How can you change your world? ... Now's the time for business leaders to step up, to have the courage to create a better future ... Join us!
Peter Fisk
NEXT/NOW … futurist and strategist, author and speaker… helping business leaders to thrive in a fast-changing world ... with better strategy, innovation, brands, sustainability, transformation, and leadership.
I'm just back from Segovia, the fabulous world heritage city in the heart of Spain, with its incredible Roman aqueduct that spans the beautiful old town, the Disney-like Alcazar castle which was a royal palace, and the towering Gothic cathedral that dominates the skyline.
It's an incredible place to bring together business leaders from across the world - this time, with participants from such diverse backgrounds as African PR agency, Chinese railways, African banking, Latin American airlines, Argentinian software, German engineering, Mexican energy, American multi-level marketing, Lebanese food, Spanish fashion, Middle Eastern postal services, and Ukrainian blockchain - just as examples!
The Global Advanced Management Program (Global AMP) is IE Business School's flagship program for senior executives ready to transform the future. It's focused on leaders stepping up to take their organisations to the next level, to explore what happens next, to develop new blueprints for markets and organisations, to drive business and personal transformation. It's about new mindsets, new ideas and insights, and driving practical action.
Over 40 modules, some online to fit in with work schedules, and some physical, where everyone comes together, we explore the future of business. We consider the fast-changing landscape of disruptive technologies, power shifts, social and environmental agendas, and other trends rapidly shaping what happens next. We explore the new opportunities for growth, how to drive more radical innovation, align your organisation and people, and make change happen in more profitable and progressive ways.
Each participant also works throughout the program on their "Gamechanger Project", working with me to create a blueprint for their future business, or even a start-up idea that they've always wanted to develop. Throw in one-to-one coaching to consider your own leadership strengths and impacts, then you start to get a transformative experience, which so many participants say with all honesty "it changed my life".
You can read about the full program here .
For me, it's as much about the participants as the academic content, sharing their insights and experiences from every corner of the world, and so many different industries. Some are entrepreneurs with start ups and scale ups, some are leading their family businesses to new places, and some are stepping up to lead large multinational corporations. We're all facing an incredible future, a time of relentless change but also immense opportunities.
It's also about the incredible faculty that we have brought together - some of the world's top business leaders, and most inspiring academics, thought leaders and practical implementors, helping us to learn what's next, what matters, and what works. They come from across the world, brought together as one team for the Global AMP:
Here are the profiles of just some of the people you will work with over the many different topics, formats, locations, and projects, on the Global AMP:
Peter Fisk, Academic Director
“We will see more change in the next 10 years, than the last 250 years. Now is the time for leaders to step up, to have the courage to create a better future.”
Peter is a global business thought leader on leadership and growth, innovation and customers. He is a bestselling author of 9 books, expert strategic consultant and a keynote speaker. Having trained as a nuclear physicist, he went on to work with brands including British?Airways, Adidas, Red Bull, Microsoft. He also founded a digital start-up, and was CEO of the world’s largest marketing network. Alongside his role at IE, he runs GeniusWorks, a strategic growth accelerator, working with executive teams. His books include?“Gamechangers: Innovative Strategies for Business and?Brands” and most recently, “Business Recoded: Have the courage to create a better future”.
Jim Hagemann Snabe, Leading Business
“Leaders need to have dreams, and enable others to deliver the detail. Leaders need to be thinking about what happens after what happens next.”
Jim is one of the world’s leading industrialists, and chairman of both Siemens and Maersk. He has 25 years’ experience in the technology sector, focused on leadership around innovation, digitalisation and societal progress. Having grown up in Denmark he become the co-CEO of SAP. He is now chairman of Siemens, the leading German technology business, and Maersk, the world’s leading container logistics company, and also Vice Chairman of Allianz, the insurance company. He is a trustee and leader of the World Economic Forum, where he regularly takes the Davos platform alongside Klaus Schwab, and is author of multiple books including "Dreams and Details", and "Tech for Life".
Tendayi Viki, Leading Innovation
“Clever ideas are not enough for innovation. It takes much more. Disruptors are not rebels without a cause, they are smart value creators.”
Tendayi is an innovation expert, with a PhD in psychology. Having grown up in Zimbabwe, he started his career in academic research at Harvard and Stanford. He is now based in the UK, and works closely with Alex Osterwalder’s Strategyzer team on business model innovation. His books include “The Corporate Start-Up” and “Pirates in the Navy” about how innovators drive transformation. As much as what to do, Tendayi is also very clear on what not to do - he's not a big fan of those hackathons, design jams and innovation labs, that generate nice ideas, and warm feelings, but are less effective at delivering results.
