Sunday, 18 June, 2023
Please note. Participants must also register for the tour. It is not part of the official programme.
Panoramic city tour with a Guide, with photo stop.
Participants + Partner
Bus tour starting from the Hotel AC Victoria Suites
Monday, 19 June, 2023
Theme of the Day: Strategic Transformations
World Challenges and Opportunities: Developing and Implementing Strategic Transformations and Mindsets | Outside-In and Inside-Out Perspectives
World Challenges and Opportunities: Developing and Implementing Strategic Transformations and Mindsets | Outside-In and Inside-Out Perspectives
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | Breakfast Hotel |
Venue: | Hotel AC Victoria Suites |
8:15 AM | Bus Transfer |
Venue: | From Hotel Victoria Suites - to the IESE campus |
IESE | C/Arnús I Garí, 3-7 | 08034 Barcelona |
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Welcome Coffee |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Q 300 |
Welcome and Introduction
Speaker: |
Kip Meyer Managing Director, Custom Partnerships, IESE Business School,and member of the Global Forum Organizing Team (USA - Spain) Eric Weber, Associate Dean, IESE Business School (USA - Spain) Claudia Peña Eversberg Sales Support Manager, IESE Business, School (Spain) Yury Boshyk CEO, Global Executive Learning, Founder and Member of the Global Forum Organizing Team. (Canada) |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
A discussion on “mega threats” and “mega opportunities” facing the world and humanity | what is being done | and what more needs to be done.
The Big Picture and Greater Global Purpose: Understanding Transformational Geopolitical and Global Realities
Speaker: | Yury Boshyk Global Executive Learning, Member of the Global Forum Organizing Team (Canada) |
Penny Naas President, International Public Affairs and Sustainability at UPS (USA) | |
Mike Rosenberg Professor of Practice of Management, IESE Business School, and author of Strategy and Geopolitics, and Strategy and Sustainability (Spain) |
Data-Driven Eco-Economic Decoupling: “How Do We Grow Economically Without Corresponding Increases in Environmental Pressure”.
Speaker: | Bengt Eliasson CEO of Stockfiller, Executive in Residence, founding member of Silicon Vikings, OPCO, and IBM. (Sweden) |
Food Security and Sustainable Food Production for the Growing Population.
Speaker: | Valerie Binner Senior Vice President Human Resources, and Global Leadership Team member, DeLaval. (Sweden) |
Pharma in Transformation: The Case of Eli Lilly and Company in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Speaker: | Stefan Bauer Director - Transformation & Strategy, Germany/Austria/Switzerland at Eli Lilly and Company (Germany) |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
Keynote:
The Path to Profitable Sustainability: The Missing Scientific and Technological Pieces of Achieving Our Sustainability Goals
Speaker: | Donald R. Sadoway Professor Emeritus, MIT, award winning inventor and entrepreneur (USA) |
Discussant: | Nicolas Helary Former Board Member, Managing Director, Vossloh Cogifer, and former CEO at Siemens, Energy Automation. (France) |
Venue | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
Sustainability and “Smart Cities”: Special focus on mobility.
