CEO Connect – Innovation Roundtable
The World Is Changing – How Should You Respond?
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Over the past three years businesses have faced the pandemic, rapidly escalating inflation, labor shortages, and more – and while things are more stable, more change is coming. There are new competitors, technologies, and pricing strategies. This requires CEOs to balance the competing demands of Business Strategy, Operational Excellence, and Innovation, and to reinvent their Business Models to not only survive but thrive in this new world.
LeadSpark, in collaboration with Pearl Creek Advisors, is launching a roundtable to help CEOs with these challenges. Focusing on Innovation, the roundtable creates the space and a peer network for participants to think strategically about their businesses and how innovation can help them not just catch up/keep up with the competition, but leap-frog into new ways of doing business. Our sessions will be held in Louisa, Virginia, and will be offered in a hybrid format to accommodate both local CEOs and those that are not able to travel regularly to the sessions. We will kick-off with an in-person meeting to cover materials from the first two sessions and provide an opportunity for participants to meet each other. Our first session will be held at Poor Creek Farm in Louisa October 6-7. There will be a welcome dinner on Friday evening and our first session on Saturday. For more information, please contact Susan Rucker at susanrucker@outlook.com, or John Franklin at john.franklin@pearlcreekadvisors.com. |
First Session Begins October 65 sessions, in-person kick- off, other sessions 2 hours each
10 - 12 participants 2 skilled facilitators 2 private sessions with facilitator(s) Tailored readings Curated case studies |
Create an Innovation Culture | Become an Ambidextrous CEO
The Curriculum
Session 1: The Innovation Imperative, Business Models and the Role of the CEO : What is Innovation… Why Now? How does it link to business strategy? How does your company create and capture value? How does the CEO steward value creation?
Session 2: Efficiency v/s Sustaining v/s Transformative: How to identify, measure, and manage innovation opportunities with a portfolio approach
Session 3: How to Resource your Innovation Program: Managing to invest in innovation from a people, process, and technology perspective
Session 4: Organizing For and Driving Change: Creating an organization that can and will execute on innovation
Session 5: The Innovation Horizon and the Role of the CEO: A discussion of how to embed innovation into organizational culture
Sessions 2-5 to be held about every three weeks. Recommended reading materials will be provided each session, with follow-up actions suggested.
Session 2: Efficiency v/s Sustaining v/s Transformative: How to identify, measure, and manage innovation opportunities with a portfolio approach
Session 3: How to Resource your Innovation Program: Managing to invest in innovation from a people, process, and technology perspective
Session 4: Organizing For and Driving Change: Creating an organization that can and will execute on innovation
Session 5: The Innovation Horizon and the Role of the CEO: A discussion of how to embed innovation into organizational culture
Sessions 2-5 to be held about every three weeks. Recommended reading materials will be provided each session, with follow-up actions suggested.
Roundtable Take-Aways
- Assess your organization’s “Innovation Culture Readiness”
- Understand your organization’s “Business Model Patterns” to help drive value in your organization
- Understand how to identify, resource, and sustain a portfolio of “Innovation Initiatives” on an on-going basis
Program Thought Leaders/Facilitators
Sonali Shetty is a Digital Transformation Consultant and Educator at VCU’s DaVinci Center for Innovation. Her impactful career at the intersection of technology and business includes being a founder of an AI/ML company, a Product Innovation agency and serving as Chief Technology Officer at a global non-profit.
Susan Rucker is a seasoned executive with over thirty years of progressively responsible positions managing high performance teams and growing businesses. She has served as a CFO, COO, and consultant in both public and private businesses and at a Big 4 accounting firm. Susan has taught leadership for multiple state LeadingAge chapters, and serves on the board of a multi-site CCRC.
Susan Rucker is a seasoned executive with over thirty years of progressively responsible positions managing high performance teams and growing businesses. She has served as a CFO, COO, and consultant in both public and private businesses and at a Big 4 accounting firm. Susan has taught leadership for multiple state LeadingAge chapters, and serves on the board of a multi-site CCRC.
