make the difference between being endangered, surviving, challenging, or frontrunning through the pandemic and beyond? What are the strongest links between strategic decisions and bottom-line performance? What can you do differently in managing your technology and talent? In this timely and high energy talk, Dr Chris Brauer, Director of Innovation at Goldsmiths, University of London, answers these questions and more in revealing the results of a study with over 1,700 organisational leaders and 2,500 employees of every scale, size, and industry in the UK conducted through the spring and summer of 2020.
Biography:
Dr Chris Brauer is a public academic and Director of Innovation in the Institute of Management Studies (IMS) at Goldsmiths, University of London. Dr Chris is a world-renowned researcher specialising in high impact studies at the intersections of human behaviour, emerging technologies, and socioeconomic change. His research has featured in over 400 media outlets worldwide including the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC Newsnight, BBC Click, CNN, CNBC, China Central TV, Forbes, USA Today, Globo, NPR, and the Sunday Times.
‘Dr Chris’ brings to life his animated and energising public speaking engagements through data and real-world examples from his and other research on topics ranging from artificial intelligence automation and augmentation to digital transformation and behavioural economics.
All of his research is conducted in collaboration with industry partners including leading research on the Science of Common Ground for the award-winning Heineken ‘Open your World’ campaign, exploring the Future of Experience with Adobe, analysing the impact of AI on jobs, tasks and workforce productivity with IBM Watson and IPSoft, leading Microsoft’s annual AI research since 2018, and conducting the world’s largest experiment on driver behaviour in 10 countries with Shell. His current research activities include explorations seeking to resolve the ‘productivity paradox’ of organisations struggling to unlock the value of their AI and RPA investments, developing frameworks for the critical path to integrating Digital Skills into organisational workforces, and exploring the dimensions of industry competitiveness impacted by the Covid-19 global pandemic crisis.