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Conference chair and Drucker Forum founder set the stage for the 2023 Drucker Forum

Katharina Moser Executive Board member, Inner Development Goals
Richard Straub President, Global Peter Drucker Forum

Partners offer perspectives on the mission of this year’s gathering

Chair:
Johan Roos Chief Academic Officer & Professor, Hult Int’l Business School

Speakers:
Johnny C. Taylor Jr. CEO, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Pierre Le Manh CEO, PMI
Alex Adamopoulos CEO Emergn Limited
Helmut Reisinger CEO EMEA & Latin America, Palo Alto Networks
executive tbd Huawei

Accomplished leaders of large organizations share hard-won wisdom about the most important keys to an organization’s ability to survive catastrophe and come back stronger.

Chair:
Mary Meaney Haynes Board member, Angel Investor, Philantropist

Speakers:
John Allan Chair of the Council, Imperial College London
Guillaume Alvarez Senior Vice President EMEA, Steelcase Inc.
Isabelle Kocher de Leyritz Chairman & CEO, Blunomy
Reinhard Schlemmer Member of the Executive Board, Vinci Energies S.A.

Creative responses to unforeseen events always entail change — and require collective commitment to a better future.

Chair:
Tiffani Bova Global Growth Evangelist

Speakers:
Behnam Tabrizi Consulting Professor, Stanford University
Anjana Mistry Chief Financial & Operations Officer, Emergn Limited
Patrick Guggenberger Partner, McKinsey & Company

“Good judgment comes from experience,” the old quote goes, “but unfortunately, experience comes from bad judgment.” Why do some people, organizations, sectors never recover from mistakes, while others learn and grow?

Chair:
Julia Kirby Senior Editor, Harvard University Press

Speakers:
Amy Edmondson Professor of Leadership & Management, Harvard Business School
Daniel Pink Best-selling author
Niren Chaudhary Chairman of the Board, Panera Brands
Julie Teigland Member of the Global Executive & Area Managing Partner for EMEIA, EY

What an irony if a transformation actually left a company more vulnerable to future crises. How do we ensure that digitizing a process doesn’t make it more brittle or at risk of attack?

Chair:
Rahaf Harfoush Digital Anthropologist; Executive Director of the Red Thread Institute of Digital Cultur

Speakers:
Robin Speculand CEO, Bridges Consultancy & Co-founder Strategy Implementation Institute
Lalit Karwa Head, TCS PACE, Tata Consultancy Services
Manjit Singh Senior VP & General Manager Knock at RealPage Inc.

Leadership experts share stories of high-stakes situations that demanded resilience. How much did recovery depend on the actions of a senior executive or team, what made the difference, and what could have been done better?

Chair:
Gemma D’Auria Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Speakers:
Marcus Buckingham Best-selling author
Hortense Le Gentil Executive Leadership coach
Sabine Bothe Group Head of People and Culture, Erste Group Bank AG & Erste Bank Austria
David Bryson Non Executive Director

Stunning developments in AI and other technologies demand deeper thinking about the good life and what constitutes a better toolkit for achieving it.

Chair:
Zhike Lei Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, IMD Business School

Speakers:
Santiago Iñiguez de Ozoño President, Instituto de Empresa
Scott Hartley Co-founder & Managing partner, Everywhere Ventures, investing in startups
Bob Goodson Quid

2023 brings the inaugural lecture in this annual series honoring major contributions to management understanding and practice

Chair:
Katharina Moser Executive Board member, Inner Development Goals

Herminia Ibarra Charles Handy Chair in Organizational Behaviour, London Business School
Panel tbd

Cities, like all complex ecosystems, can prove surprisingly resilient. But they have their fragilities, too—and sometimes a “doom loop” seems impossible to reverse. How can employers—and the people in them—do more to keep them thriving?

Chair :
Christian Bason CEO, Danish Design Centre; Public sector innovation expert

Speakers:
Christian Sarkar Co-Founder Regenerative Marketing Institute
Remigijus Šimašius former Major of Vilnius, Lithuania
Leoluca Orlando former Mayor of Palermo
Bernadette Luger City of Vienna

We’re at a watershed moment: the year AI changes everything. How will this technology-driven revolution test human resilience and, by responding creatively, can we emerge more resilient than before?

Chair:
Eduardo P. Braun Global leadership expert & consultant

Speakers:
David Weinberger Senior researcher Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
Thuy Ngoc Tran Co-founder, CTO, Astrid AI
John Walsh VP of Technology & CTO, Fujitsu Europe
Matt Sigelman President, Burning Glass Institute

Everyone has setbacks, but some recover better. What gives them that power? Mindset or muscle? Resources or relationships? Grace or grit? And then there’s the more important question: Can whatever it is be learned?

