Chantell Ilbury
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Category:
Speaker
Location:
Cape Town South Africa
Preferred Language:
English
Tags:
Author,Businesswoman,Facilitator,Professional Speaker,Scenario Strategist,South Africa,Trend analyst
Profile:
Guest Speaker Chantell Ilbury is a renowned strategist, facilitator, speaker, best-selling business author, and founding partner of Mindofafox and its education and training arm, Growing Foxes. A specialist in scenarios, she guides executive teams through strategic conversations across a diverse array of sectors, including energy, resources, mining, agriculture, transportation, industry, health, retail and manufacturing. She draws on experience working globally, as far afield as the UK, Ireland, the US, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Ukraine, Australia, Jamaica, Kuwait, Singapore, India, Mauritius, Réunion Island, as well as throughout Africa. She lectures strategy at various business schools and is an executive fellow of Strathmore University.
She is the co-author with Clem Sunter of The Mind of a Fox, Games Foxes Play and Socrates and the Fox - published together in 2011 as The Fox Trilogy. Her 4th book, A Fox’s Tale: Insights from one of Africa’s most creative strategic thinkers, was published by Penguin in July 2016.
Guest Speaker Chantell Ilbury is a renowned strategist, facilitator, speaker, best-selling business author, and founding partner of Mindofafox and its education and training arm, Growing Foxes. A specialist in scenarios, she guides executive teams through strategic conversations across a diverse array of sectors, including energy, resources, mining, agriculture, transportation, industry, health, retail and manufacturing. She draws on experience working globally, as far afield as the UK,
Synopsis:
PRESENTATIONS by Chantell Ilbury
1. The Leadership Evolution
Shifts brought about by powerful megatrends demand business and political leaders be agile and authentic...or risk becoming redundant. [In this talk Chantell highlights the megatrends that are driving dramatic changes in business and politics and the impact this is having on the type of leadership that is required.
2. Moving the Dial
The Emergence of ‘Consumer Leadership’ - Like shifting from analog to digital, businesses are losing control of innovation to the consumer, creating an innovation tension. [In this talk Chantell explains why, and how, consumers are leading innovation - a prerequisite for business growth - and the impact this is having on the relationship between businesses and their consumers.
3. Shifting Scenarios
The possible futures for South Africa. [In this talk Chantell highlights the continually shifting global and South African scenarios and the interplay between them, raising the question of what are South Africa's key priorities.
4. Constructing your Future
Strategic thinking as a competitive advantage. [Using scenarios and unique case studies, in this talk Chantell explains how to build capacity for strategic thinking and develop a competitive advantage in the age of intelligence.
MOTIVATIONAL CONTENT
STRATEGIC CONTENT
As a speaker, Chantell specialises in strategic thinking and the structure of strategic conversations. Shock events of the last few years have compounded the uncertainty that businesses have to face with a world that is changing so rapidly, so there is a greater demand to reassess standard approaches to strategy. Her latest talks focus on this.
1. Dynamic World, Dynamic Thinkers - Developing dynamic decision-making capacity for leaders in a world undergoing rapid change.
In this talk, Chantell will explain why standard approaches to strategy risk redundancy in the face of ongoing global change, and provides a framework for using scenarios to ensure strategic decision-making is agile and adaptive, instead of purely reactive.
In this talk, Chantell will explain why standard approaches to strategy risk redundancy in the face of ongoing global change, and provides a framework for using scenarios to ensure strategic decision-making is agile and adaptive, instead of purely reactive.
2. Rethinking stakeholders - Effectively managing complex stakeholder engagement and relationships.
In this talk Chantell will show why ‘stakeholders’ now bring a greater complexity, and explains how to rethink them to manage this complexity more effectively and bring greater alignment for your purpose.
In this talk Chantell will show why ‘stakeholders’ now bring a greater complexity, and explains how to rethink them to manage this complexity more effectively and bring greater alignment for your purpose.
3. Reimagining your meaning of winning - Long-term sustainability, and bringing balance to the bottomline.
In this talk Chantell explains how businesses are no longer measured purely on profit, but on a scale of broader, ever-changing metrics - some beyond their control - and how to consider purpose, play and performance in line with these metrics to produce a more sustainable meaning of ‘winning’.
