A globally renowned expert in innovating management practice and strategy, and leading the modern workforce, Adam Kingl is an authority on generational paradigms in the workplace, the future of work and capitalism, and fulfilling organisational and personal purpose.
Adam currently leads and develops executive education at prestigious institutions such as London Business School, Hult International Business School, Imperial College Business School, Moller Institute-Churchill College-University of Cambridge and the UCL School of Management, where he helps boost the careers and businesses of senior executives, and high potential professionals.
Next Generation Leadership, Adam’s first book, channels his encyclopaedic knowledge of the executive education field, and is an in-depth, evidence-based foray into the expectations of the youngest generations in the workplace, and what modern practices companies need to adopt if they want to hold onto that talent. His second book, Sparking Success, is about what business can learn from creative industries on maximising their innovation capability. Sparking Success was shortlisted for the Business Book of the Year Awards 2024 in the Smart Thinking category.
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Sparking Success: Igniting Your and Your Team’s Capacity for Innovation
Creativity is a driving factor for success in order to adapt to fast moving trends and disruptions in the modern business landscape. After researching the habits of highly successful leaders in the creative arts, Adam has identified the behaviours required to foster an environment where creativity can thrive.
Intergenerational Collaboration and Managing the Youngest Generation
There has been plenty of literature and discussion on ‘how to manage the youngest generations’. If their paradigms of work and ‘how to be led’ are indeed very different to those of their managers of earlier generations, thensurely leadership in the near future will look and feel new. Therefore, the nature of work is about to change in fundamental ways.
A Return to Human-Centric Leadership
In company life, we are returning, on a several-hundred year cycle, to the pre-eminence of humanity at the centre of what it means to lead. ‘Focusing on humanity’ implies recalling what followers notice first in their leaders – their behaviours. Then, we have to ask if those behaviours provide clarity, inspiration, engagement, coherence and enable creativity. The Renaissance was a flowering not only of the arts but of commerce, and the interdependency of those two forces. Are we in the midst of a new Renaissance of leadership that is asking us what it means to be human?
Executive Eats
When I teach executives and can grab a private moment to ask them, ‘How are you...really,’ the most common response I hear is ‘exhausted’, never allow themselves a moment to switch off from work, to quiet the mind, to find opportunities to create flow - the mind-body connection that craftspeople will often give as the reason they practice their given trade. While we might assume that this would be a matter of creating time that doesn’t exist for the busy professional, we can create a moment each day to do better for our mind, bodies and state of being, and that’s through cooking. Audiences will also learn the chemical and nutritional reasons why, for example, eating a caramel-nut cluster may boost one’s ability to focus in a meeting. The author combines his backgrounds in culinary training, professional kitchens, and the Centre for Performance Science at Imperial College to offer a highly credible, practical, educational and entertaining session filled with approachable science, proven recipes and an engrossing experience.
ADNOC, Aldar, Anglo American, BBC, Boehringer Ingelheim, BP, Carlsberg, Disney, Ericsson, GSK, Heidelberg Cement, HSBC, LVMH, Nestle, Nike, Oman Oil, Orica, Pixar, Scandinavian Airlines, Suntory, Tesco, UBS, UKTV, William Hill and Zurich Insurance.
The Global Leadership Summit, FT-Coca Cola Enterprises Future of Sustainability Summit, Future Talent Conference, HR Directors Business Summit, Employee Benefits Connect, Strategic HR Network Leadership and Talent Conference, European HR Directors International Business Summit, HR Strategy Forum, CIPD Talent Engagement Conference, EMVA Business Conference, Business International, HR Magazine and TiE – the global entrepreneurs’ network.