Agenda Day 2, March 25th, 2026:   (see Agenda Day 1)     (back to Strategy Execution Event Summary)

09.00 – Opening Remarks from the Chair

09.00 – Building Strategy Muscles: A 3-Year Journey from Planning to Performance at Mikrogen:

Why Strategy Muscles Matter

·        Year One – Strategic Analysis: Diagnosing the "Patient"

·        Year Two – Building the Leadership Team: From Ideas to Ownership

·        Year Three – Relentless Commercial Execution: From Plans to Performance

·        Lessons Learned – Strategy as a Muscle, Not a Document

Gerald Unden, Managing Director, Mikrogen GmbH

09.40 – Implementing GTM Across a Mature Organisation Looking to Capture New Market Value

Lisa Topliss, Director Strategy & Operations, Ricoh Europe

10.20 – Beyond M&A: Building Strategic Ecosystems to Drive Innovation at Scale

Michael Diekerhof, VP Portfolio & Strategy Management, E.ON One

11.00 - Morning Coffee and Networking

11.30 – C‑Suite Governance for Improved Strategic Execution

“Is your governance model over‑focusing on today’s revenue engines—and quietly starving the bets that will define your future?”

·        Rebalancing C-level governance so near‑term revenue performance doesn’t eclipse long‑term strategic bets

·        Designing an Enterprise OKR framework that elevates cross‑functional priorities alongside business unit results

·        Practical approaches to evolve Executive committee mindset from operational guardianship to enterprise‑wide strategic stewardship

Dipanjan Sen, Strategy Execution Leader – Office of the CEO, Amadeus IT Group

12.10 - Strategy Execution Journey – Observations and Lessons Learned

·        How to align strategy and execution within an international listed group

·        Importance of strategy vs. financial results

·        Difficulties in cascading strategy

Tom Nijenhuis, CEO, equensWorldline

12.50 – How to Bridge the Gap between PowerPoint and Real Life in Strategy

·        Execution focus

·        Link into other processes

·        Engaging the organization

·        Tracking success

Patrick Pommerenke, Head of Strategy, Vonovia

13.30 – Lunch Break

14.30 - Leading through Business Transformation. The Human Side of Change

·        Explore the defining traits of successful business transformations, with a focus on purpose-driven change and the critical role of leadership

·        Uncover the root causes behind transformation failures, highlighting gaps in leadership, execution, and people engagement

·        Introduce people-centric strategies to empower change agents, foster engagement, and sustain long-term momentum

Enzo De Santis, Global Transformation Executive, Pharma Company 

15.10 - Incorporating ESG into your Corporate Strategy:  From Compliance to Competitive Edge Sustainability as Strategic DNA

·        Beyond Checkbox ESG: Embedding Sustainability into Business DNA

·        The Trust-Sustainability Nexus: Europe's Competitive Advantage

·        Turning Constraints into Catalysts: The Strategic Value of Saying No

Tuuli Lindroos, Manager, Cyber Policy & Research Collaboration, F-Secure

15.50 – Data Driven Transformation

·        Why data is a business topic and how to change business mindset around it

·        Data governance as a business competitive advantage

·        Data as a cross-functional layer: how to deal with organisational siloes to enable business transformation 

Maria Zelkovskaya, Business Data Governance Transformation Director, Danone

16.30 – Closing Remarks and End of Forum

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