In this talk Chantell explains how businesses are no longer measured purely on profit, but on a scale of broader, ever-changing metrics - some beyond their control - and how to consider purpose, play and performance in line with these metrics to produce a more sustainable meaning of ‘winning’.
1. The Leadership Evolution
Shifts brought about by powerful megatrends demand business and political leaders be agile and authentic...or risk becoming redundant. [In this talk Chantell highlights the megatrends that are driving dramatic changes in business and politics and the impact this is having on the type of leadership that is required.
2. Moving the Dial
The Emergence of ‘Consumer Leadership’ - Like shifting from analog to digital, businesses are losing control of innovation to the consumer, creating an innovation tension. [In this talk Chantell explains why, and how, consumers are leading innovation - a prerequisite for business growth - and the impact this is having on the relationship between businesses and their consumers.
3. Shifting Scenarios
The possible futures for South Africa. [In this talk Chantell highlights the continually shifting global and South African scenarios and the interplay between them, raising the question of what are South Africa's key priorities.
4. Constructing your Future
Strategic thinking as a competitive advantage. [Using scenarios and unique case studies, in this talk Chantell explains how to build capacity for strategic thinking and develop a competitive advantage in the age of intelligence.
MOTIVATIONAL CONTENT
Backwards and in high heels - a woman in a businessman’s world.
Chantell Ilbury - best-selling business author, renowned scenario strategist and speaker - guides the strategic conversations of executive teams (still almost exclusively male) around the world, and it has given her surprising - some would say controversial - opinions on women in business.
In this talk Chantell speaks candidly about steering the strategic decisions of executive teams - still almost exclusively male; dealing with physical threat, controversy and reputational risk; and the dangers of a woman travelling the world alone; and she also provides refreshing perspectives on entrepreneurism, balancing the demands of family and business, and on women in the corporate working environment.
In her latest book A Fox’s Tale: Insights from one of Africa’s most creative strategic thinkers, Chantell says, ‘I don’t think women should “be empowered”. The term suggests a helping hand, as if women should be “allowed” to do what they want to do, or that they be given an opportunity while others stand aside. That’s not an opportunity, that’s getting a hand up. An opportunity isn’t presented on a plate. An opportunity is something seen that others miss – or created where others see obstruction – and then seized upon while those others stand back in wonder. Foxes look around for opportunities; hedgehogs follow a path to its end point.’
A Fox’s Tale is also a story of heartache and loss, hard lessons learned and bequeathed to her children.
In the talk Chantell will also touch on:
• How she approaches the fact that she is a woman entrusted to steer the strategic thinking of still almost-exclusively male executive teams.
• Some of the challenges of being a woman travelling the world alone on business.
• If woman shouldn’t ‘be empowered’, how can they make their mark in the world of business?
• How women in business should develop their leadership potential.
• The importance of partnerships.
• Some the more bizarre things that have happened to her.
• Balancing family and business life.
• Dealing with tragedy and loss.
It is a talk loaded with strategic insight, but also rich with humour and entertaining anecdotes; such as when she had to walk a stretch of the Gautrain track during a heatwave, wearing high heels: ‘I finally staggered into the French ambassador’s residence just before the session I was to facilitate was due to start, looking utterly bedraggled: hair matted and plastered to my brow, silk blouse stuck to my skin, and feet bleeding and blistered. I took a moment to catch a breath, pulled myself together, tucked my damp hair behind my ears, put my shoes back on, and started facilitating.’ And when her career as a speaker almost crashed before it took off: ‘As I moved towards the lectern I stumbled, missed the edge of the stage, and before I knew it, I was over the side… After embarrassed apologies, and assurances that I was alright, I got up, adjusted myself, stepped back up to the lectern and presented my talk. I don’t remember if it was any good, although I was assured it was. Whenever I think back to that occasion it evokes that famous Elizabeth Taylor memo to womanly stoicism: ‘Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and pull yourself together’.’
PRESENTATIONS by Chantell Ilbury
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TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS: Lapel Microphone. Proxima and screen (if Chantell does a powerpoint presentation). Chantell brings her own laptop, or a memory stick if the client has their own laptop set up for the function.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS: Lapel Microphone. Proxima and screen (if Chantell does a powerpoint presentation). Chantell brings her own laptop, or a memory stick if the client has their own laptop set up f
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