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Creativity is essential to resilience – it brings the new and unexpected ideas so necessary in times of disruption.

Tim Brown Co-Chair, IDEO

Theme description 2023

by Julia Kirby

CREATIVE RESILIENCE

LEADING IN AN AGE OF DISCONTINUITY

It’s the word of the moment—resilience—and there’s little wonder why. In the past three years, a brutal pandemic and its economic fallout have knocked the world to its knees. Across many months, policymakers have responded in inconsistent, politicized ways as workplaces were shuttered, supply chains were shattered, and people suffered blows to their physical health, mental well-being, and financial security. Our ability to snap back to productive rhythms, systems, and ecosystems has depended—and still depends—on our personal and organizational capacities for resilience.

Yet, resilience can also carry a backward-looking sense that doesn’t feel sufficient to the moment. In many ways, our constantly, dynamically changing context has lurched ahead, and we must accomplish more than a return to the status quo ante. The challenge is to come back from setback stronger—with a revised understanding of societies and markets and a greater capacity to rise to future challenges.

We need a resilience that is forward-looking—that is fundamentally creative.

In choosing the theme of “Creative Resilience” we are not expressing nostalgic yearning to go back to the past. No CEO should be, like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, closing her eyes and repeating “there’s no place like home.” Does our new term bring to mind another famous one: creative destruction? If so, good (and appropriate for a conference inspired by Peter Drucker, whose family counted Joseph Schumpeter as a friend). But note the twist, in joining Schumpeter’s call for creative dynamism we are also optimistic that organizations need not be destroyed in the process. A well-led enterprise can learn to survive deep blows and still surge forward.

This year’s conference will explore what it means to build creative resilience as a capacity—as a new set of reflexes at every level of the organization, and throughout its ecosystem of suppliers, customers, and other partners. We’ll draw on real-world stories and research findings from multiple disciplines to spur creative dialogue in Vienna—and new insights for us all for preparing our teams and institutions for future waves of disruption.

Join us in this important effort to bring innovation to the very core of how institutions are managed.

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SPEAKERS AND CHAIRS 2023 INCLUDE

Alex

Adamopoulos

CEO, Emergn Limited

John

Allan

Chair of Tesco, Barratt's and Imperial

Guillaume

Alvarez

Senior Vice President EMEA, Steelcase

Carla

Arellano

Partner, Greyhound Capital

Torry

Berntsen

CEO Europe & Americas at Standard Chartered Bank

Tiffani

Bova

Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist Salesforce

Niklaus

Brantschen

Jesuit/Zen Master

Tim

Brown

Co-chair of IDEO, Vice Chair of the kyu Collective

Thomas

Bubendorfer

Solo climber and author

Laurent

Choain

Chief People, Education & Culture Officer, Mazars

Yves

Doz

Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management

Amy

Edmondson

Professor of Leadership & Management, HBS

Bill

Fischer

Professor of Innovation Management, IMD

Charles

Handy

Social Philosopher and author

Rahaf

Harfoush

Digital Anthropologist, Executive Director of the Red Thread Institute of Digital Culture

Herminia

Ibarra

Charles Handy Chair in Organizational Behaviour, London Business School

Ekin

Ilseven

Assistant Professor Strategy and Organizations, School of Business and Economics Católica-Lisbon PhD candidate in Strategy, INSEAD

Michael

Jacobides

Professor of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, LBS

Robert S.

Kaplan

Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at HBS

Michael

Kaschke

President of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Former ZEISS Group President & CEO