Real stories from the edge. Practical lessons for leadership, resilience, and high performance under uncertainty.
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Topics
Leading When There is No Map
What it takes to make decisions and hold a team together when there is no precedent to follow, no proven route, and the cost of waiting for certainty is higher than the cost of being wrong.
The Team Adversity Makes
Forging a diverse team that functions under pressure, and designing dissonance and friction as a deliberate choice, because comfortable agreement is how good teams make bad calls.
Improvisation: The Art of Adapting Before the Plan Fails
Lessons from an environment where adapting is a survival skill rather than a management buzzword, and why organisations so reliably die first and adapt second.
When to Grit and When to Quit
Why organisations almost never pivot too early, holding on through sunk costs and shifting goalposts, and how setting turnaround criteria in advance turns quitting from an admission of failure into a decision made on time.
Speaker
Jane Lee
Author | Entrepreneur | Innovation Leader | Adventurer | McKinsey alum
Jane has led teams on mountains and in corporate boardrooms, and brings a global perspective, having lived and worked across a dozen countries. Jane was the first female climber from Southeast Asia to complete the Seven Summits, and led the region’s first all-women’s team to the top of Mount Everest. She has a Master’s from Yale University, and resides in Singapore today.
Past Engagements
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Royal Geographical Society
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Accenture
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Bank Julius Baer
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Proctor & Gamble
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Lenovo
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Singapore Telecom
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British Telecom
