Executive education

Selling to the C-Suite: Listen. Create. Engage. Growth

Selling to the C-Suite: Listen. Create. Engage.

Good morning On Thursday 26th February at 10am, I'm running a free webinar on selling to the C-suite. It's the course I have given to a number of Fortune tech companies to help them shift the narrative to get better engagement. Believe it or not, these companies face the same challenges as

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Executive Summary: The Ultimate Guide (Examples + Template) Leadership

Executive Summary: The Ultimate Guide (Examples + Template)

The executive summary is the most important and valuable paragraph or one-pager you'll ever write in business. It's also the one most people catastrophically mess up. I've reviewed and written hundreds of executive summaries as a journalist and CEO advisor from and with the largest

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Confidence: What's Killing the Economy Wellbeing

Confidence: What's Killing the Economy

We talk a lot about mental health, but not enough about confidence. They're two sides of the same coin - and one is being hoarded. Last night, Sir Ken Olisa, the King's Lord-Lieutenant, addressed The Transformational Leaders' Club on social mobility. He made a simple point - give young

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A Quick Check-In Leadership

A Quick Check-In

Good morning Thank you to those who came to the Moses Itauma interview on Tuesday. The room was stacked with brilliant people. Moses – a 20-year-old heavyweight boxing challenger with 13 wins (11 by knockout) - taught a room of executives how to think like a challenger. "I wasn't the best,

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Your biggest writing challenge? Growth

Your biggest writing challenge?

I have a colossal writing challenge in front of me like none I have seen. (Welcome back to the summer semester.) In 2014, I asked myself the question: "What's the most commercially valuable piece of writing you could put on one sheet of paper?" My answer was the executive summary for the

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The Gen X Question for Gen Z Leadership

The Gen X Question for Gen Z

I posed a question on TikTok last week: If you were 18 today, with your current knowledge, what would you do? University? Travel? Something else? It sparked hundreds of responses. The aim was to help Gen Z make confident decisions in a world that’s nothing like the one we grew up in. Many

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3 events for your diary... Downtime

3 events for your diary...

For keen-eyed readers, you'll have noticed some changes in our events and dates etc. That's because we realised we need to buy you a drink and ask you what's valuable to you before we go big on events. So we’d like to invite you to the Big Intro of The Executive Summary’s event series at a

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Unlocking DeFi: Opportunities for the Buy-Side in modern finance Growth

Unlocking DeFi: Opportunities for the Buy-Side in modern finance

Why DeFi? The Opportunities of Decentralised Finance on the Buy SideJoin us at The Club House, where business leaders from finance, DeFI and real-world asset sectors discuss disruption in the buy-side…Eventbrite Date and time Wed, 6 Nov 2024 17:00 - 19:00 GMT Location W1B 2AF5 Swallow

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AI Frontiers: Transforming Media & Entertainment AI

AI Frontiers: Transforming Media & Entertainment

Wednesday, 23 October Join us at AI Frontiers: Transforming Media & Entertainment to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the way we consume and create media Date and time Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:00 - 19:00 BST Location The Club House, 6th floor, 5 Swallow Pl 5 Swallow Place,

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