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Key Contacts' Seminar - Performance Culture - How HR Can Unlock More Value from Strategy

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Event information
Date 21 October 2026
Time 9:00-14:00 (Timezone: Europe/London)
Price For Key Contacts of The Henley Partnership and Guests
Venue Henley Business School, Greenlands Campus
Event types:
Greenlands masterclass

How do I book?

We have limited places available. Please contact us at thp@henley.ac.uk.

What to expect:

Did you know that on average 40% of the value of strategy is left on the table? In this session, we will be asking:

  • what are the constituent parts of a performance culture?
  • why do alignment and coherence matter?
  • what part does AI play?
  • how can you recognise culture?
  • what can you do to accelerate results it in your business?

We will be exploring the answers together, led by Iain Hildyard, Organisational Effectiveness expert. He will also be offering you a quick and effective diagnostic tool to identify the accelerators you can employ to unlock a performance culture in your business.

Who is this for?

Senior HR and L&D professionals.

Explore The Henley Partnership (THP)

The Henley Partnership is for organisations wanting to equip their leaders with fresh thinking. Practical development. A community of leaders who learn from each other. THP offers a comprehensive menu of short executive development sessions for Member companies.

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Iain Hildyard

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Iain is an experienced, highly commercial Executive and Consultant with a strong track record of winning stakeholder confidence, innovation, and results delivery through consulting, coaching, tutoring and team leadership.

Iain started his career in Banking and has over 25 years’ experience of working cross sector with Hyper-growth Startups, Consultancies, SMEs and large multinational Companies such as Barclays, Bristol Myers Squibb, De Beers, Marsh, Microsoft, Paysafe, Newton, Graphcore, Santander, Volkswagen and Vodafone. He has held Senior Leadership positions in NatWest and Boots prior to becoming an Interim Executive, Advisor and Consultant. He specialises in Human Capital Management, Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Talent Management, Organisational Effectiveness and Business Transformation. He also designs and delivers programmes in HR & Organisational Capability for Henley Business School in the UK and internationally.

With Chartered Membership of the Institute of Bankers, the Institute of Personnel and Development and an MSc. in Human Resource Development, Iain can combine commercial acumen and practical experience with deep expertise in ‘that people thing’ to create elegant, impactful solutions where businesses can scale fast, individuals and teams can learn fast, and clients are delighted by high performance results.

His current focus is on high performance business partnering, return on people expenditure, adaptability and releasing the collective genius of teams and leaders. Iain partners with clients to power their organisations on the ‘renewables’ of purpose, creativity and inspiration rather than the ‘fossil fuels’ of command, compliance and control.

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