Agenda Day 2, March 18th, 2027:   (see Agenda Day 1)     (back to Strategy Execution Event Summary)

09.00 – Opening Remarks from the Chair

09.20 – Building Your Change Muscle

Why change starts in our heads and how we can become more change-agile

·        Why our brains often prefer stability, even when change makes perfect sense

·        Why some people navigate change more easily than others

·        How awareness of our own reactions can turn resistance into adaptability

·        How we can deliberately train our “change muscle” and increase our capacity for uncertainty and disruption

·        Why future success will depend not only on managing change, but on becoming better at change itself.

Michael Hagemann, VP Change and Transformation, DHL Group

09.50 – Strategy Done Differently: How to Orchestrate Strategy Process with a Solution-Focused Approach

In this session we would address the following points:

·         How to successfully orchestrate strategy process from the group by involving a community of strategists from the market units

·         Which artefacts do we use and what do solution focused coaching bring in the strategy process

·         How do we create a learning organization from the very top to continuously improve the process and content

Amath Tounkara, Head of Strategic Business Steering, Helvetia Baloise Group

Marion Essl, Senior Manager Corporate Strategy, Helvetia Baloise Group

10.20 – Strategy Execution in an Era of Economic Fragmentation: Building Resilient Businesses Across Competing Trade Spheres

 ·         Globalization is not disappearing, but changing shape: Understanding the emergence of competing trade zones, technology ecosystems and increasingly sovereign industrial policies

·         From resilience to anti-fragility: Moving beyond protecting the business against disruption toward building organizations, portfolios and supply chains that can adapt and potentially strengthen under volatility

·         Trade-zone sovereignty is becoming a strategic capability: Balancing global scale with regional control over technology, manufacturing, supply chains, partnerships and market access

·         The end of the single global operating model: Determining what must remain globally integrated, what needs regional autonomy, and where selective duplication becomes strategically justified

·         Strategy must move faster than the planning cycle: Translating geopolitical shifts into timely portfolio, footprint, investment and partnership decisions while maintaining strategic direction

·         Turning fragmentation into competitive advantage: Using optionality, ecosystem positioning and differentiated regional strategies not merely to survive fragmentation, but to create new sources of growth and advantage

Ole Gerkensmeyer, Chief Strategy Officer, Nexperia

10.50 – Morning Coffee and Networking

11.30 – How to Maintain Resilience in Strategy Execution: Build Leadership Readiness for the Future

·         Assess what will matter in turmoil: beyond experience and expertise, future-ready leaders will need adaptability, sound judgment at speed, human-centric leadership, a strong sense of purpose and AI fluency.

·         Develop differently. Scenario thinking and simulations help leaders challenge assumptions, navigate uncertainty and build resilience for a future we cannot fully foresee

·         Strengthen the human compass. Purpose, values, judgment and accountability must guide decisions that cannot simply be delegated to an algorithm 

Laura Marsi, Global Head of Talent & Leadership, Allianz SE

12.00 –  Leading People through Business Transformations

·        Importance of understanding the business, as well as the cultural context of a transformation

·        Providing meaning to the transformation from a people perspective

·        Way of leading the organization to create focused engagement for the different dimensions of change

·        Relevance of shifting mindset and behaviors to embed new operating models

·        Balancing control and autonomy in your governance

Enzo De Santis, BD Excellence Fundamentals Lead, BD

12.30 – Orchestrating Strategy Execution Across an Ecosystem

Sasha Gidwani, Strategy & Operations, Prosus

13.00 – Lunch Break

14.00 - Strategy Isn't Executed Until It's Lived: The Human Journey Through AI, Automation and Self-Service

Organisations are getting better at defining AI and automation strategies, but many still struggle to land them. The gap is rarely the technology. It sits in the people layer: when AI agents, automation and self-service change how work gets done, roles, accountability and people's sense of professional value shift at the same time. Drawing on leading the people side of AI transformation at Just Eat Takeaway, this session shares a practical framework for guiding people from awareness to ownership, so that strategy doesn't just get launched, but lived.

Vasiliki Zisopoulou, Global Change Business Partner /AI Transformation, Just Eat Takeaway

14.30 – Strategy on a Shorter Clock: When Strategic Decisions Stop Competing for the Same Attention

Strategic plans used to last a year or more. That world is gone. Markets and technologies now shift faster than most planning cycles, and decisions like where to invest, what to build, what to watch, and what to walk away from increasingly compete for the same leadership attention and budget. Good decisions get made late, or in isolation, because no one has a shared, current view of what is actually happening. This session looks at what it takes to give those decisions a common, current view of the market, drawn from direct experience building that kind of capability.

Shui Laam Choy, Corporate Development, Indeed

15.00 – Coffee Break

15.20 – Interactive Breakout Groups

16.00 – Closing Remarks and End of Forum

Additional Networking

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