Bring a sharper future-of-work conversation to your leaders, then turn it into action. Our founder Dr Michele Sagan brings original research and executive experience to the stage and the classroom; we build the follow-through with your teams.
We begin with the work your people need to do. Explore how we helped client teams strengthen leadership, work across functions, examine possible futures and develop projects tied to their priorities.
Delivered with our partner Eurosysteam, the Emerging Leaders Journey takes leadership development beyond theory. Rising leaders practise the conversations that build trust and accountability using situations they face with colleagues, so they can carry the learning back into team performance.
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Generation Ipsos participants had business ideas to develop, not just concepts to learn. We coached teams working on ESG, AI and competency frameworks to sharpen the reasoning, test the value of their proposals and prepare to present them. The result was learning applied to decisions the business could discuss.
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For CEVA’s APAC supporting functions, better business partnership depends on how colleagues work across boundaries when priorities compete. In a two-day onsite programme, we used their real cross-functional situations to practise trust, candid conversations and mutual accountability. Participants described stronger relationships and a commitment to work across silos.
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We facilitated a practical conversation about how leaders show up with their teams, what their habits enable and where those habits can hold others back. Shared reflection gave participants a clearer language for their leadership and concrete ways to approach their next conversations.
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We built YTL’s six-month leadership journey around strategy, culture and the work participants were responsible for. Leaders developed projects linked to strategic priorities, operations and sustainability, giving them a practical way to test ideas and bring proposals back to the business.
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At Sarawak Skills, we helped participants turn futures thinking into a working method. They examined signals of change, explored possible futures and discussed what those possibilities ask of their decisions today.
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At the Malaysia Institute of Accountants, Dr Michele Sagan brought future thinking to the accounting and finance profession. We explored how changing technology and expectations of value are reshaping the work, and what leaders can do now to develop the capabilities the future demands.
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Over three months, we took Prudential’s future leaders through designed futures and project work. Participants explored what could change, tested the implications together and developed projects to connect future thinking with the organisation’s priorities.
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As MC for HRLC ConneXion, Dr Michele Sagan guided discussion across the people, technology and leadership questions shaping the future of work.
Optimal Insight founder, certified trainer and international speaker Dr Michele Sagan brings more than 25 years of executive experience and original future-of-work research to keynotes, panels and executive conversations. She has spoken across Asia-Pacific on leadership, AI, the future of work, culture, inclusion and the capabilities organisations need next.
Tell us the conversation you want to start. We can shape a keynote, executive discussion or in-person programme around your audience and priorities.
