Interactive workshop breakout sessions 3.30pm – 5pm
Session A Thinking Creatively about Sustainable Business 3.003 Create Space, WBS Building sustainable business requires a
Piers Ibbotson Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, WBS Dr Piers Ibbotson is interested in what the performing arts can teach
Session B Managing Sustainable Energy Transitions Simulation Space 43, Scarman This interactive session will explore challenges associated with transforming the global energy system to meet the Paris Agreement. After a short introduction, you will be working in groups using the En-Roads Climate Solutions Simulator to produce your own energy scenario and answer a set of questions. Each group will then present their findings, providing the basis for a discussion of the challenges associated with managing sustainable energy transitions. Preparation An online Task Guide should be read and acted on (visit the En-Road website and watch a short video) ahead of the session.
Michael Bradshaw Professor of Global Energy, WBS Professor Michael Bradshaw’s works at the interface between economic and political geography,
transformation of the way we think, work and act. This session is an opportunity to think creatively about the challenges of building a sustainable future. The workshop will take place in Warwick Business School’s purpose-built drama studio (3.003 Create Space) where we will use techniques and approaches from the creative arts to explore strategies for bringing about change. We will reflect on the blocks and barriers that we experience as individuals and in our organisations when attempting to bring about a sustainable future, and we’ll learn techniques that will enable us to reframe these resistances as creative opportunities. We will experience the way in which artists use the constraints they encounter to stimulate creative thinking and develop innovative solutions to complex problems. The session will draw on the work of Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal who pioneered a sophisticated process for applying artistic methods to solving real world problems.
us about the moment-to-moment management of ourselves and others in the workplace. He teaches on the Distance Learning MBA, Executive MBA and Executive Education Leadership Diploma for WBS. His particular interests are in creative leadership, leading for innovation, and small group interactions. In 1996, he set up his own training and development consultancy and became a regular contributor to senior management programmes in the UK and around the world, introducing leaders and senior managers to concepts and techniques from the creative arts. He was a regular contributor to courses at London Business School, Saïd Business School, Copenhagen Business School, Hult/Ashridge, University of Aarhus, and the Banff Centre, Canada, before joining the University of Warwick in 2015. Prior to this, Piers had a successful career in the performing arts and was an actor and Assistant Director with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
business and management, and international relations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (and past Vice President) and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Michael’s research on the geopolitical economy of global energy has examined: the role of foreign investment in Russia’s oil and gas industry (with a focus on Sakhalin); global energy dilemmas and the interrelationship between energy security climate change and economic globalisation; and the challenges to the UK’s gas security. He is the academic lead for the University’s Global Research Priority on Energy. Michael is currently involved in a five-year programme of research on the UK’s energy transition in a global context for the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC 4), and is monitoring and assessing the UK shale gas landscape as part of a four-year NERC/ ESRC research programme on Unconventional Hydrocarbons in the UK Energy System.
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