Upcoming Events

Joining Boards
With Dawn Airey,
Chair of Women's Football Association, Chair of National Youth Theatre, NED at Channel 4, Blackbird plc and Grosvenor Estates
Wed 21st June 2023 5-6pm
Zoom call (details by email)
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Hear from experienced Chairs and NEDs
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What makes a good Non-exec Director?
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What does a Chair look for in a NED?
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How to think about your first NED role
Generative AI
Productivity tool or existential threat?
How are businesses actually reacting?
Date tbc
Zoom call
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What does Generative AI mean for your business?
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How to educate your management team, Board and staff to make sure you can make good decisions?
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What are other businesses doing already?
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Are you moving fast enough?


How to build a portfolio career
With Angela Seymour Jackson
Chair and multiple NED
Coming soon
Zoom call (details by email)
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Hear from experienced Chairs and NEDs
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What makes a good Non-exec Director?
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How do public and private company NEDs differ?
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What does a Chair look for in a NED?
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How to think about your first NED role
Previous events

How to keep developing yourself
Founding cohort
Fri 2 June 2023 9-10am
Zoom call (details by email)
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Reading, coaches, mentors, feedback - how do leaders carry on developing themselves and what actually works?
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Have you thought about getting a coach or finding a mentor? Have you had a good or bad experience with either? Does your team give you honest feedback? Does your Board give you useful feedback? Do you read on leadership? Have you tried a course? Please come and share, so we can all learn
Your leadership career
Meet the WITSEND group
Spring 2023 cohort
Thurs 25 May 2023 5-6pm (UK)
Zoom call (details by email)
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How do you think about your career as a leader?
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Compare notes with other leaders
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Hear from the WITSEND founders
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Meet your WITSEND group


The founder journey
Thurs 18 May 2023 6-8pm
In person - Farringdon
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Hear from founders in the WITSEND Community about their journey from initial idea through fundraising and growth to exit
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Speakers include Louise Hill, co-founder and COO of Fintech firm Go-Henry, which announced its sale to US-based Acorns in April 2023
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Small group event (up to 20) for Founder-CEOs to meet and compare notes
Holding people accountable
Fri 21 April 2023 9-10am
Zoom
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Successfully holding people accountable is critical in creating a high performance team but HOW is this best done?
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A chance to swap notes and discuss different methods to hold your direct reports and peers accountable to achieve outcomes at work
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What actions, processes, meetings and/or conversations do different personality types use to create accountability - and what works?


WITSEND 121s
Fri 31 March 2023 9-10am
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WITSEND's best-loved format
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Meet WITSEND members one on one in 9 minute slots to build your network and get some inspiration over coffee on a Friday morning
Generative AI
Fri 17 March 2023 9-10am
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Introduction to content-generating, human-inspired artificial intelligence tools such as OpenAI's Chat GPT and Google's Bard
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Learn from true experts in the field
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Discussion on use cases, possibilities and limitations
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Implications for business leaders, the future of consumer experience, marketing and the digital industry more generally


How to find your next role
Thu 23 Feb 2023 5-6pm
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With special guest Clare Johnston from The Up Group
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Comparing notes and sharing tips and expertise on how to find your next role (exec or NED)