Programmes & sub-themes

1) Orchestrating Strategy in a Fractured World
- Geopolitics and strategy: integrating uncertainty into planning.
- Multi-stakeholder capitalism: balancing profit, purpose and legitimacy.
- Scenario planning beyond 2030: crafting robust option portfolios.
- Anticipating regulatory waves and political shocks.
- Strategic agility: pivoting without eroding trust or value.
- Orchestrating coalitions across borders and sectors.
- From reactive to anticipatory governance.

2) Leading AI, Data & Human Judgement—Beyond the Hype
- AI strategy at scale: linking board vision to daily operations.
- Data as an economic asset: governance, ethics and monetisation.
- Human–AI teaming: redesigning roles, incentives and skills.
- AI risk management: bias, regulation, cybersecurity.
- Measuring value: ROI, adoption curves and learning loops.
- Building an AI-ready culture across the enterprise.
- Ecosystem play: partnering with tech vendors and start-ups.

3) Systems Thinking for Solving “Stuck” Problems
- Causal loop diagrams and feedback dynamics.
- Managing time delays and unintended consequences.
- Simulation modelling for executive decision-making.
- Systems leadership: mobilising actors beyond the firm.
- Designing high-leverage interventions.
- Institutionalising learning labs for adaptive policy.
- Overcoming policy resistance in public and private domains.

4) Transformational Leadership: From Enterprise to Ecosystem
- Personal power vs. positional power.
- Narrative strategy: leading through storytelling.
- Trust architecture across complex ecosystems.
- Influence without authority: soft power mastery.
- Mobilising networks for societal legitimacy.
- Coaching and mentoring for system-wide impact.
- Designing legacy: stewardship that outlives tenure.

5) Board Stewardship & Strategic Governance in Turbulent Times
- Reframing fiduciary duty for multi-capital performance.
- Oversight of AI, cyber, ESG and geopolitics.
- Redesigning board agendas for dynamic resilience.
- Crisis choreography: from denial to recovery.
- Director–executive partnership: role clarity in turbulence.
- Stakeholder accountability and radical transparency.
- Governance metrics: beyond compliance to impact.

6) Strategic Alliances, Platforms & Public–Private Collaboration
- Platform economics and network effects.
- PPP governance: structuring and accountability.
- Alliance portfolio strategy: balancing exploration and exploitation.
- Data-sharing agreements and IP design.
- Conflict prevention and dispute resolution mechanisms.
- Cross-sector trust-building practices.
- Measuring shared value and collective impact.

7) Sustainable Growth & the Green Industrial Playbook
- Transition economics: winners, losers and just transitions.
- Policy levers: subsidies, carbon pricing, green bonds.
- Decarbonising supply chains and industrial clusters.
- Financing sustainability: blended capital structures.
- Embedding ESG in strategy and operations.
- Green innovation: new products, services, and markets.
- Risk resilience: climate stress testing and disclosure.

8) Digital & AI Transformation—From Vision to P&L
- Sequencing transformation waves.
- Building transformation backlogs and value-tracking systems.
- Product vs. project mindsets.
- Digital talent strategy: attracting, reskilling, retaining.
- Transformation funding models (CapEx vs. OpEx).
- Embedding agility in governance and reporting.
- Adoption and change-management mastery.

9) Customer Value, Pricing Power & Business Model Reinvention
- Jobs-to-be-done theory and application.
- Business model archetypes in a platform world.
- Behavioural pricing science.
- Data-driven monetisation models.
- Outcome-based contracts and shared risk pricing.
- Rebundling and unbundling strategies.
- Experimentation: rapid prototyping of business models.

10) High-Integrity Change: Culture, Incentives & Behaviour
- Diagnosing culture and behavioural bottlenecks.
- Designing incentive systems for transformation.
- Storytelling and communication under pressure.
- Habit design and micro-behaviours.
- Activating middle managers as change multipliers.
- Measuring cultural change: leading vs. lagging indicators.
- Preventing change fatigue and cynicism.

11) Financial Acumen for Non-Financial Leaders (and Policy Chiefs)
- Reading financial statements as strategic narratives.
- Identifying value drivers in private and public sectors.
- Investment appraisal and capital rationing.
- Linking strategy to cash flow.
- Risk modelling and scenario planning.
- Public finance: balancing fiscal trade-offs.
- Stewardship of capital in multi-stakeholder settings.

12) Negotiation, Influence & Crisis Decision-Making
- Principles of multi-party and cross-cultural negotiation.
- Negotiation under uncertainty and incomplete information.
- Ethical boundaries in influence and persuasion.
- Designing win-win outcomes in adversarial settings.
- Media and narrative management in crises.
- Rapid decision-making frameworks under pressure.
- After-action reviews: learning loops in negotiation.

13) From Leader to Enterprise Builder
- Making the leap from function to enterprise thinking.
- Orchestrating the top team for impact.
- Enterprise operating model design.
- Time allocation: where leaders add disproportionate value.
- Succession planning and talent bench strength.
- External stakeholder stewardship: investors, regulators, media.
- Crafting and executing a first-year leadership agenda.