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Is your Team Ready for Success in AI Powered World?

In today’s rapidly changing landscape, the paramount challenge for corporate executives is ensuring their teams have the right skills and mindset to thrive today and tomorrow.  The solution is not just about [...]

June 17, 2024|

Leveraging the Multi-Generational Workforce

We stand at the precipice of a transformative era—a tipping point of change where six generations, spanning from the Silent Generation to Gen A (those as young as five years old,) hold [...]

May 10, 2024|

Power to the People: When AI’s Not Enough

AI won’t save your business – people will. While AI is revolutionizing sectors, adding billions in annual value across banking ($200- $340 B) and pharmaceuticals ($60-$110 B) and powering innovations from personalized [...]

April 8, 2024|

Embracing Tomorrow: AI and Humanoid Robots

The Unstoppable Tide of Technology 2024 presents a dynamic landscape, with shifts like evolving climate conditions to geopolitical transformations and the redefinition of ‘work’ as Gen Z steps into leadership roles. Artificial [...]

February 14, 2024|

Change is the Only Constant

The paradigm has shifted. The rate of change is nearly 200% faster than ever and expected to accelerate by 33% during ’24 – driven by technology advancements, geopolitics, and economics. Nearly half [...]

January 15, 2024|

Why Change? The New Reality of Work is Here

Imagine walking into the lobby of your local bank, saying hi to the teller you’ve become friendly with, and adjourning to a side room for a private one-on-one meeting with your personal [...]

June 21, 2023|

Which Four Bubbles Does Global Peer Collaboration Burst?

Innovation has top of corporate agendas for over a decade – often with limited results despite leadership training programs, the establishment of innovation hubs, joint ventures, and hackathons for inspiration and insight. [...]

February 15, 2023|

Unlocking Success in ´23: Customer Experience, Collaboration, Commitment

Unlocking Success in '23: What do global leaders believe will be the keys to success in 2023 and beyond? The Power of Customer Experience, Collaboration, and Commitment.

February 1, 2023|

2022 is Nearly Over

2022 – the year of inflation, unstable financial markets, global worker shortages, war, and socio-economic conflicts. It was also a year of accelerated innovation with over $900 billion invested globally in R&D. [...]

December 15, 2022|

Have You Found Your RANT Yet? Reviving the Entrepreneurial Spirit in Challenging Times

As we emerge from the worldwide pandemic, businesses face many new, unexpected challenges: inflation, supply chain problems, workplace issues like adapting to more remote work, “quiet quitting” and employee burnout.

September 23, 2022|

3 Things Leaders Can Learn From The Great Resignation

The post-pandemic job market experienced a tremendous rate of voluntary resignations in the last couple of years. According to the Harvard Business Review, this trend was not as unexpected as it may seem, and the average quit rates have been rising for the past twelve years.

July 28, 2022|

Designing Future-Ready Recruitment – Learnings from Global Leaders

The uncertainty faced by the business world over the past two years combined with the shifts in people’s preference toward autonomy and flexibility created the perfect storm for a global talent shortage. Some recruiters are calling it the toughest recruitment year, ever.

July 16, 2022|

Four Predictions From Experts on What Life 3.0 Will Look Like

Life 3.0 refers to the point in our future when emerging technologies and trends (AI, metaverse, web 3.0, blockchains) will come to dominate our everyday lives, altering fundamentally how we work, interact, [...]

May 18, 2022|

Secret to Success through Coaching

Ever wonder how the best athletes and business leaders continually excel, rise above challenges and win against all odds? Their secret is a coach – someone behind the scenes who watches, listens [...]

November 26, 2021|

Human Centric Leadership: Building Trust for Future Growth

Leadership is never easy – especially during periods of uncertainty and change.  The challenge today is exacerbated by employees’ ‘pandemic fatigue’, lack of face to face interactions and rapidly evolving customer needs. [...]

November 15, 2021|

Executive Growth Alliance Delivers on ROI

Investment in future-ready leadership is essential to a company’s successful growth. Back in 2019, companies allocated $3.5 billion for leadership training, but often employees were not able to apply the concepts taught [...]

November 15, 2021|