The third in our quarterly series of international speaker events this year, author Nuala Walsh will address members in the RDS Members’ Club in Dublin at 6.30pm on Thursday, 3rd October 2024 on the subject of her new book Tune In – how to make smarter decisions in a noisy world.

An adjunct professor of behavioural science at Trinity College Dublin, Nuala is an independent non-executive director, bestselling author, TEDx speaker and visiting fellow at the London School of Economics. Recognised among the 100 Most Influential Women in Finance, her 30-year global investments career spans blue chips such as BlackRock and Merrill Lynch.

As MindEquity CEO, she advises Fortune 500 firms, human rights and sports associations on strategy, reputation, culture and behaviour change. Appointments include Founding Director of the Global Association of Behavioural Scientists; President of Harvard Club of Ireland; Non-Executive Director at British & Irish Lions and Council Member at The Football Association.​ Nuala has had over 100 articles published in journals such as Forbes, Inc., Psychology Today and Harvard Business Review.

Published by Harriman House, Nuala’s new book champions a better understanding of behaviour as an insurance policy against misjudgement. Tune In stands apart in its treatment of ‘deaf spots’, the judgement killers that stop us hearing what matters, when it matters. In today’s noisy world of distraction, disinformation and data overload, we tune out. We hear less than ever and rush to misjudgement.

The author claims that the most underestimated risk isn’t economic, political or even climate risk – it’s human decision risk, and the failure to hear who or what really matters. The result? A catalogue of error that not only destroys lives and polarises communities but damages reputation and squanders opportunity. That can change. Because what’s predictable is preventable.

This event is free to members, who may bring a guest. Note you must log in when booking to avail of free entry.

The Association’s annual National Strategy Competition is scheduled to take place on Friday, 8 November 2024 in Flutter HQ’s offices in Dublin 4 (D04 V972).

The MBAAI National Strategy Competition continues to be a cornerstone event in the business school calendar, fostering strategic thinking, leadership, and collaborative excellence among MBA graduates. The competition is open to all MBA programmes across Ireland, past winners having included UCD, The University of Galway, DCU. TU Dublin and SETU, who took the 2023 title (pictured above).

This is a date for diary – more details to follow. 

The latest in our quarterly series of international speaker events in 2024 sees Harvard Business Review author John Winsor in the RDS Members’ Club  in Dublin at 6.30pm on Tuesday, 12th November 2024 to speak on reorganising around the new, digitally enabled world of “open talent”.

In his eye-opening, essential guidebook for the new world of work Open Talent, John, leader at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, show how the massive reset of the pandemic allowed talented workers everywhere to exit their jobs without leaving the workforce. Now some are freelancing for multiple companies or starting small businesses, leaving hiring managers scratching their heads over a workforce gone AWOL. What’s more, talent has more power than ever using platforms such as Freelancer.com, Fiverr, and Upwork, setting their terms for work: what, where, when, and at what price.

How can companies adapt? The key, John and co-author Jin Paik argue, is shifting to a more “distributed” idea of the organisation that revolves around talent (people) and projects, not divisions and offices. In this new model, which the authors call a networked organisation, talent is culled from both inside and outside the organisation, dispensing with siloed approaches to talent acquisition and instead viewing talent through a single lens: as a global ecosystem that can be tapped as needed.

This event is free to members, who may bring a guest. Note you must log in when booking to avail of free entry.