Speak Out, Listen Up

1. Speaking the TRUTH in a world of power2. Trust: in your voice and the voices of others3. Risk: how we experience it and how we create it4. Understanding: navigating the unwritten rules of politics and power5. Titles: how they give and take authority6. How-to: speak out and listen up with skill7. The activist voice: speaking out and being heard8. TRUTH in the future: the profound consequences of a digital-AI world9. Seven compass points on the way to TRUTH

Megan Reitzis Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Hult International Business School where she speaks, researches, consults and supervises on the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue and mindfulness. She is on the Thinkers50 ranking of global business thinkers and is ranked in HR Magazines Most Influential Thinkers listing. She has written Dialogue in Organizations and Mind Time and her most recent book, with Financial Times Publishing, is called Speak Up which was shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year 2020.  She is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and her research has recently featured in Forbes, on the BBC, in two TEDx talks, on the Brene Brown podcast Dare to Lead and in numerous academic and practice-based journals. Her latest research on employee activism was nominated for the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award 2021 and her TED talk on the topic has been viewed more than a million times. Examples of her work and contact details can be found at www.meganreitz.com and on twitter @MeganReitz1.  John Higginsis a highly regarded and respected coach, speakerand researcher operating across the globe with clients, researchpartners and personal connections at all levels of organisational and politicallife. His reputation is based around having a distinctive contributionto make around what it takes to create and sustain speak-up cultures, in the face of an ever-evolving socialand environmental milieu,particularlyin this age of workplace activism. He has been widely published in many high-profile journals including the Harvard Business Review, the Sloan Management Review, the British Medical Journal and the European Business Review. He is the trusted thinking and speaking partner of a wide range of elite organisational consultancies.  Alongside his journal and popular publications, he has written and researched extensively alongside the highly innovative Ashridge Doctorate and