Tuesday 2 June 2026

When the Strategy Is Ready but the Leader Isn't

Under pressure, leaders don't default to their training. They default to their patterns. This session draws on two high-stakes experiences — the London 2012 Olympics and Akamai's Brandon Hall Gold Award-winning leadership program — to explore why behavioral self-awareness, not more skills or better tools, is what separates leaders who succeed in transformation from those who don't. When Akamai pivoted into Cloud Compute, it wasn't a knowledge problem. It was a pattern problem. Fixing it made teams three times more likely to reach top performance. AI raises the floor for everyone. How leaders show up determines the ceiling.