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29 August
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On 25 March 2020, less than a month after its first case of COVID-19, New Zealand went into a full lockdown and New Zealanders were asked to “Stay home, save lives, be kind”. Even though the COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented personal, work, financial and social challenges, New Zealand’s response is widely considered to have been one of the world’s best. This session will reflect on New Zealand’s pandemic response and consider what went well, what didn’t go so well and, most importantly, what can be learnt. These lessons are important not just for decision makers but for everyone - the importance of a clear sense of purpose, the power of collective action, and the need for a clear set of values to guide our actions and behaviours.
On 25 March 2020, less than a month after its first case of COVID-19, New Zealand went into a full lockdown and New Zealanders were asked to “Stay home, save lives, be kind”. Even though the COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented personal, work, financial and social challenges, New Zealand’s response is widely considered to have been one of the world’s best. This session will reflect on New Zealand’s pandemic response and consider what went well, what didn’t go so well and, most importantly, what can be learnt. These lessons are important not just for decision makers but for everyone - the importance of a clear sense of purpose, the power of collective action, and the need for a clear set of values to guide our actions and behaviours.
Sir Ashley Bloomfield
Sir Ashley Bloomfield
The benefits of adaptive leadership are well-known globally. These include transparent and efficient processes, faster delivery, collaboration, citizen engagement and satisfaction, and better risk management. These are all great outcomes not just for the citizens of Aotearoa but also those working in the machinery of government at all levels. Despite these benefits, there is strong resistance to agile methodologies in government. This is due to the complex, hierarchical, and inherently risk-averse nature of government environments, which are change-resistant and lack both adaptive leadership and agile technical skills to scale. In this session, we'll cover the journey to the government’s innovation agency, Callaghan Innovation, going fully agile, including the approach taken, key learnings and benefits. Based on experience of transforming organisations across a range of sectors, I’ll then propose an approach for how New Zealand government can embrace adaptive leadership in a time where our country and people are relying on them to step up.
Vic Crone
The benefits of adaptive leadership are well-known globally. These include transparent and efficient processes, faster delivery, collaboration, citizen engagement and satisfaction, and better risk management. These are all great outcomes not just for the citizens of Aotearoa but also those working in the machinery of government at all levels. Despite these benefits, there is strong resistance to agile methodologies in government. This is due to the complex, hierarchical, and inherently risk-averse nature of government environments, which are change-resistant and lack both adaptive leadership and agile technical skills to scale. In this session, we'll cover the journey to the government’s innovation agency, Callaghan Innovation, going fully agile, including the approach taken, key learnings and benefits. Based on experience of transforming organisations across a range of sectors, I’ll then propose an approach for how New Zealand government can embrace adaptive leadership in a time where our country and people are relying on them to step up.
Vic Crone
Vic Crone
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Ian Maple
Silicon Valley giant Intuit created their own ways of working, focused on agility, not agile. For 7 years, Ian led Intuit’s approach to agile and helped shaped a uniquely design-driven approach to the work of over 5000 people. Based on the success of this approach, Ian then moved across Silicon Valley to lead Agile for Workday. In this insightful and thought-provoking talk, Ian will share the key lessons of moving beyond frameworks to create your own unique way of working.
Brooke will share her leadership journey along with what she thinks a CEO’s role is. She will give insights into how the 3EO leadership model works at Sharesies and how that enables Sharesies to achieve purposeful growth as a B Corp.
Ian Maple
Silicon Valley giant Intuit created their own ways of working, focused on agility, not agile. For 7 years, Ian led Intuit’s approach to agile and helped shaped a uniquely design-driven approach to the work of over 5000 people. Based on the success of this approach, Ian then moved across Silicon Valley to lead Agile for Workday. In this insightful and thought-provoking talk, Ian will share the key lessons of moving beyond frameworks to create your own unique way of working.