Moderator: | Karl-Georg Degenhardt Global Executive Learning, member of the Global Forum Organizing Team (Germany) |
Speaker + Moderator: | Joan Enric Ricart Professor, Co-academic director of IESE Cities in Motion and academic director of the UN Centre of Excellence of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) for Cities and co-author, most recently, of Cities and Governance. The Rise of Cities as Global Actors. (Spain) |
Speaker: | Manuel Valdes Lopez, Manager of mobility and infrastructures Barcelona City Hall (Spain) |
Cristina Garrido, Director of Innovation & Strategy at Anteverti - Deputy Curator Smart City Expo World Congress- Founding Director CitiesToBe.com (Spain) | |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Dining Room |
Keynote:Inspiring Effective Action for the Emerging Era
Speaker: | Marilee Adams Founder, the Inquiry Institute International, Adjunct Professor, American University School of Public Affairs. author, most recently of Change Your Questions, Change Your Life Workbook: Master Your Mindset Using Question Thinking (USA) |
Patrick McNamara Internationally recognized IDG expert (France-Switzerland) | |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
Sustainability Communities of Practice (CoP) Using Action Learning
The Sustainability Mindset Principles for Management Education: A Guide to Developing a Mindset for a Better World Using Action Reflection Learning
Speaker: | Isabel Rimanoczy, Convener of the PRME Working Group on the Sustainability Mindset, and author of The Sustainability Mindset Principles: A Guide to Developing a Mindset for a Better World and Stop Teaching: Principles and Practices for Responsible Management Education.(USA) |
UK-Austria: Academy of Sustainability and HDNW (House of Sustainable Economy)
Speaker: | Christine Abbott Director and Partner, Centre for Action Learning and co-author of Facilitating Action Learning: A Practitioner's Guide and Action Learning in Social Work. (UK) |
Michael Weiss Trainer, auditor, author and coach (Austria) |
Collaborative future proofing – A systemic approach to learning and action
Speaker: | Michael Johansson Optimist at ChangePilots (Sweden) |
Bengt Eliasson CEO of Stockfiller, Executive in Residence, founding member of Silicon Vikings, OPCO, and IBM. (Sweden) | |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Q 300 |
Some Critical Issues
Demystifying organizational purpose
Speaker: | Ingeborg Diebold-Molster People, leadership snd organizational development with corporations, start ups & scale ups, executive coach, entrepreneur, and facilitator (Germany) |
Dealing with the critical need for an "Education Revolution": Time for collaboration in a Global Experiential and Action Learning Alliance
Speaker: | Yury Boshyk and Michellana Jester, Members of the Global Forum Organizing Team. (Canada and USA) |
The war on distraction facing all generations
Speaker: | Ira Cohen Lecturer,University of Toronto (Canada) |
Eco-Distress--and comments on the recent book, Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis
Speaker: | John Heywood Senior Associate, Action Learning Associates, and executive coach (France) |
How to accelerate learning, collaboration and transformation--9 mindset shifts--towards a world of 'hope and joy''."
Speaker: | Gunnar George Founder of Compassionate Consulting, forthcoming book "Aha...Wow, Yes": How to Accelerate and ... (Sweden) |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Room Q 102 / Plenary |
Discussions with Presenters
Presenter: | Participants choose to join a conversation with: |
Yury Boshyk, Penny Naas, Mike Rosenberg (Room: Q-502) |
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Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorim Q 102 / Plenary + Breakout Rooms |
Global Forum / Gen. Robert Lex Dilworth Awards for Outstanding Contributions
Venue: | IESE South Campus | Auditorium |
Restaurant: | El Jardi De l’Abadessa |
Venue: | Abadessa Olzet, 26 |
Walking Return to hotel (20 minutes) |
Tuesday, 20. June, 2023
Theme for the Day: Leadership
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | Breakfast Hotel |
Venue: | Hotel AC Victoria Suites |
8:15 AM | Bus Transfer |
Venue: | From Hotel Victoria Suites - to the IESE campus |
IESE | C/Arnús I Garí, 3-7 | 08034 Barcelona |
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Welcome Coffee |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Q 300 |
Learning and Action Plans from Monday
Facilitator: | Michellana Jester MIT Sloan School, author, member of the Global Forum Organizing Team, and Global Executive Learning (USA) |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
Are We Creating an Inclusive Society? Reaching Equality: What is Being Done and What More Needs to be Done?
Moderator and Presenter: | Chantal Fleuret Global Executive Learning, and member of the Global Forum Organizing Team (France) |
Speakers: | Trevor Marchand Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of London, and author most recently of The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work (France, UK) |
Kershini Govender Transformation and Strategy Executive Head at Nedbank Limited (South Africa) | |
Maria Puig The Dignity, Diversity and Belonging Office Director, IESE (Spain) | |
Julia Prats Romeu Gender Equality Lead, "la Caixa” Foundation (Spain) | |
Deanna Grams Chief People Officer at TuneIn (USA) | |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Q 300 |
As a Leader Are you Powerful or Powerless in the Virtual Space?
