Session

Creative Destruction

Building high performance teams and resilient businesses in uncertain times

New goods and products, methods of production, new markets, organisation, and demand are the impulses that keep economies in motion. Creative destruction incessantly revolutionises from within, destroying what came before, incessantly rebuilding and creating what comes next, often through technology adoption at scale. In this talk Dr Chris Brauer explores the three biggest challenges to developing a high performance culture in organisations and becoming a lighthouse in the storm of creative destruction. 

Dr Chris Brauer

Dr Chris Brauer is a public academic and strategic advisor to the world's biggest organisations and brands. His focus is on public and media engagement with global issues impacting and shaping our current and future socio-economic and socio-cultural lives. 

As Director of Innovation for Goldsmiths, University of London he conducts large-scale empirical research projects on the intersections of emerging technologies, future of work, human behaviour, risk, ethics, governance, productivity and innovation. His research has featured in over 400 media outlets worldwide including extensive segments in BBC News, Financial Times, CNN, CBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Globo, BBC World Service, BBC Click, BBC Newsnight, the Daily Mail, and China Central TV (CCTV).

He holds numerous non-exec and board roles including Chairman of Innovation at Edelman, the world's largest communication and marketing firm, advising clients on the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation, inclusivity, disruption, performance cultures at work, and AI. He led the world's largest behaviour change driving experiment with 3,000 drivers in 13 countries with Shell, has led AI and cultural transformation research for Microsoft for the past four years, developed the psychological framework of the Science of Common Ground for Heineken's award-winning Open your World campaign, and benchmarked the vulnerabilities of global corporate leaders to key cybersecurity challenges for the NASDAQ stock exchange.

A proven leader in challenging corporate, government, and civil society environments, Dr Chris is one of 50 global industrial strategy officers for the World Economic Forum (WEF), a frequent keynote speaker at corporate and public events and a certified PMP, PRINCE2, AGILE, and SCRUM project manager.