Cristian Matei

CEO Advanced Thinking

Cristian serves as Executive Advisor, Consultant and Coach in Leadership and Management, having extensive experience in working on all continents with Executive Boards requiring expert assistance in improving organizational performances. Cristian is a former Global Head Learning & Development and Global Master Black Belt at GENERAL ELECTRIC, former Global Head Operational Quality & Continuous Improvement and Global Master Black Belt at ALSTOM and former Business Process Re-engineering Coordinator at ABB.In 2011 he was awarded the “Operational Excellence European Community Contributor of the Year” at London OPEX Process Excellence Awards. In 2019 Cristian won with Apa Nova Veolia the OPEX Process Excellence Award for the “Best Business Transformation Project in the World” and in 2020 co-authored “DARE! – behind the scenes of the best Business Transformation Project in the World” which became Amazon #1 Best Seller for Business Process Reengineering, Change Management and Project Management. In 2022 Cristian was awarded the "Operational Excellence Global Community Contributor of the Year" at the Miami OPEX Week World Business Transformation Summit.

Monday, Jan 27: Pre-Conference Workshops, Industry Focus Groups & Main Conference Day One

9:40 AM AGILE TRANSFORMATION: HOW NOT TO FAIL AT SCALE

This workshop is carefully designed to help attendees gain insights and practical tools, required for them to start and scale agile transformation in their organizations. This interactive session will also feature interactive exercises for you to learn about powerful concepts in action. Key learning points include:

·       How to start small no matter how large your organization might be

·       How to identify and engage business stakeholder and deliver incremental value

·       How to learn from your initial wins and scale it to the whole enterprise in an agile way

·       How to keep your program and team agile and not slide back to old phenomena

Wednesday, Jan 29: Main Conference Day Three & Post-Conference Masterclasses

2:00 PM DRIVING SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIC TRANSFORMATION: REDESIGN, EXECUTE, IMPROVE - INCLUDING LIDAS CASE STUDY

Join this exclusive think-tank session designed to deep-dive into the fundamental challenges for strategic business DNA transformation through ATOM - Advanced Thinking Organizational Management Methodology. The session will explore some of the fundamental flaws in common transformation & improvement programs with direct impact to the day-to -day management of a Company. In addition, it will share conclusions on how to identify the key strategies and how to redesign the budgeting process in order to drive successful enterprise-wide transformation:

·       Transforming business DNA towards the new reality: starting by dissecting key leadership challenges

·       Redesign - how can we practically address these challenges? High-Level Design and Low-Level Design: delivering the verified integrated redesign of our organizations

·       Execute – how the Strategy & Budgeting Processes look like through the lens of organizational redesign?

·       Improve - how can we sustain the gains? Finding a different way to implement successful continuous improvement type programs

·       Why is human resources development a key element in successful strategic transformation?

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Cristian.

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