Speaker: | Ghislaine Caulat Founder and Director of Black Gazelle Ltd & Virtual Leadership Associates, author of Virtual Leadership: Learning to Lead Differently; and, Powerful or Powerless in the Virtual Space--the Choice is Yours. (Germany) |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
Lessons from Leading and Supporting Business Transformations and Start Ups
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
The Future of Executive Learning and “Business Experimentation”
Speaker: | Thierry Bonetto Founder, Learning Futures, formerly Director of Learning and Development, and Global Head, the Danone Academy. (France) |
What Does it Mean to be “Business Interventionists”?
Speaker: | Marischa van Zantvoort Founding Partner Magnifor Consulting (Netherlands) |
Alasdair Philip Founding Partner Magnifor Consulting (USA) |
Leading Change: Leadership Lessons from Unexpected Quarters
Speaker: | Wyn Owen Director, Cyfarwyddr/WCO, Organizational Development Consultant (UK) |
How We Co-created Cooperative Engagement to Enhance Business Performance: An African Story
Speaker: | Bennie Anderson Chairperson: The Da Vinci Institute (South Africa) |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Dining Room |
Helping Others: New Directions in Executive Coaching, Advising, Mentoring, and Peer to Peer Networking
Speaker: | Cornelia Choe Founder and CEO, The Leaders’ Alliance (Switzerland) |
Sharon Marshall Executive Development Manager, UPS (USA) | |
Dan Norenberg Executive and strategic leadership team advisor, coach and author of Executive Ownershift: Creating Highly Effective Leadership Teams (Germany) | |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
A New Way and Proven Way to Measure Results and Impact from Codevelopment Action Learning.
Speaker: | Maxime Paquet Professor, Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Montreal, and author (Canada) |
Nathalie Lafranchise Professeure titulaire, chercheuse et directrice Codev-Action at Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada) | |
Nathalie Sabourin Co-Founder of the Co-Leadership Group, and author (Canada) | |
Ron Cheshire Co-Founder of the Co-Leadership Group, and author (Canada) | |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Breakout Room Q 107 |
Wisdom Panel: What Do Leaders Need to Unlearn and Develop?
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
The Art and Skill of Story Telling
Speaker: | Lars Cederholm Owner, CCT, poet and author (Sweden) |
The How of Memorable Interviews and Conversations
Speaker: | Rebecca Miller President, OPTIK NERVE, film maker, artist, writer (USA) |
Accepting and Conquering Illness with “Radical Acceptance” and What I Learned From This Experience
Speaker: | Bengt Eliasson Executive in Residence, CEO at Stockfiller (Sweden) |
Empathy and Caring: My Experience from Assisting Ukrainian Refugees
Speaker: | Valerie Binner SVP Human Resources at DeLaval (Sweden) |
What does it mean to start your own company after many years with a major global company?