Ian Maple
Ian Maple
Sam will share how Genesis has grown and evolved it's operating model over the past 6 years. It's started in 2017 with a handful of agile teams and today encompasses the whole of their Retail business of about 750 people. The most recent iteration was reviewed from the ground up and leans heavily on concepts such as value streams and team topologies, whilst also maintaining some of the core capabilities of previous operating model iterations such as a strong chapter model and various Scrum@Scale practices. He'll touch on the drivers for change and the conditions required for a sustaining both a successful point in time transformation and an ongoing evolution. He will also delve into governance and finance in an adaptive operating model and how those interact with some of the more traditional business processes, such as annual budgeting and HR processes.
Brian has been involved in three different agile transformations globally at Nike. All three used a different transformation approach. All three also had very different degrees of success.
In this talk, Brian will share what he learned from his experiences at Nike, covering lessons from both the mindset shift and the transformation approach applied. How did organisational culture impact the success or failure of the chosen methodologies? What is an agile PMO or an agile project manager? Oxymoron or pragmatic? What is an agile mindset and is it separate from an agile methodology or are they inextricably interwoven? Which should lead and which should follow and what are the consequences of each approach? What was the role of leaders in the agile transformations, and which worked best? You might be surprised!
Sam will share how Genesis has grown and evolved it's operating model over the past 6 years. It's started in 2017 with a handful of agile teams and today encompasses the whole of their Retail business of about 750 people. The most recent iteration was reviewed from the ground up and leans heavily on concepts such as value streams and team topologies, whilst also maintaining some of the core capabilities of previous operating model iterations such as a strong chapter model and various Scrum@Scale practices. He'll touch on the drivers for change and the conditions required for a sustaining both a successful point in time transformation and an ongoing evolution. He will also delve into governance and finance in an adaptive operating model and how those interact with some of the more traditional business processes, such as annual budgeting and HR processes.
Sam Fowler
Sam Fowler
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- Workshop 1: Adaptive Leadership. Without supporting leadership, new ways of working are unlikely to stick. In this workshop, you will discover how you can unlock the leadership potential in your organisation to support adaptability. This workshop is running in the Aquamarine1/2 room, capacity 90.
- Workshop 2: Team Topologies is one of the leading approaches to organizing business and technology teams. Based on the highly-acclaimed book, it provides a practical, step-by‑step, model of organisation design and team interaction. This workshop is running in the Topaz room, capacity 42.
- Workshop 3: Adaptive Organisations: an Executive Perspective. Without strong executive support, adaptive transformations don’t work. Dan and Edwin will provide an introduction of what you need to know and how you can support change from an executive perspective. This workshop is running in Breakout A, capacity 42.
- Workshop 4: Holacracy is a management practice for the modern era. It embraces our individual humanity, autonomy, and creative problem-solving capacities. Tiziano Rullo has taught Holacracy with the founder Brian Robertson throughout Europe. In this overview workshop, he will dive into what Holacracy is and how its principles can be used to build adaptive organisations. This workshop is running in the Aquamarine 3 room, capacity 48.
- Workshop 5: Improv your adaptability. Improvisers adapt to what is happening around them. They embrace ambiguity and unpredictability and say “yes, and” to new opportunities. What if we could bring the same attitude at work to make our organisations more resilient, open, and adaptive? In this workshop, you will experience the power of improvisation and how you can bring the principles of it to your organisation. This workshop is running in Breakout B, capacity 28
- Workshop 1: Adaptive Leadership. Without supporting leadership, new ways of working are unlikely to stick. In this workshop, you will discover how you can unlock the leadership potential in your organisation to support adaptability. This workshop is running in the Aquamarine1/2 room, capacity 90.
- Workshop 2: Team Topologies is one of the leading approaches to organizing business and technology teams. Based on the highly-acclaimed book, it provides a practical, step-by‑step, model of organisation design and team interaction. This workshop is running in the Topaz room, capacity 42.
- Workshop 3: Adaptive Organisations: an Executive Perspective. Without strong executive support, adaptive transformations don’t work. Dan and Edwin will provide an introduction of what you need to know and how you can support change from an executive perspective. This workshop is running in Breakout A, capacity 42.
- Workshop 4: Holacracy is a management practice for the modern era. It embraces our individual humanity, autonomy, and creative problem-solving capacities. Tiziano Rullo has taught Holacracy with the founder Brian Robertson throughout Europe. In this overview workshop, he will dive into what Holacracy is and how its principles can be used to build adaptive organisations. This workshop is running in the Aquamarine 3 room, capacity 48.
