Learning@INSEAD Summit, San Francisco
Learning@INSEAD Summit, San Francisco
About the Learning@INSEAD Summit
INSEAD is delighted to announce the inaugural Learning@INSEAD: San Francisco Summit, an exclusive invite-only event designed to bring together distinguished leaders from across the Americas and beyond. This Summit aims to explore how INSEAD is preparing today’s business leaders and their organisations to succeed.
Theme: Transformative Leadership for a Complex World
During this one-and-a-half-day Summit, you will have the opportunity to engage in insightful discussions with INSEAD thought leaders, faculty and peers, and to explore critical topics shaping the future of business.
Event Highlights
1.5 Days of Plenary Discussions and Learning Activities:
- Including sessions on leadership for today’s complex environment, the impact of AI across businesses, and how business leaders should be thinking about today’s global macro-business environment.
Networking Opportunities
The Learning@INSEAD Summit offers unparalleled networking opportunities with senior executive leaders, fostering connections and collaborations that can drive impactful change in your organisation and beyond.
Why Attend?
• Gain insights from a blend of academic and learning practice perspectives
• Engage in meaningful discussions on innovation and learning
• Network with top-tier professionals and industry leaders
Who Should Attend?
This invite-only Summit is designed for senior executives and talent leaders who are committed to driving transformation within their organisations and industries. Attendees will have the chance to learn from experts, share experience and build lasting relationships with peers.
Join us at the INSEAD San Francisco Hub for this exclusive Summit and be part of the conversation that shapes the future of business in the United States.
For more information and to register, please click on the registration button below.
We look forward to welcoming you to an event that promises to be both inspiring and transformative.
Sameer Hasija
Dean of Executive Education & INSEAD Asia Campus
Professor of Technology and Operations Management
The Henry Ford Chaired Professor in Technology and Operations
Nathalie Nawrocki
Executive Director Corporate Partnerships
Mary Carey
Senior Director, Americas
Agenda
| 08:30 - 9:00 | Welcome Professor Sameer Hasija & Mary Carey |
| 9:00 - 12:30 | Transforming Leadership Development Professor Declan Fitzsimons |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00 - 3:00 | Transforming Leadership Development (continued) Professor Declan Fitzsimons |
| 4:00 – 5:00 | AI and the Future of Work Dean of Executive Education & Asia Campus Professor Sameer Hasija |
| 6:30 – 9:00 | Dinner |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Reconnect Professor Sameer Hasija & Nathalie Nawrocki |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | The Global Macroeconomic Environment Professor Ilian Mihov |
| 10:30 - 1:00 | Leading through Complexity - a Live Case Antoine Duvauchelle |
| 1:00 | Close & Departure Professor Sameer Hasija |
Session Descriptions
Transforming Leadership Development
with Prof. Declan Fitzsimons
09:00am – 12:30pm
KEY LEARNINGS AND DESCRIPTION OF SESSION
Whenever organizations approach us at INSEAD regarding a potential leadership development program, we seek firstly to understand the ‘pain points’ that the program must address - there is always a story. This might be that more nimble competitors have appeared, a business model is under threat, or innovation is lacking. Whatever the story, there is one need that they all have in common - the leadership development program must help prepare leaders to deal effectively with the complexities they face. When leaders’ capacity to respond effectively to the challenges they face is insufficient, they risk becoming part of the problem instead of the solution.
At INSEAD, some 15 years ago, a group of faculty set out to develop an approach to leadership development using a systems psychodynamic perspective that we believe is extremely effective at preparing leaders for today’s workplace complexities. This approach is transformational to the extent that it provides leaders with new ways of making sense of the everyday challenges they face and thus offers them more options for effective action. In this way, leaders become more agile in an increasingly volatile fast-changing world.
All approaches to leadership development have their merits. Rather than spend time arguing for the shortcomings of other approaches, we prefer to invite all participants of this summit to draw their own conclusions. This session will cover the key concepts that underpin a systems psychodynamic approach and illustrates them using some short mini-cases for discussion. We hope to show the transformational potential of such an approach in supporting leaders tackle the challenges they face in a rapidly evolving world.
Transforming Leadership Development (continued)
with Prof. Declan Fitzsimons
2:00pm – 3:00pm
KEY LEARNINGS AND DESCRIPTION OF SESSION
We will start this afternoon with some individual reflections on the morning session. There will be opportunities for small group discussions which we will open up to the full plenary. A large part of this hour will involve an interview with Simone Gooden, Executive and Leadership Development Leader at Trane Technologies based in Davidson, North Carolina. INSEAD has had the privilege of working with Trane Technologies for the last four years. Simone has witnessed firsthand the kind of leadership development work informed by a systems psychodynamic perspective. The intention is that summit attendees will be able to ask questions regarding the approach.
The Global Macroeconomic Environment
with Ilian Mihov
9:00am – 10:30am
KEY LEARNINGS AND DESCRIPTION OF SESSION
In January 2025, the Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Index hit an all-time high of 460.18, surpassing by more than 5% the value of the index during COVID-19. The start of the trade war between the US and Canada in the beginning of March is a harbinger of further escalations, which may lead to an acceleration of the de-globalization that we have witnessed over the past few years. What are the implications of these dynamics for businesses that operate across countries? Furthermore, what are the implications of the government layoffs in the United States while inflation remains stubbornly stuck above the central bank’s target rate? In this session we start by creating a framework for understanding long-term trends in advanced economies like the US, as well as in emerging markets. In the second half, we will disentangle the increase in policy uncertainty and build scenarios for interest rates, fiscal policy and tariffs in order to understand better their impact on business and the global economy.
Plymouth LiveCase – Leading through a crisis
with Antoine Duvauchelle
10:30am – 1:00pm
KEY LEARNINGS AND DESCRIPTION OF SESSION
In this session, you will become Senior Executives at Plymouth Corp., a multi-billion dollar food manufacturing company, in charge of launching a new plant based meat alternative.
You are in the middle of an intensive online and TV advertising campaign but something happens, something very serious. The news spreads immediately to social networks and finally makes it to the international scene.
The crisis escalates quickly as some take advantage of the situation or feel the time is right to bring up everything that didn’t seem quite right at Plymouth Corp. Some of the decisions from the past are also coming back to bite the company.
When a crisis happens, people react by reflex. Under stress, under severe stress, we cannot predict people’s behavior; to be honest, we cannot even predict our own behavior! The question is: how will you, your team and team of teams deal with it?
You will have the opportunity to apply what you learn in an engaging LiveCase experiential simulation - a proven teaching methodology and platform for Executive teaching.
As Senior Executives of Plymouth, you will learn how to:
● Navigate uncertainty in a fast-changing situation
● Understand emotional responses and reflexes in crisis
● Take quick decisions under pressure, explore setting priorities and defining a crisis response strategy
● Exercise media and stakeholder communication skills, test media spokesperson skills in a simulated interview
● Reflect on crisis preparedness and preparing for the unknown
The LiveCase simulation will immerse you into the action through an intense mixed reality learning experience. Through the use of a dedicated and proprietary digital messaging platform, you will interact with virtual characters, make decisions, perform teamwork and role play certain situations in a realistic, engaging and fun way. In the end, you will not only have learned new tools and skills but will have applied them through a series of carefully crafted challenges. Along the way, you will have discovered something new about yourself. After the LiveCase simulation & debrief ends, we will conduct an open-ended discussion on LiveCase more generally.
Event Speakers
Professor of Technology and Operations Management
Professor of Economics
Educator, INSEAD, Empowering you to create immersive learning journeys with LiveCase
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