Speaker: | Hays Steilberg Leadership Advisor, Speaker, Investor, formerly Executive VP Corporate, Executives and Talent, Bertelsmann (Germany) |
Personal Reflections on the Global Purpose, and the Need for Collaborative Action
Speaker: | Jorge Tejeda Organizational and Executive Coach at Be Leaders Executive Consulting (Mexico) |
”Innovative Spirit: Lessons in Leadership from the Sagrada Familia”
Introduction of the Sagrada Familia
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Please note: The participant partners can also register for the event. |
Presenter: | Judith Urbano Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, UIC Dean Department of Humanities, PhD in Art History (Spain) |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
Bus transfer to Sagrada Familia
5:00 PM |
Sagrada Familia guided visit
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | |
Venue: | Sagrada Familia |
Transfer to Restaurant | Bestial 'on the beach'
07:00 PM |
Debrief Sagrada Familia Learning and Dinner
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | |
Facilitator |
Kip Meyer Managing Director, Custom Partnerships, IESE Business School,and member of the Global Forum Organizing Team (USA-Spain) |
Venue: | Restaurant Bestial |
Restaurant: | Bestial |
Venue: | Carrer Ramón Trias Fargas 2-4, 08005, Barcelona. Tel.: +34 93 224 04 07 |
Wednesday, 21. June, 2023
Theme for the Day: On Organizational, Team and Individual Learning
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM | Breakfast Hotel |
Venue: | Hotel AC Victoria Suites |
8:15 AM | Bus Transfer |
Venue: | From Hotel Victoria Suites - to the IESE campus |
IESE | C/Arnús I Garí, 3-7 | 08034 Barcelona |
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Welcome Coffee |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Q 300 |
Debrief of previous day’s learning
Facilitator: | Michellana Jester MIT Sloan School, author, member of the Global Forum Organizing Team, and Global Executive Learning (USA) |
Yury Boshyk Global Executive Learning, Member of the Global Forum Organizing Team, author. (Canada) |
Introduction to the many international Action Learning varieties
Facilitator: | Yury Boshyk Global Executive Learning, Member of the Global Forum Organizing Team, author. (Canada) |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
Workshop: A New Approach to Collaboration, Action and Learning | Codevelopment Action Learning
Facilitators: | Nathalie Sabourin, Ron Chesire, Nathalie Lafranchise, Maxime Paquet and Chantal Fleuret, GEL |
Working groups | |
Facilitators: |
Team 1: Ron Cheshire | Room: Q 102 |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary + Breakout Rooms |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Lounge Area |
New Frontiers in Learning, Creativity, and Innovation
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
Moderator + Presenter: | Michellana Jester MIT Sloan School of Management, member of the Global Forum Organizing Team, author, and Global Executive Learning (USA) |
The Role of Curiosity and Its Cross Cultural Contexts
Speaker: | Stefaan van Hooydonk Founder, Global Curiosity Institute, co-founder, The Earth Academy, and author of The Curiosity Manifesto: How curiosity helps individuals and workplaces thrive in transformational times.(Belgium) |
Creativity and Collaboration
Speaker: |
Tobias Degsell Former curator, Nobel Prize Museum, founder and CEO of Combiner , creativity expert, “collaboration evangelist” and author of Conjunctions (forthcoming), (Sweden) |
How to Become a Learning-Driven Business
Speaker: | Alaa Garad Director of Academic Programs, Reader in Organizational Learning and Business Excellence, Alm College, and co-author of The Learning-Driven Business: How to Develop and Organizational Learning Ecosystem (UK) |
Silicon Valley Trends and Their Implications
Spearker: | Jim Myrick Resident at Autodesk, Partner at neue.se (USA) |
Questioning the Role of Technology for Executive Learning
Speaker: | Steve Woodward Woodburn Mann Leadership Science Institute, and former CEO and Chief HRO (South Africa) |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Q 300 |
The New Workplace Environment
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
Physical and Mental Well-Being | How Are We Dealing With this Critical Issue for Many Organizations?
Speaker: | Michael Hagemann VP Change and Transformation Engagement and Enablement, DPDHL, and author of Three Key Success Factors for Transforming Your Business: Mindset, Infrastructure, Capability; and forthcoming, A Leadership Paradigm Shift to "Eclectic Leadership" (Germany) |
Organizational and Team Learning
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
New Directions in Team Performance, Learning Collaboration and Transformation
Shared Disciplines: A Better Way to Lead and Coach.
