Date: Wednesday 13th August 2025
Time: 8:30am – 10:00am
Topic: The Art of Sense-making: Enabling Valuable Conversations Between Individuals and Across Organisations
Key Takeaways:
- The breadth of contexts and their criticality across interactions in our lives and organisations
- How leadership, cultures, change, structures, decisions and more are affected by context
- How popular terms like ‘VUCA’ and ‘complexity’ and standard responses to them like ‘agility’ and ‘adaptability’ muddy the picture and leave value on the table
- A foundational knowledge of sense-making, its concepts, practical applications and benefits
- Practical experience using sense-making frames on a topical challenge
Naeema Choudry
Naeema Choudry helps employers defend and navigate their way through complex and high-profile employment litigation. She also advises clients on discrimination, diversity and pay issues within their workforce. Naeema is a Partner in the Employment, Labour and Pensions Group. She advises on all aspects of employment law, acting primarily on behalf of large-scale employers who are household names. Naeema has particular experience in dealing with clients in the consumer, nuclear and aerospace industries.
She heads up Evershed Sutherland’s Employment Litigation and Discrimination, Diversity, and Pay practices. Naeema is a highly experienced Employment Tribunal litigator who has been appearing regularly in Tribunals throughout the UK. She advises clients on cases in the Employment Appeal Tribunal and in the Court of Appeal.
Naeema advises on executive terminations, whistleblowing, large-scale redundancies, TUPE, contractual disputes and discrimination issues. She regularly works in a cross-border environment.
Stephen E Morris
Stephen is an author, speaker and accomplished and award-winning leader with over twenty years of experience in complex, uncertain and high-scale technical organisations. Across diverse sectors, including information technology, healthcare, banking, insurance, manufacturing, and government, Stephen has a track record of driving real success, backed by hands-on achievements and industry recognition.
Leadership highlights
- C-Suite leader during a period of extraordinary growth, achieving 400% YoY
- Leadership coach for a 300-million-dollar international software rollout
- Mentor and consultant for an international leadership team managing over 750 professionals through an organisational transformation
- Strategist for the successful launch of 50+ commercial cloud-based products and services, shaping the future of business technology
Awards
- Most Influential Business Leader, 2016 Agile Awards
- Most Improved Agile Team, 2016 Agile Awards
- Best Leadership and Agile Coaching Provider, 2020 UK Enterprise Awards