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Abundium Masterclass with Richard Gerver

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tue 20 jul'27, 4:00pm-5:00pm

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live via zoom

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CEO, CFO, CPO, CMO, Executive, Emerging leaders, Digital, NFP-CEO, EA

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from compliant to curious
how apac leaders reawaken the curiosity their organisations quietly train out

with: richard gerver
author, Curiosity (Bloomsbury, 2027) and Change
took a school from the bottom 5% to the top 5% nationally, then took the lessons to Google, Microsoft and Visa

HQ wants innovation. It also wants the forecast on time, compliance signed off and no surprises. Guess which one gets rewarded.

Most multinationals pay for certainty, compliance and expertise, then wonder why their people stopped asking interesting questions. In APAC, where you run a local business on a global playbook, the gap shows up fast. Teams wait for permission. Good ideas die in the approval chain. And leaders (possibly you) get very good at answering and a little out of practice at wondering.

Richard Gerver has seen what happens when you flip that. As one of Britain's youngest headteachers, he took over a school in the bottom 5% nationally and had it in the top 5% within about two years. He did it by letting the children run their own town, with a council, a radio station and a newspaper. UNESCO took notice. Since then he has taken those lessons into boardrooms at Google, Microsoft, Visa, Deloitte, Morgan Stanley and Harvard Business School, and onto stages from TED to the RSA. His new book, Curiosity, launches in July 2027, so you'll hear the ideas just as the book comes out.

His argument is simple: curiosity isn't a soft skill. When things are this uncertain, it's a survival skill.

Richard asks every audience three questions. The last one is: am I authoring this, or surviving it? Come and answer it in a room of peers who know exactly what you mean.

your master

Richard Gerver

Founder

at Richard Gerver

Bio: Richard Gerver works with the world’s most demanding organisations on the problem that nobody else is solving: how to give your people back the curiosity, courage, and creativity their education and their industry trained out of them. He doesn’t run change programmes. He doesn’t sell frameworks. He doesn’t hand your leadership team a system they can file away and quietly ignore. He walks into a room and reawakens something — the instinct, the energy, the capacity for genuine inquiry — that your organisation hired and forgot it had. The organisations that have worked with Richard describe a consistent experience: their people leave differently than they arrived. Not motivated, in the temporary sense. Reawakened. The difference matters, because one lasts for a conference and the other lasts for careers.

your learning outcomes

A clear read on where your organisation rewards certainty over curiosity, and the small signals that tell your team questions aren't welcome
Practical ways to ask better questions of your team, your market and your HQ
How to make experimentation safe inside a compliance-heavy global structure, without going rogue
How to stop just surviving change handed down from HQ and start authoring it locally
A personal check-in on what you've stopped being curious about, and what that's costing you at work and beyond

inside your masterclass

world-class thinkers, brought to you live

Join some of the world’s leading thinkers for live virtual sessions, designed for the realities of multinational leadership today. Each Abundium Masterclass brings you closer to the ideas, expertise and perspectives shaping how the best leaders think and work.

what you’ll take away

Fresh thinking on the leadership and business challenges that matter
Practical tools and frameworks you can apply the same day inside your multinational organisation
New perspectives to challenge and extend your thinking

how to show up

Come curious and ready to get involved. Join the conversation in the chat, ask questions and make connections to your own leadership, team or organisation. The more you engage, the more you’ll get from the hour.