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, Leading Change
“We are seeing a revolution in organisations, the shift from functions to projects. Today, in a world of relentless change, everyone is a project manager.”
Antonio is known as the world’s leading champion of project management and strategy?implementation. Alongside his full time role with GSK where is currently director of sustainability implementation, and previously director of their global PMO, he is also chair of the Project Management Institute. Born in Spain, and having lived around the world, he was previously a senior executive for Fortis Bank, responsible for the integration with BNP Paribas and ABN AMRO. He received a Global Award from Thinkers50 for Ideas into Practice, and his books include "The Focused Organisation" and Harvard’s "Project Management Handbook".
Mark Esposito, Leading Megatrends
“We cannot plan for a chosen future, we can only respond to what happens. Megatrends are pathways to help you see further into uncertainty.”
Mark is a technology futurist and AI pioneer, and currently a strategic advisor to the UAE Government Office of AI on digital strategy. Canadian by birth, now living in France and Spain, he is co-founder of Nexus FrontierTech. He is also co-leader of the Microeconomics of Competitiveness program at the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness, at Harvard Business School, with specialist interests in corporate sustainability, economic complexity, and the circular economy.?His books include "Understanding How the Future Unfolds", and "The AI Republic".
Mia de Kuijper, Leading Organisations
“Organisations need to align themselves for action and agility. Power nodes are the modern sources of competitive advantage.”
Mia is an economist, currently Senior VP and Strategic Advisor to Saleforce.com, and Executive in Residence at Harvard Innovation Labs. Dutch by origin, she was part of the Shell team that pioneered scenario planning, and then moved into investment banking on Wall Street with Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley. She was COO and CFO at PepsiCo, driving its international growth into Asia, and then VP of strategy at AT&T as it sought to capitalise on IP-based networks and the digital revolution. She is author of “Profit Power Economics.”?
Christian Rangen, Leading Transformation
“Over the coming decade, every organisation will have to transform itself. Leaders need to find time and space to balance their old, new and future business.”
Chris is a Norway-based expert in business transformation. He founded Strategy Tools, a digital platform to help business leaders develop the capabilities to create better strategies, and make them happen more effectively. In particularly, he has become a global leader in developing superclusters as hotspots for innovation and change. He is author of “Building the Transformational Company: A CEO Handbook.”
Terence Mauri, Leading with Courage
Terence Mauri is founder of Hack Future Lab and entrepreneur mentor at MIT. Born in Italy, his early career was an communications with Saatchi & Saatchi. How two books are "The Leaders Mindset" and "The 3D Leader" in which he describes how to use the Bold, Brave and Beyond mindsets in three easy and practical steps to help you lead faster and smarter.?
Terence Tse, Leading Technologies
“Competitiveness matters because it is the key to prosperity, and improved lives. AI is rapidly becoming the new key to competitiveness.”
Terence is a tech futurist, with particular focus on the business applications of AI. He is co-author with Mark Esposito of “The AI Republic”, expert on the future of finance and healthcare, and co-chair of the Start-Up Lab. Educated in Germany, he started his career in finance with Schroders and Citibank in Canada and USA, and is now based in the UK?where?he is co-founder and Executive Director of Nexus FrontierTech, a London-based scale?up specialising in modernising data-intensive processes.
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Verónica Reyero, Leading with Humanity
“The secret to digital technologies is to make them more human.”
Verónica is a?digital anthropologist exploring what it means to be human in a technological world. She is founder of Anthropologia 2.0,?an ethnographic research and consultancy firm in Spain that helps organisations to understand better their customers, employees, and the sociocultural context in which they operate. She explores what it really means to be human-centred in today’s business, or customer-centred as we often say, and how we can unlock the true potential of technology and people together.
Mark Fritz, Leading Uncertainty
“When leading change, be interested in people, but don’t tell them what to do.”
Mark is a hugely experienced corporate manager, having led the implementation of large-scale transformation projects for Kodak across the world. Born in the USA, he has worked in Egypt, Italy, Singapore and Japan, giving him a deep insight into what drives people in different cultures, and in multinational organisations. He is author of “Lead and Influence” and is fond of saying “nose in, fingers out” meaning that leaders should be interested in what people do, but not tell them what to do.
Mikael Trolle, Leading Teams
“Sports coaches know that when the game starts, players are in control”
Mikael is the former national coach of Denmark’s Volleyball team, and coach to many business leaders, and has vast experience in developing leadership within elite sport. More recently, he teamed up with Jim Hagemann Snabe to co-write “Dreams and Details” which explores how to reinvent your organisation and leadership from a position of strength. He is CEO of Idonea which works with business leaders to implement this approach.
