During the month of March, we tackled business critical conversations with outstanding speakers who provided insights, top tips, practical advice and stimulate innovative ideas and thinking.
These thought leadership events offered continued learning, knowledge transfer and personal development are key for any successful organisation, you can catch up on week 3’s conversation, Leadership here.
Catch up on the Leadership conversation from Leadership Month 2022. Our speakers this week engaged us with personal stories and anecdotes around Leadership, Global Threats, Leadership Development, and Sustainability.
Global Perspectives & Leadership Challenges
Justin Crump, CEO and Founder, Sibylline
Justin is a military veteran with 25 years’ experience, he was initially a corporate finance analyst at JP Morgan Chase & Co before being called up for military service after 9/11. His focus areas are global crisis, global jihadism, terrorism, the evolution of cyber and technical threats, and the creation of innovative and effective risk models. He is an acknowledged authority on business intelligence, global risk analysis and governance and will share his insights into the Ukraine crisis and global leadership.
Making Sustainability Work
Dale Parmenter, CEO at DRPG
Dale shared many of DRPG’s actions and initiatives, and how we have developed a CSR Charter which links and supports the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals. The interactive session looked at practical, tangible actions which can be implemented immediately and, in many cases, is simply common sense.
Successful Leadership Through Elevating Others
John Eades, CEO, LearnLoft
John is based in North Carolina, USA and has spent the last 10 years studying and interviewing the best leaders on the planet. He shared those lessons, strategies, to help elevate leaders to be their best.
Extraordinary Leadership – what it is and how to become one.
Campbell McPherson, International Business Advisor, Best Selling Author
Where are you on the Chequerboard of Leadership? Where does your team lie on the Spectrum of Leadership Teams? In this in-person session for C2S Leadership Month, Campbell Macpherson, leadership development and change expert, ran an interactive session using brand new models developed with The Police College and Henley Business School.
Re-Imagining Leadership with University of Worcester
Dr Scott Andrews, Principal Lecturer in Leadership, Chartered Manager of the CMI, and Deputy Head of Worcester Business School
Dr Scott Andrews helped us reflect on the key challenges facing organisations over the past two years and to consider what leadership needs to look like in the forthcoming years as we emerge from the Covid pandemic. Issues of sustainability, advancing AI, hybrid and home-based working, and new digital communications have changed us and changed the way we think.
Creating A Business That Is a Force for Good
Paul Hargreaves, Founder, Cotswold Fayre
If you want your business to grow and prosper in the 21st century, it needs to be more than about simply profit. Today’s consumers and buyers want to engage with businesses that are making the world a better place and putting people and the planet at an equal level as profit.
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Recommended Reading
- Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead co-written by Sheryl Sandberg & Neil Scovell https://leanin.org/book
- Nicola Whiting MBE https://www.nicolawhiting.com/published-work/
- 5 Voices by Jeremie Kubicek & Steve Cockram https://5voices.com/
- The Go Giver by Bob Burg & John David Mann https://thegogiver.com/
- The Change Catalyst by Campbell MacPherson https://www.changeandstrategy.com/books/
- The Power to Change by Campbell MacPherson https://www.changeandstrategy.com/books/
- You: Part 2. Thriving in the second half of your life by Campbell MacPherson & Jane MacPherson https://www.changeandstrategy.com/books/
- Building the Best by John Eades https://learnloft.com/building-the-best-book/
- The 10 Minute Life Coach by Fiona Harrold https://www.circle2success.com/motivational-month-another-great-book-to-read/
- Who moved my Cheese? By Dr Spencer Johnson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4894.Who_Moved_My_Cheese_
- Will it Make the Boat Go Faster? by Ben Hunt-Davis & Harriet Beveridge https://willitmaketheboatgofaster.com/
- Taming Tigers by Jim Lawless https://tamingtigers.com/
- Black Box Thinking By Matthew Syed https://www.matthewsyed.co.uk/resource/black-box-thinking-the-surprising-truth-about-success/
- Hope in Hell by Jonathon Porritt http://www.jonathonporritt.com/hope-in-hell/
- Sandler Enterprise Selling by David Mattson & Brian Sullivan https://www.sandler.com/programs/enterprise-selling/
- The Future Leader by Jacob Morgan https://thefutureorganization.com/