Online Workshops with the Financial Times
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A series of four Online Workshops hosted by Headspring Executive Development and delivered by the world's most influential Financial Times journalists together with high-level speakers selected by the Lorange Network.
Online Workshop #4
Environment
The environmental challenges after Covid-19
October 13 - 14:00 BST
The Covid-19 era will be remembered as a time when the planes were grounded, much economic activity halted, and carbon emissions fell. What of the future? Will we move to a greener, more sustainable economy and what opportunities and pitfalls will that present to your company? One of the FT’s leading sustainability specialists joined by Reto Ringger, founder of Globalance Bank, and SAM Group, will talk you through the likely outcome.
Past Workshops
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Past Online Workshop #1
Leadership, Management and Succession
Do the challenges from the Covid-19 crisis call for a new approach to management?
June 30 - 14:00 BST
As a result of the Covid-19 crisis, we face radical change. Whether we see a V-shaped recovery or a new era of mass unemployment and slow growth, companies will have to look at new ways of leading and managing. Whatever the outcome of the coronavirus crisis, society will be reordered. Governments will be far more involved in our lives and there will be increased pressure to recognise some of the previously disregarded members of our society, including care, cleaning and distribution workers.
In this seminar, Andrew Hill, the FT’s management editor, will look at the likely new management styles and will examine how family businesses as well as all businesses will need to approach their leadership and succession planning. He will be joined by Dr. Björn Johansson, from Dr. Bjørn Johansson Associates Inc., a leading, globally operating Board Advisory Firm, based in Zurich, Switzerland, exclusively focusing on Non-Executive and Executive Board appointments. Bjørn Johansson will draw from a wide range of entrepreneurial and multicultural experience; in the course of his over 40 years Board Advisor career, he has placed more than 900 highly qualified top executives with leading profit and non-profit corporations and institutions in over 40 countries worldwide.
Past Online Workshop #2
Investment
How should we invest now, given the corona crisis?
July 15 - 14:00 BST
What will the investment opportunities be as we emerge from the Covid-19 crisis? Where will the smart money go?
In this webinar, John Plender, one of the FT’s most respected columnists, will be joined by Chris Mayer, portfolio manager and co-founder of Woodlock House Family Capital. They’ll look at the state of world economies after coronavirus, the prospects for growth and inflation. He will look at which sectors are likely to be winners, and which are likely to be losers.
Past Online Workshop #3
Digital
How do we become more digital now?
September 15 -14:00 BST
The global pandemic is compelling companies of all sizes to adopt new digital ways of doing business. In this seminar, a leading FT journalist and digital champions will look at the digital history of one of the world’s leading news organisations, how the FT endured through the crisis with a radical online strategy and will talk about what this means for the way your business operates. Our two globally renowned business practitioners will share their in depth experiences and outlooks on technology and digital transformation.
Close to the source: what FT journalists
can bring to your business
The Financial Times journalists who deliver Headspring's programmes are able to bring a unique perspective to each topic. They are close to the world’s business and political leaders and know the facts before they become news, bringing real business relevance to each programme.
With FT insight, coupled with Lorange Network perspectives, you learn to question the answers, challenge entrenched mindsets and understand what really matters from a business, political and regulatory perspective.
FT journalists can cover a wide range of subjects such as geopolitics, technology, finance, sustainability, leadership and diversity.
Financial Times Journalists and Lorange Network Speakers
Experience and Expertise
These are some of the world's most influential Financial Times journalists** and the most high-level speakers selected by the Lorange Network that will help you understand the wider context surrounding your business and the impact it can have on your organisation.
Author, Former Banker
Investor
Head of digital platforms and projects at Financial Times
Management Editor
Financial Times
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
International curator
of TED
Senior Editorial Columnist at Financial Times
Associate Editor
Financial Times
Business Columnist
Financial Times
Neuroscientist and entrepreneur
Founder of Globalance Bank and SAM Group
** FT journalists delivering the online workshops may vary. The list is not restrictive.
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Michael Skapinker
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR AND COLUMNIST
Michael Skapinker is an FT contributing editor and columnist on business and society. He is also executive editor of the FT-IE Corporate Learning Alliance, the FT’s executive education arm. Born in South Africa, he began his journalistic career in Greece. He joined the FT in London in 1986 and has held many positions, including FT Weekend editor, FT Special Reports editor and management editor.
