Better Boards Conference 2025
Master the Art of the Boardroom
25-26 July • Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Center
Presentation
Strategy Execution: Remove Bottlenecks and Avoid Recycling Decisions
Bryan Whitefield
Director, Bryan Whitefield Consulting
Bryan is a recognised expert in strategy and risk. With over 25 years of experience, Bryan has facilitated workshops for executive and boards, empowering them to unlock the value of collective decision making. He has supported hundreds of organisations across the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, interweaving the relationship between strategy and risk into an inseparable value proposition yielding remarkable results.
Bryan is the author of several books, including his latest book, Team Think: How Teams Make Great Decisions (Amazon Best Seller 2024), which empowers leaders with a profound understanding of team decision making and practical methodologies to improve strategy execution. He is also author of Risky Business: How Successful Organisations Embrace Uncertainty (Amazon Best Seller 2021), Persuasive Advising: How to Turn Red Tape into Blue Ribbon, and Bryan's Blog Book: Years of Insights on Making Risk Stick (Amazon Best Seller 2023).
Like it or not, our decision making – and that of our team - is affected by how we feel on the day. The great Daniel Kahneman, and colleagues Oliver Sibony and Cass Sunstein, introduced the concept of “Noise” in a book of the same name. It’s so named to refer to the random effects on our decision making of our emotions. For example, the effects of fatigue, hunger, anger and elation.
Research shows evidence of these affects, for example its best not to go in front of the parole board just before lunch when they are hungry. Research also shows that when it comes to teams, team members each share a different mental model of how strategy is executed which is often left unshared leading to confusion and/or a rehash.
Key and interesting research findings will be presented along with the practical tools needed to reduce noise and increase productivity. As a minimum, doing more with what is already available.
Master the art of the boardroom
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