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René Carayol is now the best-selling author of the leadership and culture bible, “Corporate Voodoo”, and has had the privilege of working closely with some of the world’s best leaders, from former US President Bill Clinton to CEOs of blue chip businesses, including Jim Yong Kim at The World Bank, Ralph Hamers at ING Bank, Mario Greco at Generali and Maria Ramos at Barclays Africa. He has interviewed the good and the great including Jack Welch, Allan Leighton, Lou Gerstner, and Sir Richard Branson.
René specializes in leadership, culture and business transformation bound together with a compelling philosophy founded on his own board level experience. He asks awkward and uncomfortable questions; how do you change old-fashioned, risk-adverse processes that are ill suited to emerging global markets? How do you secure and nurture the talents of a new generation of leaders? How do you overcome cynicism and complacency, and replace them with resolve?
René is one of the world’s leading executive coaches, working with some of the Fortune 500’s top CEO’s and their executive teams, he has also actually been Chairman, CEO and MD of blue chip businesses.
“Nothing is best done alone anymore” – no one leader can make all the tough calls on their own anymore. Our world was until recently more joined up and interdependent than it has ever been before. Information spreads at digital speed and no economy is immune or unaffected by the force, velocity or impact when seemingly well-informed decisions turn out to be dramatically mistaken. Every leader requires the support of a diverse and high performing team and a culture that enables ‘every voice to be heard’.
Far too many leaders are weighed down with huge uncertainties and inherent risks. Building a collaborative and inclusive culture demands a new approach to leadership and a change in mindset. In the past a good enough strategy, with a good enough management team and a strong brand were good enough to ‘get by’; but in this new rapidly changing world these strengths alone will solve little.
Every progressive business desire’s stability at the top but an active succession plan is fundamental for success. Marketplaces are too fast moving, aggressive and unrelenting for the top team to be in place for more than a decade anymore; there needs to be credible younger candidates to take the top roles at any time. We must start to view the next generation of leaders as a huge asset and not impatient and entitled novices. Collaboration is the new leadership.
René will share case studies and stories from the front line to the Boardroom. He will share stories of abject failure, and of those who have stalled, but most of all, how many have succeeded. René will close with his top 10 practical tips on how everyone in the room can move tangibly towards a more collaborative approach as soon as they get back to their place of work.
“Nothing is best done alone anymore” – no one leader can make all the tough calls on their own anymore. Our world was until recently more joined up and interdependent than it has ever been before. Information spreads at digital speed and no economy is immune or unaffected by the force, velocity or impact when seemingly well-informed decisions turn out to be dramatically mistaken. Every leader requires the support of a diverse and high performing team and a culture that enables ‘every voice to be heard’.
Far too many leaders are weighed down with huge uncertainties and inherent risks. Building a collaborative and inclusive culture demands a new approach to leadership and a change in mindset. In the past a good enough strategy, with a good enough management team and a strong brand were good enough to ‘get by’; but in this new rapidly changing world these strengths alone will solve little.
Every progressive business desire’s stability at the top but an active succession plan is fundamental for success. Marketplaces are too fast moving, aggressive and unrelenting for the top team to be in place for more than a decade anymore; there needs to be credible younger candidates to take the top roles at any time. We must start to view the next generation of leaders as a huge asset and not impatient and entitled novices. Collaboration is the new leadership.
René will share case studies and stories from the front line to the Boardroom. He will share stories of abject failure, and of those who have stalled, but most of all, how many have succeeded. René will close with his top 10 practical tips on how everyone in the room can move tangibly towards a more collaborative approach as soon as they get back to their place of work.
