Length: 57 min
Speakers: Adam Portlock, Michael Chaskalson, Lara Próspero, Navarun Bhattacharya
Recorded on March 13, 2024
Is it possible to explore your curiosity and stay focused on the job?
Our panel share key practical takeaways for HR and L&D to build a company culture that accommodates both curiosity and focus.
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Curiosity drives innovation
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
When it comes to innovation, Albert Einstein understood the potential of curiosity more than most. In business, curiosity is the driving force that propels people to go beyond what’s expected of them, discover new ways of working, and make positive changes.
So how do leaders enable a curious workforce, while ensuring focus on core goals? As we, at Hult Ashridge Executive Education, continue to explore the unique role of HR in managing seeming polarities within their organizations, this on-demand webinar looks at how businesses can establish the right balance between focus and curiosity.
Key takeaways
How leaders can enable curiosity in the workforce while maintaining focus on core goals
How HR and L&D leaders can empower people to pursue their ideas.
The interplay between curiosity and focus at the leadership level.
Practical steps HR and L&D can take to shape a culture of both curiosity and concentration.
Met our expert speakers
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Adam Portlock
President of Hult Ashridge Executive Education
Leading organizations in UK, USA, UAE and Singapore, Adam has over 25 years of global experience across a range of industries including education, aerospace, supply chain and digital consultancy. He specialises in leading strategy, operations, P&L, M&A and go-to-market, with a strong track record of scaling private equity and venture capital-funded businesses, including successful M&A exits, acquisitions, and fundraising.
Adam is passionate about the interplay between high-performance teams in sports and business, with published work on sports business, sponsorship, and ambush marketing. He holds an MBA from Henley Business School, complemented by Executive Education at Harvard Business School.
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Michael Chaskalson
Professor of Practice Associate at Hult International Business School
Michael is a pioneer in the application of mindfulness to leadership and workplace contexts. He is a Professor of Practice Associate at Hult International Business School; an Associate at the Møller Institute at Churchill College in the University of Cambridge; and founding director at Mindfulness Works Ltd.
Michael shares his insights into mindfulness and mindful leadership with audiences in organizations around the world. He is the author of several books, papers and book chapters on mindfulness in organizations and mindful leadership including “The Mindful Workplace” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), the bestselling “Mindfulness in Eight Weeks” (Harper Thorsons, 2014) and co-author of “Mindfulness for Coaches” (Routledge 2018) and “Mind Time” (Harper Thorsons, 2018).
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Lara Próspero
Global L&D Director at Microsoft
Lara is an established leader with over 20 years of experience in the tech sector and almost a decade working remotely. She is passionate about how human beings learn and develop and how they interact in communities both real and virtual.
Lara believes that curiosity is the key to unlocking the future of work. Currently leading a team that spans the world from China to Costa Rica, Lara prepares her team daily to act on a global stage and deal positively with different cultures while building future-proof skills that all of us should care about.
With a Master’s in Physics Engineering and an Executive Master’s in Positive Psychology, Lara brings together the capability of lateral thinking and problem-solving with the contribution to strong team relationships and individuals’ wellbeing as a priority to achieve high-performing, positively engaged, and valued team members.
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Navarun (Nav) Bhattacharya
Head of People eXperience & Technology Academy (Europe) at Amazon
Navarun is a people & talent management professional, with 25 years of work experience across health tech, eComm, retail, power and IT, solving complex business problems in multi-cultural work environments spanning Europe, APAC and North America.
Currently he leads Amazon’s People Experience and Technology Academy for the European Operations business. Previously, he led the Talent Product team for AWS, headed the global Learning function at Philips and held multiple Sales, Consulting and P&L roles, prior to joining HR.
His work is focused on how people and organizations develop and change. He takes a data & science-based approach to solving talent and future of work problems. His work lies in the cusp of experience product design, employee-experiences, behavioral & neuroscience, organizational capability, engagement, and culture.
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