1 - 3 Mar & 22 - 24 May, 2023
Build your
future-
readiness
A 3-day immersive leadership program to stay
relevant for Gen Z and become future ready
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Build your future-readiness
Pre-covid the Swiss Life Global Partner Network developed a trend report unraveling changing needs and values of future customers and employees: Generation Z (7-24 years). Today, the world is shaped by multiple crises, meaning insurers have to navigate complexity while the future is uncertain. To thrive in such a world and to tackle common industry challenges, insurers must become future-ready. Join us for a 3-day learning experience to build your future readiness.
Innovate together with your peers from the Swiss Life Global Partner Network
This program fosters knowledge sharing and builds collective wisdom in a trusted environment together with insurers from the network, aimed at thriving and surviving in the future.
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Build your future-readiness
Pre-covid the Swiss Life Global Partner Network developed a trend report unraveling changing needs and values of future customers and employees: Generation Z (7-24 years). Today, the world is shaped by multiple crises, meaning insurers have to navigate complexity while the future is uncertain. To thrive in such a world and to tackle common industry challenges, insurers must become future-ready. Join us for a 3-day learning experience to build your future readiness.
Innovate together with your peers from the Swiss Life Global Partner Network
This program fosters knowledge sharing and builds collective wisdom in a trusted environment together with insurers from the network, aimed at thriving and surviving in the future.
Your Innovation Enablers
Michael Hansen
CEO of the Swiss Life Global Partner Network
Kees Elands
Founder of TrendsActive & Trend Pioneer
Howard Yu
LEGO professor of management and innovation at IMD businessschool, Switzerland
Aljan de Boer
Head of Inspiration at TrendsActive & Community Director at Institute for Real Growth
5 Key Program Benefits
2023 Program dates: March 1-3 & May 22-24
Day 1 Explore the future and uncover 6 trends and 10 opportunities to stay relevant for Generation Z.
Benefits
- Deep understanding of future customers and employees
- Examined implications on innovation, HR, marketing of life insurers
- Clarity: unravel Gen Z with insights from the social sciences and turn complexity into strategic clarity.
The first day is all about the employees and customers of the future. We will explain 6 in-depth sociocultural trends on changing needs and behavior of Generation Z. As you gain insight into the ways that future generations can affect the insurance industry and your business, you will be better prepared to harness innovation, lead change, and boost your company’s lifespan.
Enjoy a dinner at an extraordinary location with french cuisine, exclusive wines and inspiring talks.
Kick off session (online)
- Clear briefing
- Strong alignment
- Creating a trusted environment for peer-engagement
Before we embark on our journey towards the future we are organizing an online kick-off to brief and align on our mutual objectives. This will be a collective zoom/teams call. During this induction call everyone who signed-up will be given an in-depth explanation of the program. Some of you might already know each other. But we will also engage in a short round of introduction and create an atmosphere of mutually and collaboration required to make this program a succes.
Besides the collective get-together we will also plan 1-on-1 briefing calls with every individual organization. This call helps us as facilitators to understand your specific business situation, circumstances and challenges. It is an essential step for us to tailor the program to your organization’s needs.
Explore the future and uncover 6 trends and 10 opportunities to stay relevant for Generation Z.
- Deep understanding of future customers and employees
- Examined implications on innovation, HR, marketing of life insurers
- Clarity: unravel Gen Z with insights from the social sciences and turn complexity into strategic clarity.
The first day is all about the employees and customers of the future. We will explain 6 in-depth sociocultural trends on changing needs and behavior of Generation Z. As you gain insight into the ways that future generations can affect the insurance industry and your business, you will be better prepared to harness innovation, lead change, and boost your company’s lifespan.
Enjoy a dinner at an extraordinary location with
french cuisine, exclusive wines and inspiring talks.
Envision industry narratives with your peers from the network and develop a strong viewpoint for your organization.
- Multiple industry narratives created in collaboration with partners
- Three strong viewpoints on the future of your own organization
- Placing little bets. The way forward to reduce risk and seize opportunity in today’s high-uncertainty and complex conditions
During the second day we will help you simultaneously recognizing patterns in the present, and thinking about how those changes will impact the future. For a company, what’s needed when making a strategic choice is this: Have a widely shared viewpoint, but fully acknowledge the inherent uncertainty. This sounds absurdly commonsensical, but most companies exactly do the opposite. Managers go through the most excruciating data analytics based on past history, declare a bold move, align the entire organization for its implementation, and then never look back. What this means is companies need to scale their innovation by thinking in bets. And they need to leave a large enough of a buffer to allow things to go wrong in ways they can’t even imagine.
Enjoy a dinner at an extraordinary location with
french cuisine, exclusive wines and inspiring talks.
Build your organizations’ future readiness and converge at what it takes from your personal leadership to drive the desired change.
- Grasp what it takes for your company to become future ready
- Commit to universal behaviors of future-ready companies., based on evidence and conviction.
- Arrive and converge at a set agenda to take your organization and team forward.
On day 3 you examine disruption and strategic decision-making through the lens of Howard’s future readiness theory. This will help you gain a deeper understanding of the levers that can drive organizational growth. Howard and his team analyzed top companies by revenue across four sectors, measuring seven equally weighted factors, then analyzed what leading companies were doing differently. They discovered industry specific insights, which also informed more universal lessons. Day 3 is about understanding and adopting those universal lessons to become future ready.
Kick-back session (online)
- Discuss progress and how to overcome barriers and pitfalls for succes.
- Share learnings and build collective wisdom.
- Pivot and adjust accordingly to drive future results.
Day 4 will take place about one month after the 3-day learning experience. It will invite all participating partners to reconvene and share their learnings as they move forward. Undoubtedly, every organization will encounter challenges when taking action on how to be relevant for Gen Z and becoming future-ready.
