Re-Invention Leadership: developing leaders who want to shape the future of their business

Find the future you want to create

Every re-invention starts with deciding where you want to go. You will step out of day-to-day operations and look at your business and your own role as a leader from a new perspective. Using the Play to Win principles, you will look for opportunities where you genuinely want to succeed in the future, instead of just improving the current state.

Turn direction into personal ambition

The Stage on Mars experience lets you look at your own future from a distance. You will imagine a situation in which your ambition has already been fulfilled and name what you achieved, what you had to change and who you had to become along the way. You will clarify your personal and business ambition and choose a real challenge to work on throughout the program.

Day 1: Find the real value of AI

You will understand why most AI initiatives stop at personal productivity and how to use AI as a means of re-inventing processes and creating real business value. Through the AI Value Game® you will learn the four levels of creating value with AI and tell apart personal productivity, optimising current work and genuine re-invention of the business.

You will adopt the AI-first principle – designing processes as if AI had been a natural part of them from the very beginning. You will identify the processes with the greatest potential, choose a specific opportunity and design a new way of working that brings value to customers, employees and the company.

Day 2: Turn new possibilities into a tested solution

Building on the design from day one, you will look for new paths for your own business challenge. Using Design Thinking principles and the Mash-up method, you will cross the boundaries of your industry, connect inspiration from seemingly unrelated fields and create new solution concepts.

You will turn the most promising idea into a first testable form. You will test its key assumptions, gather feedback and find out what needs to change before you invest more time, energy and resources in implementation.

Learn how you react under pressure

Re-invention brings uncertainty, resistance and moments when the certainties you have relied on stop working. You will understand what happens in your brain and body under stress and recognise your automatic reactions in demanding situations. You will learn to create space between the first impulse and a conscious response.

Build a system of long-term resilience

Resilience does not mean enduring everything. It means managing your energy, attention and capacity so that you can make decisions, perform and lead others over the long term. You will try out practical techniques and create your own system of habits to use when leading change and in everyday working life.

Turn ambition into strategy

A strong ambition or a good idea is not yet a strategy. Building on the outputs of the previous workshops, you will clarify where you want to succeed, what new value you want to create and what should set your approach apart. You will create a strategy on one page that connects your ambition, the new solution and the path to making it happen.

Decide where to put your energy

The biggest enemy of a strategy is rarely a bad idea, but too many priorities. You will distinguish what has a real strategic impact from what merely keeps you and your people busy. You will set your key priorities, the first implementation steps and also the activities you need to say no to, so that there is room for the future.

Turn strategy into a clear story

Even the best strategy will not happen if people do not understand it. You will learn to separate the important from the unimportant, build a convincing argument and turn complex change into a clear message. Using the ACCA framework, you will show not only what needs to change, but above all why the change matters right now.

Win people over to change

People do not decide to change on the basis of the right data alone. They need to see meaning, direction and their own role. You will create the story of your re-invention and prepare how to communicate it to different groups of people. You will use AI as a partner in building your argument, presentation and visual support, so that it amplifies your ideas without replacing your authenticity.

Create an environment for the future

The future is not created by a lone leader. It is created by people who are not afraid to bring new ideas, disagree constructively, point out a risk, admit a mistake or take responsibility. You will connect psychological safety with high performance standards and name the principles of the environment your team needs for change and innovation.

Complete your re-invention plan

You will look at your team in terms of future competencies, attitudes and ways of working together. You will determine what must change for the team to deliver the new strategy. You will connect all the outputs of the program, complete your personal re-invention plan and set the first steps you will take when you return to your company.