- Workshop 5: Improv your adaptability. Improvisers adapt to what is happening around them. They embrace ambiguity and unpredictability and say “yes, and” to new opportunities. What if we could bring the same attitude at work to make our organisations more resilient, open, and adaptive? In this workshop, you will experience the power of improvisation and how you can bring the principles of it to your organisation. This workshop is running in Breakout B, capacity 28
Workshops
Workshops
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In 2020 when Southern Cross committed to agile, Kerry was leading the sales, marketing, product and distribution teams and was halfway through a couple of large waterfall projects. Initially, the thinking was to start small with one team and learn progressively - the agile principle in action. As the business proceeded with the change, it quickly became clear that this would lead to unnecessary complexity and the decision was made to go all in. Kerry will share some of the realities and a few key learnings in Southern Cross' shift to agile in pursuit of delivering strategic change faster.
Kerry Boielle
In 2020 when Southern Cross committed to agile, Kerry was leading the sales, marketing, product and distribution teams and was halfway through a couple of large waterfall projects. Initially, the thinking was to start small with one team and learn progressively - the agile principle in action. As the business proceeded with the change, it quickly became clear that this would lead to unnecessary complexity and the decision was made to go all in. Kerry will share some of the realities and a few key learnings in Southern Cross' shift to agile in pursuit of delivering strategic change faster.
Kerry Boielle
Kerry Boielle
Whether you’re suddenly facing the unexpected, or preparing for the unknowable, cognitive diversity is critical.
Senior teams are rightly called-on to make the most complex decisions that their organisations will ever face. Decision-making groups that include different ways of thinking and an enabling culture are best placed to tackle this complexity. They can avoid the unchallenged assumptions of groupthink and demonstrate increased creativity - coming up with alternative approaches to challenges and opportunities.
In this highly interactive session, you will learn how cognitive diversity impacts group decision-making performance. Plus, what you can do to make sure your team has enough cognitive diversity and how you can apply it successfully. This session will be especially valuable for anyone seeking to make their organisation more adaptive, those who are interested in team dynamics, or in achieving real value from diversity.
Whether you’re suddenly facing the unexpected, or preparing for the unknowable, cognitive diversity is critical.
Senior teams are rightly called-on to make the most complex decisions that their organisations will ever face. Decision-making groups that include different ways of thinking and an enabling culture are best placed to tackle this complexity. They can avoid the unchallenged assumptions of groupthink and demonstrate increased creativity - coming up with alternative approaches to challenges and opportunities.
In this highly interactive session, you will learn how cognitive diversity impacts group decision-making performance. Plus, what you can do to make sure your team has enough cognitive diversity and how you can apply it successfully. This session will be especially valuable for anyone seeking to make their organisation more adaptive, those who are interested in team dynamics, or in achieving real value from diversity.
Lloyd Mander
Lloyd Mander
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TWO
30 August
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Dr Denise Quinlan
High performing leaders and effective organisations understand an important truth - when we work well together, we build each other’s resilience. You cope better with challenge and uncertainty when someone ‘has your back’. Collective resilience is also what enables individuals and organisations to keep doing their best work. The good news - there’s a lot you can do at the team level that will support your collective and personal resilience. And these changes will also build a more equitable and inclusive environment for everyone. Denise will share practical strategies that you can use immediately to build psychological safety and enable sustainable high performance - for you and your team.
Dr Denise Quinlan
High performing leaders and effective organisations understand an important truth - when we work well together, we build each other’s resilience. You cope better with challenge and uncertainty when someone ‘has your back’. Collective resilience is also what enables individuals and organisations to keep doing their best work. The good news - there’s a lot you can do at the team level that will support your collective and personal resilience. And these changes will also build a more equitable and inclusive environment for everyone. Denise will share practical strategies that you can use immediately to build psychological safety and enable sustainable high performance - for you and your team.
