Love Your Disruptors - Thriving Not Just Surviving in Times of Change

21 October 2026

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM GMT

Event Overview

Love Your Disruptors - Thriving Not Just Surviving in Times of Change 

 

This session is aimed at senior leaders and executives who want their business to thrive not just survive in times of significant change. The session covers two fundamental types of innovation and seven ways that existing products and services can be restructured and repurposed, or, that new products can be created. I also provide a repeatable five-step innovation process. During the session, I bring to the table three examples of organisations that have continually innovated over the course of their histories. I then show how their innovation has positioned them as brand leaders today even though they are all well over 100 years old. I prove to the group that in doing so, these brands have also managed to stay true to their original core values and beliefs.

A session like this has limited value unless you leave it confident in how to effect change in your workplace. With this in mind, I also cover how to get leadership and wider organisational buy-in to delivering change. You will be able to identify and work with both your natural change champions and your more resistant or cynical staff. During the session, attendees receive concrete strategies and tools that can be taken back into the workplace for immediate use.

Event Speakers

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Steve Houghton-Burnett

Vistage Speaker

Steve has nearly 25 years’ experience running businesses with the last 10 years delivering change by leading large programme and project environments. He has real coal-face experience of how attitudes and behaviours can either deliver significant results or catastrophic failures. An entrepreneur at heart... He has started, grown and sold a few businesses in his time