Speaker: | Ernie Turner President, Leadership in Motion (LiM) co-author with Tan Swee Heng of Shared Leadership Disciplines: A Better Way to Lead Teams (forthcoming)(USA) |
Lennart Rohlin President MiLgårdarna (Sweden) | |
Jonas Janebrant CEO MiL Institute (Sweden) |
Parallel Workshops
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary + Breakout Rooms |
Steps to Developing Curiosity and Innovation in Your Organization
Facilitator: | Stefaan van Hooydonk Founder, Global Curiosity Institute, co-founder, The Earth Academy, and author of The Curiosity Manifesto: How curiosity helps individuals and workplaces thrive in transformational times.(Belgium) |
Room: U 101 |
AI Readiness Assessment Tool for Organizations
Facilitator: | Jim Myrick Resident at Autodesk, Partner at neue.se (USA) |
Room: U 102 |
How to Nurture Well-Being in Companies
Facilitator: | Michael Hagemann VP Change and Transformation Engagement and Enablement, DPDHL, and author of Three Key Success Factors for Transforming Your Business: Mindset, Infrastructure, Capability (Germany) |
Room: U 103 |
Aligning Neuroscience to Understanding Personality Types and Compatibility
Facilitator: | David Labno LCEO, NeuroColor LLC (USA) |
Room: U 104 |
The Art, Science, Business and Management of Technological Innovation and Implementation: Lessons Learned
Facilitator: | Donald R. Sadoway Professor Emeritus, MIT, award winning inventor and entrepreneur (USA) |
Michael Diebold CEO midge medical GmbH (Germany) | |
Room: U 105 |
How to Become a Learning-Driven Business
Facilitator: | Alaa Garad Director of Academic Programs, Reader in Organizational Learning and Business Excellence, Alm College, and co-author of The Learning-Driven Business: How to Develop and Organizational Learning Ecosystem (UK) |
Room: U 106 |
Venue: | IESE Campus | Lounge Area |
Parallel Workshops
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary + Breakout Rooms |
A New Leadership Framework for Our Networked Creative Economy
Facilitator: | Bennie Anderson Chairperson: The Da Vinci Institute (South Africa) |
Room; U 101 |
Thriving Minds - Cultivating Mental Health and Wellbeing for Leaders and Individuals
Facilitator: | Benita Bi Leadership Development at OLX Group (Prosus Company) (Netherl |
Room: U 102 |
Developing Innovative Intrapreneurs in Companies
Facilitator: | Albert Bengtson Co-auther to Principles of Intrapreneurial Capital (Sweden) |
Birgitte Stjärne Founder and CEO, Intercatalyst (Sweden) | |
Roland Williams Senior Leader (Sweden) | |
Ruben R. Puentedura CEO Hippasus (USA) | |
Room: U 103 |
The Sustainability Mindset Principles that Connect Purpose, Collaboration & Action for Shaping a Better World
Facilitator: |
Isabel Rimanoczy, Convener of the PRME Working Group on the Sustainability Mindset, and author of The Sustainability Mindset Principles: A Guide to Developing a Mindset for a Better World and Stop Teaching: Principles and Practices for Responsible Management Education.(USA) |
Room: U 104 |
Inspiring Effective Action for the Emerging Era
Facilitator: | Marilee Adams Founder, the Inquiry Institute International, Adjunct Professor, American University School of Public Affairs. author, most recently of Change Your Questions, Change Your Life Workbook: Master Your Mindset Using Question Thinking (USA) |
Patrick McNamara Internationally recognized IDG expert (France-Switzerland) | |
Room: U 105 |
Briefing and Introduction to Collective Problem Solving and Collaboration
Speaker: | Bernhard Hauser Professor for Change Management and Action Learning at the University of Applied Management, and author of Action Learning Workbook: mit Praxistipps, Anleitungen und Hintergrundwissen fur Trainer, Berater und Fascilitators (Germany) |
Venue | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
With GEL and Global Forum Facilitators: "Retrospectives"from the Global Forum and organization of active collaboration teams on their action plans and timelines.
Summary and Closure
Venue: | IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary |
Start: | Bus starts from Hotel Victoria Suites |
Restaurant: | Can Travi Nou |
Address: | 12 Carrer de Jorge Manrique, 08035 Barcelona |