Masterclass Leader: Stan Slap, Founder & CEO, Slap Company
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Competing for “rock star” talent is expensive, fragile, and often damaging to culture. This masterclass challenges the myth that elite individuals drive sustainable performance. Instead, it shows how high-performing organizations build garage band cultures — teams defined by shared ambition, discipline, learning, and commitment to the whole. Led by Stan Slap, the session offers a clear, practical blueprint for creating cultures that consistently develop talent, outperform star-driven models, and stay resilient under pressure.
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Masterclass Leader: Alfonso Merino, Global Chief HR Officer, Grupo Alonso
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Change is no longer episodic — it is the permanent operating system of modern organisations. This masterclass reframes change management as a core leadership capability, combining behavioural science, agentic AI, and geopolitical readiness. Participants will explore how leading organisations reduce change failure, decentralise change ownership, and build resilience without burning out their people. The session moves beyond classic change models to show how transformation can become regenerative, not destructive.
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Masterclass Leader: Amanda Austin, Adjunct Professor, Southern Methodist University
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When organisations feel stuck, collaboration often collapses into competition. This masterclass blends improvisation principles with organisational psychology to help teams break rigid patterns, rebuild psychological safety, and move forward together. Drawing on real-world experience across global organisations, the session is highly practical and experiential. It is not about performance or entertainment — it is about giving leaders concrete tools to unlock trust, creativity, and momentum when progress feels blocked.
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Masterclass Leader: Samir Chabane, Global Head of Employee Experience & Culture – ASTEMO
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At Astemo, Employee Experience (EX) is the foundation for attracting and retaining top talent. A strong EX signals that our company values people, creating a brand that stands out as a best place to work. This is an immersive, interactive masterclass led by Samir Chabane, Head of EX & Culture at Astemo, to explore our 4 EX drivers to improve Engagement.
Walk through 4 activity stations representing each EX driver:
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Masterclass Leader: Shane Cragun, Managing Partner – LEADERSCODE.AI OverviewThis 90-minute masterclass designed to help leaders confront the realities of sustained pressure in today’s always-on, AI-accelerated work environment. Rather than framing burnout as a personal shortcoming, the session positions chronic stress as a predictable outcome of modern work design and resilience as a leadership capability that must be intentionally engineered. Participants examine the hidden toll of “quiet cracking,” develop stress literacy through tools such as stress signatures, the stress chain, and the distinction between eustress and distress, and adopt the diamond analogy to understand why pressure only produces excellence when the right conditions are in place. The session culminates in The Diamond Playbook, introducing a practical Mind–Body–Energy Operating System that enables leaders to regulate their nervous system, manage cognition under load, and optimize energy as their true performance currency. Participants leave with concrete weekly practices and in-the-moment interventions to prevent stress from becoming corrosive, and to act as a stabilizing, resilience-building force for others in the modern workplace.
