2023 - Barcelona, Spain hosted by IESE Business School

GF - 2023 | Barcelona, Spain

Sunday, 18 June, 2023

2:00 PM - 4:30 PM    Optional City Tour

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

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM    “Warm Up” Session
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM    Welcome Reception and Registration

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


Start the day
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
09:00 AM - 09:15 AM     Session 1

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
09:15 AM - 10:15 AM     Session 2

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
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM     Session 3

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
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM     Session 4

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
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM     Lunch
Venue: IESE Campus | Dining Room
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM     Session 5

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
02:30 PM - 03:45 PM     Session 6

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
03:45 PM - 04:15 PM     Break
Venue: IESE Campus | Q 300
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM     Session 7

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 JesterMembers 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
05:15 PM - 06:00 PM     Session 8

Discussions with Presenters

 Presenter: Participants choose to join a conversation with:
   
 

Yury Boshyk, Penny Naas, Mike Rosenberg (Room: Q-502)
Valerie Binner (Room: Q-502)
Stefan Bauer (Room: Q-502)
Don Sadoway, Nicolas Helary (Room: Q-502)
Marilee Adams, Patrick McNamara (Room: S-401)
Isabel Rimanoczy (Room: S-402)
Christine Abbott,  Michael Weiss (Room: S-403)
Bengt Eliasson, Michael Johansson (Room: S-404)
Ingeborg Diebold Molster (Room: S-405)
Ira Cohen (Room: S-406)
John Heywood (Room: S-407)
Gunnar George (Room: Q-502)

   
Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorim Q 102 / Plenary + Breakout Rooms
06:15 PM - 08:00 PM     Awards Ceremony

Global Forum / Gen. Robert Lex Dilworth Awards for Outstanding Contributions

Venue: IESE South Campus | Auditorium
08:15 PM     Dinner
 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


Start the day
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
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM    Session 9

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
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM    Session 10

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
10:30 PM - 11:00 AM    Break
Venue: IESE Campus | Q 300
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM    Session 11

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
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM    Session 12

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)
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM    Lunch
Venue: IESE Campus | Dining Room
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM     Session 13

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
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM    Session 14

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)
04:00 PM - 08:00 PM     Special Event

”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
08:30 PM    Dinner
 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


Start the day
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
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM     Session 15

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
09:30 AM - 11:00 AM     Session 16

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
Team 2: Maxime Paquet | Room: U 101
Team 3: Karl-Georg Degenhardt | Room: U 102
Team 4: Chantal Fleuret | Room U 103
Team 5: Michellana Jester | Room U 104

   
Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary + Breakout Rooms
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM     Break
Venue: IESE Campus | Lounge Area
11:30 AM - 12:45 AM     Session 17

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)
12:45 AM - 01:30 PM     Lunch
Venue: IESE Campus | Q 300
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM     Session 18

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)
02:00 PM - 02:45 PM     Session 19

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)
02:45 PM - 03:45 PM     Session 20

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
03:45 PM - 04:15 PM     Break
Venue: IESE Campus | Lounge Area
04:15 PM - 05:15 PM     Session 21

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
05:15 PM - 06:15 PM     Session 22

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.

06:15 PM - 07:00 PM     Summary + Closure

Summary and Closure

Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 / Plenary
07:30 PM     Bus Departure | Final Closing Dinner
Start: Bus starts from Hotel Victoria Suites
   
Restaurant: Can Travi Nou
   
Address: 12 Carrer de Jorge Manrique, 08035 Barcelona

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