Selina Neri

Future Readiness is the DNA of people built to thrive in the Future of Life and Work. It rests on the lifelong ability and willingness to learn, unlearn and relearn a set of characteristics so that people can propel themselves and their organizations forward. These include competences, experiences, drivers, preferences, influence and potential. How Future Readiness expresses itself depends on its DNA’s “plasticity”, the ability to find ways of responding to new environments and thrive in new circumstances, so that people can adapt and grow into challenging new responsibilities and problems to solve.

Luxury brands are rethinking their luxury equations in the age society’s search for meaning and purpose, geopolitical and economic volatility, and augmented Intelligence. The industry can use this new chapter as an opportunity to reflect and recalibrate. Questions luxury brands need to answer include: what does our Future Readiness DNA look like? and how can our human capital build and live this DNA?

With wit, data-driven insight and deep experience advising global organizations, future readiness expert and leadership professor Selina Neri, Ph.D., reveals what it takes for luxury talent to propel themselves and their organizations forward in the era of economic uncertainly. Leaders will explore what Future Readiness is, why it is important in a luxury market that remains under pressure, and what game-changing, counter-intuitive practices can help kick off and stay on the Future Readiness journey. Audiences exit equipped to understand how future-ready talent and leadership help tackle the luxury strategic imperatives of our time.

For a company to succeed, many things have to go right. But when something goes wrong and businesses fail, Selina Neri, Ph.D. explains that it’s crucial to understand why and what behaviors may have led up to it. A senior fellow of the Center for Governance of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, Neri accessibly outlines what corporate governance is and why good governance is vital to success. Through advisory and learning & development work aimed at founders, C-level executives and boards as much as employees and investors, she shows why everyone must have a foundational understanding of governance that enables people to “see” governance around them in everyday business life and behavior. Neri empowers audiences with a clear grasp of corporate governance as “the operating system of a business,” emphasizing the important human behavior aspect. With this new outlook, attendees will be able to activate themselves as “actors of governance” and their companies as “machines that can create value” well into the future.

For companies to attract and retain the best talent while boldly building for the future, it all starts with leadership that embraces Future Readiness for themselves and the people they have the privilege to lead. According to Selina Neri, Ph.D., Professor of Leadership & Governance at Hult Ashridge, the best leaders infuse hope, trust and stability throughout an organization. In this inspiring presentation, she shows that empathetic leaders who focus on their teams over themselves are best equipped to help employees feel a true connection to their workplace. Neri reveals changes needed to the traditional leadership toolkit that will mobilize value across an organization. Empowering the leaders of today and fueling agency in those of tomorrow, she ensures audiences that we all have leadership abilities, it’s just up to us as individuals whether we nurture them or not and how we put them to use.

Technology, geopolitics, longevity and the human search for meaning are changing the employment landscape at a speed never seen before. According to Selina Neri, Ph.D., CEO, Dean and Co-founder of the Future Readiness Academy, the urgency to be prepared for the future of work is greater than ever. In this revealing presentation, she challenges traditional paradigms about talent development and future skills. Neri provides audiences with practical, holistic ideas and tools for creating fluid models of talent and building lifelong learning cultures. Empowered to “build to thrive,” attendees leave with a freshly bolstered sense of agency to be relevant in the future of work while navigating what lies ahead with confidence.