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___ General Agenda
Programme Day 1
WEDNESDAY 28th OCTOBER 2020
L&D Trends,
Journeys, Innovation
L&D
9:15 CET
Opening of the Conference by the Chairs:
Derek Bruce, Leadership Devt. Director, Signify &
Stefaan van Hooydonk, Former CLO, Cognizant _____________________________
9:30
Meta skills to propel Learning and Skilling
Stefaan van Hooydonk,
Former Chief Learning Officer, Cognizant
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With learning and skilling taking center stage in the Digital Age, L&D Teams will accelerate learning and skilling for their employees when they focus on equipping employees with the meta skills of Curiosity, Growth Mindset and Learning how to learn.
Q&A with Stefaan _____________________________
10:10
Our Purpose 2 Impact program
Christophe Vanden Eede,
VP TA & Global Head of Career Management, ING
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We offer the possibility to all our employees to discover: their own personal purpose as a starting point to define their next development actions for their current job, their next career move and even their plan B for leaving the Bank
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Excellent satisfaction scores!
Q&A with Christophe _____________________________
10:50 CET
Coffee & Networking (in the App) _____________________________
11:10
Managers as Learning evangelists:
4 ways for Managers to facilitate learning
Valérie-Anne Monvoisin, Learning & Content Dir. &
Neelie Verlinden, Digital HR Specialist, Talentsoft
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By 2024 69% of managers' tasks will be automated - as such the role of a manager is changing fast and they will have to take on new responsibilities.
Q&A with Valérie-Anne & Neelie
11:30
Interview:
Why Digital Coaching accelerates Talent Development
Rachel Le Maire, UK Talent Devt. Mgr., BNP Paribas &
Jessica Roberts Transformation Consultant, CoachHub
11:50
Programmatic Learning:
digitally-driven programmes to support today’s
high value transformational projects
Alan Hiddleston,
Director Corporate Learning EMEA, D2L
Q&A with Alan
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Lunch & Networking (in the App)
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13:00
Upskilling your Internal Trainers
Wouter Jan Kleinlugtenbelt,
Global Head of L&D, AkzoNobel
Due to cost pressures and the (post) Pandemic situation there is a clear need to further build:
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Company-wide Internal trainer pool
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Virtual skills for internal trainers/ moderators/ designers
Q&A with Wouter Jan
_____________________________ 13:40
Interactive Panel Session
Led by the Chairs
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A select group of speakers will be going through the questions raised during the day
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They will be giving their perspective on current challenges based on their experiences
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14:20
HR Trends and the possible implications for L&D
Tom Haak, Director, HR Trend Institute
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The importance of personalisation
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Connecting learning and workflow
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Performance consulting
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The use of prescriptive analytics
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The possibilities of learning technology
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Other important developments
Q&A with Tom
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15:00 CET
Wrap-up Day 1
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15:05
Workshop:
Growth Mindset -
Unleash the superpower within you and your team
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Growth Mindset and the beauty of change
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Peer-Exchange on impediments & challenges
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Recommendations for actions
Jennifer Weisskopf, Catalyst, LIVESciences
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This workshop is limited to a max. of 25 participants
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Participants will be split into groups
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You will have to register for it in the App under 'Workshop'
16:35 CET
Talent Trends
HR & Talent Trends,
Journeys, Innovation
Move Freely between the Streams
Opening of the Conference by the Chairs:
Tom Haak, Director, HR Trend Institute &
Wouter Van Linden, HR Director EMEA, KPMG
Accelerating HR Trends to get out of
the Crisis and getting work-life back on track!
Tom Haak, Director, HR Trend Institute
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Trends that were already ongoing, will (or can) be accelerated by the crisis.
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We can use the Trends to adapt organisations and the workforce to the new situation, and partly also to help shape the new situation.
Q&A with Tom
Practical tips to make Cultural Transformation last
Martin Lexa,
EVP-HR & Corporate Comms., Mölnlycke Health Care
Research found that 70% of business leaders agree:
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Culture provides the greatest source of competitive advantage.
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However fewer than 10% succeed in building a high performance culture. What makes it so hard to make culture change last?
