Strategy Café

Alembic Strategy

We help businesses with shared vision, strategy and implementation, and engaging passion with new purpose.

  • 49 minutes 3 seconds
    Strategy Café - Alex Atherton Gen x and Gen z - snowflakes and hoarders
    Wonderful discussion from an ex Head Teacher turned coach on why genz and genx can fail to get each other and what to do about it.
    4 December 2024, 12:00 am
  • 53 minutes 56 seconds
    Strategy Café: Mairi Mickel and Martin Stellar: How do families in business start to make changes when they can’t agree?
    What do you do when you cannot agree, as a hashtag#familybusiness? Especially if that is about agreeing to get help? This was a wonderful, vulnerable Strategy Café discussion with the incredible Mairi Mickel and Martin Stellar, looking at this conundrum from the family's perspective, the adviser's perspective and as a coach to the adviser. Amazing, you get three different views of the same problem here with some really rich ideas and solutions. Recommended for family's in business and family business advisers alike.
    3 November 2024, 12:00 am
  • 57 minutes 57 seconds
    Strategy Café with the Alembic Team: Is Your Business Investment Ready?
    Join the Alembic Team for an insightful webinar that explores how to manage the pace of growth, evaluate your business model’s capability, and optimise your systems and processes. Discover the vital role people play in driving change and learn strategies for creating additional capacity within your organisation. We’ll discuss the importance of governance as the foundation for sustainable growth, and how to recognise when your team is ready to scale. Plus, we share practical tools you can implement straight away to drive your business forward and towards your growth and investment goals!
    20 September 2024, 2:26 pm
  • 49 minutes 24 seconds
    Strategy Café: Provoked! With Todd Kashdan
    Watch as Dr. Todd Kashdan explores how anxiety and anger, often seen as negative, can be reframed as powerful motivators in the right context and with an appropriate level of intensity. Learn how moderate anxiety enhances performance and vigilance, and why anger can drive constructive action. Discover the importance of recognising emotional intensity and expressing emotions appropriately in different situations. Todd shares how we can learn to embrace both ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ emotions for personal growth and effective communication.
    1 August 2024, 3:32 pm
  • 45 minutes 56 seconds
    Strategy Café with James Mitra: Empowering Your Start-Up/Scale-Up: Human-Centred Search
    Tune in to our Strategy Café with James Mitra to hear: - How a chance encounter had a positive impact on both himself and his business, and was a lightbulb moment that changed his attitude to networking, - How JBM has scaled purely through word of mouth from clients, - The importance of creating an environment where people want to stay, - What he has learned through his mistakes, - How James and JBM are disrupting the recruitment industry with their focus on relationships, values and connection. During the session, James shows a beautiful vulnerability as he shares a pivotal moment for JBM during a difficult time - an experience that has significantly shaped JBM into what it is today.
    27 June 2024, 4:17 pm
  • 41 minutes 56 seconds
    Strategy Café with Ned Cummings: Hiring to transform your board
    Tune in as Ned Cummings, Chief Revenue Officer at Nurole, discusses: - Empowering candidates by matching their passions and interests to opportunities, - How to invest in your board for maximum ROI, - Common trigger points of conflict at the board level, - And more... If you're looking to revolutionise your board composition and bring fresh, diverse perspectives to the table, Ned's insights are invaluable!
    31 May 2024, 8:31 am
  • 52 minutes 50 seconds
    Strategy Café with Peter van Eeden on Growth: How it impacts the people
    Tune in as Peter van Eeden shares examples & learnings on the impact growth can have on the people in organisations during acquisition, fast growth, & growing then closing. This thought-provoking Strategy Café highlights the importance of asking the question ‘what is the impact of change on the people?’ Don’t miss this webinar full of essential insights into managing growth while prioritising the well-being of your team
    18 April 2024, 3:08 pm
  • 39 minutes 51 seconds
    Strategy Café With David Levine: How to Raise Money Like a Pro by a Pro
    Check out our exciting Strategy Café session with wizard fundraiser David Levine as he shares all his best magical insights to help you prepare yourself, your business, your idea, your pitch deck, and your process for success in the challenging yet navigable world of fundraising. While securing funding can be daunting, David will show you how to streamline the process and optimise your approach. If you're a founder in search of funding, look no further! Watch David's Café for invaluable tips and strategies.
    29 February 2024, 3:50 pm
  • 42 minutes 44 seconds
    Strategy Café with John Harte: Getting Deal Ready
    Tune in as John Harte discusses: - Where his passion for good governance started - How to manage the challenges of resolving conflict at the board level - The Agency Model - The three currencies of honesty, trust, and respect - Board legacy and decision-making - Adopting an adaptability and contribution mindset - The Chair's facilitation role and board processes - The Four Lines of Sight - Leading in a VUCA world This session offers practical insights and strategies for enhancing governance practices and fostering effective board dynamics in today's dynamic and demanding business environment.
    26 January 2024, 1:10 pm
  • 44 minutes 52 seconds
    Strategy Café on Burying the Dead Cats with the Alembic Team
    The dynamic of your leadership team, especially in a family business, is key to success. Great teams have more chance of surviving in a difficult market and will outperform other teams in a good one. There is no route to high performance without being deeply emotionally involved with one another and easing the tensions that pressure brings. When interpersonal chemistry and relational intelligence in leadership teams are not yet developed, the tensions of daily life sometimes become 'Dead Cats.' Smellier than the elephant in the room (which we all know to ignore), a dead cat needs action, and our process of Burying the Dead Cats can heal relationships at breaking point. Tune in as the Alembic Team discusses Dead Cats, and how to bury them. The tensions that naturally happen in the high pressure of business leadership, and even more so in family businesses, can gain momentum and push us apart. Our process helps clients learn how to change the direction of that momentum, fix broken relationships, and make the impossible possible. We hope you find value in listening to this webinar and would be pleased to talk to you more about how to do this for your family business or leadership team. Book a meeting with a member of the team on our website alembicstrategy.com.
    14 December 2023, 4:45 pm
  • 30 minutes 11 seconds
    Strategy Café with Minter Dial & Michael Borrelli: AI - the downsides, risks, & regulations
    Join Wanda, Minter, and Michael as they discuss these AI regulation questions: What does current AI regulation look like? Whose responsibility is it to regulate and govern AI? How can we get the AI regulation level right? What is the most important thing for companies to understand regarding AI governance? Where can businesses start?
    26 October 2023, 2:37 pm
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