#MCE55 - Disruption, Connectivity and Speed: are you ready?

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#MCE55 Event 19 - 20 April 2016
Disruption,
Connectivity
and Speed:
Are you ready?
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Disruption, Connectivity
And Speed: AreYou Ready?
Overview
In the VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous)
world today, how do we ensure that our purpose-driven
organizations are sustainable and able to develop their full
potential, while embracing new technologies, organizational
structures and business models?
Much of this comes down to ensuring that companies have
inspirational, authentic leaders and are supported by people
who collaborate together effectively and find real meaning
in their work. Clearly, organizations that attract younger
generations, and entrepreneurs will be agile enough to adapt
as conditions change. These are the ones that will succeed.
How do we manage this paradigm shift and tackle all of
these new challenges?
If you are looking for an event where you simply sit and
listen to lectures from experts on how to stay ahead of the
competition and meet current business challenges, this
programme is not for you!
On the other hand, if you are concerned about the future of
your organization and wish to actively participate in a debate
with keynote business leaders and make a contribution to
the shape of future organizations and talent capital, then this
is an unmissable event for you and your organization.
More than 20 high profile speakers will be present, including
Jan Mühlfeit, ex-Chairman Microsoft Europe, some partners,
like CRF, and a terrific line-up of commentators at this
exclusive MCE event.
Those present at this highly experiential event will embark
on a two-day journey full of insight and debate on the issues
shaping the business world of tomorrow.
Why you should be there
“One of the harsh realities of complex problem solving
is that it requires the full support of those
at the top of existing systems”
Rob Pye

The Benefits ForYou And
Your Organization
There are some very real benefits to be gained by both you
and your organization over this two-day event, where you
will be part of a forum that will be responsible for shaping
the DNA of future organizations.
This is also an occasion for MCE to celebrate 55 years’of
expertise in leadership and management development in
the EMEA region. Part of the AMA Global Network, with a
successful track record of more than half a century working
in the EMEA, MCE is proud to celebrate its anniversary in
Brussels with this very special event.
• Meet and discuss topical issues with some of the most
prominent experts in the business world.
• Engage and network with multicultural business
leaders coming from a diverse variety of different
industry sectors.
• Understand the challenges faced by the world of
business, develop new leadership styles and ensure
your organization has the versatility and agility to
address change.
• Optimize organizational reach and differentiate your
company with the latest and most innovative and
inspirational ideas from the world of business.
• Be aware of changing business world dynamics and
understand how they impact your business sector.
• Develop your vision and leadership skills.
• Experience innovative and engaging“ideas worth
spreading”and share your thoughts and concerns during
meaningful conversations.
• Come with challenges - leave with solutions developed
in association with your peers.
Join us to experience all of this and much more:
“People who tend not to report illness are people who
are highly competitive and do not want to admit
they are not coping”
Prof. Cary Cooper

“Help individuals, organizations
and countries to unlock their
human potential”
Jan Mühlfeit
Confirmed Speakers
Jan Mühlfeit
Global Strategist, Coach and Mentor
Leen Zevenbergen
CEO, Solarus Sunpower Holding BV and Chairman of
B Lab Europe
Oonagh Harpur
Senior Advisor to Boards on Corporate Strategy,
Reputation and Governance
Scilla Elworthy
Peace Builder and Founder of the Oxford
Research Group
Dr. Jens Maier
Lecturer at Universität St Gallen and Founder of CE
Convergence Engineers
Gabor Cseffalvay
OD and Change Management Consultant
Prof. Cary Cooper
Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at
Manchester Business School
Ulf Brandes
Human Systems and Collaborative Development
Consultant
Patrick Dixon
Author of ‘The Future of Almost Everything’
Niti Bhan
Founder and Owner, Emerging Futures Lab
Rob Pye
Founder and CEO Ethos VO Ltd
Hazel Henderson
President and Founder, Ethical Markets Media
Dr. Patricia Seemann
Surgeon, CEO and Founder of The 3am Group
David McRaney
Best-selling Author, Journalist and Lecturer
Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Finance,
Trinity College Dublin
Maeira Imtiaz
Assistant Electrical Engineer, MOL Pakistan
Fauzia Ahmad
Head of HR, MOL Pakistan
Ahmad Nawaz
Chief Operating Officer, MOL Pakistan
Gary Sagar
HR Director, Global Talent Management

