EBBF event at Selsdon Park, UK
The ebbf, our Baha'i-inspired
organization bringing values into business, held its Spring event again
at Selsdon Park, an Elizabethan-style estate and golfing resort south-west
of London, on 10-12 May 2013. The event was sold out, with more than 80
participants. The theme this year was "Co-creating
the new enterprise, shift from competition to collaboration". The
programme itself was very collaborative, with the selected keynote talks
providing the input for dynamic co-creation sessions, where teams of
participants collaborated throughout the weekend to conceive of new
values-based enterprises, including principles, practice and purpose. There
were also parallel workshops on Saturday afternoon. I joined with Wendi
Momen and Jean-Pierre Méan to lead a workshop on "How do you apply
collaboration at the global institutional level?". The weekend was rich with
learning and exchanges.
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ebbf Director-General Daniel Truran introduced ebbf; keynotes from
Leyla Tavernaro on transforming beliefs and John Sherer on collaboration
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Keynotes from Nava Ashraf on behavioral economics; Augusto
Lopez-Claros on the global economy; Alberto Masetti-Zannini on the HUBs
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The teams of participants co-creating new enterprises alternated
working sessions and presentations of their results
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François Le Goff presenting for her team; George Starcher admiring a
result; Mika Korhonen also presenting
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One of the exercise organizers, Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes, explains
something to John Sherer; other presentations and discussions
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Sjoerd Luteyn, another organizer, reviews the results
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Paul Hughes explains his team's concept; Jason Maude ran a smooth
conference as always; exchanges continued during meals
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Workshop on collaboration at the international level, led by
Jean-Paul Méan, Wendi Momen and myself; workshop participants
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A plenary session, and part of the audience
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Presentations of the final results of the new values-based
enterprises prepared by the teams
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After the session, discussions continued on the terrace
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