Unforgettable
High-Impact Sessions

Right-Size Your AI Bets

Matching AI ambition to the technology approach you actually chose

Every AI initiative gets plotted against strategic ambition and build-vs-buy, and the mismatches become impossible to keep pretending about.

90-min workshop

Ten Times, Not Ten Percent

What exponential actually demands of a business model

Exponential isn’t a faster version of incremental. It breaks the operating assumptions underneath the plan, and the room finds out which of theirs go first.

Keynote or workshop

Deal the Deck

Twelve emerging technologies, one industry, ninety minutes

Teams draw emerging-tech cards at random and have to argue a real path from each one to their own P&L, including the ones that sound absurd.

90-min workshop

Map Before You Move

Wardley mapping for people who hate strategy decks

Plot your value chain against how evolved each piece is, and watch the obvious next move stop being obvious.

90-min workshop

Innovation Theater

Why your innovation program produces slides, not products

A hard look at the rituals (the sprints, the labs, the design-thinking workshops) that reliably generate activity and just as reliably generate nothing.

Keynote

Fifty-Five Ways To Redesign Your Business Model

Business model patterns as a recombination engine

Most “new” business models are recombinations of fifty-five known patterns; teams draw three at random and rebuild their own model from them.

90-min workshop

See Something New

Using Visual Thinking Strategies

The room stares at one ambiguous image in silence, defends every claim with evidence from it, and discovers how much it invented.

90-min workshop

Guess Better

Abduction, the third kind of reasoning

Not deduction, not induction: the disciplined leap, taught as a trainable skill and then tested to see whether it was actually disciplined.

90-min workshop

Your Team’s Mind Isn’t In The Room

Cognitive offloading and what it costs

Audit the thinking the group has quietly handed to its tools, its docs, and the one person who remembers everything, then take the scaffold away.

90-min workshop

Design From The Outside In

What your organization looks like from the demand side

Almost every organization is built inside-out, describing itself in terms of what it makes; the ones that endure describe themselves in terms of what someone needs.

Inspired by the seminal work of Dr. Anna Caraveli

90-min workshop

Escape To The Future

A ten-station, LLM-scored futures game

Teams run ten stations (Abductive Detective, Sacred Cow, Goodhart’s Law, Pretotype) scored live by a model that refuses to award top marks for anything an agent could have written.

90-min workshop

Build The Artifact First

Design fiction as a strategy instrument

Stop describing 2032 and make something from it (a press release, a product box, an error message) then work backwards to what had to be true.

90-min workshop

And Then What Happens?

Cascading a shock to the fourth order

Take one real event and push it through first, second, third and fourth-order effects until the room finds the consequence nobody had priced in.

90-min workshop

Scenario Planning Is Not Enough

Complexity, abduction, and the limits of the 2×2

Scenarios assume you can see the options; under genuine uncertainty the useful move is mapping what it would cost to change things, not imagining four tidy worlds.

Keynote

Four Futures Before Lunch

Two axes, four worlds, one industry

Pick the two uncertainties that actually matter, build the quadrants, name the four futures, and argue about which one you’re already living in.

90-min workshop

Build Your Own Radar

Horizon scanning you will actually maintain

Most scanning programmes die in month three; this is how to build one small enough to survive and pointed at signals that would change your mind.

90-min workshop

2030, Extrapolated

What the AI trend lines actually say, and where they break

Compute, patents, capital and headcount all have published curves; we follow them out to 2030 and then argue about which one snaps first.

Keynote

Your Organization Has An Immune System

Why good ideas get rejected on contact

Organizations reject foreign ideas the way a body rejects a transplant, which means the change agent’s real job is suppressing the immune response long enough for the idea to take.

Keynote or workshop

Meet The Resistance

Named personas for the five reasons people say no

Resistance isn’t one thing. The Comforter and The Pragmatist need entirely different answers, and the room builds the right one for each.

90-min workshop

Make The New Way Easier

Cognitive load as the real barrier to adoption

People don’t resist the new process because they disagree with it. They resist because it’s harder, and that’s a design problem you can fix.

90-min workshop

Ship It By Noon

One weekly ritual that changes a product culture

A sacrosanct weekly design review, brutally honest critique, aggressive deadlines as forcing functions, and simple-lovable-complete instead of minimum-viable.