Q&A with Martin
Coffee & Networking (in the App)
From 5 to 500 employees in less than 5 years -
Learnings on the importance of efficient
Recruiting and successful Onboarding
Ben Kiziltug,
Intl. Lead and UK Country Mgr., Personio
11:25
Remote Talent Management: take it or leave it!
Tanya van der Heijden,
Talent, L&D Manager NE, NH Hotel Group &
Patricia van der Kaa, Graduate Recruiter, NN Group &
Martijn Bakker, Country Manager, Cubiks-PSI
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Learning points: How did NH Hotels & NN Group deal with such an unexpected event?
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What does it take to work as a manager remotely, how can we motivate the teams?
11:40
Revolutionizing Employee Experience, Emotional Wellness, and Learning & Development through AI
Barry Coleman, Chief Operating Officer, Realeyes
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A cutting-edge way to determine attention levels and emotional well-being in any video conferencing environment.
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Returning human connection to the virtual world
Lunch & Networking (in the App)
HARD HR -
Heterogeneous, Asynchronous, Remote and Distributed
Jon Ingham, Director, Strategic HR Academy &
Author of 'The Social Organization'
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Driving businesses through and beyond the pandemic is going to be difficult, but it will also be ‘hard’.
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Work is going to stay mainly remote, which requires organisations and HR to shift to a more asynchronous mode of working.
Q&A with Jon
How and Why to Recruit young
talent during a crisis period
Cecile Farah, Intl. Director & Antoine Pingeot, Intl. Manager, JobTeaser (20min.)
Q&A with Cécile & Antoine
14:00
Workforce planning in times of Disruption
Hans Donckers, Jigso
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In a volatile business environment proactive workforce planning is critical
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By using smart skills mapping and workforce simulations, HR can anticipate changing business needs
Q&A with Hans
What matters most –
how Covid-19 accelerated our Agile journey
Arne-Christian V. D. Tang,
Chief HR Officer, TomTom
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Organisational impact
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Long term future of work
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Agile Journey
Q&A with Arne-Christian
Wrap-up Day 1
Networking Session:
Which challenges will HR face in the next 12 months after COVID-19?
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This session is limited to a max. of 100 participants
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Participants will be split into groups of 10 and discuss this specific topic of interest.
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You will have to register for it in the App under 'Networking'
16:15 CET
Programme Day 2
THURSDAY 29th OCTOBER 2020
L&D Trends,
Journeys, Innovation
Learning
Technologies
L&D
Talent Trends
9:15 CET
Opening of Day 2 by the Chairs:
Derek Bruce, Leadership Devt. Director, Signify &
Stefaan van Hooydonk, Former CLO, Cognizant _____________________________
9:30
Future of Learning @ PMI
Sam Zalcman,
Head of Learning Innovation, Philip Morris Intl.
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We embarked on a comprehensive transformation that demands a new culture of learning, characterized by open knowledge sharing, experimentation, humility and a healthy appetite for risk.
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What lessons have we learned during 18 months of digital learning transformation? What impact has COVID had on the approach? What does the next stage of PMI learning strategy look like in 2021 and beyond
Q&A with Sam _____________________________
10:10
Making the move to Less courses and More resources
Fernando Cuevas,
Former Sr. L&D Director EMEA, Marriott Intl.
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How do we get away from “dumping” content that employees quickly forget and shift to a user-centric approach where they easily get access to useful resources when they need them?
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In the context of performance consulting, how do we maintain a balance between the push and pull approaches in learning?
Q&A with Fernando
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10:50 CET
Coffee & Networking (in the App)
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11:10
A New Culture at Agfa
Yvonne Hendrick,
Global Head of Talent Devt. & Learning, Agfa
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Roadmap for cultural transformation
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Two critical dimensions:
- Attitude toward people, from independence
to interdependence
- Attitude toward change, from flexibility to stability
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Best practice tips for making cultural change stick
Q&A with Yvonne _____________________________
11:50
What HR could learn from developers:
Micro-learning and Gamification
Ruslan Demyanenko,
CEO, Eventicious
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Why Mobile Learning and not a desktop?
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What could be learned from the game designers?
