This document provides information about an upcoming event called Reconnect 1 on June 12th. It will:
1) Help attendees direct the inspiration and insights from the first half of Connect into purposeful action and application by focusing on the leadership challenges they want help with.
2) Draw on the experience of leaders from various sectors who will provide advice and encouragement.
3) Be held at Shoreditch Studios in London from 8:30am to 8pm and provides information on transportation and nearby hotel accommodations.
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1. Extracting The Value
By the end of the first half of Connect you will have had a feast of
stimulus, inspiration, provocation and learning. And most of you will
have made interesting and useful new connections.
This first Reconnect gathering will be all about how to make the
most of this learning and connectivity.
In the run up to the day we will ask you what your leadership issues are,
what’s keeping you awake at night, what do you want help to do?
We will take the most relevant challenges – including a mix of personal
and the organisational, and structure the day around them.
We will provide you with the space and the support to focus in on these
leadership challenges, the stuff you are sitting with ‘right now’.
We will help you draw on the vast wisdom and experience of
the leaders on Connect. We have also drawn on the Wavelength
ecosystem and invited friends, Connect alumni and leaders to provide
no nonsense advice, support, push-back and encouragement. These
leaders draw from an ocean of leadership experience across private,
public and social enterprise sectors and on issues related to people,
culture, change, purpose, values, innovation and more.
You know that we don’t do purposeless inspiration. So, June 12th
is all about helping you direct the inspiration and insights into
purposeful action and application.
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2. Belinda Budge
One of publishing’s
leading lights, until
November 2012 Belinda
was HarperCollins Group
Publisher responsible
for six trade divisions
and one of four UK board
members. In response to the existential threat
to her industry of digital and self publishing,
Belinda invented HarperCreative, which focussed
on putting innovation at the heart of the business
by re-imagining the relationships between writer,
publisher, retailer and audience.
Few industries have seen such sweeping changes in
such a short period of time as publishing. Belinda’s
leadership role in the eye of such creative destruction
taught her many lessons about managing change and
driving innovation.
Steve McGuirk,
CBE
County Fire
Officer & Chief
Executive
Steve has been a fire fighter
since 1976 and he took
over the running of Greater
Manchester Fire and Rescue Service in 2009. There
are few more high profile and demanding roles in
public service leadership than this. Saving lives and
property, being caught between police and rioters, the
fire service is on the frontline every day. Leading in
such life and death circumstances at the best of times
is a huge challenge. Doing so AND having to deal
with massive funding cuts and shifting government
priorities makes for one of the most demanding
leadership roles in Britain today.
Highly decorated for long service and bravery, Steve –
one of Connect’s alumni – is a straight talking, battle
hardened leader with a wicked sense of humour. You’ll
love him.
Gaynor Coley
Chief Executive
Enterprise The
Eden Project
Gay – a Wavelength host
and alumni – has been in
leadership of one of the
UK’s best known social
enterprises since 1997. Her accountancy and financial
acumen have helped create a robust business
which has welcomed many millions of visitors and
contributed hugely to the regeneration of one of the
poorest parts of Britain.
Eden has become well known throughout the world
and an inspiration to the environmental movement.
But fame and years of success are no guarantee
of avoiding turbulence and Gay, in recent months,
has been having to make very hard choices about
the future of Eden as it comes to terms with how to
position itself in an age of austerity.
Gay is learning the hard way that balancing social
and commercial goals is never easy and some of the
choices are excruciating.
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3. Jane Clubb
Leadership
Coach
Jane is an executive
coach and founder of LIW
Leadership – whose motto
is Courage Honour Humility.
Jane coaches across sectors
from big businesses like Cisco through to SMEs and
social enterprises. She counts amongst her clients
the board of Wavelength! Says Liam: “I’ve worked with
many coaches over the years and Jane is one of the
best. She combines profound emotional intelligence
with a very hard nosed commercial edge. She makes
us think and act better.”
Andy Parfitt
Director of
Executive Talent
for Saatchi &
Saatchi
Andy is among the UK’s
most experienced leaders in
media. He holds the record
as the longest serving Controller of BBC Radio 1 and
was Controller Popular Music, Radio 1Xtra, the Asian
Network, and caretaker Controller of 5 Live.
Andy is widely credited with leading an extraordinarily
successful period of regeneration at Radio 1 – he left
the post in July 2011 with audiences for all his stations
at record levels and the web performance of Radio 1
the biggest, by far, in the sector.
A man with loads of insights into how culture and
business models are shifted in large organisations.
Some great anecdotes too!
Rita Bailey
Co-Founder Up
To Something
Partners
Rita was for 25 years at the
heart of Southwest Airlines
culture and people strategy.
She ended up as the leader
of Southwest’s world famous University for People with
a team of 36 whose sole focus was providing the best
support and training they could to the airline’s tens
of thousands of employees to maintain its industry
leading reputation for service excellence and being a
great place to work.
Since leaving Southwest, Rita has worked with
businesses all over the world to help them improve
their talent and people cultures and so achieve better
service.
Rita combines Texan charm with profound insights into
what it takes to create world beating cultures. A great
speaker, y’all.
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David Smith
Leadership
Coach
David has 34 years
corporate experience of
change management, the
last 15 years of which were
spent turning ASDA around.
As People and IT Director and Executive Board
member for 10 years, David was central to the
remarkable cultural turnaround of ASDA from
near bankruptcy to the commercial success which
continues today in one of the most competitive and
cutthroat sectors of food retailing.
A blunt, straight talking northerner – and much sought
after speaker and coach on leadership, culture and
organisational change – David speaks with all the
authority which comes from having been part of a team
which led 100,000 plus staff in more than 200 locations
to the top of the Sunday Times Best Place To Work list.
Lars KoLind
Lars is one of Scandinavia’s
most successful and best
known entrepreneurs
and business leaders
becoming world-renowned
for his transformation of
Oticon, where he was CEO
from 1988 to 1998. He is, or has been, chairman of
the World Scout Foundation and the Danish multi-
nationals Grundfos and Unimerco. A prolific speaker
and writer, his latest book is Unboss and his thesis is
as straightforward as it is radical. Is the purpose of
business is to make money? No—businesses must
first and foremost be useful. They must become
movements that change the world.
5. Reconnect 1
logistics
WHEN
8:30am – 8pm on Wednesday 12th June
VENUE
Shoreditch Studios
37 Bateman’s Row
London
EC2A 3HH
FINDING SHOREDITCH STUDIOS
The closest tube stations are Liverpool Street Station
(10mins walk) or Old Street (10mins walk). From
Liverpool Street Station, take the Bishopsgate exit
and turn left out onto Bishopsgate. Keeping to the left,
cross over the Great Eastern Road and then turn left
into Bateman’s Row. The Studios are on your left. From
Old Street, take the Old Street (east) exit and walk
east. Turn right into the Great Eastern Road and then
left into Curtain Road. Finally turn right into Bateman’s
Row and the Studios are on your right.
STAYING OVERNIGHT IN LONDON ?
We have a relationship with a lovely boutique hotel –
No Ten Manchester Street in Marylebone. This is not
the closest but is a nice central location and we have
negotiated a preferred corporate rate of £165 plus
VAT for B&B, and you just need to say you are booking
through Wavelength
www.tenmanchesterstreethotel.com
Alternatively the Hoxton Hotel is one of a
number of hotels which are closer to the venue
www.hoxtonhotels.com With any hotel you choose,
make sure you book early to get the best rate.
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