He received the Work Foundation Members’ Award for his contribution to the understanding of working life in 2003 and was named WorkWorld Media Awards Columnist of the Year in 2008. At the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards he was named Business Commentator of the Year (2012) and Business Ethics Commentator of the Year (2015).
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Andrew Hill
MANAGEMENT EDITOR
Andrew Hill is an associate editor and the management editor of the FT. He is a former City editor, financial editor and comment and analysis editor. ‘Leadership in the Headlines’, a collection of his columns was published in 2016. He joined the FT in 1988 and has also worked as New York bureau chief, foreign news editor and correspondent in Brussels and Milan.
Andrew was named Business Commentator of the Year at the 2016 Comment Awards and Commentator of the Year at the 2009 Business Journalist of the Year Awards, where he also received a Decade of Excellence award.
Bjørn Johansson
Dr. Bjørn Johansson was born on October 15, 1947 in Kristiansand, Norway. He studied at the University of St. Gall, Switzerland and graduated in 1973 with an MBA degree (lic. oec. HSG). Following postgraduate studies in the United States (including Harvard Business School, University of California, Berkeley, and the Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, N.C.), he was awarded his Ph.D. (Dr. oec. HSG) from the University of St. Gall in 1978. The topic of his doctoral thesis was “Creativity and Marketing”. In 1999, he completed the Harvard Business School Owner/President Management Program (OPM).
During and after completion of his studies, Bjørn Johansson held management functions with leading companies in the consumer goods, textile and service industries in Austria, England, Germany, Scandinavia and Switzerland. He began his career in the executive search field in early 1980 as Vice President with Spencer Stuart, Zurich. In 1985, he moved to Korn/Ferry International and started their Swiss operations in Zurich and Geneva; the company became the second largest executive search firm in Switzerland under his leadership. He was promoted to Senior Officer of the parent company in Los Angeles, California, and was subsequently appointed Managing Director International Board Services. From 1991 to 1993, he was President International of Paul Ray & Carré Orban International.
On February 1, 1993, he founded Dr. Bjørn Johansson Associates Inc., a leading, globally operating Board Advisory Firm, based in Zurich, Switzerland, exclusively focusing on Non-Executive and Executive Board appointments.
Bjørn Johansson can draw from a wide range of entrepreneurial and multicultural experience; in the course of his over 40 years Board Advisor career, he has placed more than 900 highly qualified top executives with leading profit and non-profit corporations and institutions in over 40 countries worldwide.
In addition to his professional activities, he has also assumed leading functions in a number of business, social and cultural organisations. Bjørn Johansson speaks Danish, English, German, Norwegian and Swedish.
Pascal Kaufmann
Pascal Kaufmann is a neuroscientist-turned-entrepreneur. The renowned US business journal “Inc.” named Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Pascal Kaufmann some of the leading voices in a new understanding of intelligence.
Having received his Master’s Degree in Neuroscience and Economics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and Northwestern University in Evanston, IL (USA), Pascal has worked at the prestigious Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich, Switzerland and on numerous projects researching the interface between brains and machines to unravel the secrets of neural networks and brain activity.
In 2010, Kaufmann founded the company Starmind for self-learning knowledge networks. In 2017, he launched the Mindfire group that aims to decipher the principles of intelligence and to make this knowledge available to cutting edge research for empowering humans. Kaufmann sits on numerous boards and institutions and is currently president of the Tech category of the Swiss Digital Economy Award.
Chris Mayer
Chris serves as portfolio manager and co-founder of Woodlock House Family Capital. He is an author, former banker, and investor. Chris is a veteran of the banking industry, specifically in the area of corporate lending. A financial writer since 1998, Chris’s essays have appeared in a wide variety of publications, from the Mises.org Daily Article series to The Daily Reckoning. He was the editor of Mayer’s Special Situations and Capital and Crisis from 2004 to January 2016. In 2016, he joined Bonner & Partners to launch the Bonner Private Portfolio. Chris has published several notable books including Invest Like A Dealmaker: Secrets of a Former Banking Insider (2008), World Right Side Up: Investing Across Six Continents (2012), 100 Baggers: Stocks that Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them (2015) and How Do You Know? A Guide to Thinking Clearly About Wall Street, Investing and Life (2018).
