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Da Vinci Growth Zoom Sessions

Earlier this year, we launched the updated da Vinci Leadership Profile in collaboration with Spencer Stuart and The B Team. The model covers the essential characteristics of future-ready leaders. To help you further develop these skills, we are launching a series of deep dive sessions. These 60-minute sessions allow you to connect with the wider alumni community, further develop their ‘Da Vinci’ leadership attitudes and behaviors, and hear from industry experts.

If you are an IRG Community member, the session details should already be in your agenda. For more information and questions, please contact leanne@instituteforrealgrowth.com.

March 06 – 9 AM EST
Generative AI: the biggest Risk, or the Opportunity of a Lifetime?!

Stephan Pretorious, Chief Digital Officer, WPP

This session is truly about getting ready for the future: a deep dive into the transformation required by CMOs and leadership resulting from the rise of GenAI. WPP’s CTO Stephan Pretorius & with Frank van den Driest will explore and discuss the opportunity that AI presents as an organizational silo-buster, and what this means for collaborative leadership in the future.

April 03 – 9 AM EST
Deep Personal Transformation Journeys

Roland Slot, Managing Partner. Aberkyn

Driving Humanized Growth is inextricably linked to personal values, passion and purpose, that is why the Ikigai sits at the core of the da Vinci Growth Leader model. Roland Slot, Founder of Aberkyn, McKinsey & Company’s leadership development branch, is passionate about raising the level of consciousness in business and emerging potential in leaders, teams and organisations, and will share insights and methods that he uses to help people transform their lives and careers.

May 01 – 9 AM EST
Acting Strategically: From CMO to Board

Chris Burggraeve, Founder, Vicomte & Greg Welch, Practice Leader, Spencer Stuart

The transition from CMO to Board is one that few marketers make successfully today. Research showed less than 2.6% of public board members have a marketing background. In this conversation, Chris Burggraeve & Greg Welch will demystify what it really takes to get into “The Room Where It Happens,” and discuss how to speak better finance, and understand how to drive influence at the board level.

May 29 – 9 AM EST
Collaborating and Influencing

Antonio Lucio, CMO at HP

In this session Antonio Lucio, CMO at HP and IRG alumnus, will share some of the most impactful learnings from his LEAP program (Leadership Empowerment Acceleration Project), a partnership between Yale, Aspen Institute and 5S Diversity. Become a more impactful and influential leader, understand and convey boardroom presence, and learn to collaborate more effectively from one of the masterminds of the marketing industry.

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