Dr Denise Quinlan
Dr Denise Quinlan
Businesses are struggling to keep up with global changes, expectations of their employees and new customer behaviours. The existing work paradigm that has been passed down no longer serves organisations and their people. We need to build future organisations around redefined work paradigm. During five years of Radically's existence, Kacper has led helped countless businesses and leaders solve complex organisational challenges. In this talk he will share his observations and explore what he has come to understand are the four focus areas for any organisation wanting to be more adaptive.
Businesses are struggling to keep up with global changes, expectations of their employees and new customer behaviours. The existing work paradigm that has been passed down no longer serves organisations and their people. We need to build future organisations around redefined work paradigm. During five years of Radically's existence, Kacper has led helped countless businesses and leaders solve complex organisational challenges. In this talk he will share his observations and explore what he has come to understand are the four focus areas for any organisation wanting to be more adaptive.
Kacper Mazek
Kacper Mazek
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The BusinessDesk Executive Panel
A facilitated discussion with an executive panel covering their experiences on important topics such as how does an executive team decide to pursue adaptability? Has it been the right move for your organisation? What is the role of the executive team? Throughout the journey, how did the executive grow and change? What has and hasn’t worked? Is it all about mindset and if so, is there still a place for a fixed mindset?
Vince Hawksworth (Mercury CEO), Carolyn Luey (NZME CDO), Rob Heebink (FRAMECAD CEO), facilitated by Dan Teo.
Last year, CountdownX transformed key areas of Marketing, Digital, Ecommerce and last mile into Customer centred Value Streams. In this talk Rob will discuss why they opted for this approach, share some of the challenges experienced and how they continue to evolve their Value streams to ensure customer centricity, focus on the top priorities, flow of value and high team ownership.
The BusinessDesk Executive Panel
A facilitated discussion with an executive panel covering their experiences on important topics such as how does an executive team decide to pursue adaptability? Has it been the right move for your organisation? What is the role of the executive team? Throughout the journey, how did the executive grow and change? What has and hasn’t worked? Is it all about mindset and if so, is there still a place for a fixed mindset?
Vince Hawksworth (Mercury CEO), Carolyn Luey (NZME CDO), Rob Heebink (FRAMECAD CEO), facilitated by Dan Teo.
The BusinessDesk Executive Panel
The BusinessDesk Executive Panel
Beth Gervase
ANZ Personal Technology had just undergone a massive restructuring that took over a year to finalise. People were feeling disjointed and disempowered with change fatigue as a big problem. I was hearing about all the issues from all different angles, but some themes were definitely emerging.
I created this programme to address some of the big rocks, but help our people focus on what’s in our circle of control and influence, to move the dial in the right direction for our people and ultimately our customers. I’ll share our story and touch on the tools, techniques and coaching activities that brought this programme to life.
Nathan Bryant-Taukiri
Nathan shares his lived experience of being both Māori and Pākehā, offers a perspective on the plight of first peoples, describes the cycle of change we are in, and presents a ground up approach that everyone can participate in toward a better future by harnessing Te Ao Māori as a framework for a collective solution in both our social and business communities.
Beth Gervase
ANZ Personal Technology had just undergone a massive restructuring that took over a year to finalise. People were feeling disjointed and disempowered with change fatigue as a big problem. I was hearing about all the issues from all different angles, but some themes were definitely emerging.
I created this programme to address some of the big rocks, but help our people focus on what’s in our circle of control and influence, to move the dial in the right direction for our people and ultimately our customers. I’ll share our story and touch on the tools, techniques and coaching activities that brought this programme to life.
Beth Gervase
Beth Gervase
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Openspace Learning
LEARN MOREA series of open-space workshops that enable everyone to collaborate and learn from one another. The agenda will be built and managed by participants and anyone is welcome to put forward a topic. Attend the sessions that work for you using "The Law of Two Feet" - if it isn't working for you then go to another session.
A series of open-space workshops that enable everyone to collaborate and learn from one another. The agenda will be built and managed by participants and anyone is welcome to put forward a topic. Attend the sessions that work for you using "The Law of Two Feet" - if it isn't working for you then go to another session.