2023 Program dates: March 1-3 & May 22-24
Day 1 Explore the future and uncover 6 trends and 10 opportunities to stay relevant for Generation Z.
Benefits
- Deep understanding of future customers and employees
- Examined implications on innovation, HR, marketing of life insurers
- Clarity: unravel Gen Z with insights from the social sciences and turn complexity into strategic clarity.
The first day is all about the employees and customers of the future. We will explain 6 in-depth sociocultural trends on changing needs and behavior of Generation Z. As you gain insight into the ways that future generations can affect the insurance industry and your business, you will be better prepared to harness innovation, lead change, and boost your company’s lifespan.
Enjoy a dinner at an extraordinary location with french cuisine, exclusive wines and inspiring talks.
Kick off session (online)
- Clear briefing
- Strong alignment
- Creating a trusted environment for peer-engagement
Before we embark on our journey towards the future we are organizing an online kick-off to brief and align on our mutual objectives. This will be a collective zoom/teams call. During this induction call everyone who signed-up will be given an in-depth explanation of the program. Some of you might already know each other. But we will also engage in a short round of introduction and create an atmosphere of mutually and collaboration required to make this program a succes.
Besides the collective get-together we will also plan 1-on-1 briefing calls with every individual organization. This call helps us as facilitators to understand your specific business situation, circumstances and challenges. It is an essential step for us to tailor the program to your organization’s needs.
Explore the future and uncover 6 trends and 10 opportunities to stay relevant for Generation Z.
Benefits- Deep understanding of future customers and employees
- Examined implications on innovation, HR, marketing of life insurers
- Clarity: unravel Gen Z with insights from the social sciences and turn complexity into strategic clarity.
Enjoy a dinner at an extraordinary location with french cuisine, exclusive wines and inspiring talks.
Envision industry narratives with your peers from the network and develop a strong viewpoint for your organization.
Benefits- Multiple industry narratives created in collaboration with partners
- Three strong viewpoints on the future of your own organization
- Placing little bets. The way forward to reduce risk and seize opportunity in today’s high-uncertainty and complex conditions
During the second day we will help you simultaneously recognizing patterns in the present, and thinking about how those changes will impact the future. For a company, what’s needed when making a strategic choice is this: Have a widely shared viewpoint, but fully acknowledge the inherent uncertainty. This sounds absurdly commonsensical, but most companies exactly do the opposite. Managers go through the most excruciating data analytics based on past history, declare a bold move, align the entire organization for its implementation, and then never look back. What this means is companies need to scale their innovation by thinking in bets. And they need to leave a large enough of a buffer to allow things to go wrong in ways they can’t even imagine.
DinnerEnjoy a dinner at an extraordinary location with french cuisine, exclusive wines and inspiring talks.
Build your organizations’ future readiness and converge at what it takes from your personal leadership to drive the desired change.
- Grasp what it takes for your company to become future ready
- Commit to universal behaviors of future-ready companies., based on evidence and conviction.
- Arrive and converge at a set agenda to take your organization and team forward.
On day 3 you examine disruption and strategic decision-making through the lens of Howard’s future readiness theory. This will help you gain a deeper understanding of the levers that can drive organizational growth. Howard and his team analyzed top companies by revenue across four sectors, measuring seven equally weighted factors, then analyzed what leading companies were doing differently. They discovered industry specific insights, which also informed more universal lessons. Day 3 is about understanding and adopting those universal lessons to become future ready.
Kick-back session (online)
- Discuss progress and how to overcome barriers and pitfalls for succes.
- Share learnings and build collective wisdom.
- Pivot and adjust accordingly to drive future results.
Day 4 will take place about one month after the 3-day learning experience. It will invite all participating partners to reconvene and share their learnings as they move forward. Undoubtedly, every organization will encounter challenges when taking action on how to be relevant for Gen Z and becoming future-ready.
What
3-day learning experience (in real life)
Kick-Off and Kick-Back (online)
Who
5 senior leaders per partner. Max.5 SwissLife Network Partners
When
Date 1 – 3 March & 22 – 24 May, 2023
Where
Paris, Château de Herces, Rue du Château,
28260 Berchères-sur-Vesgre, France
Investment
Price on request per Partner Company (incl. 5 Senior leaders, accommodation and meals, workshop materials)
Registration
Until April 10, 2023
Who should join?
The 3-day program is specifically tailored to the needs of the Partners from the Swiss Life Global Network. Each partner has the opportunity to invite 5 senior leaders. Based on our experience, we highly recommend you to send a cross-functional team to reap the most benefits for your organization. Please be inspired by the attached suggestions.
Example company 1:
- CEO
- Chief People Manager
- Head of Sales
- EVP Innovation
- Head of Actuaries
Example company 2:
- CFO
- Director of Group Benefits
- CMO
- Chief People Manager
- EVP innovation
Venue
Château de Herces in Paris, France
We have chosen the Châteauform as the program location, to provide leaders a carefree, magical experience to encourage cohesion, creativity and reflection. Chateaueform’s venues go beyond your everyday corporate event location. Their characteristic buildings offer each participant the opportunity to enjoy an environment entirely dedicated to work, reflection and relaxation in an atmosphere that makes them feel at home .
Testimonials
TrendsActive has been helping us with innovation for over 5 years, developing new propositions for both our life as well as non-life insurance activities. Other than the traditional consultancy‘s, TrendsActive brings a truly human-centered perspective enabling us to anticipate changing needs and values of our customers.
Kokke van der Werf
Board Director Savings & Investments Nationale NederlandenIn a world driven by global competition and constant change, businesses increasingly struggle to achieve long-term success. Howard Yu offers a unique source of strategic ideas that will enable complex organizations to reinvent themselves and drive sustainable growth.
