Corporate Retreats

Do you wonder if you’re getting the most from the talent you already have? Organizations seeking greater efficiences are grappling with the notion of ‘doing more with less’. This session takes this assertion head on by offering mechanisms to get the most value from the people you have- and improving retention, satisfaction, and execution in the process- by putting every brain in the game.

Are you expected to deliver results in Cloud, GenAI, or other emerging technology field, but finding it challenging to make progress? You’re not alone, and the goal-posts are shifting constantly. Using real-world practical experience in these technologies, this session will explore the intersection of these technologies, look at what’s worked and what hasn’t, and unlock analysis paralysis to help you get your Cloud Computing and GenAI investments back on track.

Have you ever lost a great candidate because the hiring process moved too slowly? Have you ever been struck by the cultural costs, and blast radius, of hiring a candidate who wasn’t the right fit? This session will offer real-world experience from building some of the tech industry’s highest-performing teams to help you evolve your talent acquisition processes for business agility, velocity, and growth, going beyond talent pipelines to acquire talent rapidly and with confidence.

The corner office. The private parking spot. The chief anything and everything officer. Most of us have been taught to follow a steady path to traditional aspects of career success, and been expected to take on the roles of organizational psychologist, therapist, anthropologist, and behavioral scientist in the process- without getting paid for it. But what if these ways we’ve measured ourselves, and others, in fact hold us back? With employers increasingly cutting annual and promotion raises below inflation, excluding key employees from benefiting from lucrative corporate M&A events, and claiming ownership over any and all ideas developed not just part of a job, but during a period of employment, there has to be a better way.

We’ve all seen the headlines: Boeing. The UK Post Office and National Air Traffic Control Services. COVID modelling that informs public policy. In each case, and many more, it’s flawed software system design that creates headline risk not just for technical executives, but for traditionally non-technical executives, board members, public officials and the customer, shareholder, and citizen stakeholders they serve.

By unpacking real-world stories of well-known software disasters, this discussion will focus on the challenges non-technical executives face in 2024 in understanding software-based risks to their businesses, the emerging impact GenAI presents to software design, and how leaders can learn to spot the ‘anti-patterns’ that inject systemic risk in to their organisations years after seemingly innocuous decisions were made.

Does your organization have an innovation lab, department of innovation, chief innovation officer, or something else with ‘innovation’ in the title? If so, have you ever wondered what everyone else is doing? If so, this session is for you. We’ll share stories, discuss what’s worked and what hasn’t, and offer a path to making innovation part of everyone’s work.

Somewhere in the confluence of neuroscience and philosophy is the concept of two types of consciousness: Lantern and Spotlight. In this one-hour workshop using the herd of horses and the gardens, orchards, and woods of Shore Hall, Lara Holliday will lead you to move in and out of Spotlight and Lantern Consciousness, giving you a fresh perspective on the world around you, opening your observation skills to a wider set of stimulus, and triggering your creativity.