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programme
The value of The Threshold is the high caliber of the cohort. This is a private chamber of peer senior leaders (CEOs, Chairs, founders, and public leaders across corporations, family offices and institutions), who are all dealing with similar systemic stress. It is a rare space for radical candour, authenticity and high-level exchange.
This is not about inspiration. It is about articulating the practical evolution of your leadership architecture to ensure your organisation thrives when the map disappears.
@ OXFORD Rhodes House
DAY 1
18 March 2027
08:00 – 08:30
WELCOME and introduction
08:30 – 09:30
STEPHEN SACKUR: Leading under uncertainty
An open and interactive discussion exploring the geopolitical, economic, and societal forces reshaping the world and their implications for leaders. Moderated by renowned journalist and former BBC HARDtalk presenter Stephen Sackur, the conversation will bring together Diana Fox Carney (First Lady of Canada), Margrethe Vestager (Chair of The Board of Governors, former Executive Vice President, European Commission, former Commissioner for Competition), David Tait (CEO, World Gold Council) and Ian Goldin (Professor at Oxford University, former Vice President of the World Bank, and leading expert on globalisation and geopolitics) to examine how leaders can navigate complexity, make better decisions, and build resilient organisations in an increasingly uncertain world.
10:00 – 11:00
PROF. IAN GOLDIN: the forces shaping today’s world
(geopolitics, technology, sustainability and implications for leadership)
Ian Goldin shows how leaders can navigate effectively in a time of accelerating change and growing complexity. He identifies the opportunities for businesses and outlines how the future is likely to evolve, and the how best to mitigate the escalating risks and uncertainties. He provides a systems analysis of the evolving economic, technological, demographic, environmental and geopolitical landscape and shows how in an increasingly entangled world there is also more choice and potential for transformative decision making. Professor Goldin provides perspectives on the evolution of the main trends which shape the future of businesses and societies.
THE GOAL: He will show how leaders can manage uncertainty and address complex challenges while growing reputable businesses.
11:15 – 12:15
MARTIN REEVES: the imagination game
Geopolitical developments and market shifts don't follow a straight line. This session uses Imagination
as a Survival Muscle to stress-test your current business model against " non-obvious" futures.
THE GOAL: Moving from Reactive (responding to a crisis) to Anticipatory
(positioning the organisation to benefit from volatility).
12:30 – 13:00
DIANE THIBAUT DE MAISIÈRES: inner grounding & resonant leadership
In complex and uncertain environments, a leader’s greatest leverage is not only strategic clarity, but
inner stability. When a leader is disconnected from their own grounding, it creates noise, reactivity,
and misalignment across the entire system.
Conversely, when a leader is deeply anchored, they become a stabilising presence that enables clarity,
trust, and collective intelligence to emerge.
THE GOAL: Developing the ability to access inner balance and clarity under pressure, so the
leader can show up at their best. From this grounded state, they not only navigate complexity
with discernment, but also create the conditions for others to contribute their full wisdom and
potential.
13:30 – 14:30
LUNCH
14:45 – 16:15
MARTIN REEVES: the architecture of continuous intelligence
Insight is only valuable if it’s current. We help you design a Personal Feedback Loop, a structured
system to ingest raw, unfiltered intelligence from the edges of your industry (including "Reverse
Mentors" and next-gen disruptors).
THE GOAL: Ensuring the CEO’s perspective is never trapped in an "echo chamber" of historical data.
16:30 – 18:00
PETER HANKE: the orchestration finale: scalable power
The finale is not a metaphor, it is a lived experience. In this immersive moment, leadership becomes
visible, tangible, and immediate. Every gesture, every intention, every inner state is reflected back
through the musicians. Leaders experience firsthand how clarity, presence, and alignment, or the lack
of it, directly shape collective performance.
THE GOAL: To reveal, through direct experience, each leader’s natural leadership patterns and
their impact on a system. By conducting the ensemble, participants discover how to move
beyond towards coherence, trust, and shared collective intelligence.
19:30
DINNER
DAY 2
19 March 2027
Day 2 shifts from the symmetry of the group
to the specifics of the individual leadership agenda. This is a half-day, intensive "Chamber Session" designed to bridge the gap between systemic theory and its practical implications.
09:00 – 12:00
TAILORED ADVISORY: Tackling the Personal Agenda
Participants will move into moderated, high-density working sessions. This is not a general discussion; it is a tailored surgical approach on the specific challenges currently sitting on your desk, whether that is navigating a complex merger, responding to geopolitical supply chain shifts, the impact of exponential technology, macroeconomic and competitive pressures on the way you manage and operate.
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The Targeted Deep-Dive: Utilising the frameworks from Day 1, we perform a stress-test on your current 12-to-24-month roadmap.
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A Tailored Experience from the Start: Prior to the Symposium, participants will be invited to join a confidential preparatory conversation. This session is designed to identify the most pressing leadership challenges, priorities, and questions facing the cohort, ensuring that the programme is shaped around real-world concerns rather than generic themes. This process allows our faculty to tailor the experience and helps ensure that each participant derives maximum value from their time at The Threshold.
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Expert Moderation: These sessions are facilitated by our lead faculty and moderators. Their role is to act as a "Critical Friend", challenging assumptions, identifying blind spots, and ensuring the dialogue remains anchored in pragmatic outcomes.
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Peer-Review Intelligence: You will benefit from the "Collective Bandwidth" of a small, hand-picked cohort of peers. This cross-sector feedback provides a neutral, high-level perspective that is impossible to find within the walls of your own organisation.
The Symposium concludes with the formalisation of your "Strategic Navigation Roadmap." This is a concise, pressure-tested set of pivots designed for immediate implementation within your organisation.
THE GOAL: Creating a fundamental shift in your leadership trajectory, moving from the friction of legacy models to a high-velocity architecture. You leave not with a collection of notes, but with a refined operating system, ensuring that your participation to this chamber translates into a measurable increase in your organisation’s adaptive capacity and long-term resilience.