In the uncertainties of the modern world, successful individuals and teams must be adaptable and responsive to change. Drawn from over twenty years of observing people all over the world, explorer and TV presenter Monty Halls will explore the dynamics of the team, the individuals within it and the common themes of how we all deal with change.

Illustrated with stories of individuals and teams getting it magnificently right and hideously wrong, Monty’s unique insights will help you evaluate your personal ability to respond to change and how to keep sight of your goals in an ever shifting environment.

• Daley Thompson CBE, double Olympic gold medallist at the decathlon, Moscow 1980 & Los Angeles 1984.
• Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, who has won an astonishing 11 gold medals at 4 Paralympics games.
• Sally Gunnell, OBE - Olympic gold medallist at the 400m hurdles, Barcelona 1992
• Kelly Sotherton - Former Olympic Heptathlon bronze medallist, Kelly now specialising solely on the 400m. She is one of Great Britain's hopes for London 2012.

• What’s the safest room in the hotel?
• What do you do if there’s an earthquake, or a Tsunami?
• How do you avoid industrial espionage?
• How do you avoid kidnap, and if that doesn’t work, what can you do to increase your chances of survival?
• How do you escape from a sinking aircraft?
• And before you go, are you sure that your corporate travel insurance will cover you where you’re going?

• From 6th July 2006 to 27th July 2012 - the journey from winning the bid to Opening Ceremony
• The challenges of running the country’s largest & most high-profile publicly funded project, and meeting the need for complete transparency
• Managing the interests of stakeholders, the challenges of the local communities and the public’s expectations
• Creating a lasting legacy, ensuring UK PLC benefits from the public investment

1. Break-up. The Euro ceases to exist and the Eurozone countries adopt individual currencies, How companies might deal with the whole question of currency risk management.
2. Change in composition. The Euro survives, but peripheral countries leave the Eurozone, and only core Eurozone countries continue to use the Euro. What practical steps might / should companies take before and following changes in composition of the Eurozone.
3. Remain intact. The Euro survives, and all current member countries stay in the Eurozone.

• How employers can protect their position by setting up Acceptable Use Policies and monitoring employees' usage. Also employment issues, such as employers' use of information gathered from social media for recruitment and disciplinary proceedings.
• The use that companies can make of social media for business (and especially marketing) and the impact that social media may have upon a business, on its reputation and the reputation of its products.
• Responsibility for defamation, intellectual property infringement and the issues arising out of attempts to use the law to control adverse publicity and the theft of confidential information. Find out what lessons can be drawn from recent examples of the impact of social networking on businesses, individuals and politicians, from Wikileaks, Twitter and super injunctions and the theft of personal data by hackers as happened to Sony PlayStation.

• What are the legal requirements of auto enrolment and how will they be monitored?
• What systems need to be in place?
• Opt out rates - will they be high, will inertia win and how could increased membership affect your bottom line?
• The savings gap crisis and converting liabilities into assets for the benefit of your company and staff.

• How to develop leadership skills sufficient to attract and inspire followers,
• How to build rapport with colleagues
• How to communicate a clear vision of where the organisation is going, and how the finance function fits into it.
   

• Is it true that private equity-owned businesses are where the money is?
• Is it for me? Will the head-hunters put me forward?
• Do I have the skills in debt raising, dept compliance, and management?
• As CFO what should I expect? What will be different?
• Should I bail out and find another listed role?
• What should I expect - changes in reporting, involvement, financial orientation, change orientation and much more.

• How much do you rely on public sector contracts and expenditure.
• Are you aware of the potential changes in your sector.
• Are you in contact with the emerging Social Enterprise organisations.
• Do you need to reconsider your relationships.
• Have you developed a strategic approach to joint ventures and partnerships.

• Is it for you? – what does the role entail?
• What are the key attributes a Non Exec needs?
• How do I go about becoming a Non Exec?
• What experience is essential to gain for your CV to best suit a NED position?

• How can the FD directly through his own personal efforts attract new business?
• How can the FD help others to attract new business? How can we best add value in each of the Marketing P’s (Product, Price, Place, Promotion, People, Process, Physical evidence)?
• What are we good at that helps attracts new business? And what do we FD’s have a tendency to do - and need to watch out for - which goes against this aim?
• How can we best use target setting and design of the company compensation systems to attract new business? Is it true, what gets measured by us gets done?
• Would it help if we could be more entrepreneurial…should we be? How do we best get any concerns we have in an opportunity without being seen as a blocking mechanism on all things new?
• Does our desire for planning things and our eye for detail act for or against attracting new business?

• The business sense behind taking it seriously.
• Excess carbon = excess cost, how to get an effective environmental policy programme which brings better Financial returns for your business.
• Effective practical measures which actually work, delegate experiences.
• The role technology has to play in reducing emissions.
• Aligning sustainability with financial reporting – is the future?

• Future, engage, deliver – three words to begin your leadership journey
• What does bold leadership look like?
• What are the leadership skills needed to succeed in a fast changing world?
• What are the leadership challenges facing leaders today?

• Understand and implement the top 5 critical success factors
• Own a toolkit that outlines the exact formula for career success
• Create security and success in the ever-changing world of work
• Your authentic self – discover work that makes you shine

• What are the real tasks of leadership?
• What is the relationship between behaviours, actions and results?
• How does a powerful senior team impact the future? 
• Why bother to develop the team - we’re experienced enough aren’t we?
• What should leaders focus their time on?
• What work should the senior team do together, collectively and what should they do separately?

• See how the voice of judgement holds you and others back
• Realise that learning is about trying, reflecting and trying again
• Embrace the moment and recognise that the best ideas often emerge from nowhere
• Understand the blocking strategies you and other people use to maintain the status quo

• Uncover the insights from the University of Arizona’s guru on influencing and persuasion
• Be let into a few secrets on how to build confidence
• Discover how you make decisions
• Develop more effective strategies to influence others

• What are the key considerations for us as leaders, when everything around seems uncertain?
• How to make sense of what’s really going on?
• How to remain calm and steady in the middle of the storm?
• How do you create resilience?
• Why it’s not all about you?
• Why are true leaders developed in challenging times?