John Plender
SENIOR EDITORIAL COLUMNIST
John Plender has been a senior editorial writer and columnist at the Financial Times since 1981, an assignment he combined until recently with current affairs broadcasting for the BBC and Channel Four. He has a weekly column on economics and business on Mondays and also writes for the opinion pages.
John Plender was the winner of the Wincott Foundation senior prize for excellence in financial journalism in 1994.
Reto Ringger
Reto Ringger is founder of Globalance Bank, and SAM Group, which focuses its efforts on impact-oriented investments. While SAM Group works only with institutional investors, Globalance Bank under Reto Ringger’s leadership also enables private clients to invest in forward-looking companies and related financial products. SAM rose to become a globally leading provider of sustainable investments, launching in 1997 the world’s first investment fund devoted solely to sustainability. Later, in cooperation with Dow Jones & Company, SAM introduced the very first stock index for sustainable investments and, in 2001, the Group introduced the first private equity fund in the area of cleantech.
Earlier, Reto worked in investment banking with financial institutions such as Swiss Re, UBS and Bank Vontobel. He has received numerous awards for his entrepreneurial successes such as the Global Green Award from Green Cross International (www.gcint.org) for the launch of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index – and the Cleantech Pioneer Award (www.cleantech.com) for the successful establishment of the world’s first globally positioned cleantech private equity fund. He is a member of the Club of Rome (www.clubofrome.org). In July 2019 the International University in Geneva (IUG) awarded Reto Ringger an honorary doctorate for his extraordinary achievements and numerous innovations in the field of sustainable investments.
Reto Ringger
Reto Ringger is founder of Globalance Bank, and SAM Group, which focuses its efforts on impact-oriented investments. While SAM Group works only with institutional investors, Globalance Bank under Reto Ringger’s leadership also enables private clients to invest in forward-looking companies and related financial products. SAM rose to become a globally leading provider of sustainable investments, launching in 1997 the world’s first investment fund devoted solely to sustainability. Later, in cooperation with Dow Jones & Company, SAM introduced the very first stock index for sustainable investments and, in 2001, the Group introduced the first private equity fund in the area of cleantech.
Earlier, Reto worked in investment banking with financial institutions such as Swiss Re, UBS and Bank Vontobel. He has received numerous awards for his entrepreneurial successes such as the Global Green Award from Green Cross International (www.gcint.org) for the launch of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index – and the Cleantech Pioneer Award (www.cleantech.com) for the successful establishment of the world’s first globally positioned cleantech private equity fund. He is a member of the Club of Rome (www.clubofrome.org). In July 2019 the International University in Geneva (IUG) awarded Reto Ringger an honorary doctorate for his extraordinary achievements and numerous innovations in the field of sustainable investments.
Bruno Giussani
International curator of TED
Bruno Giussani is the Global Curator of TED, the organization behind the TED conferences and the popular online TEDTalks (ted.com), and lead organizer of TED's upcoming climate initiative, Countdown. Since joining TED in 2005, he has curated hundreds of TEDTalks, including a famous one by Pope Francis. An expert in the economic and political impacts of innovation and technology, prior to joining TED Giussani was the Head of Online Strategy at the World Economic Forum; a Knight Fellow at the University of Stanford; and an Internet columnist for the New York Times. He has written for numerous media outlets in Switzerland and abroad, co-founded three Internet companies, is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Ticino-based software house Tinext (tinext.com) and advises a number of companies and non-profits. He lives in Switzerland, where he is also the Chairman of the Geneva International Film Festival on Human Rights (fifdh.org).
John Plender
Senior editorial columnist at Financial Times
John Plender has been a senior editorial writer and columnist at the Financial Times since 1981, an assignment he combined until recently with current affairs broadcasting for the BBC and Channel Four. He has a weekly column on economics and business on Mondays and also writes for the opinion pages.
John Plender was the winner of the Wincott Foundation senior prize for excellence in financial journalism in 1994.
Reto Ringger
Reto Ringger is founder of Globalance Bank, and SAM Group, which focuses its efforts on impact-oriented investments. While SAM Group works only with institutional investors, Globalance Bank under Reto Ringger’s leadership also enables private clients to invest in forward-looking companies and related financial products. SAM rose to become a globally leading provider of sustainable investments, launching in 1997 the world’s first investment fund devoted solely to sustainability. Later, in cooperation with Dow Jones & Company, SAM introduced the very first stock index for sustainable investments and, in 2001, the Group introduced the first private equity fund in the area of cleantech.
