Introducing the 2025 Foundation

In this webinar you will find out what differentiates the very best leaders from the merely very good, at every level of the firm.

From spies to sports, education to entrepreneurs to business and beyond Mindset of Success is based on original research with ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

The session explores seven mindsets (plus one mindset from the dark side) which all the best leaders have. The good news is that these mindsets are consistent for all leaders. The even better news is that you can build each mindset yourself: this session will show how.

About the speaker

Jo practices what he preaches as a speaker. He is the UKs #1 best selling author on leadership with titles including How to Lead, Tribal Business School, Global Teams and Mindset of Success. He is the only person to win the Chartered Institute of Management Gold Award three times for his books.

He has worked with over 100 of the best, and a few of the worst, organisations on our planet in most industries in Japan, Europe, Asia and North America. He has been a partner at Accenture, started a bank, built a business in Japan and was sued for $12 billion. He is a founder of eight national and global charities including:

•Teach First, which is now the top graduate recruiter in the UK.
•Start Up which has helped 400 offenders start their own (legitimate) businesses on release from prison.
•STIR, which is improving education for over one million children in India and Uganda

As a speaker he has given keynote speeches on tribes, leadership and global teams to Apple, Barclays, BT, CMI, CIPD, EDS IBM, Pearson, Qualcomm, Skype, Symantec, Unilever and many others.

Jo holds an MA from Cambridge University, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, was the best nappy salesman in Birmingham and was responsible for putting the blue speckle in Daz.

Find out more at www.ilead.guru where you can read free chapters of his books, or contact him at jo@ilead.guru.

Leaders who put relationships and purpose before results, enable their people to perform better. Why? Because having a sense of purpose and belonging, and being respected, makes you feel worthy, changes your brain chemistry and that changes everything – from your perception of pain, your ability to handle difficult and challenging environments, and even your health and well-being. In a world where companies are competing to win customers, keep them loyal, build trust and perform well, soft skills have grown in importance and are now crucial to ensuring ethical behaviours, achieving high levels of customer satisfaction, and achieving demanding goals.
Understanding more about how our brains work will help leaders to be more inspiring. When people find a sense of purpose, and begin to dream and chase positive goals, the benefits are limitless. They change themselves, they better their families, they improve their communities, they help their organizations and companies to perform better, they help to create wealth and prosperity, and they contribute to society in a wide range of ways. Learn more about the essential soft skills that will make you a better leader / manager in this webinar by best selling author Kevin Murray.

Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) is a subject that is front of mind in all our organisations – we know that it is the only way of ensuring access and retention of the best talent. While there is often leadership support and buy-in, organisations often struggle to be truly inclusive in the implementation, failing to design core business processes around it.

We very much hope you can join us for this webinar to explore this important subject and hear from Stephen Frost and Danny Kalman (co-authors of Inclusive Talent management, published by Kogan Page) about some practical steps and best practice for incorporating inclusiveness and a leadership mind-set into your organisation’s talent management strategies.

Since 2011, the Chartered Banker Professional Standards Board (CB:PSB) has been at the forefront of the drive to build and demonstrate professionalism in banking. It continues to be the only body creating professional standards of conduct and expertise for bankers to achieve individually.

In this upcoming webcast, Alasdair McIntyre, CB:PSB Business Manager, will:

- Provide an Introduction / Background to the CB:PSB;

- An overview of the CB:PSB’s research and measurements approach;

- Outcomes from the CB:PSB’s research and measurements; and

- How the data informs the work of the CB:PSB and, in a larger sense, the Chartered Banker Institute.

Join Andrew Hastings, Partner, AP Partners and Philippe Cosson, Managing Partner, AP Partners as they discuss how to empower not only yourself but also your team, in order to deliver your company’s strategy. How do you improve the level of engagement between team members and can you take ownership of the situation and build a more empowered team? How will empowerment accelerate implementation?

Teresa Robertson, HR Business Partner - People, Planning & Communication at the Chartered Banker Institute, also a Career Coach, discusses career development in our upcoming webcast. Teresa will talk over the key steps to take to support your career planning, how to create a career development plan and much more.

How do you make sure changes are smoothly implemented? How do you achieve lasting benefits? Kevin Johnson focuses on the impact of change on people as they move from one situation to another.

Kevin gained the majority of his business experience in senior management in the financial services industry. As a senior consultant he worked with blue chip organisations across Europe, Asia and the United States including Banco de Portugal, Ford Europe, VW, the Whitbread Group and Delta Airlines.

Our CEO Simon Thompson introduces the Chartered Banker 2025 Foundation.

An intuitive approach to the Risk Process

Social Investment Scotland (SIS) is a charity and social enterprise that provides loans to other charities, social enterprises and community groups across Scotland.

Alastair Davis, CEO, explains how SIS connect capital with communities; to make a real, measurable and sustainable impact on people's lives.

Banks design their products around the 'perfect customer.' But what about those with vulnerabilities? With an ageing population doesn't it make good business sense to design for the 'imperfect customer'?

Valuable insights from career coach and mentor Marie Taylor who coaches and consults with professionals and organisations to deliver success and transformation.

Strengthening accountability in banking: a new regulatory framework for individuals with the aim of restoring public trust in banking and improving the culture within banks themselves. Director and co-founder of Redland, Carl Redfern and Andy Atkinson discuss certification and what it means for individual employees working in financial services. Simon Thompson introduces the Chartered Banker Institute's Certificate of Professionalism.

The new Senior Managers Regime shines a spotlight on the hot topic of risk culture and conduct. Managing Directors of Risk Audit Professional Development, Chris Hollands and Sandro Boeri discuss behaviours in banking and measuring culture.

GDPR aims to give citizens control of their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment. With sanctions for failing to comply of fines of up to 4% of the annual worldwide turnover, non-compliance is not an option.

Brexit - refers to the possibility of a British exit from the European Union. What are the implications for financial services? Presenter Raoul Ruparel, co-director of Open Europe, has been at the forefront of analysing crucial issues relating to EU trade and economic prosperity.

When a corrupt property dealer went to jail, the Manhattan based bank that Lady Susan Rice CBE worked for should have taken the loss as a bad debt. Instead they re-wrote the rule book; became property developers and built a business and shopping mall in the Bronx. The project was a commercial and social success. Susan asks that as bankers we spend more time factoring societal benefits into our business cases. She also observes that we express a business' success in monetary terms, but blame behaviours when things go wrong.

How prepared are you for a visit from the FCA? Can you demonstrate 'Fit and Proper'? As an approved FCA auditor, Charles Cattell knows what is involved in preparing for and receiving a visit from the regulator.

After leaving the British Army, Bryan lead a team of retired Gurkhas in the delivery of industrial security services on a diamond mine, in war-torn Angola. After being taken captive, released and evacuated, Bryan volunteered to return to secure the mine. Under his effective leadership, his team managed to excel beyond their contractual duty in a harsh and hostile environment.

Bryan honed his business skills in wealth management before forming his own leadership development and sales training company. He has worked with many major banking and insurance clients.