Programme Outline
19 April 2016 20 April 2016
Introduction
Chairman: Jan Mühlfeit
Opening Keynote
The Future of Almost Everything: Patrick Dixon
Recap of Day 1
Jan Mühlfeit
Session 1
The Purpose Driven Organization and New Organizational Models
Presentations from Emerging Futures Lab, Ethos
1. Reinventing Organizations – Alternative Structures
(Rob Pye, Ethos)
2. Our World View of Developing Economies is Obsolete
(Niti Bhan, Emerging Futures Lab)
3. The Purposeful Organization (Gary Sagar, Amgen Europe)
Session 3
Connectivity and Meaning
1. The Journey to Building a Diverse Workforce at MOL Group
(Fauzia Ahmad, Ahmad Nawaz, Maeira Imtiaz)
2. Enhancing Mental Capital and Wellbeing at Work (Cary Cooper)
3. Cultivating Passionate Stewardship: How Purposeful
Organizations Win Talent and Customers through Agile
Participation. (Ulf Brandes)
Session 2
Disruptive Technologies and New Business Models
1. Technology Cycles and Human Capital: Escaping the Secular
Stagnation Hypothesis (Constantin Gurdgiev, Trinity
College Dublin)
2. Transforming Finance: Downsizing the Global Casino and
Retaining Financiers (Hazel Henderson, Ethical Markets Media)
3. ‘Wiked’Problems Require‘Wicked’Solutions
(Patricia Seemann, the 3am Group)
4. Organizational Innovation: Cognitive Bias, Decision - Making,
Prediction and Hindsight - You are not so Smart (David McRaney,
Best-selling Author, Journalist and Lecturer)
Session 4
Authentic / Inspirational Leadership
1. Organizations that will Survive the Future (Leen Zevenbergen)
2. It’s Not Just the Profit You Make but How You Make It: Building
Trust and Integrity in the Boardroom and Beyond - Across the
Company (Oonagh Harpur)
3. Leadership in an Age of Convergence (Jens Maier)
4. The Global Leadership Challenge is Now (Gabor Cseffalvay)
Evening Keynote
Score and Core: Presentation from Marc van Roon and his musicians
Followed by Networking Cocktail and MCE55 Celebration Dinner
Closing Keynote
Pioneering the Possible: Awakening Leadership for a World that
Works (Scilla Elworthy)
Each speaker will give a 15 minute presentation on their approach and at the end of the session,
you will be invited to join one of the speakers in a 90 minute hosted conversation.

Day One - 19 April 2016
Welcome and Introduction by the Chairman
Jan Mühlfeit
Jan is a seasoned executive with global experience.
He worked for almost 22 years in Microsoft and in his last
role, he was the Chairman of Mircrosoft Corporation in
Europe. Jan will give an overview of what has changed in
learning and development in the past 55 years during which
MCE has been operating in a global marketplace.
“Leaving the 20th
century behind, I think we are ready and hungry
to feel aliveness and connectedness - at work and at home.”
Ulf Brandes
Opening Keynote: The Future of
Almost Everything
Patrick Dixon
Patrick will discuss his book‘The Future of
Almost Everything’, in which he details the
radical and disruptive changes currently
happening in the business world and how
agile leadership can influence and impact
organizations everywhere.
Session 1
The Purpose Driven Organization and New Organizational Models (15 minutes each)
Our World View of Developing Economies is
Obsolete: How Human Inspired Innovation
is Leading to new Product Design, Market
Opportunities and Social Innovation
Niti Bhan, Founder and Owner of Emerging
Futures Lab.
The Purposeful Organization
Gary Sagar, HR Director, Global Talent, Amgen Europe
Reinventing Organizations -
Alternative Structures
Rob Pye, CEO, Ethos VO.
Followed by 90 minute Hosted Conversations
After these 15 minute talks, you have the choice to select a 90 minute hosted conversation, where you will have the
opportunity to meet in small groups with the speaker of your choice in order to dive deeper into the topic, share experiences
and see how you can apply the approach in your own context. Each hosted conversation will be facilitated by a host who has
specific expertise in the topic discussed.

