2025 Insight Events

‘Transformation Leaders is a network of elite independent transformation professionals. It connects experienced leaders with businesses seeking successful transformation projects emphasising high level ethics and integrity. The network also offers valuable insight events and networking opportunities, including in-person and virtual sessions. The organisations success is highlighted by its effective track record and commitment to professional development and support for its members.’
Source: ChatGPT. 2024 60 word search request

To this end we have published from the end of our first year of foundation and at the end of every month a digest of things we have learned, including member and client feedback. And usually we publish the slidesets of any insight session given to our members. The link to all these members and client’s newsletters are held in the password protected directory in this website.

6. Thursday January 23rd 2025. Lunchtime insight meeting. St James’s Square. Guest speaker: Will Bentinck. Covering a subject even more important than the ‘coders of data’. Referring to our 2024 ‘5 rules for transformation success’. New Year insight session. Subscribing members £60 inc. vat. Other guests subject to availability. £95 inc. vat. Sandwiches Festive new Year wine. Security entry from 12.30. Start 1.00 finish 3.00pm Apply early to info@transformation-leaders.com

7. Thursday March 27th 2025. Lunchtime insight meeting. St James Square. Guest speaker: member and successful independent marketing director Peter Henry. ‘Your all important CV, how to express it as a unique ‘brand’. And additionally in this session -Tax for the independent portfolio worker. Major change in the employment market in the last 20 years means IR35 and thus PAYE for now a very large group of self-drive workers is no longer ‘fit for purpose’. IR35, around now for over 20 years ,has become serious inhibitor to the effective use of the fractional, self- drive portfolio worker. Members £65 inc vat all inclusive. Non subscribers, if there is room, £95 inc vat. Apply info@transformation-leaders.com

8. Thursday May 29th 2025. Lunchtime insight meeting, St James Square. The independent transformation leader as coach. Speaker Chris Brown a top defence contracts lawyer in his career before becoming a very busy senior board level independent He became fascinated by the internal drivers in all human behaviours that influence decision making. So he will be giving new insights into the coaching process which are highly relevant to your effectiveness in helping successful change come about. Members £65 inc vat all inclusive.. Non subscribers, if there is room, £95 inc vat. Apply info@transformation-leaders.com

   At the end of every month now since 2001 we have published a extensive independent report for our members and clients. This is where the detail of what we have learned about this ever- evolving market for ‘projects’ for experienced independents at board level.

10. September 2025. Here we plan an insight event on China 2012-2025 based on the close-up personal observations of myself and another long term T-L.com member in a major 16 MD, IoD, 3 cities mission, to three key cities. Guangzhou ( The Pearl River Delta, the factory of the world) , Hangzhou ( Alibaba), Shanghai (Finance) And by comparison, 13 years later, a recent 3 cities visit in the spring of 2025 along with a number of UK city Mayors where Shenzhen, home of BYD and of course Apple City was especially revealing. Details will emerge in the usual end monthly newsletters. For more information just email info@transformation-leaders.com

10. Thursday October 9th lunchtime. Keynote speaker will be Paul Wilson, Chair of Smart Cities World, read by over 1M people worldwide. Key communicators on urban innovation and transformation. Ex chief global marketing officer of $5bn global Fintech Sungard. Also, a short presentation by member Chris Brown, top defence contracts lawyer, and successful project independent on his latest book on the theme of ‘Which is more important? Money or Purpose’. Cost £65 all in for subscribing members. £95 for visitors, if there is room. More details? info@transformation-leaders.com

10. Wednesday November 26th End year dinner. We like to link this convivial and companionable end -year dinner in the handsome Library of the Army and Navy Club ( affectionally called by members in the days after the foundation in 1835 with Wellington as founding patron, ‘The Rag’ ) with our long adopted Charitable Trust www.ulyssestrust.co.uk ‘challenging the young leaders of tomorrow’. The cost will be a simple single price of just £95 all inclusive, with a Ulysses guest supporter speaker. The list of adventurers linked to the Trust is a formidable one. With Any surplus on the costs go back to the trust. It is noticeable that over the years many T-L.com members have quietly helped this increasingly important Trust, founded with HM the King as founding Patron in 1992, with a groundbreaking First British Winter Assault of Everest. And these donations are always appreciated, but these dinners are NOT overt fundraisers. More a steady building of senior management awareness of the critical role that cadets and reservists are increasingly playing, as we all wake up to the brutal ending of the ‘peace dividend’, which arrived as a result of the collapse of the USSR. Now the relentless revival of Russian aggression against Ukrainians shows us the price of the freedoms we all enjoy. Freedoms which those citizens of countries ruled by autocrats definitely do not enjoy.

10. Thursday January 29th 2026. lunchtime planning session. St James’s Square.

Our first face to face insight meeting of 2026. Which promises to be a year of considerable complexity and thus ‘opportunities’ for all who love change.

Our Chosen Charity. Since 1992 this excellent charity supports challenging Reserve and Cadet Force expeditions throughout the United Kingdom. Transformation-leaders.com is proud to be partnered with www.ulyssestrust.co.uk. Patron and Trust co-founder is the Prince of Wales, now King Charles the Third. The founding expedition was the first British winter assault on Everest led by Trust co-founder Lt Col Philip Neame MBE, then in command of 10 Para.