Autumn in Oxford! September 22 - 24, 2023. Our theme is "Simplicity - the Ultimate Sophistication"

How to Register

Early-bird special for registered tCL members: 300 GBP on or before August 21, 2023. Afterwards, the price goes up to 365 GBP, so get in early! And guests are welcome, too. The price non-CCC alumni is 400 GBP.

If you are a CCC alumnus, you can now activate your tCL membership for 2023 and register for this conference at the same time.

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Simplicity

In today’s world, simplicity is often seen as a desirable outcome in various areas of life, including design, technology, and communication. As such, the concept of simplicity can be a catalyst for transformation. By prioritising simplicity, businesses and individuals can streamline processes, reduce clutter, and improve efficiency. Simple solutions can also be more accessible and user-friendly, which can, in turn, promote wider adoption and better outcomes. Ultimately, embracing simplicity as a core value can lead to transformative changes in both personal and professional contexts. Simplicity is becoming increasingly important in the face of VUCA environments, particularly in organisational transformation and the future of work. In VUCA environments, organisations must be agile and adaptable to change, which can be difficult when complex processes and systems are convoluted. Simplifying processes, systems, and communication can help organisations more efficiently and effectively navigate VUCA environments.

Come with us as we explore the essential features that give rise to all the elegance and beauty (and complexity!) we see in the world.

2023 Schedule of Events

 

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Spring in Paris! April 14-16, 2023. Our theme is "Inclusion - Expanding the spectrum to create wins for everyone"

Join us in Paris!

Last September at Oxford we focused on the environment and climate action. For our April conference in Paris we turn to organizational climate and “inclusion.” To paraphrase Verna Meyers, if diversity is being invited to the party, then inclusion is being asked to dance. So, for diversity to flourish, it needs a little push–a little umph. That “umph” or spark is inclusion. Join us as we explore new ways to elevate performance, drive engagement, and solve complex social problems more creatively and more inclusively.

And as always, the conference is also a time to reconnect with old friends, make new ones, and join in as we explore topics that matter. Come explore with us. We are inviting you to dance.

Registrations are now open. Scroll down for more details and sign up to save your seat!

Have questions? Email us at: [email protected]

How to Register

Early-bird special for registered tCL members: 295 GBP on or before March 1st, 2023. Afterward, the price ascends like rising temperatures to 330 GBP, so get in early!

We do apologize for the rising prices this year. As always, we charge only enough to cover expenses, which are on the up and up across the globe, unfortunately.

If you are a CCC alumnus, you can now activate your tCL membership for 2023 and register for this conference at the same time.

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Inclusion

This year’s theme is inclusion–what it means, how to instill it, and why it’s beneficial to our teams, our companies, our communities, and even our planet. There’s a lot to explore. Come join us!

The latest schedule of events is under the next tab: Programme Book

Come ready to connect, challenge and co-create together.

2023 Schedule of Events

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2022 Fall in Oxford: Enough!

Join us next month in Oxford! The earth is heating up, and we’ve had enough! Let’s discuss ways that we can arrest the trajectory of climate change. And then let’s take those methods home and create positive change right in our own neighborhoods and communities. 

As always, this is also a time to reconnect with old friends, make new ones, and join in as we explore “climate practice”–changing the climate for the better. Encouraging others to embrace climate change is only half the battle; it’s time to start acting. Hence, the theme of this fall’s conference: Enough! The climate is changing; we have to as well. And as with any complex system, small changes (in our own lives) can have an outsized impact. Come explore them with us!

Registrations are now open. Scroll down for more details and sign up to save your seat!

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How to Register

Early-bird special for registered tCL members: 225 GBP on or before August 31st. Afterward, the price ascends like rising temperatures to 300 GBP, so get in early!

If you are a CCC alumnus, you can now activate your tCL membership for 2022 and register for this conference at the same time.

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Enough!

This year’s theme is climate change–not what it is or why it’s happening, but what each and every one of us can do about it. We know this: all change is local, and small changes can have significant impacts. Let’s put those truisms of “change” to the test. What small acts can we initiate in our own communities that might spark a local movement in the right direction? There’s a lot to explore. Come join us!

Speakers & Facilitators

Our tCL members never fail to step up, whether presenting their own work, or connecting the community to practitioners around the world. Joining us for fall 2022 will be Anne-Fleur Goll from Deloitte, as well as our very own Jacob Mayne and Emmanuelle Berenge.

