VIRTUAL EXECUTIVE SUMMIT
Friday 27th November 2020, 08:45am - 12:00 noon (GMT)
Sponsored by Seven Investment Management
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Live Stream
Agenda
8.45am Event Opens
9.00am Welcome & Introduction
9.10am Keynote - Dr. Lynda Gratton
10.10am Member Impact Award
10.20am Break
10.30am Member Leadership Award
10.40am Keynote - Dr Chris Brauer
11.35am Member Lifetime Achievement Award
11.45am Wrap up of Main Sessions
12:00pm Breakout Session:
Your business plans are in good shape – are your own financial plans the same?
Duncan Wilson and Richard Atherton from Partners Wealth Management will pose the important questions you should be thinking about to ensure your personal finances don’t get left behind and give you the freedom to make the important decisions in your business life.
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LinkedIn For Businesses & Personal Brand
In this practical virtual workshop we will learn why and how business pages and personal pages should live in perfect harmony for the best of your marketing. How and which focus should be directed to the business pages and what the strategy could be to achieve different goals. Learn how to optimise your profiles, content and approach for success.
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Effective leadership in the new world
During this interactive break out session, Rob Siddall, Learning and Development Consultant at Irwin Mitchell, will look back at the last 8 months since the lockdown first began, and the journey Irwin Mitchell has been on to help lead, support, develop and inspire its 3,000 people through a period of unprecedented change and disruption. Rob will share observations around:
Transformational Leadership (when ‘change management’ just isn’t enough) Motivating and inspiring remote teams; using our moral compass when making difficult decisions; and supporting mental health and wellbeing.
We’ll also look ahead to the world of work post-Covid and what businesses should be doing now to put themselves in the best position and ensure continued motivation, engagement and retention of people. Senior leaders at Irwin Mitchell including Fergal Dowling, Chris Rawstron and Glenn Hayes will share their views on how the tools made available have helped them to effectively and successfully lead and manage their teams, achieving both business and personal objectives.
‘A tax free business sale’
Trading businesses can be sold free of capital gains tax (“CGT”) to an employee ownership trust, or “EOT.” In addition, employees of a company owned by an EOT can receive income tax-free bonuses of up to £3,600 a year. With capital gains tax rates possibly increasing in the near future, business owners may want to consider selling their business tax free while this is still possible.
This webinar explains how EOT structures work, how an EOT sale is financed, the conditions which must be met in order to qualify for tax relief, and whether an employee ownership trust might be right structure for you.
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Sponsors
7IM are our gold sponsors. They have been friends and supporters of Vistage for a number of years.
Founded in 2002, they now have the privilege of managing over £14bn of assets on behalf of their clients.
They specialise in helping entrepreneurs and key executives at every stage of the business and life-cycle, imparting financial and investment advice as required, with the explicit aim of helping clients achieve the financial future they want for themselves, their family, and the next generation. They are delighted to count a number of Vistage members as their clients.
Speakers
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.