Business Breakfast

Love your disruptors

Thriving not just surviving in times of change

Thursday 25th May
08:30 - 10:30 am
Mazars, 5th Floor, 3 Wellington Place, Leeds. LS1 4AP

Let's start with a simple question... “In a world where there is no 'normal' and definitely no such thing as the status quo. Would you rather be positively disrupting your market? Or being disrupted by someone else?”

What you can expect to learn

In this session, Steve Houghton-Burnett accredited Vistage Speaker and Fractional IT Director at Freeman Clarke, shares some actionable insights and tools that cover the people, process and technology side of innovation and change.

Addressing 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.

Session takeaways:

How a 130 year old playing card company is one of the biggest market disruptors in the world today.
Why staying true to your core principles will give you longevity in a disruptive market.
A repeatable process to allow you to continually innovate in any marketplace.

Event timings:

8:30 - 9:00: Arrival, coffee and networking
9:00 - 9:45: Main speaker
9:45 - 10:00: Q&A session
10:00 - 10:30: Coffee and networking

Reserve your place:

Guest Speaker:

Steve Houghton-Burnett

Steve is a business change specialist having held senior roles in IT Management including Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) within several multinational organisations. He has successfully delivered transformational projects and programmes with budgets of between £150k and £4.5 million and with organisational benefit contribution of between £2 and £65 million. Most often he is engaged as the Director of Transformation within the client team.

Steve thrives on positive disruption and loves to see organisations take advantage of emerging technologies to create solutions that simply would not have been possible previously. He believes change is the only constant.