Concepcion Galdon, Leading with Sustainability
“Sustainable innovation is the foundation of competitive advantage today”
Concepcion is a social innovator and economist. She has worked in public and private sector, including roles in Santander Bank and founding an NGO, while her PhD focused on the use of technology in social entrepreneurship. She is president of the social venture Puentes Global, member of Ashoka’s venture board, and IE University’s Social Innovator Director.
Marcos Cajina, Leading Emotionally
“We think people are logical, think again”
Marcos is founder of Renewal, a specialist leadership company that focuses on the neuroscience of emotional engagement. His background includes 14 years with the Ford Motor Company where he was director of leadership excellence, and also working in advertising with J Walter Thompson and Ted Bates on brands like Live’s Pepsi, and Unilever.
Mark Thomas, Leading with Responsibility
“How can your organisation be a platform for change, a platform for good?”
Mark is a social economist, and founder of the 99% Organisation, fighting for social equality. His award-winning book 99% explores “how we’ve been screwed and how to fight back” in a world where 1% of the global population is wealthier than the remaining 99%.??As an experienced business strategist, Mark explores what this means for business leaders in order to become more successful themselves, and do more for society.
Javier Bernard, Leading Narratives
“What will you say, how will you say it, and what will people remember?”
Javier is a communications expert, founder of Speak & Span, a public Speaking training centre, and a leading coach to leaders seeking to be better speakers. He has a rich background in communications with P&G and BAT, and creative agencies MediaCom and MediaEdge:cia. He also specialises in market research and consumer behaviour, adding to his ability to help leaders develop better storytelling and presentation capabilities.
Steven MacGregor, Leading with Wellbeing
“Business leaders are like Olympic athletes, but few eat, train or sleep like champions”?
Stephen is an expert on executive performance, author of “Chief Wellbeing Officer” and founder of the Leadership Academy of Barcelona (LAB). Having grown up in Scotland with a passion for sports including athletics and cycling, a PhD took him to Carnegie Mellon and Stanford where he also specialised in areas such as design thinking. As well as many business leaders, he has also worked with Olympic athletes and Ironman champions.
Claire French, Leading Authentically?
“Don’t try to be somebody else, try to be your own best self”
Claire is an authentic leadership development and performance specialist, founder of Bondita Consulting, and having previously worked for Nortel Networks, Siemens, Verizon and Vodafone. She?draws on decades of global experience with thousands of teams and individuals across more than 45 countries to shift mindsets and cultures, enabling organisations to anticipate and prepare for the future.
Bernardo Crespo, Leading with Intelligence
“Today’s organisations have incredible amounts of data, but waste most of it”?
Bernardo is an expert in how organisations can unlock the power of data and intelligence to act smarter, with more focus and impact. Spanish, his experience is shaped by a career with BBVA, one of the world’s most innovative banks, responsible for product development, loyalty programs, and digital marketing. His passion is to help organisations to drive more thoughtful, more intelligent, digital transformation.?
Ricardo Perez, Leading with Platforms
“Network-based technologies are transforming organisations and markets”
Ricardo has two decades of experience in working with new technologies, in start-ups and large organisations, both in Spain and the USA, working with MIT. He has a particular interest in the development and scaling of entrepreneurial businesses, and the application of new business models such as multi-sided platforms.?
Andrew McCarthy, Leading with Design
"Design is the link between creativity and innovation, between people and progress"
Andrew started out in New York as a designer, art and creative director, in several multinationals and startups, advising organisations on creativity, strategy, innovation processes, user experience, and design. He studied philosophy and the history of maths and sciences, then design, and now teaches design thinking and strategy, visual communications, creativity, innovation process, and entrepreneurship. He loves all forms of art, improv and music, and his voice has been featured in ads and audiobooks.
David Alayon, Leading with Innovation
“Innovation is the core of today’s business - the relentless, exciting, heart beat”
David is the former head of innovation projects at Inditex, the Spanish company famous for revolutionising fashion with brands like Zara, Bershke and Mango. He is now Chief Innovation Officer of Mindset, and co-founder of Innuba. Ge is an expert in innovation and disruptive technologies, with 15 years’ experience developing innovation strategies and processes.
Jaime Veiga, Leading Consumers
“In a world of intense competition, why would any customer listen to your business?”
Jaime has a deep insight into market research and consumer behaviour, developed in a career with Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble, including responsibility in the latter for all market research. He is particularly interested in the field of behaviour economics and neuromarketing, and the increasingly active role of business and its leaders in shaping political and social agendas.
Amazing experience with plenty of actionable knowledge to face the challenges! And at the same time forging bonds with an incredible group of colleagues Thanks Peter Fisk and Stephen Adamson