Chair:
Anthony Howard CEO & Founder of The Confidere Group and The Socratic Leader Academy

Speakers:
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox Founder & CEO, 20-first; Global expert on gender and generational balance
Thomas Bubendorfer Solo climber
Asheesh Advani President & CEO, Junior Achievement
Nadya Zhexembayeva Co-Founder, Reinvention Academy, and educator

DRUCKER CHALLENGEAWARDS CEREMONY

presented by:
Laurent Choain Chief People, Education & Culture Officer, Mazars Group

Musical setting by:
Paul Smith Musician, Composer, CEO of the VOCES8 Foundation
and
Daniela Mars Trevor James Flutes Artist

Organizations must respond strategically to changes of immense scale and scope. Most need better ways to track geopolitical developments and understand their implications for how organizations operate.

Chair:
Corinna Milborn Head of News, Puls 4

Speakers:
Ed Williams President & CEO, Edelman EMEA
Lothar H. Wieler Chair of the Digital Health Cluster, Hasso Plattner Institut; Professor of Digital Global Public Health;
Antonella Mei-Pochtler Board member, Publicis and Generali; Co-chair of the KofiAnnanAward for Innovation in Africa;
Daniel Stelter Economist, Founder of the German Discussion Forum Beyond The Obvious

What kinds of companies have bounced back better from the pandemic years? New evidence shows it’s the ones who had already invested time and energy in building their capacities for innovation.

Chair:
Bill Fischer Senior Lecturer at the Sloan School of Management, at MIT, and Emeritus Professor of Innovation Management, IMD

Speakers:
Tim Brown Chair of IDEO, Vice Chair of the kyu Collective
Gilma Teodora Gylytė Architect; Co-founder, DO ARCHITECTS
John Hagel III Faculty member, Singularity University & Member Board of Trustees, Santa Fe Institute; Founder of Beyond On Edge, LLC

After a storm of the century, the places still intact are the ones that were built to withstand a battering. In the midst of economic “gales of creative destruction,” is your organization structured to endure?

Chair:
Michele Zanini Co-founder, Management Lab

Speakers:
Ekin Ilseven Assistant Professor Strategy and Organizations, School of Business and Economics Católica-Lisbon
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez Visiting Professor at Duke CE, IE,Solvay, Vlerick, Ecole de Ponts;
Maria Norrman Global Chief of Staff, EF Education First & Chief of EF Procykling Team
executive tbd Haier

Indexes now used widely by fund managers have focused corporate managers more tightly on hitting their “social” marks. Are companies—and societies—more sustainable as a result?

Chair
Marie Ringler Ashoka Europe Leader

Speakers:
Adrian Wooldridge Global Business Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion
Preeti D’Mello Chief Diversity Officer, Tata Consultancy Services
Jennifer Tharp Chair of the PMI Board of Directors

Dancers, comedians, opera singers, and other artists are hardly immune to setbacks. What works for them, and could it work for others, too?

Chair:
Guila Clara Kessous Unesco Peace Ambassador

Speakers:
Scott Handy Theatre director
Paul Smith Musician, Composer, CEO of the VOCES8 Foundation

Few would argue against aiming for more creative resilience—but can something so subjective really be a management goal? If it’s difficult to say just how resilient a person, team, organization, or society is today, how would we gauge any gain or loss a year down the road?

Chair:
Claudia Crummenerl Managing Director Workforce & Organization, Capgemini Invent

Speakers:
Sally Susman Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Executive Vice President Pfizer
Yves Doz Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management, INSEAD
Carla Arellano Partner, Greyhound Capital

Resilience isn’t only up to you—it’s a strength or weakness of a whole ecosystem around you. How can you cultivate the systemwide flexibility that must be in place to deal with dynamic situations?

Chair:
Allyson Stewart-Allen Founder, International Marketing Partners Ltd.

Speakers:
Emily M. Dickens Chief of Staff, Head of Public Affairs, SHRMSHRM
Michael Jacobides Professor of Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, London Business School
Dewi Schoenbeck Member of the Steelcase AG board of directors and Vice President, German Speaking Markets
Patricia Murphy Palo Alto Networks

Management as a discipline has been slow to evolve from basic roots developed in an age of industrial manufacturing. What will it take to turn management back into the powerful, value-creating force for change the world so desperately needs in today’s complex and exponential world?

Chair:
Timo Meynhardt Professor for Business Psychology and Leadership, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

Speakers:
Michael Kaschke President of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Bob Kaplan Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at Havard Business School
Rita McGrath Professor of strategy, Columbia Business School
Kevin Nolan President & CEO, GE Appliances, a Haier Company

Richard Straub President, Global Peter Drucker Forum

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