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By now you've already heard plenty about why we're heading to Cavell's North America Summit and who's going, but what can you expect from us during and after the event? Here's just a few of the things that we're going to be talking about during 'Cavell Week' and what insights we'll be looking to share after the summit. #CavellSummitNA #UCaaS #Events #Announcement #Technology #News

Check out the latest edition of Wynford Insights to see what we’ve been up to! #giveyourpeoplemore

This post is perfectly timed today! The conversations that Dat Nguyen, PCC and I share are always energetic and fun, this one is off the charts. As we're nearing the end of 2024, so many people and companies are going into a shut-down mode (after sitting on the sidelines for most of the year because of the unknowns around the election). This is not the time to pump the brakes. This is the time to hit the gas for a successful 2025! What is one of the best things to be doing right now? Creating your vision board for next year! Enjoy this conversation with me and Dat, as we share some tips, tricks, and personal experiences around vision boarding and how you can make yours relevant and powerful. #visionboard, #success2025, #personalpower, #personalvision, #leadership, #personalvalues, #personalgoals, #create

Reflecting on Choices and Paths: The Spirit of Wright Wednesday Through Robert Frost’s Lens As we close Wright Wednesday, Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’ invites us to reflect on the choices that define our professional and personal journeys. Like the Wright brothers, whose bold decisions led them to unknown skies, we too face our forks in the road, our moments of decision that shape our future. In the absence of today’s anticipated dialogues, Frost’s words remind us that reflection and choice are integral to the journey of innovation. Each path taken is a step toward new horizons, new challenges, and new achievements. Let’s embrace the spirit of exploration and the courage to choose our paths, inspired by the pioneering legacy of the Wright brothers and the poetic wisdom of Frost. What paths are you contemplating, and how do they reflect your spirit of innovation? #WrightWednesday #TheRoadNotTaken #ProfessionalGrowth #InnovationPathways

Well worth taking 15 minutes to watch this presentation by a Professor of Marketing at Emory College, Marina Cooley, on "The Art of Life and Living Well" https://lnkd.in/d_EacqbM

In early September I was fortunate enough to attend The OR Society Conference #OR66, which took place at Bangor University this year. For those of you who've never heard of it, operational research is the application of mathematical techniques to solve logistical problems and was used extensively during the World Wars (l think a link is attached to this post!) This conference was a wonderful opportunity to see work in the same field but across several industries, which I'd recommend to anyone who is on the fence about attending similar conferences. There were so many excellent talks at the conference, I couldn't even try to describe all of them, but I've tried to give a brief overview of my favourites: - President's address by Dr Gilbert Owusu focussed on the shape of operational research now and its possible future form. My favourite part of his address was the emphasis on the personal skills required for effective operational research; ‘It's easy to focus on the technique and not think about the "soft side"'. I have always found the OR Society focusses on more than other, related organisations like the RSS on promoting these skills and this was a nice reminder of that emphasis. - Plenary from Dr Jeroen Mulder discussing various applications of OR within AirFrance-KLM. I could feel lots of parallels to the flight industry and the health and care industry, particularly if we think about the many complex factors that impact the industry and the person-centred focus. - Strategic workforce modelling that colleagues in HEIW showed, looking to forecast future workforce using a system dynamics model. The model hopes to make projections up to 15 years into the future, to inform the commissioning of education to create that workforce. - ‘Grand challenges in OR’ workshop. This workshop was an opportunity to put our profession into practice in a completely different setting. We heard the story of the football club the North Wales Dragons, a club that was formed to increase wellbeing through football. The team wanted to find more of the options for assessing their impact and I was able to point them to assessment similar to PROMS/PREMS. It felt amazing to be able to help the club and lend some of my experience for another good cause. If this sounds like something that would interest you in future, there is a #Simulation workshop scheduled for the end of March and the European conference for #OR, #EURO25, is in Leeds in June 2025.

I can certainly relate to this excellent post!

I'm doing a live stream event next week with John Mauriello. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gBSwV9zV Event description: John Mauriello and Raffi Minasian do a deep dive into the destructive forces and perverse incentives that undermine collective well-being in modern society. Inspired by Scott Alexander’s definition of Moloch (from the article Meditations on Moloch), this session explores how conflicting incentives lead to detrimental outcomes in various domains, from industrial design to corporate practices. Through real-world examples, they will illustrate how well-intentioned projects can result in harmful consequences due to mismatched priorities. Discover how these dynamics manifest in everyday products and learn strategies to recognize and mitigate Moloch’s pervasive influence.

VML had announced the appointment of Eric Campbellas CEO of VML North America. Based at VML New York, Campbell will oversee VML’s North American offices, aiming to drive growth and foster closer collaboration for the region’s capabilities and offerings. Read the full story here https://lnkd.in/e86WMCqe