Earlier, Reto worked in investment banking with financial institutions such as Swiss Re, UBS and Bank Vontobel. He has received numerous awards for his entrepreneurial successes such as the Global Green Award from Green Cross International (www.gcint.org) for the launch of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index – and the Cleantech Pioneer Award (www.cleantech.com) for the successful establishment of the world’s first globally positioned cleantech private equity fund. He is a member of the Club of Rome (www.clubofrome.org). In July 2019 the International University in Geneva (IUG) awarded Reto Ringger an honorary doctorate for his extraordinary achievements and numerous innovations in the field of sustainable investments.
Janine Gibson
Financial Times head of digital platforms and projects
Gibson arrives at the FT with an outstanding journalistic record, both in the UK and the US. As Guardian US editor-in-chief based in New York she led the Snowden/National Security Agency investigation team that won a Pulitzer Prize and an Emmy, while presiding over an exponential increase in readership.
During her 17-year career at the Guardian, Gibson led the transition from print to digital and pioneered other cutting-edge forms of journalism, rising to become deputy editor under Alan Rusbridger and head of the Guardian’s online operations.
In her most recent role as editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed UK, she transformed a small team into a respected news operation, winning the Society of Editors news website of the year award as well as multiple prizes for specialist news reporting.
Pilita Clark
Financial Times business columnist
Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on modern corporate life, as well as features and other articles.
She has worked for the FT since 2003, covering aviation and the environment, and was previously a Washington correspondent for Australian newspapers and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
Bjørn Johansson
Dr. Bjørn Johansson was born on October 15, 1947 in Kristiansand, Norway. He studied at the University of St. Gall, Switzerland and graduated in 1973 with an MBA degree (lic. oec. HSG). Following postgraduate studies in the United States (including Harvard Business School, University of California, Berkeley, and the Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, N.C.), he was awarded his Ph.D. (Dr. oec. HSG) from the University of St. Gall in 1978. The topic of his doctoral thesis was “Creativity and Marketing”. In 1999, he completed the Harvard Business School Owner/President Management Program (OPM).
During and after completion of his studies, Bjørn Johansson held management functions with leading companies in the consumer goods, textile and service industries in Austria, England, Germany, Scandinavia and Switzerland. He began his career in the executive search field in early 1980 as Vice President with Spencer Stuart, Zurich. In 1985, he moved to Korn/Ferry International and started their Swiss operations in Zurich and Geneva; the company became the second largest executive search firm in Switzerland under his leadership. He was promoted to Senior Officer of the parent company in Los Angeles, California, and was subsequently appointed Managing Director International Board Services. From 1991 to 1993, he was President International of Paul Ray & Carré Orban International.
On February 1, 1993, he founded Dr. Bjørn Johansson Associates Inc., a leading, globally operating Board Advisory Firm, based in Zurich, Switzerland, exclusively focusing on Non-Executive and Executive Board appointments.
Bjørn Johansson can draw from a wide range of entrepreneurial and multicultural experience; in the course of his over 40 years Board Advisor career, he has placed more than 900 highly qualified top executives with leading profit and non-profit corporations and institutions in over 40 countries worldwide.
In addition to his professional activities, he has also assumed leading functions in a number of business, social and cultural organisations. Bjørn Johansson speaks Danish, English, German, Norwegian and Swedish.
Chris Mayer
Chris serves as portfolio manager and co-founder of Woodlock House Family Capital. He is an author, former banker, and investor. Chris is a veteran of the banking industry, specifically in the area of corporate lending. A financial writer since 1998, Chris’s essays have appeared in a wide variety of publications, from the Mises.org Daily Article series to The Daily Reckoning. He was the editor of Mayer’s Special Situations and Capital and Crisis from 2004 to January 2016. In 2016, he joined Bonner & Partners to launch the Bonner Private Portfolio. Chris has published several notable books including Invest Like A Dealmaker: Secrets of a Former Banking Insider (2008), World Right Side Up: Investing Across Six Continents (2012), 100 Baggers: Stocks that Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them (2015) and How Do You Know? A Guide to Thinking Clearly About Wall Street, Investing and Life (2018).
