Karen Wendt

Change Leadership: Rabbit holes or Elephants in the Room

While change must be well managed, it also requires effective leadership to be successfully introduced and sustained. An integrative model of leadership for change is proposed, reflecting its dimensions and requirements.

Audience takeaways:

• The most important thing in change leadership is not just urgency, it’s social identity.
• Create yourself as the leader that is so attractive that others want to learn you, imitate you, create identity-based trust and you can do anything. I am sharing how to create purpose and solidarity for the mission.

From the Margins to the Mainstream: Sustainable Finance, Impact Investing & Green Economy

While some years ago investors were mainly looking into risk adjusted returns, Sustainability has found its way into mainstream investing in a number of ways: From smart beta strategies to norms-based screening, environmental and social governance inclusion or carbon at risk calculations.

Audience takeaways:

• This keynote will guide you through the benefits and trade-offs of each strategy and its pros and cons.

Change Management: EQ versus IQ: Translating Change into organizational commitment

Create urgency, but also bring stability to the phase of change. H ow to create a positive movement. Do the right thing and get the teams aligned. What a good change management process looks like and how to overcome challenges.

Audience takeaways:

• Lessons from C-Suite in Change Management.
• What are the specialties in change management in digital companies and how to unblock situations

Business Foresight Leverage Points & Digital Transformation: The 7 Qualities of a Digital Leader

Inspire your vision and strategy on digital transformation. Based on a range of future scenarios and trends in digitalization Karen demonstrates how to define how to transform the scenarios into an attractive vision and strategy. Have you ever used leverage point analysis as a tool for understanding your options?

Audience takeaways:

• The 7 personal qualities and how they must match organization qualities

From Green and Black Swans: Using Leverage Point Analysis for implementing Sustainability.

From Risk Management to Opportunity Recognition and Strategy Execution: How to combine leverage point analysis with a long-term vision and translated into actionable business solutions helping companies to become sustainable, abide by international frameworks, global administrative law, and mitigate risk. Transforming uncertainty into business opportunities early on.

Audience takeaways:

• Insights into leverage Point Analysis and unlocking the potential to sustainability in an easy inspiring way.

Impacts of the EU Action Plan for Business Owners & Asset Managers

Introduction to the EU Action Plan, the EU Taxonomy and the New Green Deal. Defining the Decision Agenda, find the easy wins, and define the most important leverage points. combining effective leadership and change management.

Audience takeaways:

• Insights into the EU Action Plan and its impacts on business, asset management, and finance.
• An analysis of opportunities for business. Unlocking the potential to sustainability in an easy inspiring way.

The Four Insights to Exponential Leadership: Leadership & Sustainability in the Board Room

The four insights to exponential Leadership Framework clarifying the resources and qualities of the organization for future fitness and strategic foresight to enable the organization to transform itself effectively.

The Fifths Discipline: The art of Open Banking & Open Finance

Lets share how to retain smarter banking with the help of economic ecosystems. Create customer-centric services and customer advocacy. This brings a wave of innovation to the market. Also guidelines, governance, and compliance requirements are growing.

Audience takeaways:

• Platform Strategies, Customers Journeys Ecosystems creation.
• Shows you how to navigate the business, market and policy disruption and create and craft your open banking and open
  finance strategy

Antifragility: How diversity helps creating it

In a crisis in particular it is important that leadership can take as many perspectives as possible to develop a resilient position, to stream through the crisis, and even become antifragile.

Antifragility is a concept that has been developed by Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of the “Black Swan”. He defines antifragility as the ability to resist failure and thrive and withstand stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures. It is different from the concept of resilience, being the ability to recover from failure. It is extremely useful in environments that cannot be described any longer by systemic risk and volatility.

Audience takeaways:

• Three strategies that make your business and yourself antifragile.