The latest schedule of events is under the next tab: Programme Book

Come ready to connect, challenge and co-create together.


2022 Spring in Paris: Regenerate

Join us next month in Paris! We know this is short notice, but if you can make it, we will pull out all the stops and make this spring a regenerative experience. 

Reconnect with old friends, make new ones, and join in as we explore regenerative practices. So much of organisational life is about extracting and exploiting  “what works” that we often forget or overlook the need to explore ways to regenerate personal resources like energy, intuition, and wisdom. This collective blind spot can and does have serious implications for a sustainable future.

Registrations are now open. Scroll down for more details and sign up to save your seat!

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How to Register

We have slashed prices for Spring 2022. tCL registered members will pay only 160 GBP.

If you are a CCC alumnus you can now activate your tCL membership for 2022 and register for this conference at the same time.

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Regenerate

It’s been said that we humans lack a nuanced understanding of the relationships between ourselves and the wider world. For example, take the relationship between global warming, zoonotic disease transmission, and deforestation. As the earth heats up, the population of mid-size mammals is decreasing while the population of smaller mammals–often the food source of the midsize mammals–is burgeoning. And it is those smaller mammals that tend to carry more diseases. As we humans encroach on nature, then, looking for ever more space and natural resources, we are increasingly coming into contact with these disease-causing mammals, like bats, thus increasing the chances of zoonotic disease transmission and yet another pandemic. In the last 2 decades we’ve not only experienced the hottest temperatures in recorded history and some of the most powerful storms and forest fires, but we have experienced near-pandemics with SARS, MERS, H1N1, and now a full-blown pandemic with COVID-19. What was formerly a once-in-a-century event is now commonplace. Indeed, some scientists predict that we have a 47-57% chance of experiencing another COVID-like pandemic in the next 25 years.

The path we are on is not sustainable. Moreover, as complex systems go, this pattern is playing out at the organisational and personal levels as well. What’s to be done about it? That is what we hope to tackle in this spring’s conference: simple regenerative practices that we can then tie to our communities and organisations. Join us!

Speakers & Facilitators

Our tCL members never fail to step up, whether presenting their own work or connecting the community to practitioners around the world!

For Spring 2022, joining us will be Leen Gorissen and Sara Biglieri.

Stay tuned!

Come ready to connect, challenge and co-create together.


2021 e-Xperience: Braving Crises

April 12-17, 2021 — tCL’s eXperience is back with our Spring edition on “BRAVING CRISIS”.  Check out the full program and schedule with speakers below. Sign up now to join us!

Have questions? Email us at: [email protected]

How to Register

This e-Xperience is free of charge for 2021 tCL registered members. Limited places, at a fee, are available for members of HEC Alumni and SBS Alumni communities.

If you are a CCC alumnus you can now activate your tCL membership for 2021 and register for this e-Xperience at the same time.

Once you have successfully completed your registration, we will send you all the necessary log-in details.

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Braving Crises

The word “crisis” came from the Greek verb “krinein”, meaning to separate, distinguish and judge in order to decide a course of action in a difficult context. Hippocratus was said to have used it during the turning point of a disease when a decision had to be taken, resulting in a change for the better (recovery) or for the worse (death).

Therein lies the dilemma and complexity of a crisis for we know there’s a lot more hidden behind that one decision. There’s no playbook to be had and no best practice to follow because by it’s very nature, a crisis is unexpected, mired in uncertainty and disruptive as well as destabilizing. The thought of undoing a condition or situation forever is enough to overwhelm and paralyze.

What happens when a multitude of decisions are needed, all at once, and their chain reaction has the propensity to create wicked problems of their own — ones that will change the question of life and death on more than one dimension?

The COVID-19 pandemic started out as a health crisis, but very quickly, it escalated into multi-faceted socio-economic crises of a monumental scale. How do we brave these times to thrive and not just survive? The future looks decidedly choppy, yet offer hope when we look hard enough for new possibilities.

Our spring e-Xperience opens up space for us to tackle this and dwell on the courageous lessons from the field and research, covering: 

  • Resilience and Leadership: how is this transposed from self to a systemic change-making scale? What does leadership in crisis look like?
  • Decision-making: how do we deal with conflicting agendas and paradoxes amidst moving targets and unknowns? Where does ‘Ethics’ fit?
  • Bouncing forth vs back: what do we need to pivot in ambiguity towards opportunity in a scenario of shifting futures and long-drawn crises ramifications? How will these define needed and transposable skills?
  • The World Beyond Crises: Is there such a thing? What are we learning? What will work, education, institutions and society look like if we re-frame crises as windows of opportunity?
  • Change agency: how do we help our stakeholders and clients re-invent themselves and others for a tomorrow that’s constantly shifting?