Andrew Hill
Andrew Hill is an associate editor and the management editor of the FT. He is a former City editor, financial editor and comment and analysis editor. ‘Leadership in the Headlines’, a collection of his columns was published in 2016. He joined the FT in 1988 and has also worked as New York bureau chief, foreign news editor and correspondent in Brussels and Milan.
Andrew was named Business Commentator of the Year at the 2016 Comment Awards and Commentator of the Year at the 2009 Business Journalist of the Year Awards, where he also received a Decade of Excellence award.
Management editor at Financial Times
Bruno Giussani
International curator of TED
Bruno Giussani is the Global Curator of TED, the organization behind the TED conferences and the popular online TEDTalks (ted.com), and lead organizer of TED's upcoming climate initiative, Countdown. Since joining TED in 2005, he has curated hundreds of TEDTalks, including a famous one by Pope Francis. An expert in the economic and political impacts of innovation and technology, prior to joining TED Giussani was the Head of Online Strategy at the World Economic Forum; a Knight Fellow at the University of Stanford; and an Internet columnist for the New York Times. He has written for numerous media outlets in Switzerland and abroad, co-founded three Internet companies, is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Ticino-based software house Tinext (tinext.com) and advises a number of companies and non-profits. He lives in Switzerland, where he is also the Chairman of the Geneva International Film Festival on Human Rights (fifdh.org).
Bruno Giussani
International curator of TED
Bruno Giussani is the Global Curator of TED, the organization behind the TED conferences and the popular online TEDTalks (ted.com), and lead organizer of TED's upcoming climate initiative, Countdown. Since joining TED in 2005, he has curated hundreds of TEDTalks, including a famous one by Pope Francis. An expert in the economic and political impacts of innovation and technology, prior to joining TED Giussani was the Head of Online Strategy at the World Economic Forum; a Knight Fellow at the University of Stanford; and an Internet columnist for the New York Times. He has written for numerous media outlets in Switzerland and abroad, co-founded three Internet companies, is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Ticino-based software house Tinext (tinext.com) and advises a number of companies and non-profits. He lives in Switzerland, where he is also the Chairman of the Geneva International Film Festival on Human Rights (fifdh.org).
Janine Gibson
Financial Times head of digital platforms and projects
Gibson arrives at the FT with an outstanding journalistic record, both in the UK and the US. As Guardian US editor-in-chief based in New York she led the Snowden/National Security Agency investigation team that won a Pulitzer Prize and an Emmy, while presiding over an exponential increase in readership.
During her 17-year career at the Guardian, Gibson led the transition from print to digital and pioneered other cutting-edge forms of journalism, rising to become deputy editor under Alan Rusbridger and head of the Guardian’s online operations.
In her most recent role as editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed UK, she transformed a small team into a respected news operation, winning the Society of Editors news website of the year award as well as multiple prizes for specialist news reporting.
Pilita Clark
Business columnist at Financial Times
Michael Skapinker is an FT contributing editor and columnist on business and society. He is also executive editor of the FT-IE Corporate Learning Alliance, the FT’s executive education arm. Born in South Africa, he began his journalistic career in Greece. He joined the FT in London in 1986 and has held many positions, including FT Weekend editor, FT Special Reports editor and management editor.
He received the Work Foundation Members’ Award for his contribution to the understanding of working life in 2003 and was named WorkWorld Media Awards Columnist of the Year in 2008. At the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards he was named Business Commentator of the Year (2012) and Business Ethics Commentator of the Year (2015).
Pascal Kaufmann
Pascal Kaufmann is a neuroscientist-turned-entrepreneur. The renowned US business journal “Inc.” named Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Pascal Kaufmann some of the leading voices in a new understanding of intelligence.
Having received his Master’s Degree in Neuroscience and Economics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and Northwestern University in Evanston, IL (USA), Pascal has worked at the prestigious Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich, Switzerland and on numerous projects researching the interface between brains and machines to unravel the secrets of neural networks and brain activity.
In 2010, Kaufmann founded the company Starmind for self-learning knowledge networks. In 2017, he launched the Mindfire group that aims to decipher the principles of intelligence and to make this knowledge available to cutting edge research for empowering humans. Kaufmann sits on numerous boards and institutions and is currently president of the Tech category of the Swiss Digital Economy Award.