Working Agenda

Welcome to Leaders Meet: The Art of Strategy

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We’ll set the scene for the day and take the time to outline a plan of action to make the most out of the learnings from this one day event focusing on all things strategy.

Vision, Mission & Metrics: Delivering a 10 Year Change Strategy

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Every strategy starts with intent but the difference between a slogan/mantra and a mobilising vision is clarity, belief, and shared ownership.

The key learning here includes a variety of ways, that you can effectively, and cohesively bring a team/organisation on-board to adopt the habits, which create the behaviours, that builds a culture where excellence is expected, shared and supported. It becomes an organisational/team PURSUIT.

Key Takeaways:

• Strategy for the Team: Frameworks for aligning diverse stakeholders behind one direction of travel.
• Strategy for the Athlete: Translating organisational vision into meaningful performance purpose.
• Strategy for the Individual: Tools for defining personal strategic intent and career direction.

Collaboration — The Strategy Behind the Strategy: Collaboration as the Competitive Edge

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Elite environments are now systems rather than silos, conditioning meets data, psychology meets coaching, commercial meets performance. Such systems need to establish who ‘owns’ the vision, who ‘owns design’, who ‘owns’ delivery, and who ‘owns’ feedback loops.

This panel will explore how ‘collaborative ownership’, can establish a strategic advantage, which combats the inefficiencies that come under time constraints, competing priorities, and emotional intensity. This includes methods and frameworks to unlocking, a shared language, effective cross-functional planning, and conflict management.

Key Takeaways:

• Strategy for the Team: Techniques for structuring high-trust cross-functional teams.
• Strategy for the Athlete: How collaboration enhances performance holistically.
• Strategy for the Individual: Collaborative behaviours that make ‘people-centred’ inside performance systems.

Coffee Break

Execution — From Whiteboard to World Stage: Executing When It Actually Matters

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This case-study will explore how environments translate strategic theory into reality under varied conditions: pressure, incomplete information, shifting constraints, and crisis management. We’ll analyse execution rhythms & patterns from elite sport campaigns to the Military.

Key Takeaways:

• Strategy for the Team: Templates for stress-testing strategy and building adaptive execution plans.
• Strategy for the Athlete: How tactical execution frameworks improve performance under pressure.
• Strategy for the Individual: Building personal execution systems.

Workshop: Adapting & Stress Testing the Strategy

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As it becomes more of a level playing field, it becomes more of a competitive advantage.

This blended practical session will focus on the skill of ‘adaptive leadership’ within the context of the strategy cycle. Stimulus will be provided to allow you to take away some frameworks and methods to try, but also reflect in your groups on your organisation’s approach to strategy: do you plan forward or plan backwards?

Key Takeaways:

• Adaption in the context of short-term and long-term – What are some of the ‘adaptive challenges’ you have as an organisation?
• Strategy execution is not going to be linear, therefore how do you ‘stress-test’ along the way and adapt appropriately?

Plan, Do, Review: Behind Team GB’s Most Successful Winter Olympic Games

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Part One: Built for Four Years. Won in One Run: The Race for Gold with Tabitha Stoecker

Part Two: Deliver & Debrief: Inside the System That Keeps Team GB Yearning and Learning

Drinks at Lords