08.45 – 10.00

II .1  The Nexus of Knowledge

LMA

II .2  Leadership in KIOs

Old Lib

Conference Session II 

Managing knowledge

Chris Mabey

           Effective management of knowledge exchange:

          A conceptual investigation of five leadership paradoxes

Alastair McCapra

          From KI to AI:

          Professional bodies and knowledge management in the age of the robot

Session Chair: Martin Lockett, Ashridge Business School

Self-Leadership for change and transformation

Terry Porter

          Living the mission:

          A case study of a self-transforming UK civil society organization linking              

          knowledge management, social sustainability, complex systems

 Maria Nathan

         The knowledge worker as CEO of self                  

Session Chair: Caryn Vanstone, Ashridge Business School

10.00–  10.30

Coffee, Wyatt Room

10.30 – 12.45

LMA

12.45 – 14.00

Keynote Addresses I

Talent and knowledge cultivation in knowledge intensive firms

Philip Sadler, Senior Fellow, Tomorrow’s Company and former CEO Ashridge

          The talent intensive organisation, the 1993 starting blocks

Juani Swart, Professor of Human Capital, School of Management, University

           of Bath

          HR policies and processes to manage knowledge professionals in

          contemporary contexts

Laurent Choain, Chief HR Officer, Mazars Group, Paris

           Innovation, education and HR strategy in professional tervice firms 

Chair: Professor Stephen Chen, University of Newcastle, AUS; Chair AIRC4

Lunch, Main Dining Hall

14.00 – 16.00

III .1The Nexus of    Knowledge

LMA

III .2 Leadership in    KIOs

Old Lib

Conference Session III

Ethics and trust

Barbara Wang

                Truth and trust: The IP challenge in the partnership of Chinese and   

              Western companies

Richard McGowan

                The tale of two weeds: tobacco, marijuana and the ethics of disgust

Katrina Hogan, Sandeep Gopalan

Leveraging codes of ethics through law to minimize agency costs

Session Chair:  John Mahon, University  of Maine, USA

Management styles

Nawtej Dosanjh

          Top management influence and ambidexterity in managerial practice

Hemangi Bhalerao, Satishchandra Kumar

          Impact of conflict management styles of leaders on the commitment

          level of subordinates in India

Kai Wing (Alex) Chu

          Leading knowledge management in a school

Session Chair: Vicki Culpin, Ashridge Business School

 16.00 – 16.30  

Tea, Wyatt Room

16.30 – 18.30

LMA

‘

“The Ashridge Experience”

Caryn Vanstone,  Ashridge Business School and Lacerta Consulting

          Leading for innovation in KIOs:

          Rethinking knowledge, people, risk and the role of improvisation

18.30 – 19.30

A walk in the grounds or Tour of the Mansion and/or Publishing Clinic

19.30 – 20.00

Publishers’ Reception on the Loggia

20.00 – 22.00

Old Lib

Conference Dinner in the Old Library

with

After dinner speech “Risk and leaders” by the ‘Priest of Sin’

09.00 – 10.15

IV.1The Nexus of    Knowledge

LMA

IV.2 Leadership in    KIOs

Old Lib

Conference Session IV

Emotion and knowledge transfer

José Vargas-Hernandes, Patricia Carmona-Fuentes, Roberto E. Rosas-Reyes

                The influence of emotional intelligence on job performance

Christina  Swart-Opperman,  Kurt April

Understanding innovation and emotive outlook of knowledge teams

in Namibia

Session Chair: Kerrie Fleming, Ashridge Business School

Leadership and performance

Tomohiko Tanikawa, Yuhee Jung

                The effect of TMT diversity in knowledge industry:

The interactive role of TMT diversity, the CEO power and past performance

Caroline Rowland, Roger Hall

           Leadership in turbulent times:

           Realities of a white-water world

Session Chair: Lee Waller, Ashridge Business School

10.15 – 10.45

Coffee, Wyatt Room

10.45– 12.45

Keynote Addresses II

Leading and developing people in knowledge intensive firms

Dame Fiona Woolf, Partner, CMS Cameron McKenna and the 686th Lord

           Mayor of London (2013-2014)

          Talent development in the City

John Mahon, Chair of International Business Policy and Strategy and

           Professor of Management, University of Maine, USA

          Knowledge acculturation, retention and corruption in knowledge

           intensive organizations

Vlatka Hlupic, Professor of Business and Management, Dept. of Leadership

          and Professional Development, Westminster Business School

         The management shift in knowledge intensive organisations  

Chair: Vicki Culpin,

Dean of Faculty and Director of Research, Ashridge Business School 

12.45 – 13.00

Concluding Practice                                                            Lee Waller, Chair AIRC4

Concluding Academe and Closing of conference   Carla Millar, Chair AIRC4

13.00 – 14.00

End-of-Conference Lunch, Main Dining Hall