The Strategic Pause

About this event

The Strategic Pause is the day we built the practice around. One hundred and twenty senior leaders, six commissioned talks, no sponsor stages, no exhibition hall, and a deliberately long lunch in the middle of the day. Each speaker has been briefed by the chair for three months in advance, and every attendee receives a printed reader in the post two weeks before the event. The point is not novelty, and it is not headline names. The point is to give you the company of peers who have read the same material in advance, the time to disagree in public without performing, and a chair who will not let any session run shallow. We programme The Strategic Pause once a year, in October, and the room is the product. The patron seats tend to go in May, the standard tickets close in August.