Session 2
Disruptive Technologies and New Business Models (15 minutes each)
Technology Cycles and Human Capital:
Escaping the Secular Stagnation Hypothesis
Constantin Gurdgiev, Adjunct Assistant Professor
of Finance, Trinity College Dublin.
Since the early 2000s, the onset of the secular
slowdown in global growth has been driven
by the twin long run shocks, i.e. ageing
demographics and the flattening of the returns
on investment in technological capital. Over
the next 20 years, addressing these challenges
will require dramatic re-shaping of private and
public systems of the supply of goods and services,
investment, enterprise formation, ownership and
management.
Transforming Finance: Downsizing the
Global Casino and Retraining Financiers
Hazel Henderson, President and Founder,
Ethical Markets Media.
‘Wicked’Problems Require‘Wicked’Solutions
Patricia Seemann, CEO and Founder of The
3am Group.
Patricia Seemann explains how‘wicked’problems
are generated by organizational, political,
emotional and cognitive overload at the heart of
the company and how‘wicked’solutions are the
radical, unexpected ways in which to treat these
challenging problems.
Organizational Innovation: Cognitive Bias,
Decision - Making, Prediction and Hindsight -
You are not so Smart
David McRaney, Best-selling Author, Journalist
and Lecturer.
Evening Keynote
Score and Core: Presentation from
Marc van Roon and his musicians. Followed by
Networking Cocktail and MCE55 Celebration
Dinner
We live in jazzy times. Professional musician Marc
van Roon and his NAIP team will share a vision, a
creative experience and an aesthetic perspective
on how we can utilise the art of music and
improvisation to co-create new, effective and
sustainable narratives and paradigms for an
inspiring leadership and working life.
Day One - 19 April 2016

Day Two - 20 April 2016
Session 3
Connectivity and Meaning (15 minutes each)
The Journey to Building a Diverse Workforce at
MOL Group
Speakers from MOL Pakistan and Hungary will be
Fauzia Ahmad, Head Human Resources,
Ahmad Nawaz, Chief Operating Officer and Maeira
Imtiaz, Assistant Electrical Engineer.
To excel in today’s global economy, organizations
must attract and retain a diverse and inclusive
workforce; one that sparks new questions,
challenges old practices and offers innovative
ways of collaborating that fuel outperformance.
MOL Group promotes a diverse and inclusive
culture where people feel involved, respected
and connected. Through global talent acquisition
programs like GROWW*, MOL achieved a historic
landmark in the history of Pakistan’s Oil and Gas
industry when the organization hired a group of
seven female engineers. Based at the field site of
a central processing facility, this was a first. With
such placements, MOL Pakistan will surely continue
to bring diversity to the work force and open new
horizons for the country’s qualified and highly
talented females.
(*)GROWW program is MOL Group’s widely
recognized recruitment programme that has hired
1,570 young talents since 2007, with a retention
ratio of 83%.
Enhancing Mental Capital and Wellbeing at Work
Professor Cary Cooper, Manchester Business
School.
This presentation will cover the following:
• The Costs of Lack of Mental Wellbeing at Work
• The Sources of Workplace Stress
• The Policies and Intervention Strategies to
Enhance Wellbeing at Work
• The Productivity and Health Benefits for
Business of Enhancing Wellbeing at Work
Cultivating Passionate Stewardship: How
Purposeful Organizations Win Talent and
Customers through Agile Participation.
Ulf Brandes Human Systems and Collaborative
Development Consultant.
How do progressive companies cultivate both
purpose and profits? How do they attend and
respond to peoples’needs? How does this drive
innovation, agility, and loyalty? Ulf Brandes reflects
on practical examples from his own experience
and research.

