Yve Bowen

What happens to the people around you because of the way you lead? Overview: A talk exploring leadership legacy beyond achievements and succession, and what becomes possible when leaders deliberately create capability, confidence and autonomy in the people around them. Explores: What are you actually creating through your leadership? Are you creating capability or dependency? What are people learning from the way you lead? What behaviours are you unintentionally reinforcing? How can leaders create the conditions for others to step up? What continues when the leader isn't in the room? Outcome: A different way of thinking about leadership legacy - not simply what did I achieve? but what did other people become capable of because they worked with me?

What if the problem isn't that a silo approach in the workplace exists, but that we haven't created enough connection between different silos? Overview: A practical exploration of organisational silos that challenges the assumption that separation is inherently problematic. Instead, we look at how organisations can reframe silos by blending learning and resources in order to create new strategic relationships. Key Questions: Is separation always the problem? What genuinely needs to remain separate? What knowledge could be shared or reused? How can leaders create useful overlap Outcome: A new way of looking at silos shifting from “How do we break them down?” to “What needs to remain separate, and what can be connected?

What's Really Standing Between You And Your Next Move? Here's a quick exercise I use to open up the conversation. 1. When a new opportunity lands in front of you, what's your first internal reaction? "I could actually do this" or "Who am I to think I could pull this off?" 2. Think of the last time you held back from speaking up, applying, or putting yourself forward. What was the real reason - was it that you weren't capable, or that you didn't feel like the kind of person who does that? 3. If a close friend had your exact skills and experience, would you tell them to go for it? What stops you from taking your own advice? We often carry around an outdated story about who we're allowed to be. That's what I explore in this talk: I Share: - How to spot the moment a story not a fact, is making your decisions for you - Where these self-limiting stories actually come from, and why willpower alone doesn't shift them - Practical, usable steps to build the confidence to speak up and show up.