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Cases and practice
Q&A with Ruslan
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12:30
Learning nEXt Level story
Felix Bartelomij,
Head of People Development, ABN AMRO Bank
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A story about our approach to expand learning capabilities and infrastructure in order to close critical skill gaps for strategy execution whilst saving costs.
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Learning nEXt level will deliver a learning experience ecosystem to accelerate upskilling and reskilling. Results so far and our next steps.
Q&A with Felix _____________________________
13:10 CET
Lunch & Networking (in the App)
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14:00
Interactive Panel Session
Led by the Chairs
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A select group of speakers will be going through the questions raised during the day
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They will be giving their perspective on current challenges based on their experiences
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14:40
Driving a steep Change in
how we Learn Online at HEINEKEN
Nicole Stead,
Global Digital Learning Lead, Heineken
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Our 4 key pillars for driving a step change in learning
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What we have achieved so far, and what opportunities lie ahead
Q&A with Nicole
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15:20
Wrap-up of Day 2
15:30 CET
Opening of Day 2 by the Chairs:
Tom Haak, Director, HR Trend Institute &
Wouter Van Linden, HR Director EMEA, KPMG
A Career Path for All functions
Dr. Mark van Dongen,
Global Head HR (Mining), ArcelorMittal &
Author of 'Gear-up-Leader Devt.'
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Not everyone is suited to be a Manager and due to downsizing and streamlining initiatives across most organisations, mgmt. positions have reduced significantly
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The benefits of implementing a Dual Career Pathing
system and its impact on motivation, retention, and
overall organizational performance improvement
Q&A with Mark
New World, New Work – New Human?
How to overcome misconceptions in Times of Change
Caroline, Seidel, Catalyst, LIVESciences (20min.)
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Agile ways of working are more than tools and methods
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A new perspective on the people we work with is needed
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Unleashing the potential within us to grow
Q&A with Caroline
10.30
Managing Through Disruption:
the Rising Importance of the Team
Jeremie Brecheisen, Sr. Managing Consultant, Gallup
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Focus on the drivers of high-performing, resilient teams during times of disruption, and the implications for the success of remote teams. (20min.)
Q&A with Jeremie
Coffee & Networking (in the App)
Digitizing the Employer Journey
Reza Moussavian,
SVP-HR Development, Deutsche Telekom
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Our strategy as a global corporation to designing the employee journey, employee experiences/ touchpoints, moments that matter - with digital HR
Q&A with Reza
SGS's Employee Engagement journey
Ana Bidaud, Global Engagement Mgr., SGS &
Ritu Mohanka, Head of Strategy EMEA, Glint
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Do we need one global survey to create a common set of data? Or do we need a local approach that responds to the variety of employee needs in different businesses or countries?
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At SGS, we didn’t choose: we implemented both.
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Discussing the first year of SGS’s new EE programme and how a ‘glocal’ approach to feedback and action helped them respond to employee’s needs in the challenging circumstances of the global pandemic.
Q&A with Ana & Ritu
Sustainable Inclusion: Starting a Movement
Chuck Stephens,
Global Head of Inclusion, Diversity, Belonging, Booking.com
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Now more than ever our colleagues need connectivity and to watch out for each other
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Our B.Inclusionist movement is one way we are challenging ourselves and colleagues to have shared ownership to drive inclusion for all; it is 'radically, unradical'
Q&A with Chuck
Lunch & Networking (in the App)
People & Culture Agile Case of JTI
Sergei Polianski, Agile Ops. Director, P&C &
Anna Kerechashvili, People & Culture Agile Partner, JTI
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Implementing a new operating model in
People & Culture function centered around agility, and setting up an Agile Operations pool. -
The pool plays the role of internal consultancy to the org. bringing innovation, delivering on strategic projects and fulfilling people partnering role.
Q&A with Anna & Sergei
Breaking through barriers by starting small
and unleashing the human potential
Nathalie Hazenberg, HR Strategist Org. Agility,
ABN AMRO Bank & Author of 'Give me a Break'
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Flexible use of talents by creating 'smartjobs' (short term internal assignments)
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Cooperation in the ecosystem of the labour market with 'cross sector mobility' which focuses on enabling people to shift careers voluntarily to another sector.