The scale and complexity of our times calls for retrospective foresight on a communal and societal level. It is a call for us to brave the crises collectively so self-organizing systemic change for good might get a chance for success.

Speakers, Facilitators & Moderators

The wealth of our community and network never fails to enrich our e-Xperience. We are fortunate to have academicians, practitioners, researchers and leaders from all walks of life who care about sharing and inter-connecting, fuelling further learning and progress about systemic and self-organizing change.

For our Spring e-Xperience, we are welcoming:

Week-Long Program

The Spring e-Xperience will be delivered 100% remotely. All sessions will be moderated conversations and interactive micro workshops. In view of our global community the e-Xperience will accommodate as many time zones as possible.

Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be recorded and made available for registered tCL 2021 members.
Come ready to participate, challenge, co-create, learn and network for collective change.

DateTime (CET) / duration'Session ThemeSpeaker(s)Moderator / Host
12 April5:00 - 6:15pm / 75'e-Xperience Kick-Off & Opening Panel: Braving a Permanent CrisisHugo Marynissen
Rufaro Maunze
Mike Staresinic
Mariann Gyorke
13 April8:00 - 9:00am / 60'Ethical Decision-Making in CrisisPeter CollinsAlessandra Wulf
13 April5:00 - 6:30pm / 90'From Safety Science to Braving CrisisAlexis KummetatMariann Gyorke
14 April1:30 - 2:45pm / 60'Leadership Dilemmas in Turbulent Times
(this session will not be recorded)
Tawfik JelassiEileen Lee Lavergne
14 April2:45 - 3:15pm / 30'Counter-SpaceNARobert Poynton
15 April12:30 - 1:30pm / 60'Tackling Crisis of the Labor Market, Today and TomorrowSoon Joo Gog
Mona Mourshed
Jan Berlage
16 April1:00 - 2:00pm / 60'Dancing with CrisesChristine CayolEileen Lee Lavergne
16 April6:30 - 7:30pm / 60'Counter-Space: Grounding and PrimingNARobert Poynton
17 April5:00 - 6:30pm / 90'e-Xperience Culmination: Braving Crises - What Now?All + communityRoberto Saco

Please check the programme book with information on speaker biographies, session synopses, and suggested readings.


2020 e-Xperience: Nurturing the Art of Change

Following the unfortunate cancellation of the Paris 2020 Conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are happy to announce that we have moved our annual rendez-vous online with an e-Xperience starting on Sep 14 and concluding on Sep 28. All details below, Register Now!

For any enquiry, please do not hesitate to contact: [email protected]

How to Register

This e-Xperience is open to 2020 tCL registered members only. It is our pleasure to offer it as a gift waving all related fees.

If you are a CCC alumnus you can now activate your tCL membership for 2020 and register for this e-Xperience at the same time.

Once you have successfully completed your registration, we will send you all the necessary log-in details.

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Nurturing the Art of Change

Art and power have always been begrudging bedfellows and yet the power of art – that sight, sound, smell, taste, rhythm or feeling – engages emotion in such a way as to provide communication, understanding and participation at loftier levels than analytical visions and approaches. These feelings may in turn spur thinking, engagement and even action.

Art traverses language, culture, borders and even centuries. The invitation to enter the artist’s mind and uncover the intimate process of artistic creativity is more appealing today than it has ever been. Once here, how can we equip ourselves to address our vast social, environmental and economic crises and injustices? Our e-Xperience will be a space to engage with academics, practitioners, artists and each other to cultivate the answers:

  • How is art impacting the practices of leadership and change agency?
  • Where is it being used for organisational, social or territorial change?
  • How can I respond to complex change through art?
  • How can I bring art into my daily practice?
  • What are the necessary conditions for the artistic process to take place?
  • How can I trigger the creative process to think differently?

The high-pitched calls to action that now beckon require us to kickstart our collective imaginations and creativity – building a capacity to conceive of what might be in ourselves, our teams, organisations, communities and in society at large. In the face of the chaos that looms – having tried and tested the linear and the rational – let us now come together to nurture the art of change, and see what from it grows.

We are very fortunate to have academics, practitioners and artists, all passionate about the interconnectedness between art, management and change, joining us to facilitate diverse and interactive online sessions.

