Welcome by the conference chairs
Eduardo P. Braun Leadership Expert
Katharina Moser Experience Designer

Opening Keynote
Richard Straub President, Peter Drucker Forum

Drucker had a lot to say about performance. Here are the major themes. Are his perspectives still valid? What, if anything, would he add (or subtract) today?
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Chair
Raymond Hofmann Management and Organisation Designer

Speakers
Jenny Darroch Dean, Farmer School of Business
Tammy Erickson Leadership Advisor
Kevin Nolan CEO, GE Appliances

The first key to raising performance is to clearly define the objective – and stay laser-focused on what it takes to reach it. Are leaders and organizations seeing their attention torn into too many directions? How do they reach consensus on what really matters?
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Justin Brady Communicator, Writer, Podcaster

Speakers
Rita McGrath Professor, Columbia Business School
Christian Sarkar Regenerative Marketing Institute
Roger L. Martin Leadership Advisor

IINTERACTIVE SESSION:
Dive into the results of our co-creation process with the Drucker community
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Chairs
Katharina Moser Experience Designer
Wolfgang Lassl CSO, Peter Drucker Forum

So many qualities are talked about in leadership: resilience, from resilience and agility to vision and integrity. Which of these capacities are most often lacking in managers? How do you realize more of your potential to have impact? What do the best coaches actually build in their clients?
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Chair
Mary Meaney Haynes Philanthropist & Board member

Speakers
Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. President and CEO, SHRM
Suzy Welch Business journalist and entrepreneur
Gonzalo Brujó Global President, Interbrand Group

Knowledge workers were abruptly pushed into the world of remote work in 2020 and many have no desire to go back to life as it was. As managers struggle with people’s different desires for work at home, collegial office life, and maximum flexibility, how must performance management evolve?
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Chair
Abbie Lundberg Editor in Chief, MIT Sloan Management Review

Speakers
Whitney Johnson CEO, Disruption Advisors
Brian Elliott Executive Leader, Future Forum
Alex Adamopoulos CEO, Emergn

Eduardo Braun Leadership Expert

INTERACTIVE SESSION:
Chairs
Katharina Moser Experience Designer
Wolfgang Lassl CSO, Peter Drucker Forum

Attracting and retaining top talents have never been harder. To get the people you need, do you need to ease up on productivity demands? Or do knowledge workers prefer being part of what Drucker called “the spirit of performance”?
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Chair
Karen Woodin-Rodriguez Career and Business Coach, entrepreneur

Speakers
Rahaf Harfoush Executive Director, Red Thread Institute of Digital Culture
Claudia Crummenerl Managing Director, Global Practice Lead Workforce and Organization Capgemini Invent
Diane Gherson Faculty Member, Harvard Business School

Creative friction or close friends? Colocated or virtual? Stable or changing? Using human capital analytics, researchers and large employers are discovering the keys to high performance at the project and team level – and the tradeoffs that can make for some difficult decisions.
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Chair
Amy Bernstein Editor, HBR

Speakers
Carol Kauffman Leadership expert
Jeremie Brecheisen Partner, Gallup
Markus Nordberg Head of Resources Development, CERN

It’s been said that “what can’t be measured can’t be managed.” Yet so much of what matters to stakeholders is impossible to gauge in consistent, disciplined ways. Where does this leave us?
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Chair
Michele Zanini Co-founder, Management Lab

Speakers
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox CEO, 20-first
Guila Clara Kessous UNESCO Ambassador
Steve Denning Senior Contributor at Forbes

For Drucker, effective management was hardly just a business concern. It was the key to making resources productive in any realm. At the level of sectors, communities, and societies how much progress have we made? Do we see in today’s crucial social institutions the level of management we need?
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Chair
Julia Kirby Editor Harvard University Press

Speakers
Mathis Bitton Student, Yale University
Lisa Hershman Entrepreneur & Board Member
Sir John Kay British economist

Wrap Up & Summary
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Eduardo P. Braun Leadership Expert