Sunday, 18 June, 2023

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

Panoramic city tour with a Guide, with photo stop


 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
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)
   
Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102
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)
   
Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102
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:
(* indicates not confirmed)
Yury Boshyk Global Executive Learning, Member of the Global Forum Organizing Team, author. (Canada)
  Brad Benson Board Member, Strategic Advisor, Executive Coach, formerly VP, Intel (USA) 
  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)
  * Eric Stryson Managing Director, Global Institute for Tomorrow (Hong Kong SAR)

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 Transformation and Strategy Leader, Germany/Austria/Switzerland at Eli Lilly and Company in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. (Germany)
   
Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102
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 Board Member, Managing Director, Vossloh Cogifer, and former CEO at Siemens, Energy Automation. (France) 
   
 Venue IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM     Session 4

Sustainability and “Smart Cities”: What Does it Mean to be One of the World’s “Smartest Cities”?

Moderator + Presenter: Karl-Georg Degenhardt Global Executive Learning, member of the Global Forum Organizing Team (Germany)
   
 Speaker: 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) 
   
 Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM     Lunch
Venue: IESE Campus | Dining Room
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM     Session 5

Keynote:
How the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) (Being, Thinking, Collaborating, Acting and Relating) Accelerate the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

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 Mc Namara Internationally recognized IDG expert (France-Switzerland)
   
Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102
02:30 PM - 03:15 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)
   
Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102
03:15 PM - 03:45 PM     Break
Venue: IESE Campus | Q 300
03:45 PM - 05:00 PM     Session 7

Discussions with Presenters, Recent Authors and Research Work in Progress

 Presenter: Participants choose to join a conversation with:
   
  Christine Abbott, Marilee Adams, Yury Boshyk, Ghislaine Caulat, Lars Cederholm, Tobias Degsell, Michael Diebold, Gunnar George, John Heywood, Michellana Jester, Dan Norenberg, Maxime Paquet with Nathalie Sabourin and Ron Chesire, Trevor Marchand, Rose Pillay, Joan Enric Ricart, Isabel Rimanoczy, Mike Rosenberg, Don Sadoway, Ernie Turner, Stefaan van Hooydonk, Michael Weiss.
   
Venue: IESE Campus | Foyer Q 100
05:00 PM - 05:45 PM     Session 8
Open Space (“Unconference Conference”)
Participants share and discuss dilemmas and Issues of concern in small topical groups of their choosing.
Those who already volunteered:
Venue: IESE Campus | Foyer Q 100
06:00 PM - 07:45 PM     Awards Ceremony

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

Venue: IESE South Campus | Auditorium
08:00 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
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
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: Deanna Grams Chief People Officer at TuneIn (USA)
  Maria Puig  The Dignity, Diversity and Belonging Office Director, IESE (Spain)
  Julia Prats Romeu Gender Equality Lead, "la Caixa” Foundation (Spain)
   
Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102
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
(Germany)
   
 Discussant: Andreas Fritz Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Seco Tools (Italy)
   
 Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM    Session 12

Lessons from Leading and Supporting Business Transformations and Start Ups

 Venue:  IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 

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)
 

Lessons Learned from Leading Transformations

 Speaker: Anders Ericsson  Entrepreneur in Residence, Telespazio, Senior Partner, SeriousFun, formerly VP Strategy and Innovation, and Consultancy Services, Seco Tools (Sweden)

What Does it Mean to be “Business Interventionists”?

 Speaker:
(* indicates not confirmed)
Marischa van Zantvoort Founding Partner Magnifor Consulting (Netherlands)
  Alasdair Philip Founding Partner Magnifor Consulting  (USA)
  * Guillaume Niarfeix Co-Founder, Magnifor Consulting, and Co-Founders of the Risk Leadership Society (Nigeria)

Leading Change: Leadership Lessons from Unexpected Quarters

 Speaker:  Wyn Owen Director, WCO (UK)
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)

A New Way and Proven Way to Measure Results and Impact from Co-Development Action Learning.

Speaker: Maxime Paquet  Professor, Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Montreal, and author (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 | Auditorium Q 102
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM    Session 14

Wisdom Panel: What Do Leaders Need to Unlearn and Develop?

Venue:  IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102 

Intentional Reflection

Speaker: Rose Pillay  Regional L&D Adviser (Africa), British High Commission Pretoria, and  Founder, Panacea Hedging; author of Growing through Reflection (South Africa)

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 Eliason  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:
(* indicates not confirmed)
 Judith Urbano  Universitat Internacional de Catalunya,  UIC Dean Department of Humanities, PhD in Art History (Spain) 
   
Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102

Bus transfer to Sagrada Familia

 5:00 PM  

Sagrada Familia guided visit

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM  
   
 Venue: Sagrada Familia

Transfer to Restaurant | Pez Vela on the beach

 07:00 PM  

Debrief Sagrada Familia Learning and Dinner

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM  
   
 Facilitator
(* indicates to be confirmed)

* Yih-Teen Lee Professor of Leadership and Cultural Bridging at IESE Business School (Spain)

   
Venue: Restaurant Pez Vela
08:30 PM    Dinner
 Restaurant: Pez Vela
   
Venue: Paseo del Mare Nostrum
19/21 (Ground floor of Hotel W, “HotelVela”)

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
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Welcome Coffee
Venue: IESE Campus | Q 300
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM     Session 15

Learning and Action Plans from Tuesday

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
09:30 AM - 11:00 AM     Session 16

Workshop: New Directions for Learning and Collaboration | Co-Development Action Learning

Facilitators: Maxime Paquet, Nathalie Sabourin, Ron Chesire and GEL Team
   
Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM     Break
Venue: IESE Campus | Lounge Area
11:30 AM - 01:00 PM     Session 17

New Frontiers in Learning, Creativity, and Innovation

Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102
   
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)
01:00 PM - 01:30 PM     Tapas Lunch
Venue: IESE Campus | Q 300
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM     Session 18

Workplace and the Work Environment

Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102

Addressing Mental and Physical Well Being: Exhaustion, Fatigue and Other Mental Challenges - How Sick or Healthy Are We?

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 (Germany)

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)
02:30 PM - 03:15 PM     Session 19

Organizational and Team Learning

 Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102

How Some Organizations Develop a Significant Workplace for Continuous Learning and Self-Realization

Speaker: Trevor Marchand  Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of London, and author most recently of The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work (France, UK)

New Directions in Team Performance, Learning Collaboration and Transformation

   

How To Accelerate Learning and Transformation

Speaker: Gunnar George Managing Director at Compassion Communication, formerly with Ericsson, author of Accelerating Learning and Transformation (forthcoming) (Sweden)

Integrating and Using Individual Learning Styles with Team Learning and Performance

Speaker: Kay Peterson Founder, Institute for Experiential Learning, and co-author with David A. Kolb of How You Learn is How You Live: Using Nine Ways of Learning to Transform Your Life (USA)

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)
03:15 PM - 03:45 AM     Break
Venue: IESE Campus | Q 300
03:45 PM - 04:30 PM     Session 20

New Generation Perspectives on the Path Ahead

Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102
04:30 PM - 05:00 PM     Session 21

Briefing and Introduction to Collective Problem Solving and Learning

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)
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM    Session 22

Next Steps for Collaborative Action Global Forum Retrospectives Information about the 2024 Global Forum

 Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102
06:00 PM - 06:30 PM     Summary + Closure

Summary and Closure

Venue: IESE Campus | Auditorium Q 102
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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