This integrated e-Xperience will be delivered over 9 consecutive interactive sessions starting on Monday the 14th September and concluding on Monday the 28th September 2020. Sessions will run on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for 60 or 90 minutes. Please check the full details below.

Here you will find the full programme book including the speakers biographies, the sessions synopses, and the suggested readings.


2019 Paris Conference: Exploring Innovation Spaces

Welcome to Exploring Innovation Spaces: the tCL Spring 2019 conference from 29-31 March 2019 at HEC Alumni Premises in Paris. Scroll down for all the information you need.

Please note that the presentations are now available here under the Members Dashboard, please make sure you are logged in for access.

For any enquiry about this conference, please do not hesitate to contact: [email protected]

Thank you for your engagement, this conference is now SOLD OUT.

Should you wish to join the waiting list or have any other questions please contact: [email protected]

How to Register

This conference is open to 2019 tCL registered members. If you are a CCC alumnus you can now activate your tCL membership for 2019 and register for the conference at the same time.

Once you have successfully completed payment, we will send you further details to complete your conference registration and invite a guest.

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Exploring Innovation Spaces

Labs, Incubators, Accelerators, Camps, Hubs, Studios, Hackathons, Garages—these are only a few of the many shapes and forms of the new spaces that have sprung up in recent years to drive change and innovation. Some spaces foster entrepreneurship and the exploration of new business opportunities, while others wrestle with complex social challenges. All of these spaces drive impact and change.

Regardless of their form, these spaces are growing, attracting attention worldwide, and setting a new “must have” in today’s fast-paced, hyperconnected, and complex environment.

In this world of pivots, iterations, and sprints, where everyone seeks their inner Silicon Valley, this conference will offer the opportunity to stop for a moment, reflect and explore the hype.

We are very fortunate to have academics, researchers and practitioners passionate about innovation and innovation spaces joining us as speakers. They will facilitate diverse interactive sessions and share their know-how, giving us a taste of their experiences, and engaging us in a reflective, and dare we say ‘innovative’ space.

So, whether you are part of or are going to be a part of such spaces, or whether you are a practitioner looking for ways to innovate, this conference is for you.

We will draw on the latest research on innovation spaces and benefit from the broad experience in the room to answer questions around:

  • How did this phenomenon come to be and what can we learn from its history?
  • Why do these spaces continue to be the celebrated exceptions in our organizations, and not simply “the way” that work gets done?
  • What are their different types and what are the frameworks, techniques, tools that animate them?
  • What is the impact of ‘innovation spaces’ on the system?
  • What role for the ‘space curator’ or change agent?
  • What is the impact on leadership and what is the role of the ‘leader’?
  • How can I grow the ‘innovation space’ in my practice?
  • Can tCL be an ‘innovation space’? How?

SpeakerKary BheemaiahZaid HassanSihem Jouini
TitleSenior Engagement Manager, Fahrenheit 212
CEO & Co-Founder Roller StrategiesAssociate Professor HEC
BiographyKary BheemaiahZaid HassanSihem Jouini


SpeakerAndreas LambropoulosNadim MattaJason McDonald
TitleHead of IFS Strategic Initiatives, BNP ParibasPresident Rapid Results InstituteSenior Engagement Manager, Fahrenheit 212
BiographyAndreas LambropoulosNadim MattaJason McDonald
SpeakerMathis SchulteMarc ThompsonLars Thuesen
TitleAssociate Professor HECSenior Fellow Said Business SchoolFounder of WIN
BiographyMathis SchulteMarc ThompsonLars Thuesen
SpeakerHadeel ABDOMaha ABOU SAMRA
Hadeel Abdo
TitleProject Coordinator, UN WomenProgramme Manager, UNDP
BiographyHadeel AbdoMaha Abou Samra

How to Get There

The conference will be held at the HEC Alumni premises in the beautiful Hotel Le Marois, Paris VIII:

HEC Alumni, 9 avenue Franklin D Roosevelt, 75008 Paris

Once at this address, a pathway will lead to the Hotel Particulier, where you can take the lift to the 4th floor. Please ring the doorbell to open the door.

Accessibility: please contact us to check wheelchair accessibility.

Metro:

  • Franklin D Roosevelt (lines 1 and 9) or
  • Champs-Elysées Clémenceau (lines 1 and 13) or
  • Invalides (lines 8, 13 and RER C)

Where to Stay

To enjoy the city, we recommend you stay at a walking distance on the right bank in the 8th or 1st arrondissement, or across the river on the left bank in the 7th arrondissement.