Openspace Learning
Openspace Learning
In today's rapidly changing world, leaders face numerous challenges that demand flexibility, resilience and the ability to adapt. While ego can serve as a catalyst for ambition and success, it often becomes a hindrance to effective leadership. In this talk, Nic will share her real-world adaptive leadership journey in her current role, in her previous role at Genesis Energy where she led the adaptive change, and as a mother. She will delve into
- The relationship between ego and decision-making, collaboration, and innovation.
- The importance of self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
- Obtaining Executive team support and managing the organisational politics when changing the work paradigm is difficult and uncomfortable.
- Strategies for fostering a culture of humility, openness and continuous learning within your organization.
- The role of vulnerability and authenticity in adaptive leadership.
- Practical steps to recognize and address ego-driven behaviours in yourself and others.
Whether you are a seasoned executive, a rising leader, or an aspiring change agent, you will gain valuable insights and practical tools. Don't let your ego stand in the way of your leadership journey!
Hannah Croft
With the finish line of NZ’s ultra-fast broadband network build in sight, Chorus’ focus on network-build needed to shift to efficient operation of that network. At the same time, Chorus faced significant changes to the regulatory environment in which it operated. To thrive in this rapidly changing and complex environment, a significant transformational shift in leadership, culture and ways of working was required. As Tribe Lead for the Adaptive Organisation Tribe, Hannah played a critical role in leading this change. In this informative and insightful talk, Hannah will share Chorus’ intentionally iterative approach to transformational change, including her warts and all experiences of what worked well, and what she’d do differently next time.
In today's rapidly changing world, leaders face numerous challenges that demand flexibility, resilience and the ability to adapt. While ego can serve as a catalyst for ambition and success, it often becomes a hindrance to effective leadership. In this talk, Nic will share her real-world adaptive leadership journey in her current role, in her previous role at Genesis Energy where she led the adaptive change, and as a mother. She will delve into
- The relationship between ego and decision-making, collaboration, and innovation.
- The importance of self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
- Obtaining Executive team support and managing the organisational politics when changing the work paradigm is difficult and uncomfortable.
- Strategies for fostering a culture of humility, openness and continuous learning within your organization.
- The role of vulnerability and authenticity in adaptive leadership.
- Practical steps to recognize and address ego-driven behaviours in yourself and others.
Whether you are a seasoned executive, a rising leader, or an aspiring change agent, you will gain valuable insights and practical tools. Don't let your ego stand in the way of your leadership journey!
Nicola Richardson
Nicola Richardson
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Traditionally, organisations have been viewed organisations as machines - like a great mechanical clock made up of discreet parts, ticking in perfect synchronicity. Leaders viewed humans as interchangeable cogs in the machine, there to perform a task or role.
Over the last 30 years we’ve evolved that approach to now view organisations as living systems – a fluid, complex and changing entity that can learn and adapt to the current environment.
But how do you lead a living system?
Very few people have experience leading living systems, but in this short lighting talk, Edwin will share his experiences from one of his away-from-work passions: growing food - and how this shapes his approach to leadership in business.
Traditionally, organisations have been viewed organisations as machines - like a great mechanical clock made up of discreet parts, ticking in perfect synchronicity. Leaders viewed humans as interchangeable cogs in the machine, there to perform a task or role.
Over the last 30 years we’ve evolved that approach to now view organisations as living systems – a fluid, complex and changing entity that can learn and adapt to the current environment.
But how do you lead a living system?
Very few people have experience leading living systems, but in this short lighting talk, Edwin will share his experiences from one of his away-from-work passions: growing food - and how this shapes his approach to leadership in business.
Edwin Dando
Edwin Dando
Frances will be presenting a lens into the future of business and changing economic priorities. She will talk through the impact of significant technological, societal and environmental changes that will reshape and influence how we live, work and learn over the coming decade. Frances will share her experience as a researcher, technologist, educator and thought-leader committed to human responsiveness in the face of known and unknown influences that shape the world around us.
Frances will be presenting a lens into the future of business and changing economic priorities. She will talk through the impact of significant technological, societal and environmental changes that will reshape and influence how we live, work and learn over the coming decade. Frances will share her experience as a researcher, technologist, educator and thought-leader committed to human responsiveness in the face of known and unknown influences that shape the world around us.