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Inside Out x The Power House: Smart Conflict
2026-06-09 12:30 - 13:30 (Europe/London)
Inside Out x The Power House: Smart Conflict

Mastermind

In partnership with the Adobe Creative Leadership Circle, Inside Out members are invited to join an evening with Mary Portas, Creative Founder at Portas. As a renowned brand & retail expert, Mary will share the tools and inspiration you need to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

Date & Time:

Location:

Online

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About the Event

In an era of hybrid working, rapid change, and heightened complexity around workplace culture, many of us are finding it harder than ever to have the conversations that matter. But avoiding crucial conversations comes at a cost for individuals, teams and organisations.

Join the authors of the best-selling book ‘Smart Conflict, How to have hard conversations at work’ Alice Driscoll and Louise van Haarst for this mastermind where they will illuminate the key tools and mindsets needed to embrace Smart Conflict and transform your work, your team (and maybe your life).

Whether it’s holding a boundary, addressing a bias, giving feedback or negotiating a pay rise, feeling willing and able to lean into hard conversations is arguably more complex than ever. But avoidance often leads to misalignment, resentment, and stagnation for individuals, teams and entire organisations.

Drawing on the latest evidence and thinking from psychology and neuroscientific research (and crucially from our thousands of hours of real-life practice as leadership and conflict coaches) Alice and Louise will explain why conflict competence is a superpower and how their 5R Smart Conflict Model enables you to increase it and get the results you want.

Benefits of attending:

Understand the critical role difficult conversations play in high-performing teams, as an agent of change.

Learn the critical difference between constructive and destructive conflict.

Be introduced to evidence-based mindsets and strategies for getting better at hardconversations with great results.

Feel inspired to create an environment for Smart Conflict in your in-house creative team or organisation.

Format

Our mastermind sessions are hosted on Zoom. The main part of the presentation will be recorded and added to our members’ learning hub. The last part of the session will be open to Q&A so you have the opportunity to ask your questions directly to Alice and Louise.

About our speaker

Alice Driscoll and Louise van Haarst are the co-founders of The Power House, a global leadership development and culture change business on a mission to build conflict-competent cultures in organisations everywhere. They have coached and trained over 30,000 leaders and teams across a wide range of sectors at household names including BBC Studios, PwC and Google. They are the co-authors of the new best-selling book ‘Smart Conflict – How to have hard conversations at work’ and sought-after speakers who are featured on the 2026 Thinkers50 Radar List, as one of 30 up-and-coming thinkers globally whose ideas are set to shape the future of management thinking.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-elizabeth-driscoll

https://www.linkedin.com/in/louise-van-haarst

Where and when

Online via Zoom

June 9, 2026

(12.30PM BST / 13:30 CEST)

Ideal if you’re logging in from: UK, Europe, the Middle East, or India

Cost

Free and exclusive to Visionary Leaders

Booking is essential.

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In partnership with the Adobe Creative Leadership Circle, Inside Out members are invited to join an evening with Mary Portas, Creative Founder at Portas. As a renowned brand & retail expert, Mary will share the tools and inspiration you need to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

Date & Time:

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Event overview

The Exchange is an exclusive event for Visionary Leader members.

The Exchange – virtual peer to peer group coaching

The Exchange is our format for virtual group coaching, offering the perfect opportunity for Visionary leader members to share insights, best practice, seek guidance and collaborate.

Hosted and facilitated by Emma Sexton, and often joined by an Inside Out® Advisor, these sessions are a great way to connect with fellow in-house creative leaders from across all sectors and locations..

This virtual peer to peer coaching session will enable you to:

Exchange new ideas and consider how you can implement them into your team

Uncover obstacles and identify how you can solve them

Celebrate what’s gone well and acknowledge your progress

Gain clarity and prioritise what needs to be done next

Benefits of attending

Learn from our exclusive professional network of in-house creative leaders

Participate, share ideas, and share experiences whilst supporting others

Grow your professional network with those in similar roles as yourself

Ask and answer questions in an open and honest environment

When and where

Online via Zoom

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Ideal if you’re logging in from: Asia-Pacific, Australia, or the Middle East (early start for the UK)

Cost

Exclusive to Visionary Leaders

Booking is essential.

We know you all face similar challenges and ambitions, so this is a unique opportunity to talk in an open, honest and unrecorded peer to peer group coaching environment.

