Come prepared with your own questions about values-driven leadership, whether from your work, your studies, or the moments when you've seen an organisation's stated values tested by real pressure.

​In this expert-led fireside chat, you will explore what happens to values when circumstances stop being stable. Together with Benjamin Körner, founder of ben.partners Executive Search, you will examine how leaders stay true to their values during growth, transformation, digitalisation and AI adoption, when competing priorities and difficult trade-offs make those values genuinely hard to uphold.

​Benjamin builds and shapes leadership teams and boards on a values basis, particularly where values come under the most pressure, working with grownups and scaleups, mid-market and family businesses, and private equity and family offices, where culture is often the decisive competitive advantage. Before filling a position, he makes an organisation's real culture visible, not the version on the website, but the one actually lived day to day, work that led him to develop a proprietary reflection tool for identifying core values as a foundation for better leadership and people decisions.

​Drawing on this experience, the conversation will explore what distinguishes values-driven leaders from values-led organisations, how culture becomes visible under pressure, and why values matter most precisely when hiring leaders to navigate change.