Robin Wood

ABOUT THE PRESENTATION
ThriveAbility - Co-Creating the Future of Quality and a Viable Future
It took quality 40 years to go from being an obscure industrial practice to a widespread business and social change agent. Innovation has taken two decades to become popular, though it is still widely misunderstood, while its twin sister design has gone global though remains a little shallow. Sustainability has gathered momentum in the past decade, but is only just beginning to be reflected in serious business practice, and there is a growing sustainability gap that needs to be urgently addressed.
ThriveAbility integrates these diverse approaches through a radical simplification that is enabled by
• the emerging science of human flourishing,
• big data and analytics driving new insights into sustainability,
• breakthroughs in the art and science of change together with
• major advances in business design and transformation.
We will explore how ThriveAbility helps identify the “North Stars” for supply chains, value networks and business ecosystems, enabling the emergence of key benchmarks for every stage in the value chain from conception and design through to prototyping, building and operating.
You will learn how a thriving world can be co-created by embedding a combination of sustainable technologies, organisational transformation and conscious evolution into today’s businesses, institutions and communities, to create a world we all look forward to living in tomorrow.
Dr Wood will explain why ThriveAbility has the potential to become the next “Excellence”, drawing on powerful stories about what we need to co-create a viable future, and the lessons learned from half a century of quality, innovation, learning organisation and sustainability initiatives. He will also explain how we can together change the game, rules and goals of business and our major institutions in the process.
The interweaving of ThriveAbility practices and the global Quality and Innovation movements could transform our ability to co-create a viable future for all of us in the next decade.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr Robin Wood is a global strategist, futurist and architect of transformation. He has spent three decades working at board level with the world’s leading organizations across key sectors in 30 countries. Dr Wood specializes in designing major shifts in sociopolitical and business ecosystems by inspiring, aligning and empowering the teams and organizations that make them happen.
Robin is the co-founder of the Renaissance2 Foundation, which catalyses social and business innovation through a variety of programs. ThriveAbility is a key program within Renaissance2, and Dr Wood leads the core team responsible for developing and scaling the ThriveAbility Consortium with partners worldwide. He is also the General Manager of the Ervin Laszlo Institute for Advanced Study within Renaissance2, acting as a mentor to a variety of leading edge programs that include empowering the next generation of women leaders, scaling up breakthroughs in information medicine and healthcare, and revolutionising education in the developing world.
Dr Wood graduated from London Business School in 1995 with a PhD in Strategic Alignment. He has been a Fellow at the Centre for Management Development since 2002, where he jointly led the Strategy into Action programme for the top 100 global leaders in Vodafone. Robin’s clients in the past two decades have included the leadership teams in over 40 of the Global 1000 including Glaxo-Wellcome, Pfizer, Novartis, Vodafone, BT, the UK Defense Ministry, ZF Group, BBA Aviation, Eagle Star, Royal & Sun Alliance, Kellogg’s, Ernst and Young International, Hewlett Packard, HP/Microsoft alliance, HP/Intel alliance, Barclays, World Bank, Unilever, Royal Dutch PTT, ICL, 3M and Shell International.
Robin wrote the award-winning book: Managing Complexity-How Businesses can Adapt and Prosper in the Connected Economy, (Economist Books, 2000). He has been a frequent celebrity speaker at major conferences and events, is a former Fellow of the Institute for Coherence and Emergence in the USA, and on the editorial board of Development and Learning in Organizations. His most recent book: The Great Shift: Catalyzing the Second Renaissance, was published to rave reviews in 2009. Robin was elected as a Creative Member of the Club of Budapest in 2010.