James is currently responsible for executive development, high potential programs up to senior executive level and driving strategic initiatives that will evolve Walmart to meet future challenges, the scale is the challenge, 1.3 million associates in the US, 2.3 million world-wide. His career before Walmart was six years of risk and business consultancy and a 26-year military career. After an Infantry (Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment) career up to battalion command his last appointment before retiring early was as Assistant Director Counter Terrorism in the British Ministry of Defence. In 2007 he was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty the Queen for that role, an award that he should probably now give back as he is now a US citizen! A key lesson he has learned since leaving the military is that vulnerability is strength.

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Dr. Ruth Wandhöfer operates at the nexus of finance, technology and regulation, passionate about creating the digital financial ecosystem of the future. After a distinguished career of over a decade with Citi, Ruth is now an independent Non-Executive Director on the boards of Permanent TSB and Digital Identity Net as well as a Partner at Gauss Ventures. She is a Strategic Adviser of the European Third-Party Provider Association (ETPPA) and Adviser at Coinfirm. Until recently she has served as independent Non-Executive Director on the Board of the London Stock Exchange Group and Pendo Systems Inc.

Ruth was named 2010s ‘Rising Stars’ by Financial News; named in Management Today’s 2011 ‘35 Women under 35’, identified as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance 2012 by Treasury Risk Magazine. She received the ‘Women in Banking and Finance Award for Achievement’ in 2015 and in 2016, 2017 and 2018 she was named on the global ‘Women in Fintech Powerlist’ of Innovate Finance. She is a 2018, 2019 and 2020 Top 10 Global Fintech Influencer (Fintech Power 50).

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Isabel Fox is one of just a handful of female General Partners in the UK, who manages an early stage deep-tech fund focused on human health (healthcare, life sciences, agriculture, food and wellness).

At Luminous Ventures, Isabel has the opportunity to indulge her passion for innovation, investing in visionary founders with frontier technologies and supporting them to commercialise to scale. 

Her portfolio includes; Synthace, Mahana, Phenomic, Temporall, Hadean, Optellum, Ellipsis, Vital Health, Huma, OxfordVR and many more. 

Before venture capital, Isabel founded two corporate communications firms focused on the venture ecosystem (two exits), co-founded two software start-ups (one exit) and been an active angel investor in the UK and US. 

Leadership tip - Find something you love and dream big. Be resilient and don't give up.

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Kate Oliver is a motorcycle tour leader and leads tours in the High Himalaya in India, Sikkim and Nepal. She is also a qualified stone mason, a poet, writer and a member of Kellogg College Oxford Alumni where she studied for her Masters in Creative Writing and critical practice. Although she has received no formal leadership training she has been required to show inspirational leadership to take her customers on two week tours in the Himalaya on Royal Enfield Motorcycles where altitudes of up to 18 000 feet, meltwater crossings, rock falls and landslides are the norm. Coupled with altitude sickness, egos and ad hoc teams of strong willed but sometimes low skilled riders, she has learnt to be empathetic to enable her customers to put their egos aside, express their fears and overcome the considerable challenges they encounter. She is not inspired by any one person in particular and is wary of perpetuating the myths surrounding some of the ‘great’ leaders. Her leadership abilities have come from a variety of people she has encountered and of course by solving the people-problems she regularly faces on adventure motorcycle tours.

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Chuka has had a varied career which has involved being a public figure for much of the last 10 years. The common thread running through his two-decade career, first in corporate law, then in public policy, and now back in business has been desire to build a better and more responsible capitalism in which all citizens have stake. The son of an entrepreneur, from a mixed heritage family, he has observed how he would not have had the opportunities he had were it not for the power of enterprise. Not afraid to try new enterprises in politics and to challenge group think and tribalism, he was one of a number of MPs who left the main parties to set up the new party, Change UK. He switched to the Liberal Democrats before leaving politics. For any organisation to thrive, Chuka believes internal challenge is vital, as is an understanding that success is not all about any one individual but a group. But any group needs a leader to lead and bring decisions to a head.

