Drive Successful Organisational Change For People Leaders
THEME ONE: HONEST REFLECTIONS
08.30 Registration, Morning Coffee & The Hot Take Wall
NEW FORMAT
Get ahead of the conversation before the day begins and put your most provocative change opinion on record.
Hot Take Wall: Write your most honest, provocative change management opinion on a card and add it to the Hot Take Wall at the entrance – the best ones will be read out at the opening.
The Change Challenge board is also live from 08.30 – post a real problem you are facing in your organisation and it may be selected for the afternoon Clinic session.
Use the registration period to connect with peers and compare notes on what is at the top of your agenda for 2027.
OPENING REMARKS
09.00 Morning Co-Chairs’ Opening Remarks
Understand what the room is really grappling with day-to-day.
The co-chairs read out the three most provocative or widely shared Hot Takes from the morning with a show of hands on the question “What is the single biggest barrier to change in your organisation right now?”
Brief overview of the programme structure, including how to submit challenges for the afternoon Clinic.
driving Effective Change Management
FRONTLINE INSIGHT
09.10 Leave With A Clear, Opinionated View Of The Macro Forces Shaping Your Work – And One Claim You Will Want To Act On Immediately.
- What does an effective change journey look like in 2027? Deep-dive into the key practicalities and winning strategies behind rigorous, impactful, long-term change
- The latest tech developments; cut through AI hype to understand what is actually happening in organisations right now: adoption rates, resistance patterns and where the capability gaps really are.
- The geopolitical and economic forces that change leaders are systematically underestimating – and how they are compressing timelines and raising the stakes for people leaders.
- A bold, evidence-based perspective on what the pace of change actually demands of HR and change professionals in 2027
How Is AI Restructuring, Rewiring & Reshaping Organisational Change, The Future Of Work & The Reality Of Day-To-Day People Leadership?
FIRESIDE CHAT | NEW FORMAT
09.30 Understand how AI is already rewiring roles and decisions – and what change leaders must own in that story before someone else does.
- Hear from a practitioner who has genuinely deployed AI as part of a transformation – what changed, what surprised me and what I would do differently
- Where is AI restructuring roles, rewriting job descriptions and reshaping how decisions get made? And what HR and change leadership must own in that story
Culture As A Performance Driver: Stop Declaring Culture & Start Engineering It As A Measurable Competitive Advantage
PANEL
09.50 Leave with practical frameworks for connecting culture to commercial outcomes your board will actually notice.
- How culture decay quietly destroys performance, erodes retention and slows innovation before it becomes visible in the data – and how to catch it early
- Real case studies from organisations that have directly connected culture change to commercial outcomes – not aspiration, but evidence
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