Leadership Development Day 2025

About the event

The world is evolving at an unprecedented rate, and as leaders face growing challenges across industries, the need for transformation and effective leadership has never been greater to succeed.

Join CBS Executive Education and NOCA’s annual Leadership Development Day to explore how to navigate and lead transformation amidst uncertainty. Empower yourself with the tools and insights to thrive as a leadership development specialist in a rapidly evolving landscape.

The need for leadership development as a discipline has never been more urgent. This day is dedicated to exploring how leadership development specialists can help nurture the next generation of leaders capable of guiding organisations through this turbulence with resilience, innovation, and foresight.

Programme highlights

Keynote Speakers: from leading researchers at CBS and a prominent expert from Harvard Business School or IMD, offering global and academic perspectives.

Case Studies: from Denmark’s largest organizations, showcasing their approaches to leadership development.

Interactive Workshops: Leadership Development Experiment: Experience a cutting-edge process for fostering leadership adaptability & Creativity for Reinvention: Cultivate creativity as a critical tool for transformation and innovation of leadership.

Date	26 February
Time	9:30-16:00
Place	CBS Ovnhallen Porcelænshaven 24A 2000 Frederiksberg
Format	In-person

Programme

TBA

No-show fee: In order to give the most people the opportunity to participate in the event and to protect ourselves against food waste etc., we need to know if you are participating, otherwise we can give your place to someone else. Therefore, if you cancel after the deadline on February 24th at 12:00 CET or do not arrive on the day, you will subsequently receive a charge of 450 DKK. Should you be prevented, you are always welcome to send a colleague in your place and thereby avoid paying a no-show fee.

Camilla Sløk

Associate Professor at CBS

Camilla has specialised in leadership ethics, organisational dilemmas, and value-based conflicts. Her research focuses on the existential and ethical challenges leaders face, particularly the tensions between professional, political, and organisational expectations.

Through her work, Camilla explores the role of guilt and responsibility in leadership, emphasising how leaders navigate failure and stakeholder expectations.

Christian Byrge

Professor at Vilnius University Business School

Christian is a PhD and full professor of creative thinking, team creativity, and AI creative thinking at Vilnius University Business School in Lithuania. As an internationally recognised researcher, he has provided creativity training to more than 100,000 professionals from leading organisations worldwide.

Over the years, he has advised over 300 organisations on developing creativity as a team culture, an effective work process, and a valuable set of leadership and employee skills.

Morven McLean

Head of Global Leadership & Talent Management at Arla Foods

Morven McLean’s background spans two ambitious decades across leadership, talent development, and learning, working in both corporate and academic sectors before her current role at Arla Foods. She has developed extensive expertise in organisational transformation, cultural change, and L&D; and is known for daring to sponsor bold and highly original solutions to complex problems.

Her international career includes roles in large global organisations and smaller enterprises, where she has established herself as a leader in empowering teams and leaders, fostering a love of learning and encouraging people to reach their full potential. At Arla, she focuses on designing leadership development strategies that align with the company’s growth and transformation goals.

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Leadership Development Day 2025

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Meet the speakers

Camilla Sløk

Christian Byrge

Morven McLean

More speakers to be announced!

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