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Revolutionise 2023 is a conference about accelerating people with purpose. Purpose means a life well lived, a business grown and a career full of achievement and contribution. We bring together a blue riband speaker faculty, a programme focussed on you and an truly inspiring venue. You will leave with the knowledge and inspiration to move faster and deeper towards what drives you most.
You will complete Revolutionise 2023 with the tools and insight required to help you accelerate growth – personal, financial and impactful. By looking at the subject of acceleration with purpose from multiple angles, you are guaranteed to find what works for you.
So, join us at Revolutionise 2023. Day tickets and 3-day packages with or without accommodation are available. We'll see you at the castle!
Day 1 Speakers
Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance, London Business School (https://alexedmans.com/)
Alex is Professor of Finance at London Business School. He has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum, testified in the UK Parliament, and given the TED talk “What to Trust in a Post-Truth World” and the TEDx talk “The Social Responsibility of Business”. Alex’s book, “Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit”, was featured in the Financial Times list of Business Books of the Year for 2020.
Alex will draw on his years of research and study to demonstrate how the data-backed evidence shows that purpose-driven businesses also return greater profits.
Evelyn Doyle, Head of Culture & People International, Patagonia (https://www.linkedin.com/in/evelyndoyle/)
Evelyn is Head of People and Culture International at Patagonia. She is passionate about positively transforming work environments and business models, and nurturing employees to develop their individual voices, through a collaborative, human-centred culture, where everyone is welcomed and valued. At Patagonia, she is responsible for building an international employee community that embodies the brand’s reason for being: To save our home planet. Outside of her work at Patagonia, Evelyn is a member of the advisory board of Net Impact Amsterdam, and held the Chairperson position at NGO Designathon Works for a number of years. She works relentlessly to advance industry standards for culture, leadership and employee empowerment.
Evelyn will talk about building a purpose-driven internal culture and how this is vital to becoming a successful purpose-led business.
Gib Bulloch, Founder, Craigberoch Business Decelerator (https://gibbulloch.com/)
Gib is an award winning social intrapreneur who consults, writes and speaks on a range of topics relating to the role of business in society. He believes passionately in the power of business to change the world and in the power of the individual to change the world of business. After a 20-year career in Accenture, Gib left to write his first book: “The Intrapreneur: Confessions of a Corporate Insurgent". Gib will talk about the power of individuals within businesses – how ‘intrapreneurship’ and 'personal purpose' within large corporations can change things from within, on a large scale and with a huge external impact on creating a better, fairer, prosperous and equitable society. He will demonstrate how you create the conditions for your people to be inspired.
Emily Penn, Ocean Advocate & Skipper, Director at eXXpedition (https://www.emilypenn.com/)
Emily Penn is an ocean advocate, skipper, international public speaker and advisor on issues relating to our ocean, shifting mindsets and future society. She is on a mission to inspire and facilitate a community of changemakers through her project eXXpedition, and by training athletes and celebrities to be impactful advocates on ocean issues; as well as developing upstream solutions with corporate partners, scientists and government bodies.
Emily will talk about how to find your personal ‘Superpower’. We can all contribute to solving the world's biggest problems and live fulfilled purposeful lives as a result. The secret is finding where your skills intersect the problem and making that the focus of your energy.
Alan Clayton, CEO, Revolutionise (LinkedIn)
Alan has a twenty-five-year career in purpose driven growth behind him and is still speeding up. He trained as a scientist but has always worked in the creative field, so he can combine precise analytics with emotional energy to create ideas which lead to great change. He is a serial entrepreneur and has worked in more than thirty countries. Clients range from global giants such as UN agencies right through to small, local start-ups, and from business leaders to freelancers and even amateur racing drivers
Alan will talk about the importance of finding your purpose with precision. Your purpose needs to be powerful, pure, but most of all precise. It must clearly differentiate you from your competitors, and at the same time it must by unifying and energising for your teams.
Day 2 Speakers
Tom de Bruyne & Astrid Groenewegen, Co-Founders, SUE Behavioural Design (https://suebehaviouraldesign.com/)
Astrid & Tom are the co-founders of SUE Behavioural Design, an Amsterdam based innovation company specialising in behavioural change. Astrid is also the author of the book The Art of Designing Behaviour.
Day 2 at Revolutionise 2023 has a slightly different setup that the other days, as Tom & Astrid will deliver two mini-masterclasses on behavioural change:
Setup: In these two interactive masterclasses, you will engage actively with the principles of behavioural design to ensure a deep learning experience.