Q&A with Nathalie
Wrap-up of Day 2
HR & Talent Trends,
Journeys, Innovation
Move Freely between the Streams
Cultural, Agile & Digital Transformation
Programme Day 3
FRIDAY 30th OCTOBER 2020
L&D
Learning
Technologies
Talent Trends
Cultural, Agile & Digital Transformation
Move Freely between the Streams
Stream Leader
08:30 CET
Opening of Day 3 by the Chairs:
Stefaan van Hooydonk, Former CLO, Cognizant &
Alberto Gonzalez, Chief Purpose Officer, Just on Purpose _____________________________
08:45
Sales Excellence and Trainings
Vesna Schaefer, Global Head Innovation Campus,
Head of Digital Learning, Henkel Adhesive Technology &
Matthew Loucks,Global Client Director, Tack TMI
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How to engage with 5000 sales people with relevant and immediately applicable training on a continuous basis.
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We went through a digital transformation of our dept., moving from traditional classroom training to incorporating learning into the workplace.
Q&A with Vesna & Matthew
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09:25
Empowering our SMEs to develop their
own high quality Digital Learning Solutions
Tamsin Vine,
Group SVP L&D, Sodexo
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Leverages learning technologies
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Thinking differently about the role of L&D in the organisation during Covid-19
Q&A with Tamsin
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10:05
Never waste a Good Crisis
Klaus Ahrend,
Head of Unit - L&D, European Commission
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Large-scale conversion of classroom training into
Virtual and Online courses
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This was undergone (and is still developing) following the complete lockdown of the European Commission and the obligation to telework for all its staff.
Q&A with Klaus
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10:45 CET
Coffee & Networking (in the App) _____________________________
11:05
Digital Transformation Platform
Innovating the future of Learning & Development
Tony Strows, Director of Learning, Philips &
Jaap Mollema, Digital Advisor, Microsoft &
Prof. Joseph Press, Scientific Director, IDeaLs
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Join us for an enlightening transformation story
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Experience the future of L&D through a children’s story from the past
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Reflect on the challenges of ‘permanent beta’
Q&A with Tony, Jaap & Joseph
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11:45
Our IGNITE program
Marilyn Kronenberg,
Head of Executive Education & OD Excellence, Sanofi
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Turning a very complex executive education program on disruptive Innovation and Culture Change into a 100% virtual 9 month program.
Q&A with Marilyn _____________________________
12:25
Farewell & Networking (in the App)
12:35 CET
Opening of Day 3 by the Chairs:
Tom Haak, Director, HR Trend Institute &
Wouter Van Linden, HR Director EMEA, KPMG
The Future of augmented Digitization in HR
Addie van Rooij,
VP, Global People Operations, HP Enterprise
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Vision 2022 Connect
- Transform Capability
- Personalized Experience
- Learn & Improve
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User Experience Design Process
Q&A with Addie
HR's Agile Future
Perry Timms,
Author of ‘The Energized Workforce’
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Why an energized workforce is vital
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How Agile creates energy AND inclusion and agency
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How you can start your Agile evolution in HR
Q&A with Perry
Purpose Driven Change – Customer Centricity as the driver of Organizational Agility
Ricardo Troiano,
Global Head of Change and OE, Syngenta
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Syngenta has embarked on the cultural journey of aligning the executive leadership team vision while tapping into the energy and innovation of their employees.
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The specific focus is on growing their customer-centricity through driving the business agility that will be needed to remain competitive in an increasingly complex business env.
Q&A with Ricardo
Coffee & Networking (in the App)
Uncovering your Individual Purpose
Alberto Gonzalez,
Chief Purpose Officer, Just on Purpose
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Why do you wake up in the morning?
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Helping your people uncover their Purpose
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Help your team uncover their Purpose and align it with your organisation's reason for being
Q&A with Alberto
Interactive Panel Session
Led by the Chairs
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A select group of speakers will be going through the questions raised during the day
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They will be giving their perspective on current challenges based on their experiences
Farewell & Networking (in the App)

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