Keynote or workshop

The Org Chart Is Fiction

Formal structure versus the network that actually runs the place

Put the published org chart next to a real advice network from the same company and watch the room work out which one they’ve been managing.

Keynote or workshop

Value Networks

Become a node in your own ecosystem

Participants trade value across a live network, surface the bottlenecks, and discover the leverage points no slide deck could ever reveal.

90-min workshop

The Miles Davis Factor

What jazz and video games reveal about creative teams

Breakthrough work comes from specific network shapes (two strong ties with a gap between them, and teams that straddle two distant communities) and both are measurable.

Keynote

Simulate The Reorg

Test the restructure on a synthetic organization first

Generate a realistic org network of two thousand people, run the reorg, the merger or the AI rollout through it, and find out what breaks before anyone’s job does.

Keynote or workshop

Every Meeting Is A Network Scan

A team is a small organization with its own network dynamics

You are already recording months of relational data (who defers to whom, which ties carry the load, where collaboration quietly breaks) and nobody is reading it.

90-min workshop

Feel The BANI Breakdown

A tabletop simulation of a BANI world

Everyday decisions get sorted onto a grid of calculable-versus-ambiguous and have-tools-versus-none, and the room watches its own certainty drift south-west in real time.

90-min workshop

Five Rounds Of BANI

Your own ecosystem through each lens, then put back together

Five fast rounds (brittleness, anxiety, nonlinearity, incomprehensibility) each with a concrete team task, ending in an integration round that makes it actionable.

90-min workshop

Create A Context For Change

Nine lessons from leading change in the complex domain

You don’t manage change in a complex system, you probe it, send experiments, harness the conflict, and understand the thing by trying to change it.

Keynote

Harness Your Differences

Managing polarities instead of picking a side

Tasks versus relationships, modularity versus sovereignty, autonomy versus alignment: treat these as problems and you’ll oscillate forever; treat them as polarities and you can steer.

90-min workshop

Systems Sips

A daily practice for seeing in circles instead of lines

Systems thinking isn’t a workshop you attend, it’s a habit of noticing (boundaries, delays, feedback, blindness) built one small observation at a time.

Keynote or workshop

The Third Voice In The Room

The agentic era’s real payoff isn’t productivity, it’s cohesion

Two founders had the same two-way conversation for years; adding an agent that remembers everything turned it into a three-way one, and that has changed more than any workflow we automated.

Keynote or workshop

Twelve Leverage Points for Leaders

Meadows’ leverage points, from parameters to paradigms

Everyone reaches for the numbers, which is the weakest lever there is; the powerful ones are counterintuitive, unmechanical, and mostly about goals and mindset.

Keynote

Personality Typing Systems: Useful Fictions

What personality typing gets wrong, and why it still works

The validity evidence is weaker than anyone selling these instruments admits, and they still change how a team talks about itself, which is the part worth understanding.

Keynote

EDGY: Identity, Experience, Architecture

The enterprise design language, put to work

Brand, customer experience and technical architecture are usually designed by three groups who never meet; EDGY’s shared vocabulary forces them into one conversation.

90-min workshop

Beyond Budgeting

Dynamic steering when the annual plan is already obsolete

The budget conflates target, forecast and resource allocation into one number that’s wrong by February. Separate the three and steer on events instead of calendars.

Keynote

The Latent Power of Words and Symbols

Language doesn’t describe your strategy, it constructs it

Find the metaphor your organization silently runs on (machine, family, army, garden), swap it, and watch which strategies stop making sense.

90-min workshop

What Growth Mindset Actually Means

The most misused idea in leadership development

Almost every organization claiming a growth mindset has adopted the poster and none of the practice, and the difference is visible in how they handle failure.

Keynote

Swarm Vision: Profiling Your Innovators

Innovation traits are measurable, and most organizations never look

A validated profiler scores eight innovation-skill clusters across your people, and the six elements (leadership, portfolio, outside-in orientation, empowerment, experimentation, scale thinking) show where the organization is starving them.

90-min workshop

The Org Chart Is Already Obsolete

Agents are in your workflow, but nowhere in your structure

Every company has quietly added non-human labour to its teams without adding a single box to the chart, and the gap between how the work now happens and how it’s organized has never been wider.

Keynote