Top Tip - Draw up a strategy – which will always evolve - and then focus laser like on the tactical execution of it, whilst having a ‘Plan B’ if ‘Plan A’ doesn’t work out.

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Stepping Out is a specialist consulting practice. We help businesses and individuals to get top team off boardingright.

For the individual—Stepping Out is acoaching practice that provides senior executives with a route-map and atravel guide to help think, plan, and execute stepping out from the top team and onward to new adventures.

For the company—we offer policy and best-practice advice, internal capacity building, top team masterclasses andcompany keynotes to enable successful top team off boarding.

For society—we challenge the old and outdated 3-stage model i.e. education—work—retirement. We are part of agrowing campaign to recognise the multiple stages of modern life/career in the emerging world where lifeexpectancy is fast moving beyond 90 years.

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Richard Fenning is a partner at Manchester Square Partners specialising in leadership, career management and succession.

Before joining Manchester Square Partners, Richard spent 32 years in professional services, principally with the risk consulting firm, Control Risks which he joined in 1993. He was Global CEO for 14 years from 2005 until 2019 leading the firm through a period of significant growth and international expansion including a complex and innovative management buy-out in 2016. Richard has lived and worked in the UK, Australia, Japan, Singapore and the United States and has advised numerous global corporations on the impact of geopolitical uncertainty and high-stakes problem solving, often in volatile parts of the world.

Richard has tried to live by the mantra that leadership is about leading from behind when things are going well, only leading from the front during difficult times. 2020 has seen this philosophy tested to the limit as many organisations have faced unprecedented challenges not just from Covid 19 and its economic consequences but also from how businesses are responding to the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement and other issues that challenge the social fabric of the world in which they operate.

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Nick, who is currently leads the Command and Control, Space and Intelligence business at Raytheon UK spent 34 years in the Army before completing Regular service as a Brigadier 4½ years ago. Nick has carried his strong belief in joint and collaborative working from his military career into his current IT systems, applications and security business. He believes a key role of a senior leader is to set strategy and tone, to grow and empower the organisation itself to deliver it and develop a culture of trust where people feel confident to speak the truth. A key attribute of leader is judgement – to make good decisions when information is inadequate or contradictory. And to know when and how to intervene when things go wrong. At such times leaders need to be patient – to find the facts, then act to help and empower those who are dealing with the problem, not to do their job for them. When good leaders intervene, they bring confidence and help make the situation better – poor leaders bring fear, blame and make it worse.

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Alistair started his professional career in the Armed forces as an Infantry Officer, on transitioning to the commercial sector he established an advisory business to work with airlines in the risk and crisis management domain and subsequently joined PwC in 2000. Over this past 20 year he has developed a deep domain knowledge of the Industrials Sector and has designed and delivered complex transformation programmes within a broad and global client base and he now works with some of the world's largest and most complex organisations to deliver increased shareholder returns. Alistair's belief system is driven by a simple principle. Do the right thing - your morale compass is the best navigational support; Build a team of teams - everyone must know their position and be energised and incentivised to deliver; Stay humble, stay hopeful and stay hungry.

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Globally noted as a leader in financial services, Deanna Oppenheimer has spent a dynamic career helping companies going through turnaround and inspiring game changing growth. Deanna continues to serve on several global public and private boards, from established trend-setters to industry disruptors.  She founded the advising firm, CameoWorks, helping innovative organizations and their leaders grow and thrive in uncertain times.

Deanna also is the founder of BoardReady, a non-profit focused on improving diversity on corporate boards. Founded on the premise that diversity drives better results for business, BoardReady works with boards on their strategy and succession planning, elevating the conversation around board diversity. BoardReady relies on analytic data to craft succession strategies and offers access to a deep pool of exceptional, diverse candidates through its TalentVault in order to help organizations become more diverse, more innovative, and more resilient. @boardready, [email protected]

Leadership Tip: “Give a Chance, Take a Chance.”

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