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Stay local or go global?

Thursday, May 18, 2023

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An event facilitated by The Business Desk editor, Michael Taylor and hosted by Academic Director of Executive Education, Bryan Lukas, with panellists including Booking.com’s Lisa Shaftesley, Jo Ahmed, Partner and Leader of the Global Employer Services practice, Deloitte, and Dr Courtney Owens, Lecturer in Leadership and Organisational Psychology at AMBS.

Seven Takeaways from our Leadership in a Volatile and Uncertain World event

Thursday, April 27, 2023

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How can organisations promote authentic leadership?

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Executive Director of Client Relations at Alliance Manchester Business School, Stuart Wells, considers how executive education can enable organisations to adapt to this change. >>

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Preventing Imposter Syndrome

Thursday, April 6, 2023

Professor of Marketing and Academic Director of Executive Education at Alliance Manchester Business School, Bryan Lukas explores imposter syndrome and how executive education can help fill those knowledge gaps. >>

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Nature v Nurture: How to become a leader

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Managing Director for Executive Education at Alliance Manchester Business School, Jane Cromblehome shares her top tips for becoming a leader and how to know when the time is right for training. >>

Topic

Type

Year

NCSR logo

Launch of National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+]

Ben Axelsen, Duncan Shaw | Thursday, October 21, 2021
Covid-19
Podcast
map of the uk with an upward trending graph overlaid

The UK’s productivity disparities – what’s the role of research and development?

Richard A.L. Jones | Thursday, October 14, 2021
Investments, Technology
Podcast
global offices meeting

Travelling through Productivity Land

Bart Van Ark | Thursday, October 7, 2021
Productivity
Podcast
contactless payment card reader credit card

Are we what we (don’t) consume?

Emma Banister | Thursday, September 30, 2021
Sustainability
Podcast
nurse helping rehab patient

Organising care around patients, Stories from the frontline of the NHS

Alastair McLellan, Jeremy Taylor, Kath Checkland, Naomi Chambers | Thursday, September 23, 2021
Management
Podcast
mioir innovation and wage inequality listing

Leading in the post-pandemic world of work

Simon Hayward | Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Management, Work
Podcast
hand stacking coins

Choices now that will define a decade

Tony Danker | Thursday, September 16, 2021
Management, Work
Podcast
ambulance crew celebrating wearing face coverings

Human Aspects of Resilience

David Powell, Duncan Shaw, Roisin Jordan | Thursday, September 9, 2021
Covid-19
Podcast
women leading in business logo

Helen Pankhurst Women Leading in Business

Helen Pankhurst | Thursday, July 29, 2021
Work
Podcast

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Blog posts give the views of the author, and are not necessarily those of Alliance Manchester Business School and The University of Manchester.

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