Business Networking + 2 Speakers

BLINDSIDED!

The theme of the presentation will be about how your brain’s wiring undermines your ability to lead and keeps you hooked to your smartphone.

Carl Davidson believes that we’ve inherited a world where we plan too much and think too little. In particular, he believes that we need to think a lot harder about why people behave the way they do. For him, psychology is a kind of superpower that enables us to explain why we see everyone else as either irrational or dim-witted. By working from a better understanding of what motivates human behaviour, Carl believes that we can build better workplaces, design better policies, and navigate that tricky distinction between knowing when to walk away and knowing when to run

David Sewell thinks that leadership today is fundamentally broken and has been since the industrial age when leaders moved to prioritise profit over people in their drive for ever greater efficiencies.  A leader’s primary role is to protect the people around them, nothing else, it’s time we rewarded up and coming leaders for doing just that and move on the leaders that can’t or won’t.  Only leaders that can create a safe environment where ideas and constructive criticism can thrive could hope to create a happy, engaged, productive and sustainable organisation