Weather in Paris

Spring temperatures in Paris are variable and we can expect anything from 5°C to 12°C. We’ll keep our fingers crossed for a warmer welcome!

You will find the detailed conference programme here: tCL Paris 2019 Conference Book.

                

                                                               

Our Exploration of Innovation Spaces will stretch beyond the core program as we have the rare opportunity to discover together, as part of our conference, the most elaborate innovation space in Paris, and the world’s biggest startup facility, STATION F.

At the end of Day 1, we will leave the HEC Alumni venue at 17:30 to cross town to STATION F. There, we will be invited to discover the innovation space and ecosystem, meet the people behind the HEC Incubator, and engage around the unique stories of startups.

Following our visit, we will enter the latest concept of the Big Mamma restaurants group, a unique food market: La Felicità, the product of another HEC startup where we will meet 5 entrepreneurs developing their startups within STATION F. We will also join our growing community of CCC, tCL and HEC friends in a fun, engaging and mouth-watering dining experience.

One-way transportation from HEC Alumni, the visit to STATION F as well as the Networking Dinner are all included in the conference fee for registered participants.
Guests of registered participants are welcome to join the networking dinner at La Felicita starting 19:00. There are no formalities involved in their participation; they will be able to manage their own food and drinks directly with the restaurant.

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Paris 2019 conference presentations 

Speaker(s)SessionSuggested Reading 1Suggested Reading 2Suggested Reading 3
Zaid HassanHow To Make Sure Your Innovation Strategy Doesn’t Suck
The Rise Of The Prototyping ParadigmEllen MacArthur Foundation Zaid Hassan Key Note- The Social Labs Revolution, 2018 SummitGood Strategy, Bad Strategy
Nadim Matta100-Day Challenges - Can Islands Become the Ocean?
HBR_ Why Good Projects Fail Anyway_Sep03SSIR_Doing Government Differently_Winter 2017SSIR.Local Empowerment through Rapid Results copy
Hadeel Abdo; Maha Abou Samra; Lars ThuesenInnovation Beyond the Space: The Case of UN Innovation Lab in Palestine
Driving Innovation Beyond the Lab: the Case of the UN Innovation Lab in Palestine

Oxford 2019 Conference

How to Register

This conference is open to 2019 tCL registered members. If you are a CCC alumnus you can now activate your tCL membership for 2019 and register for the conference at the same time.

Once you have successfully completed payment, we will send you further details to complete your conference registration and invite a guest.

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Please note that places are limited and will be allocated on a first-completed-first-served basis.

Re-imagining Work

From rapid adoption of automation and AI technologies to demographic shifts and different consumer pulls, the world is changing at a rapid pace and with it the workplace, the workforce and the nature of work itself. We speak of the 4th industrial revolution or the 3rd cognitive revolution; a new era that has fundamentally altered the way we live, work and relate to one another. Yet, as billions of people connect around the world, social inequality is on the rise with the widening gap between rich and poor. Today, we face a future of unlimited possibilities and gruelling uncertainties. New modes of employment are on the rise, with gigsharing, or platform economies; Progressive models of organising are gaining in popularity with the move from hierarchy to wirearchy and a marked emphasis on horizontalismself-management and agility. What’s more, the traditional boundaries between home and office, night and day, work and leisure are blurring…

What does the future hold?

In this dynamic landscape, this conference will be the space to engage around the various facets of work through a critical and reflective lens. Together, we will re-imagine the future of work, how it will be organised, and our very own current approaches.

We will tackle the following questions:

  • How will work be organised in the future and how will that shape our organisations?
  • What is the meaning of work, and can we imagine it beyond success, recognition and personal achievement?
  • How can people be better equipped for that future? What are their most relevant assets and skills and how can we grow them?
  • How will these futures affect the practice of leadership and change agency?
  • What can we do today to re-imagine and reshape our organisations, our societies and our own work?

he Speakers

We are very fortunate to have academics, researchers and practitioners passionate about reshaping work, organisations and our societies, joining us to facilitate diverse and interactive sessions.

The Change Leaders Oxford 2019 Speakers

The Conference Book

You will find the detailed conference programme here: tCL Oxford 2019 Conference Book.

Speaker Presentations

Our Speakers have generously given us permission to share their slides. Members can access them here.

If you have any questions, please contact: [email protected].