We absolutely love hosting these exchanges, and here’s why…

“The Exchange, (formerly Breakfast Club) is a great way to meet talented creatives in small and huge organisations who share their hard earned experiences with a smile. I’ve always learned something new from them.”Ivan Pols, Chief Creative Officer, what3words

“I always look forward to the session as there’s new faces and new challenges to dissect each month. I’ve made some fantastic connections and this has led to me improving processes, motivation and creative decisions within my team.”Laura Heaton, Global Design Director, MediaCom Worldwide

“So good to have a forum that recognises and celebrates in-house creative teams. The Exchange is a particular highlight and I love hearing what this group of talented creative leaders have been up to recently and the discussions around common themes in what has become quite a community.”James Turner, Creative Lead, Waitrose and Partners

“The Exchange – I am your biggest fan! With a bunch of super smart and interesting in-house leaders providing each other with peer to peer support, the conversation and advice is second to none. I have seen the immediate added value the sessions bring to me, and subsequently my team. I am so happy to have discovered this wonderful community.”Emma Baines, Global Head of Creative, Tony’s Chocolonely

“Creative leadership is endlessly fascinating and nuanced to me. I’m so grateful for this community — for the space to connect and reflect outside of our walls” In-house Creative Leader, Merlin

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Creative strategy: the missing link or the next step?
2026-06-18 12:30 - 13:30
Creative strategy: the missing link or the next step?

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About the Event

The ambition of in-house creative teams is clear: move faster, be closer to the business, and step into a more strategic role.

The reality is messier: many teams find themselves stuck, producing more, but influencing less.

Creative strategy is often seen as the answer. But in practice, it quickly becomes unclear, overcomplicated, or detached from in-house realities.

During this one hour mastermind, Creative Strategy Expert, Uri Baruchin will tackle some of the questions many teams quietly wrestle with every day:

What do organisations misunderstand about creative strategy when shifting in-house?

Why does strategy so often feel difficult to apply, align on, or sustain?

Why do familiar tools – from brand frameworks to briefing templates – fail to deliver clarity?

What kind of strategic inputs actually work in fast-paced in-house creative environments?

This session will help you:

Look beyond tools and frameworks, focusing on the more foundational challenge – building a shared language and culture around strategy that actually gets used.

Address the growing role of AI: a tool whose effectiveness depends on the quality of thinking behind it, and how to avoid the rise of “workslop” – low-quality, generic ‘strategic outputs’.

View creative strategy as a practical lever, unlocking better ways of working and stronger creative outcomes.

You’ll leave with a clearer view of how creative strategy can:

Strengthen collaboration between marketing, stakeholders, and in-house teams

Improve the quality and usability of briefs and strategic inputs

Help teams move upstream – from execution to shaping decisions

Make a stronger case for creativity in commercial terms

Who is this for?

This Masterclass is for in-house creative leaders who want to play a more strategic role, improve collaboration, and raise the impact of their work.

About our speaker

Uri Baruchin is a brand and creative strategy expert who works with leading brands and creative agencies. His award-winning work spans industries and geographies. Uri leads the Creative Strategy masterclass at D&AD, and in recent years facilitated better in-house marketing-creative collaboration at BBC Studios/Britbox, Specsavers, GoDaddy, ON Running, and others.

This Masterclass draws from experience working with and training in-house teams across organisations – as well as leading management consultancies – to explore why this happens and what’s missing.

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Date & Time:

Location:

Online

Type:

Event overview

The Exchange is an exclusive event for Visionary Leader members.

The Exchange – virtual peer to peer group coaching

The Exchange is our format for virtual group coaching, offering the perfect opportunity for Visionary leader members to share insights, best practice, seek guidance and collaborate.

Hosted and facilitated by Emma Sexton, and often joined by an Inside Out® Advisor, these sessions are a great way to connect with fellow in-house creative leaders from across all sectors and locations..

This virtual peer to peer coaching session will enable you to:

Exchange new ideas and consider how you can implement them into your team

Uncover obstacles and identify how you can solve them

Celebrate what’s gone well and acknowledge your progress

Gain clarity and prioritise what needs to be done next

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Learn from our exclusive professional network of in-house creative leaders

Participate, share ideas, and share experiences whilst supporting others

Grow your professional network with those in similar roles as yourself

Ask and answer questions in an open and honest environment

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Cost

Exclusive to Visionary Leaders

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We know you all face similar challenges and ambitions, so this is a unique opportunity to talk in an open, honest and unrecorded peer to peer group coaching environment.

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“The Exchange, (formerly Breakfast Club) is a great way to meet talented creatives in small and huge organisations who share their hard earned experiences with a smile. I’ve always learned something new from them.”Ivan Pols, Chief Creative Officer, what3words

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