Oxford University and the Saïd Business School offer a millennia of learning and being a place
of contemplation, of study, of research and excellence. And more than that, Oxford itself
offers the most wonderful stage to a program like the OSLP. It's a really wonderful city to
learn, to study in and to share knowledge and to make connections with like-minded people.
To have the opportunity to come and work on OSLP as part of the incredible team
that put together a new and emergent feeling program every year for participants is really
exciting. It's got a pedigree of 40 years. That's 40 years of leading thinkers and academics
contributing to the program. Not to mention 40 years worth of alumni from across the globe
and from across very different parts of the commercial, business, higher education,
charities and governance sectors. We find ourselves in a period of unprecedented
hyper change. This has been rocket fueled by the global pandemic. Leaders haven't had a chance to
pause, to reflect, to think. It's been so full on. And what the program offers leaders coming to it,
is just that. It's a very gentle pause button in a very busy world. It's a place where they'll be
able to reconnect with themselves, to connect to their fellow participants,
and also to connect to the wonderful faculty from the Saïd Business School
and from the tutors and the other speakers who are invited to talk on the program.
The world is a very different place and leaders find themselves needing new tools,
new insights, new strategies and new tactics for dealing with the ambiguity and the challenges
that they currently face. And this is such a great opportunity to do just that, to pause,
to rethink, to reflect and to recharge and take a deep dive into their personal leadership
and what their organisations really need them to be able to do when they come back to them.
And it provides that space, a really safe space to explore, to experiment, to innovate.
Supported by their fellow participants on the program, as well as the faculty and the tutors.
The program convenes people around asking the right questions. And that's a really important
distinction to make actually. It's not about providing leaders with all of the solutions.
It's about equipping leaders to ask the right questions that are right for them and that are
correct for their organisations as well. The Saïd Business School and Oxford University
provide some of the very best thinking, and I mean academic thinking, in leadership and management.
And combined with the amazing humanities program that exists in the university and the creativity
that exists not just within the university and the city itself,
this creates a unique formula for the Oxford Strategic Leadership Program to draw on.
Oxford itself, as well as having the university and the beautiful university buildings is a really
interesting and diverse city full of curious spaces and inspiring places. And the program
draws on these as well. So participants get to experience a little bit of Oxford
and to understand where some of those leading thinkers and academics that have existed for
hundreds and hundreds of years, where they've drawn their inspiration from.