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Creativity is essential to resilience – it brings the new and unexpected ideas so necessary in times of disruption.

Tim Brown Co-Chair, IDEO

Theme description 2023

by Julia Kirby

CREATIVE RESILIENCE

LEADING IN AN AGE OF DISCONTINUITY

It’s the word of the moment—resilience—and there’s little wonder why. In the past three years, a brutal pandemic and its economic fallout have knocked the world to its knees. Across many months, policymakers have responded in inconsistent, politicized ways as workplaces were shuttered, supply chains were shattered, and people suffered blows to their physical health, mental well-being, and financial security. Our ability to snap back to productive rhythms, systems, and ecosystems has depended—and still depends—on our personal and organizational capacities for resilience.

Yet, resilience can also carry a backward-looking sense that doesn’t feel sufficient to the moment. In many ways, our constantly, dynamically changing context has lurched ahead, and we must accomplish more than a return to the status quo ante. The challenge is to come back from setback stronger—with a revised understanding of societies and markets and a greater capacity to rise to future challenges.

We need a resilience that is forward-looking—that is fundamentally creative.

In choosing the theme of “Creative Resilience” we are not expressing nostalgic yearning to go back to the past. No CEO should be, like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, closing her eyes and repeating “there’s no place like home.” Does our new term bring to mind another famous one: creative destruction? If so, good (and appropriate for a conference inspired by Peter Drucker, whose family counted Joseph Schumpeter as a friend). But note the twist, in joining Schumpeter’s call for creative dynamism we are also optimistic that organizations need not be destroyed in the process. A well-led enterprise can learn to survive deep blows and still surge forward.

This year’s conference will explore what it means to build creative resilience as a capacity—as a new set of reflexes at every level of the organization, and throughout its ecosystem of suppliers, customers, and other partners. We’ll draw on real-world stories and research findings from multiple disciplines to spur creative dialogue in Vienna—and new insights for us all for preparing our teams and institutions for future waves of disruption.

Join us in this important effort to bring innovation to the very core of how institutions are managed.

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SPEAKERS AND CHAIRS 2023 INCLUDE

Alex

Adamopoulos

CEO, Emergn

Asheesh

Advani

President and CEO of JA (Junior Achievement) Worldwide

Simone

Ahuja

Global Keynote Speaker, Bestselling Author. Founder, Blood Orange Innovation

John

Allan

Chair of the Council at Imperial College London; Regent of the University of Edinburgh

Guillaume

Alvarez

Senior Vice President EMEA, Steelcase

Carla

Arellano

Partner, Greyhound Capital

Kamilla

Arku

Pianist, performer and educator

Thomas

Arnoldner

Deputy CEO, A1 Group

Abhishek

Banerjee

undergraduate Economics student, University of Calcutta

Christian

Bason

Founder, Transition Collective. Former CEO Danish Design Center. Public Sector Innovation Expert.

Eduardo P.

Braun

Leadership expert, consultant and author

Margot

Borden

Psychotherapist, Coach

Tiffani

Bova

Growth Advisor, Bestselling Author

Iris

Brachmaier

Group Chief People Officer, UNIQA Insurance Group AG

Tim

Brown

Co-chair of IDEO, Vice Chair of the kyu Collective

Niklaus

Brantschen

Jesuit/Zen Master

David

Bryson

Non-Executive Director, Advisory Board Member, Executive Leadership Coach

Thomas

Bubendorfer

Solo climber and author

Curtis R.

Carlson

Distinguished Executive in Residence, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Rodrigo B.

Castilhos

Higher Education for Good Foundation Skema Business School

Niren

Chaudhary

Chairman of the Board, Panera Brands

Esther

Clark

Author

Claudia

Crummenerl

Managing Director Workforce & Organization, Capgemini Invent

Julia

Culen

Founder CCG Conscious Consulting Group

Kalina

Deng

Vice President, Snipp Interactive

Steve

Denning

Senior Contributor at Forbes.com, author and educator

Tina

Deutsch

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Klaiton

Emily M.

Dickens

Chief of Staff, Head of Public Affairs, SHRM

Yves

Doz

Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management

Sophie Kaitlin

Drescher

High School Student, Austria’s Youngest Moderator

Amy

Edmondson

Professor of Leadership & Management, HBS

Mark

Esposito

Professor, Hult Int’ Business School & Director Futures Impact Lab

Yannick

Fierling

CEO, Haier Europe

Bill

Fischer

Professor of Innovation Management, IMD

Bob

Goodson

Cofounder and president of Quid

Patrick

Guggenberger

Partner, McKinsey & Company

Rita

Gunther McGrath

Professor of strategy, Columbia Business School

Gilma Teodora

Gylytė

Co-Founder DO ARCHITECTS

John

Hagel III

Author; Faculty Member, Singularity University; Member Board of Trustees, Santa Fe Institute

Scott

Handy

Theatre director

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