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This document provides information about an upcoming event called Reconnect 1 on June 12th. It will: 1) Help attendees direct the inspiration and insights from the first half of Connect into purposeful action and application by focusing on the leadership challenges they want help with. 2) Draw on the experience of leaders from various sectors who will provide advice and encouragement. 3) Be held at Shoreditch Studios in London from 8:30am to 8pm and provides information on transportation and nearby hotel accommodations.
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- 1. Extracting The Value By the end of the first half of Connect you will have had a feast of stimulus, inspiration, provocation and learning. And most of you will have made interesting and useful new connections. This first Reconnect gathering will be all about how to make the most of this learning and connectivity. In the run up to the day we will ask you what your leadership issues are, what’s keeping you awake at night, what do you want help to do? We will take the most relevant challenges – including a mix of personal and the organisational, and structure the day around them. We will provide you with the space and the support to focus in on these leadership challenges, the stuff you are sitting with ‘right now’. We will help you draw on the vast wisdom and experience of the leaders on Connect. We have also drawn on the Wavelength ecosystem and invited friends, Connect alumni and leaders to provide no nonsense advice, support, push-back and encouragement. These leaders draw from an ocean of leadership experience across private, public and social enterprise sectors and on issues related to people, culture, change, purpose, values, innovation and more. You know that we don’t do purposeless inspiration. So, June 12th is all about helping you direct the inspiration and insights into purposeful action and application. June 12 | Reconnect 1 Connect 2013 | 01 >
- 2. Belinda Budge One of publishing’s leading lights, until November 2012 Belinda was HarperCollins Group Publisher responsible for six trade divisions and one of four UK board members. In response to the existential threat to her industry of digital and self publishing, Belinda invented HarperCreative, which focussed on putting innovation at the heart of the business by re-imagining the relationships between writer, publisher, retailer and audience. Few industries have seen such sweeping changes in such a short period of time as publishing. Belinda’s leadership role in the eye of such creative destruction taught her many lessons about managing change and driving innovation. Steve McGuirk, CBE County Fire Officer & Chief Executive Steve has been a fire fighter since 1976 and he took over the running of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service in 2009. There are few more high profile and demanding roles in public service leadership than this. Saving lives and property, being caught between police and rioters, the fire service is on the frontline every day. Leading in such life and death circumstances at the best of times is a huge challenge. Doing so AND having to deal with massive funding cuts and shifting government priorities makes for one of the most demanding leadership roles in Britain today. Highly decorated for long service and bravery, Steve – one of Connect’s alumni – is a straight talking, battle hardened leader with a wicked sense of humour. You’ll love him. Gaynor Coley Chief Executive Enterprise The Eden Project Gay – a Wavelength host and alumni – has been in leadership of one of the UK’s best known social enterprises since 1997. Her accountancy and financial acumen have helped create a robust business which has welcomed many millions of visitors and contributed hugely to the regeneration of one of the poorest parts of Britain. Eden has become well known throughout the world and an inspiration to the environmental movement. But fame and years of success are no guarantee of avoiding turbulence and Gay, in recent months, has been having to make very hard choices about the future of Eden as it comes to terms with how to position itself in an age of austerity. Gay is learning the hard way that balancing social and commercial goals is never easy and some of the choices are excruciating. June 12 | Reconnect 1 Connect 2013 | 02 >
- 3. Jane Clubb Leadership Coach Jane is an executive coach and founder of LIW Leadership – whose motto is Courage Honour Humility. Jane coaches across sectors from big businesses like Cisco through to SMEs and social enterprises. She counts amongst her clients the board of Wavelength! Says Liam: “I’ve worked with many coaches over the years and Jane is one of the best. She combines profound emotional intelligence with a very hard nosed commercial edge. She makes us think and act better.” Andy Parfitt Director of Executive Talent for Saatchi & Saatchi Andy is among the UK’s most experienced leaders in media. He holds the record as the longest serving Controller of BBC Radio 1 and was Controller Popular Music, Radio 1Xtra, the Asian Network, and caretaker Controller of 5 Live. Andy is widely credited with leading an extraordinarily successful period of regeneration at Radio 1 – he left the post in July 2011 with audiences for all his stations at record levels and the web performance of Radio 1 the biggest, by far, in the sector. A man with loads of insights into how culture and business models are shifted in large organisations. Some great anecdotes too! Rita Bailey Co-Founder Up To Something Partners Rita was for 25 years at the heart of Southwest Airlines culture and people strategy. She ended up as the leader of Southwest’s world famous University for People with a team of 36 whose sole focus was providing the best support and training they could to the airline’s tens of thousands of employees to maintain its industry leading reputation for service excellence and being a great place to work. Since leaving Southwest, Rita has worked with businesses all over the world to help them improve their talent and people cultures and so achieve better service. Rita combines Texan charm with profound insights into what it takes to create world beating cultures. A great speaker, y’all. June 12 | Reconnect 1 Connect 2013 | 03 >
- 4. June 12 | Reconnect 1 Connect 2013 | 04 > David Smith Leadership Coach David has 34 years corporate experience of change management, the last 15 years of which were spent turning ASDA around. As People and IT Director and Executive Board member for 10 years, David was central to the remarkable cultural turnaround of ASDA from near bankruptcy to the commercial success which continues today in one of the most competitive and cutthroat sectors of food retailing. A blunt, straight talking northerner – and much sought after speaker and coach on leadership, culture and organisational change – David speaks with all the authority which comes from having been part of a team which led 100,000 plus staff in more than 200 locations to the top of the Sunday Times Best Place To Work list. Lars KoLind Lars is one of Scandinavia’s most successful and best known entrepreneurs and business leaders becoming world-renowned for his transformation of Oticon, where he was CEO from 1988 to 1998. He is, or has been, chairman of the World Scout Foundation and the Danish multi- nationals Grundfos and Unimerco. A prolific speaker and writer, his latest book is Unboss and his thesis is as straightforward as it is radical. Is the purpose of business is to make money? No—businesses must first and foremost be useful. They must become movements that change the world.
- 5. Reconnect 1 logistics WHEN 8:30am – 8pm on Wednesday 12th June VENUE Shoreditch Studios 37 Bateman’s Row London EC2A 3HH FINDING SHOREDITCH STUDIOS The closest tube stations are Liverpool Street Station (10mins walk) or Old Street (10mins walk). From Liverpool Street Station, take the Bishopsgate exit and turn left out onto Bishopsgate. Keeping to the left, cross over the Great Eastern Road and then turn left into Bateman’s Row. The Studios are on your left. From Old Street, take the Old Street (east) exit and walk east. Turn right into the Great Eastern Road and then left into Curtain Road. Finally turn right into Bateman’s Row and the Studios are on your right. STAYING OVERNIGHT IN LONDON ? We have a relationship with a lovely boutique hotel – No Ten Manchester Street in Marylebone. This is not the closest but is a nice central location and we have negotiated a preferred corporate rate of £165 plus VAT for B&B, and you just need to say you are booking through Wavelength www.tenmanchesterstreethotel.com Alternatively the Hoxton Hotel is one of a number of hotels which are closer to the venue www.hoxtonhotels.com With any hotel you choose, make sure you book early to get the best rate. June 12 | Reconnect 1 Connect 2013 | 05 >