Session 4
Authentic / Inspirational Leadership (15 minutes each)
Organizations that will Survive the Future
Leen Zevenbergen, CEO of Solarus Sunpower Holding
BV and Chairman of B Lab Europe.
It’s Not Just the Profit You Make but How You
Make It: Building Trust and Integrity in the
Boardroom and Beyond - Across the Company
Oonagh Harpur , Senior Advisor to Boards on
Corporate Strategy, Reputation and Governance.
Boards lead business but many are seen just as
‘governance’.
Oonagh will outline how the best boards are
developing their leadership potentail in today’s
VUCA world. She will be drawing on research for
the Lord Mayor of London’s initiative to restore trust
and integrity in financial services. Along the way,
she shares learnings from conversations with over
60 corporate directors across Europe, including 25
chairmen.
Oonagh will then lead a discussion exploring the
challenges and opportunities for purpose-driven
businesses. She is currently facilitating two parallel
shared learning groups for Blueprint for Better
Business putting purpose into business and will
share on an anonymous basis what the groups
have learned.
Leadership in an Age of Convergence
Dr. Jens Maier, Lecturer at Universität St Gallen and
Founder of CE Convergence Engineers.
Convergence between markets and technologies
is happening around us. The perfect storm of
ubiquitous technologies, such as smartphones,
cloud computing, big data, social media and the
Internet of Everything, often characterized as
‘digitization’is, by itself, challenging enough. But,
when coupled with a mega-trend such as aging
populations, the implications are felt across most
industries.
Leaders have to steer their organizations through
this unchartered territory; defensively, protecting
the business against new intruders and proactively
exploring new opportunities provided through
converging technologies and markets.
This presentation will address the challenges on how
leaders can balance the different demands of both
defensively protecting the existing business while
pro-actively shaping the opportunities presented
through convergence.

Session 4 (continued)
Closing Keynote
Pioneering the Possible: Awakening Leadership
for a World that Works
Scilla Elworthy, Peace Builder and Founder of the
Oxford Research Group.
A revolution in leadership is essential to confront
the great challenges and complexities of our
world. The way forward requires a radical shift in
consciousness, in how we value ourselves and
others, what we prioritise and how we transform
outmoded behaviours and decision making
processes.
The Global Leadership Challenge is Now
Gabor Cseffalvay, OD and Change Management
Consultant.
• Authentic, meaningful leadership and life - that
is what we are ALL looking for…
• To deeply connect with ourselves, others and
the wider community – consciousness on a
new scale!
• Paradigm shift or breakthrough – for whom,
when and why…?!
• …love is all we need… let’s translate this
HERE & NOW!
“The critical factors for creating value are the intangibles of the
organization, such as the people, the culture, the ability to learn,
the agility of the firm, and the way the executive leverages them
to deliver on customer and investor promises.”
Patricia Seemann

