NextGen Business & Leadership: Improve your Future-Readiness
Friday, 7 March 2025
 
As a board member, your purpose is long-term value creation. However, the challenge often lies in striking the right balance between optimizing the current business and preparing for the future. How do you ensure your company remains relevant? And how can you align leadership and strategy with the demands of tomorrow?
 
In this interactive session, we will take a forward-looking approach and explore ‘what’s next’. We will discuss the strategies and methods needed not just to prepare for the future but to actively shape it. What does it mean for an organization to be truly ready for disruptive trends such as AI, sustainability, and shifting market dynamics? And how can the Board contribute to fostering an innovative and future-proof culture?

The session will start with an introduction by Fennemiek Gommer, based on insights from her best-selling book “Boardroom Creativity: How to Design the Future of Your Business”. Following this, we will break into smaller groups to discuss and explore real-world business and leadership dilemmas. The session will conclude with a plenary debrief, sharing key insights and lessons learned from the group discussions.

Fennemiek Gommer IDP-C’16Oct, Ambassador for The Netherlands of INSEAD International Directors Network (IDN), Non-Executive Director at TESYA and Facilicom Group, Chair of the Supervisory Board of Ridder and Walraven Fennemiek is a purpose-driven strategy and innovation expert. Besides being a partner of Caracta Business Innovation, Fennemiek is an experienced NED and lecturer in business transformation. She complimented her industrial design study with degrees in design thinking, brand strategy and business in the United States, Italy and France. She enjoys applying her international perspective and design approach to a wide range of business challenges. Her specific expertise is in wicked problems, future-led strategy development and approaching innovation as a design challenge. Together with Anne Mieke Eggenkamp, she wrote the book “Boardroom Creativity – How to Design the Future of Your Business” that was published in January 2023.

Programme
12:00 Doors open, buffet lunch
12:30 Presentation and interaction
14:00 Coffee & networking
 
Key Facts
When: Friday, 7 March 2025, 12:00
Where: Hotel Schweizerhof, Bahnhofpl. 7, 8001 Zürich
Tickets: CHF 55 NAA members (paid-up) // CHF 85 non-member alumni and guests
 
Registration: https://infomaniak.events/en-ch/conferences/nextgen-business-leadership-improve-your-future-readiness/5601d3cc-1c75-4394-bdf0-de2b611db7b9/event/1377048
 
INSEAD Alumni Association Switzerland
Mary Antenen, IDP-C’16Oct, IDN Ambassador Switzerland
Matthias Frieden, MBA’05J, Head of IN-BOARD
Philippe Mauron, MBA’95J, President

events@insead.ch