Study Tour: Leadership Behaviours for Business Growth & Resilience

Event Overview 

Manufacturers Network is happy to share this FocusIn event with our Network. 

FocusIn events are designed to provide perspective and practical expertise in executive leadership and people development alongside other like-minded professionals. The events are hosted and attended by industry leaders. Through a blend of workshop sessions and site visits, we’ll observe the principles of a high-performance culture. This framework will offer guidance on how benchmark companies structure their problem-solving efforts. A main takeaway will be your tailored individual and organizational action plan on how to take your Learning & Development journey to the next level of performance. 

Objectives

1. Meet and learn from the leaders: Highly successful business growth is delivered and sustained by leaders who are open to constructive challenge and willing to commit themselves to optimizing their leadership performance. You will meet leaders who are high impact and low ego, they are visible role models and coaches. They create a compelling purpose, alignment and relentless energy for the pursuit of optimised business results and people engagement
2. Meet and learn from the front line teams: Leaders are only one part of a successful business. Front line workers are the means through which a business interacts with the outside world, and are the primary source of productivity and growth within any organization
3. Create a learning log and action plan to take home and implement within your business: Participants will leave the conference with actionable objectives for growing their business and strengthening their leadership

Meet Frank Hayden

One of Europe's leading industrialists, having led the strategic and operational transformation of a number of high-technology businesses, including LAND ROVER, BMW, AIRBUS, BAE SYSTEMS and ROLLS-ROYCE. Worked at main board level for these companies and led the launch of a number of iconic and world-leading products, including the BMW Mini, Airbus A380, Eurofighter Typhoon, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and Rolls-Royce engines for the Boeing 787 & Airbus A350.

Now working as a consultant and non-executive director and has served more than 300 client leadership teams, across a wide range of industries all over the world. Most frequently, helping the owners of medium size, high-technology businesses to accelerate their business growth and resilience plans. Recent clients include Australia’s largest energy company, helped them to increase gas output from their Northern Territories Gas Plant, to solve the problem of power cuts in Japan. The world’s leading producer of marine engines, helped them to improve lead-time by 30% and reduce quality issues by 50% at more than 50 locations in China, India, US and Europe. A leading Italian/US medical device business, helped them to successfully implement a trans-continental merger. A small San Diego based Space programme contractor, the world’s leading mining industry equipment supplier, a fast growing survival equipment company and one of the world’s leading credit card companies. Served the UK Cabinet Office in 2020, led the work to accelerate the scale up of Covid-19 rapid test devices.

Frank’s passion is: “Coaching senior executive teams, to help them plan and implement ambitious business transformation strategies." He adds: "Global business competition nowadays is ferocious. In my experience, the top performing businesses over the long term, are those which are led by high-impact, low-ego leaders who have a deep understanding of conditions at the front-line of their businesses.”