Hosted Conversations
Hosted Conversations
Chalks Richard Corriette
Chalks is President of People to People International
Belgium, European chair and a member of the
Global Board of Directors
His business (EMIT sprl – Extraordinary Moments In
Time) covers fields such as relocation, technology,
project management, sport, functional teams,
accommodation, media and events.
UlfBrandes
Human Systems and Collaborative Development
Consultant
Ulf Brandes facilitates and leads modern programs
for human centric innovation and leadership. With
10 years management experience at industry leaders
Procter & Gamble, eBay, and Google, and another
10 years at digital start- up and consulting firms, Ulf
today supports progressive organizations in their
cultural transformation, together with his colleagues
at Brandes & Partners.
Fiona Hayes
Fiona Hayes runs Orion Initiatives Ltd
and BestCompanyCultureClub. She works with
organisations and individuals to find their unique
value in the world and to build that in a truly
sustainable and extraordinary way.
Fiona has spent her whole career developing people
and leading and implementing change, earning her
several awards from her origins in the fitness industry
to work within both large corporate and small SME
businesses, nationally and internationally.
FrancescaGiuliaMereu
Coach in Personal Energy Management
As an executive coach for almost two decades,
Francesca Giulia works with senior leaders and
managers in global organizations worldwide.
Her field of expertise is personal energy management:
how to sustain both performance and quality of life
She graduated in Anthropology at the University of
Lausanne (CH), is an experiential learning trainer, a
NLP Master Practitioner and a yoga teacher.
Following each block of keynote presentations, participants will be invited to choose one of the sessions which is of particular interest to
them and join the speaker and a conversation host in a smaller group for 1.5 hours, where they will have the opportunity to dive deeper
into the views presented and exchange experiences with peers.

Score & Core
Marc van Roon & the NAIP team will offer you a unique
platform where you will all be invited to participate in the
co-construction of an experiential learning environment.
You will all perform prewritten scores and orchestrations and
improvise from a deep connection with each other and the
emergent music without a score.
Marc and the NAIP musicians will furthermore offer various music experiences during unexpected moments as an ongoing artistic
creative theme during the conference. There will be plenty of room for the participants to join and sit in to jam with the musicians.
Score & Core is an invitation for a creative connecting
conversation - an active jam session - that explores the
meaningful intangible values of music as a metaphor and
a transformative learning experience that can facilitate
the shared construction of new narratives about our living
experience, our creations and our organizations.
In the Score & Core session a shared value-space emerges in
which participants get the opportunity to practice relevant
skills and talents in an interactive and engaging setting.
In the Score & Core presentation music serves as an
experiential metaphor on various levels. It facilitates
the development of skills - and awareness - in how to
connect the art of orchestration with the core of jazzy
group improvisation. It connects the pre-composed with
the emergent. It connects the head with the heart - the
conceptual with the physical. It balances organizational with
creative processes.

Practice Sessions
In addition to the hosted conversations, you will have the opportunity to attend Practice Sessions to experience some practical
introduction to MCE best practice in Leading Self, Leading Others, Project Management and How to Build Strategic Opportunities
in a Disruptive World.
Leading Self
LeadingOthers
LeadingBusiness
The MCE Holistic Approach
Today, being a leader is very much a balancing act, as there are many factors to take into
account. There are economic, business, organizational, technological aspects, as well as the
never-ending pressure to outperform in every area of your role.
Learning to balance all of these aspects with your personal life and staying true to your
ideologies is a job in itself. At MCE, this holistic approach to leadership represents the 3
vital factors involved with being a great business leader: Leading Self, Leading Others and
Leading Business.
Leading Self
Self awareness, knowledge, expertise,
personal strengths and skills – each of which
helps an individual to perform within the
business context they work in.
Leading Others
Knowledge, skills, competence and
understanding of how to formulate a vision,
set a strategy and engage people towards
common business and organizational goals.
Leading Business
The business, financial, commercial and
organizational know how to perform at
one’s best and drive successful business
performance.
Creating your engagement map to connect
more effectively
Nigel Murphy, Director of Learning Experience, MCE
Disrupting disruption through
balanced leadership
Didier Leroy, Director of Learning Experience, MCE
Executing your strategy through a portfolio of
projects and programmes
George Merguerian, Senior Partner at GBMC
How to Build Strategic Opportunities in a
Disruptive World.
Ramesh Fatania, Faculty, MCE

