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Fabrice Desmarescaux is a Partner at McKinsey and works with CEO’s and their teams to increase in their performance and effectiveness. He also creates the next generation of leaders working with team members who are not yet on the executive committee. He talks about the benefits of retreats for his clients and how slowing down and being in nature can have a positive impact.

Fabrice tells us the importance of changing the environment and where the team work together helps to see the world in a different way. When immersed in nature Fabrice explains how leaders can deal with uncertainty differently. As someone who works with a herd of horses in nature, I certainly resonate with everything Fabrice talks about.

I found myself slowing down and getting really present with Fabrice and my nervous system calming. I’m someone who often works at 300 mph and taking time to be really present is such a gift.

For anyone who is sceptical about slowing down, I love how Fabrice explains that nature demonstrates the ability to move from chaos to beauty and order. If you want to create less chaos and more order in your organisation or team, then maybe it’s time for a retreat for you too?

How do you ensure you slow down in order to access your creativity and leadership?

• Retreats and Nature (00:02:41)
• Benefits of Slowing Down (00:11:30)
• Impact of Uncertainty (00:16:50)
• Challenges of Siloed Organizations (00:18:19)
• Budgeting and Uncertainty (00:21:38)
• Embracing Uncertainty (00:24:39)
• Innovation and Failure (00:27:37)
• Slowing Down and Reflection (00:35:33)

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Daniel Astarita is the Managing Director of Kesslers, a business that he bought when it went into administration. He’s also MD of a London-based mannequin business, having bought the assets from another business that had also gone into liquidation.

He explains how he took a risk to run the business in a different way. Instead of chasing revenue and profit in isolation, he realised that retail needs to be an experience for the consumer, particularly after the impact of COVID-19 on retail. Regardless of the sector you are in, there is so much to learn from listening to Dan’s story and leadership.

What really comes across when talking to Dan is how much he cares about the people and sees them as being fundamental to the success of the business. I love that he encourages his staff to ask questions and seek guidance as much as possible. Having space to be curious is so critical.

Dan was open about his leadership, his desire for fairness and honesty and spoke about the emotional toll it took on him when dealing with redundancies which I could really see when talking to him.

Where can you be more curious with your team and organisation?

• Acquisition of two businesses in administration (00:02:30)
• Taking a risk and having a vision (00:03:22)
• The emotional impact of making staff redundant (00:09:24)
• Creating an inclusive workforce (00:15:58)
• Purposeful leadership (00:20:57)
• Shifting from a sales-focused to people-focused leadership approach (00:18:14)
• Transforming retail into an immersive experience (00:23:19)
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Wendy Dean is the CEO of Strategi Solutions, a business consultancy offering services around people, creative and marketing. She talks about the anxiety that comes when thrust into the uncertainty of major change and how she looks for opportunities and generates new ideas to turn uncertainty into certainty.

Wendy reminds us that excitement and fear are physiologically the same and therefore how we can choose how we consider the uncertainty of change. She’s pragmatic about the fact that some people like the status quo and talks about how important it is to lead change in a way that doesn’t burn people out.

The over-riding word I get from Wendy is “balance”. She seems to balance leading change without burning people out, encouraging young people without overlooking the older workforce as well. She balances growing a business with growing the people in it.

Where do you need to be more in balance, in life, in work and in the way you lead?

• Leading through uncertainty
• Transformational change
• Role models for women
• Different generations in the workforce
• Empowering women

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