Confidence through the Generations: What Shapes, Shakes and Sustains
Confidence isn’t a fixed trait and right now dips in confidence are affecting leaders at every level. 45% of executives already worry their skills are becoming obsolete. Senior leaders feel exposed by AI. Mid-career professionals are caught between old and new leadership expectations. Emerging talent questions whether they truly belong. In this Winmark Power Hour session, we will look at how confidence shifts at key life and career stages, what strengthens it, what quietly undermines it, and how we can better support ourselves and those we lead.
CHAIR
Cara McCarthy, OD Practitioner, Executive Coach and Strategic Team Coach, Sheridan Worldwide
SPEAKERS
Madeline Clarke, Senior HRBP- Enterprise Technology Services, Fidelity International | Robyn Homden, Learning Manager, Lloyd’s of London | Ethan Godlieb, Associate Partner – Cyber, Tech & Fintech, Consilium Broking
This Masterclass is part of the Global CIO Academy and is delivered in collaboration with the UCL School of Management, London.
This masterclass empowers CIOs to plan effectively, manage technology budgets, and communicate value across the business. With mounting pressure to deliver innovation under cost constraints, CIOs must align IT planning with enterprise goals, create robust investment cases, and use data to measure success and secure continued buy-in.
Driving Performance in a Global Context
• Lead diverse, distributed teams with clarity, alignment, and purpose.
• Balance centralised control with local autonomy across geographies.
• Create agile, efficient supply chain ecosystems that enable innovation, scalable resourcing and business resilience.
• Align investment, budgeting, and reporting to demonstrate business value.
This is for Global CIO Academy Delegates only, to find out more or become involved please contact Joshua Brown (joshua.brown@winmarkglobal.com)
SPEAKERS
Nick Giannakakis, Group Chief Information, Officer Motor Oil | Tom Clark, Chief Operating & Technology Officer, Everywhen
Financial Pressures: Making Hard Choices – How you Invest your Money
RPs are operating in a landscape where financial pressure is no longer a background constraint, but a defining factor shaping strategy, risk appetite, and long-term viability. Rising costs, evolving regulation, and significant statutory programmes, including building safety remediation, Awaab’s Law, EPC Band C, and the anticipated new Decent Homes Standard, are forcing leadership teams to make difficult, high-stakes decisions. In many cases, these decisions extend beyond cost control and into fundamental questions about portfolio composition, capital structure, and the role of external investment.
CHAIR
Ewan Wallace, Group General Counsel, Paradigm Housing Group
SPEAKERS
Cassie Berry, Associate Director – Governance, Risk, Regulation and Registrations – Affordable Housing Consultancy, Savills | Chris Newman, Director, Savills
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The in-house tax team will typically have a close involvement in acquisitions, most obviously conducting due diligence to assess any exposure to tax risk in target companies, supporting the negotiation and arranging W&I insurance to cover any residual risks that might remain hidden.
CHAIR
Louisa Gonzalez, Head of Tax, Advisory Member
SPEAKERS
Peter Bellini, Group Head of Tax, The Ardonagh Group | Darren Tish, Tax Senior Manager, M&G Plc
Human, Skills & Agentic AI – The Rolls-Royce Story
In 2022, Rolls-Royce faced a critical juncture: multiple business units in the company were heading towards significant skills shortages in specific skillsets. To solve it, the organization didn’t just recruit; they fundamentally redesigned how work happens.
CHAIR
Misti Melville, NED/Chair Nominations & Remuneration Committee, Al Jammaz Group
SPEAKERS
Stuart Evans, Director – Future of Work & Digital Employee Experience, Rolls-Royce
Trustee considerations around Journey Planning II – What you need to do to be transaction ready
Some schemes have started down the road only to find they were out of the zone of going to market for buyout before they even started, which can be a very costly misstep. There is a lot of pre-work, often very detailed, that has to be done before knowing what options are really open to your scheme.
SPEAKERS
Roisin O’Shea, Business development, Rothesay | Hattie Tales, Account Executive, Heka Global | Sammy Cooper-Smith, Business Development, Rothesay | Charlotte Yeates, Counsel, Hogan Lovells International | Tony Martinez, Senior Director, Actuarial and Risk Transfer Consultant, WTW
This Masterclass is part of the Global CIO Academy and is delivered in collaboration with the UCL School of Management, London.
This masterclass enables CIOs to lead enterprise-wide transformation using AI, Cloud, and automation technologies. As digital becomes business-critical, CIOs must drive operational change, embed emerging technologies responsibly, and orchestrate transformation across silos. The session covers leading technologies, practical frameworks, and people-focused change strategies.
Accelerating Enterprise Transformation
• Lead enterprise-wide digital platforms and data-driven products.
• Harness AI and emerging technologies to create new revenue streams.
• Embed innovation into business models and operating structures.
• Scale transformation programmes that deliver measurable impact.
This is for Global CIO Academy Delegates only, to find out more or become involved please contact Joshua Brown (joshua.brown@winmarkglobal.com)
SPEAKERS
Bilal Gokpinar, Professor of Operations, Technology and Innovation, University College London (UCL) | Mohsen Ghasempour, Chief AI Officer, Kingfisher
“The Skills Gap”: Bridging the Divide Between Education and Industry
The UK faces a growing misalignment between the skills graduates leave university with and the capabilities businesses urgently need. With automation, AI, and demographic shifts reshaping entry-level roles, organisations are struggling to source talent equipped with both technical expertise and the human skills of resilience, empathy, and curiosity.
This breakfast session will examine how business leaders can bridge the divide, from reimagining graduate programmes to accelerated learning pathways and building pipelines in technical fields where demand outstrips supply. We’ll also explore how to meet employees’ evolving expectations for faster career development and greater transparency in reward and progression, while balancing organisational constraints.
Our panel will consist of Phil Beach CBE, Former Chief Executive and now Chairman of Energy & Utility Skills and Ruchika Karakoti, former Head of HR at Capita, who will all share practical insight on how organisations can strategically reshape their approach to talent.
The conversation will be chaired by Alastair Procter, Head of Global Reward, Mobility, Analytics and HR Shared Services at Omnicom Europe.
CHAIR
Alastair Procter, SVP, Strategic Human Resource Operations, The Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG)
SPEAKERS
Phil Beach CBE, Chairman, Energy & Utility Skills | Ruchika Karakoti, Founder and Principal Consultant, Karakoti Consulting Limited
