Insights & Events

Welcome to our Insights & Events page. Here, you’ll find thought-provoking articles, expert perspectives, the latest trends in leadership, sales and business skills training, as well as information about our upcoming events and webinars. Whether you’re looking for practical strategies, fresh ideas, industry insights or opportunities to connect and learn, you’ll find it all here.

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Learning Leaders Network

The Likeability Question

How much does being liked matter in business, and what does it cost when it matters too much? Likeability is one of the most powerful and least examined forces in organisational life. It decides who gets hired, promoted and listened to. It also drives affinity bias, soft feedback and leaders who dodge the hard conversation. […]
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Leadership Development
Learning Leaders Network

Influence Without Authority – Leading Across Boundaries

Wednesday 9th September 2026 13:00-14:30 (BST) Guest Speaker: Ilkka Lipasti, Group Vice President, ABBHost: Samantha Caine, Managing Director, Business Linked Teams HR leaders often influence without formal authority. This session shares practical tools and techniques for leading across boundaries. Benefits of attending: – Learn practical models for influencing up, across and outward – Build confidence […]
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Leadership Development
Learning Leaders Network

Leading Through the AI Shift – What HR Needs to Know about Leadership and AI

Wednesday 10th June 13:00-14:30 (BST) Speaker: Samantha Caine, CEO of Business Linked Teams AI is changing how work is done and how leaders lead. This session focuses on the capabilities, ethics and cultural shifts needed in an AI-enabled world. Benefits of attending: – Understand key implications of AI for leadership and workforce dynamics – Identify […]
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Learning Leaders Network

Leading Vertically – Unlocking the Power of Systemic Team Coaching

Thursday 19th March 13:00-14:30 (BST) Guest Speaker: Mia Latta, Global Head of Leadership Development and Executive Coach at A.P.Moller-Maersk Leadership is a continual evolution. We change, our context changes, yet our core stays steady. How can we harness our accumulated wisdom to create greater impact? Mia explores this through systemic team coaching. Benefits of attending: […]
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Learning Leaders Network

Understanding Needs: The Missing Piece for Hard Conversations

Wednesday 28th January 2026 13:00-14:30 (BST) Guest Speaker: Alice Sheldon, former Barrister and CEO Many leadership challenges come down to conversations that feel difficult, emotional, or stuck. In this session, Alice will share a practical approach to understanding the “fingerprint needs” that sit underneath behaviour. This helps leaders navigate conflict, strengthen relationships, and reduce misunderstanding. […]
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Learning Leaders Network

Your Leadership Shadow

This session explored Leadership Shadows and Cultural Webs with Kathie Knell, MBE — a powerful session on the unseen influence leaders have on organisational culture. Together, we reflected on how what leaders say, do, measure, and prioritise becomes a blueprint for behaviour. Kathie challenged us to look through a gendered lens, embrace human-centred leadership, and […]
Rick Cooper leads a session on how courage is contagious and its impact on leadership and teamwork.
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Learning Leaders Network

Courage is contagious

In this inspiring and thought-provoking session, leadership expert Rick Cooper explored the idea that courage isn’t just an individual trait — it’s a behaviour that spreads. Drawing on real-life examples and powerful storytelling, Rick challenged us to rethink what courage looks like in everyday leadership. It’s not always bold or dramatic — sometimes, it’s the […]
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Learning Leaders Network

Expert Panel: Psychological Safety

Unlocking creativity isn’t just about having great ideas — it starts with creating the conditions where people feel safe to share them. In this insightful panel session, we explored the powerful role of psychological safety in building high-performing, innovative teams. Our expert speakers, Amandeep Hothi and Bep Dhaliwal, shared real-world insights on what it takes […]
A picture of Samantha Caine who is the Business Linked Teams CEO. She is smiling towards the camera
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Learning Leaders Network

Leadership Fitness – Practical strategies to develop Human Centered Leaders

Great leaders, like great athletes, don’t rely on talent alone – they train. In our first session of 2025, our CEO Samantha Caine, explored the concept of Leadership Fitness and the mindsets and habits that help leaders stay effective, energised and adaptable. Samantha shared practical tools and used group dicussions to consider: Are we playing […]
Justin Featherstone
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Learning Leaders Network

Leadership Lessons from the Jungle

Justin Featherstone

Hannah explores how your surroundings shape artistic growth and business acumen, encouraging reflection on their impact on success.
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Learning Leaders Network

Creativity at Work: Igniting and Inspiring Success

Hannah Williams

Dr. Starling Hunter, co-founder of Organalytic, explores how organizational network analysis can break silos, enhance communication, and improve knowledge flow.
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Learning Leaders Network

Organisational Network Analysis

Dr Starling Hunter

Danny Matthews explores 12 key principles for a productive workforce, sharing insights from his remote work experiment without offices or set hours
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Learning Leaders Network

The Remote Working Solution

Danny Matthews
Award-winning speaker Kate Atkin discusses Imposter Syndrome, exploring how to manage the inner critic and build confidence at work.
Learning Leaders Network

The Imposter Phenomenon

Kate Atkins

Coaching & Training
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Learning Leaders Network

Effective Team Coaching

Helen Franklin
Clara Seeger, a leadership coach, corporate facilitator, speaker, and author, specializes in neuroscience, mindfulness, and mental well-being.
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Learning Leaders Network

Why Wellbeing programmes fail

Clara Seeger

Julian Olariu and Marcus de Vale from the company Bikablo to share with you the power of visual thinking.
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Learning Leaders Network

Visual Thinking

Julian Olariu and Marcus de Vale

A picture of Sarah Taylor who is the Business Linked Teams Leadership and Development Coach. She is smiling towards the camera
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Learning Leaders Network

Neuroscience for Leaders

Sarah Taylor
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Learning Leaders Network

Reworking our Time

Helen Beedham
Rene van Stein
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Learning Leaders Network

Start with Why

Rene Van Stein
A picture of Samantha Caine who is the Business Linked Teams CEO. She is smiling towards the camera
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Learning Leaders Network

Servant Leadership

Samantha Caine