Andrew White at Saïd Business School and Adam Canwell at EY discuss how to overcome the challenges of radical business transformation with Dr Mohamed Althaf, the director of supermarket giant Lulu Group International.

“Every leader with an ambition and intention to make things better should strike because everything is ready for you.”

In Transformation Leadership2050 Dr Andrew White and Adam Canwell at EY explore the journey a number of global leaders and their workforce went through as they successfully led their organisations through significant change.

In this series Andrew and Adam focus on the specific area of turning points. These are those moments every organisation faces in a transformation which can lead to failure or create positive momentum and accelerate your business into the future. They speak to five top executives who share their insights and experience of the pitfalls and the keys to success, looking at listening, sense-making, early warning systems and the human dynamics that drive organisational change.

In this episode they talk to Mohamed Althaf, the director of Lulu Group International, about the challenges of transforming the Qatar-based company to be more sustainable.

Lulu is a supermarket giant with 300 stores in six countries, based in the Middle East. When director Mohamed decided to push a new ESG agenda, he faced pushback in the region but also within the company. He talks to Andrew and Adam about managing disruption and bringing the workforce and leadership team onboard by embodying curiosity and hunger for change.

Featuring:

Dr Andrew White, Senior Fellow of Management Practice, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Adam Canwell, EY Oceania Workforce Advisory Leader.

Dr Mohamed Althaf, director, Lulu Group International.

Resources:

• Subscribe to Andrew’s Leadership2050 Newsletter on LinkedIn

• Discover more articles, podcasts and videos from Saïd Business School on the challenges business leaders of the future need to consider on Oxford Answers

• Follow us on Twitter @Oxford_Answers

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Andrew White at Saïd Business School and Adam Canwell at EY explore the key to successful business transformation with Junaid Ahmed from Applied Materials.

“In a rapidly changing and dynamic business environment it’s essential for companies and people to be comfortable and proactive about transformation, it’s the calling of our time.”

In Transformation Leadership2050 Dr Andrew White and Adam Canwell at EY explore the journey a number of global leaders and their workforce went through as they successfully led their organisations through significant change.

Why do most transformations fail to deliver the value that organisations expect? And what should CEOs do when a transformation goes off track? These questions have confounded companies around the world over for decades.

In 2021, the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School and EY formed a long-term research collaboration to find out why.

In this new series Andrew and Adam focus on the specific area of turning points. These are those moments every organisation faces in a transformation which can lead to failure or create positive momentum and accelerate your business into the future. They speak to five top executives who share their insights and experience of the pitfalls and the keys to success, looking at listening, sense-making, early warning systems and the human dynamics that drive organisational change.

In the first episode of the new series they talk to Junaid Ahmed, Corporate Vice President and Head of Corporate Planning at Applied Materials, a supplier to semiconductor manufacturers with US$25b in revenue that undertook a systemic robotic process automation (RPA) transformation.

Junaid’s experience reveals how transformation only works if people are at the centre. As a leader, you will drive success if you are present, both physically and emotionally. Be brave and act early to build the capability of your team and the legacy of your transformation will be a willingness to adapt and not see change as a threat.

Featuring:

Dr Andrew White, Senior Fellow of Management Practice, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Adam Canwell, EY Oceania Workforce Advisory Leader.

Junaid Ahmed, Corporate Vice President and Head of Corporate Planning at Applied Materials.

Resources:

• Subscribe to Andrew’s Leadership2050 Newsletter on LinkedIn

• Discover more articles, podcasts and videos from Saïd Business School on the challenges business leaders of the future need to consider on Oxford Answers

• Follow us on Twitter @Oxford_Answers

https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk

Produced by Eve Streeter for Stabl

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Dr Andrew White from Saïd Business School and Adam Canwell from EY meet more inspirational leaders who have been through the process of radical organisational change. What can they teach us about the secrets and the pitfalls?

In this new series Andrew and Adam focus on the specific area of turning points. These are those moments every organisation faces in a transformation which can lead to failure or create positive momentum and accelerate your business into the future. They speak to five top executives who share their insights, looking at listening, sense-making, early warning systems and the human dynamics that drive organisational change.

Sharing their experiences are Junaid Ahmed from Applied Materials, Mohamed Althaf from Lulu Group International, Richard Howell from ANZ Bank, Arnaud Soirat from Rio Tinto and Annick Tollenboom from Royal Canin/Mars.

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