ZICHT
Harry van der Velde, founder of Zicht, will also join us. Harry
works as a visual, multi-dimensional thinker. His ZICHT
visualising method is simple yet extremely powerful! Harry
will create images that reflect ideas presented, emerging
perspectives and capture shared experiences throughout our
2 day event. He combines his analytical and graphic skills to
bring visual clarity through his sketching to what are often
complex ideas and situations and will link emerging patterns
to different organisational contexts.
BEDDERx
To optimise networking and connectivity
for all participants, you will also have the
opportunity to experience a leading edge
app that focuses on a leaders personal
well-being as a corner stone to his or her
leadership presence and self awareness.
BEDDERx in partnership with Francesca
Giulia Mereu (author of‘Je recharge mes
batteries’- soon to be published in English)
will offer their latest app from their library,
to support leaders in their desire to effect
personal change. The app is designed
using insights from leadership and neuroscience to trigger
and to nudge, in a personalised way, support for the creation
of new habits and thinking patterns.
What makes you and your people
get out of bed in the morning?
In short for many it’s a sense of
wanting to belong and achieve.
A good leader knows how to stimulate these drivers.
Bedderx’s mission is to enable leaders to impact their
organisations by delivering true value and to contribute to
making the world a better place. Bedderx keeps a leaders
inspiration and good intentions going, transforming them
into an ongoing journey.
KrowdThink
Connectivity starts well before the event. We will be using KrowdThink mobile technology
so participants can connect prior to the event around topics of common interest and get to
know each other.
Connectivity

MCE55 Exhibition
MCE55 Cocktails
and Dinner
As part of the #MCE55 event, we are also hosting an
exhibition focusing on new technologies that can support
you with disruption, connectivity and speed. There are a
lot of technologies available but which ones are the most
relevant for you?
The list of current confirmed exhibitors includes Totem
Learning, GBMC and Ethos. Further updates on exhibitors
will be included in our frequent updates.
MCE Leadership Game
What is serious gaming? To find out, come to the exhibition
during the event. We will be presenting the MCE Leadership
Game in collaboration with our partner Totem Learning.
You will be able to play and learn all about this game and
serious learning at the exhibition.
http://www.mce-ama.com/Leadershipgame/
Teaser on https://youtu.be/TJTn804C50s
MCE is celebrating 55 years in the EMEA market.
So join us for cocktails and a celebration dinner at the end of
Day 1 (April 19). 55 years old… it is time to have a party!

Programme at a Glance
Booking details and location
The price of this two-day package is just €950. However,
we recommend that you join with your management team
and colleagues to benefit from a special package price of
three seats for two.
Contact MCE to find out more.
Early Bird seats are limited, register now...
The conference starts at 8.30am and finishes at 6pm on the
first day, followed by celebration cocktails and dinner.
On the last day, the conference will close at 5.30pm.
#MCE55 Event 19 - 20 April 2016
Location Brussels
Duration 2 Days
Price €950*€
Register at
www.mce-ama.com/MCE55
(*) Early Bird (by 12th
January 2016): €750
For participants under 25 years at time of booking: €250
Day 1 Day 2
Introduction - Chairman: Jan Mühlfeit Recap of Day 1: Jan Mühlfeit
Opening Keynote - The Future of Almost Everything
Patrick Dixon
Session 3 - Connectivity and Meaning: presentations from
Fauzia Ahmad, Ahmad Nawaz, Maeira Imtiaz, Cary Cooper,
Ulf Brandes
Session 1 - The Purpose Driven Organization and New
Organizational Models: presentations from Rob Pye, Niti Bhan,
Gary Sagar
Session 4 - Authentic / Inspirational Leadership:
presentations from Leen Zevenbergen, Oonagh Harpur,
Gabor Cseffalvay, Jens Maier
Session 2 - Disruptive Technologies and New Business
Models: presentations from Constantin Gurdgiev,
Hazel Henderson, Patricia Seemann, David McRaney
Closing Keynote - Pioneering the Possible: Awakening
Leadership for a World that Works: Scilla Elworthy
Evening Keynote - Score and Core
presentation from Marc van Roon and his musicians
Followed by Networking Cocktail and MCE55 Celebration Dinner

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