Outcome: You will learn strategies from the psychology of influence to successfully shape the behaviour of yourself, your team, your customers, and society.
Aimed at: Professionals and leaders who need to influence the behaviours of employees, citizens and customers. This masterclass is highly relevant for people managers, policy makers and product and marketing professionals.
Morning masterclass: How to influence your own behaviour? In this masterclass we will explore what behavioural science teaches us about how to become happier, more creative and more productive. Behavioural Change is hard. We all want to be less distracted, eat healthier, be more creative, more productive, be a better person. But our present-self has a hard time to overcome temptation, distraction, social pressure, and laziness. Sticking to better habits is hard. We will explore what the psychology of influence, the psychology of happiness, and the science of habits teaches us about removing obstacles for successful behavioural change.
Afternoon masterclass: 10 essential principles from the science of influence to change the world. In this masterclass we’re going to explore 10 essential principles from the science of influence and apply them to some of the most pressing societal challenges in the world today. We are going to explore how Behavioural Design Thinking can lead to a deeper understanding of how we can change society for the better.
Day 3 Speakers
Krizna Gomez, Foresight & impact strategist (LinkedIn)
Kriz is a foresight practitioner and narratives expert who has been working with civil society actors around the world to help magnify their impact and innovative capabilities through design thinking, foresight and systems thinking. She is a recipient of the Joseph Jaworski Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Award , and has a Master of Law from Harvard, and a BA Political Science and Juris Doctor from Ateneo in the Philippines.
In her talk, Krizna will lay out the simple steps to build the muscles of futures thinking--from what we pay attention to including ideas and events that most people miss out on, to how we train our minds and emotions to confidently own any future that comes to pass. Futures thinking is a powerful way to stop being mere spectators to what happens around us, but to become makers of the future we want--and all of this is not rocket science. With some simple shifts that will be shared in this talk, we can own and imagine our futures--with a sense of confidence and even fun.
Jahkini Bisselink, Gen Z Expert at Whetston Strategic (https://whetston.com/speaker/jahkini_bisselink/)
Jahkini is a former United Nations Youth Delegate and now continues her work researching trends amongst her own generation, generation Z. Jahkini’s strong suit is that she is able to give an authentic insight in the world of her own generation: Gen Z, whilst clearly understanding how to translate this knowledge into business take-aways.
Jahkini’s talk will cover three areas: 1) How employers can attract/integrate/retain Gen Z team members, 2) How businesses can attract Gen Z consumers, 3) How businesses and individuals can avoid getting cancelled by Gen Z!
Dr Iain MacRitchie, Founder at MCR Pathways (LinkedIn)
Iain is one of the UK’s leading experts in changing outcomes, quickly, at scale. Over a vast career in corporate accelerations, turnarounds and start-ups, Iain helped change the outcomes for tens of thousands of leaders, employees, shareholders and customers all round the world. Iain set up and leads a pioneering charity MCR Pathways, seeking to change the outcomes for the most disadvantaged young people in our society.
Iain will close the futurology module on Day 3 by talking about the Future of Success. Drawing on learnings from his vast career, he will demonstrate how to bridge an imagined idea, a better future, with the reality of now, and show why the definition of success in the future will be very different.
Peter Higgin, Artistic Director, Punchdrunk Enrichment
(https://www.punchdrunkenrichment.org.uk/people/peter-higgin/)
Peter established Punchdrunk Enrichment in 2008 as the charitable arm of Punchdrunk - the immersive theatre company that takes audiences on roaming experiences and epic storytelling inside sensory theatrical worlds. Punchdrunk Enrichment takes the company’s innovative practice into communities and schools, creating transformational performances and workshops with and for children, young people, families and communities.
Peter will talk about creative thinking from an arts perspective, drawing on his vast expertise in designing creative experiences, creating immersive theatre, and working with young people across the UK.
Dr Lynda Shaw, Neuroscientist & Business Psychologist (https://drlyndashaw.com/)
Lynda holds a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience, specialising in unconscious processing of emotion and behavioural change. She works with senior leaders and their teams who want to better understand the science of change and development and harness this power through recalibrating their thinking and enabling others to do the same in order to work together to reach organisational goals.
Lynda will use her talk to explore creative thinking from a scientific perspective, covering the role of the unconscious (emotion), how to change the way you think, and how the brain influences behaviour (and vice versa).