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The The Henley Forum Conference, formerly the Henley Forum for Organisational Learning and Knowledge Strategies Conference (Henley Forum Conference) and the Henley Knowledge Management Forum Conference (Henley KM Forum Conference), brings together thoughtful practitioners and practical academics from across knowledge management, learning and performance and the organisation development and change communities to share ideas and experiences. Through a range of speaker and workshop sessions, participants will develop new actionable insights to power up their knowledge, learning and change work – helping them to develop more dynamic organisations.
The conference participants come from a range of sectors and functions. As well as offering excellent opportunities for networking, it offers much greater potential for developing new thinking.
In 2020 in conjunction with the “Advancing Practice in…” Awards.
Conference History:
(CANCELLED)
24th The Henley Forum Conference 2024, 28-29 February 2024, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: TBD
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Conference Program TBD
23rd The Henley Forum Conference 2023, 28-29 March 2023, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom / Virtual venue
Conference Theme: Global Transitions in a Changing World (was: Transition in a changing world)
Note: Day 1: In-person & online; Day 2: In-person only.
Keynotes:
Change has Changed
Pushed or Pulled in the Great Resignation
Sustainable Workplaces
The Bananas Taster: How to Sell Climate Learning through Game-based Play
How Can We BUILD Smoother Transitions in a Changing World?
Panel Discussions:
Our Collective Stories of Global Transition
Workshops:
BUILDing Smooth Transitions by Using Conversation as a Methodology for Exploring Belonging, Understanding, Identity, Leadership and Difference
The Need for Reskilling in a Dynamic World: What Can We Do to Support the Workforce?
The Future We Choose
How IFAD’s KM Strategy has Learnt to Adapt to Change
Global Transition to a Sustainable Future – Exploring Implications for Organisational Change
Research Updates:
Adopting Foresight in People-centric Change
United Utilities: Transformative Learning: Energising Adaptability 2
Corporate Storytelling
Knowledge Marketplace stalls
22nd The Henley Forum Conference 2022, 29-30 March 2022, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom / Virtual venue
Conference Theme: Sustaining and securing connections in a Hybrid World
Note: Pre-conference sattelite & day 2 sessions are remotely/virtually available throgh a virtual pass; The conference theme was originally “Sustaining and securing connections” only.
Pre-conference sattelite events: Building Connections
Community Coffee: Case Study: Knowing, learning, adapting, innovating (Mar 1, open to all)
Conversation: Reflections on the future (Mar 8, open to all)
Workshop: Peer-to-peer connections for change and wellbeing (Mar 22, open to conference delegates only)
Conference Day Topics:
Deepening Connections; Extending Connections
Workshops:
The transformative power of team coaching
Mind your own busy-ness
Conversations:
We are not enemies but friends
Case Studies:
Collaborative connections across organizational boundaries (police departments in the Netherlands)
Connecting communities to accelerate impact (panel; Multi-Donor Learning Partnership for Development Impact; title was: Nurturing the hive mind during COVID-19)
Collaborative connections with clients (Freeths LLP)
Staging the world’s biggest sporting event in the pandemic (International Olympic Committee)
Keynotes:
Connecting for good – or pulled in different directions?
Using foresight in shaping the future workplace
Insights:
Creating connectivity for wellbeing
21st The Henley Forum Conference 2021, 26-29 April 2021, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom Virtual venue
Conference Theme: Becoming Agile: An international festival of learning
Note: The 2021 conference was originally scheduled for 17 – 18 February 2021
Pre- and Post-conference Events:
Henley Forum Community Coffee / Fringe sessions (Apr 21 | May 5)
Day Topics:
An international perspective (day 1); Leadership agility in a changing world (day 2); Sustaining energy and momentum (day 3); Becoming resiliently agile (day 4)
Workshops:
Business and learning agility
Being agile – going slow to go fast
Becoming resiliently agile
Panels:
COVID-19 as a catalyst for change
Keynotes:
Co-producing agility
Resilience as a partner to agility
Presentations:
Managing adaptively in international development
Bridging the gap
Leading change with foresight for growth
How NOT to do Agile
Leadership in complexity and change
Return of the Vikings – Nordic leadership in extreme change
Research Insights:
In it for the long haul: Rising to the challenge of sustaining knowledge management
Change, change, change: Sustaining energy
20th The Henley Forum Conference 2020, 5-6 February 2020, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: Collaboration for Innovation: Celebrating leading-edge practice
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Workshops (Henley Forum 2020 Awards Workshops):
Advancing Practice in Knowledge & Organisational Learning
Advancing Practice in Organisational Change & Development
Henley Forum 2020 “Advancing Practice in…” Awards Presentation
Keynotes:
The future of knowledge work
Productivity, the digital workplace and the collaboration conundrum
The future of knowledge work – challenges for the next 20 years (closing remarks)
Practice Leadership:
Collaborative leadership – the why and the how
Rethinking leadership development in the face of unremitting change
Research Insights:
Shaping positive work experiences with the ‘Happy App’
Tools for building change-ready teams
Thought Leadership:
Make it personal – discover the five themes of human collaboration in the workplace
19th The Henley Forum Conference 2019, 6-7 March 2019, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: Amplifying our practice: Boosting organisational performance
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Workshops:
Use of self – in action
Amplifying your learning
Keynotes:
The knowledgeable practitioner: What is use of self? Why does it matter?
Evidence-based practice: What is it? How do you do it? Why should you do it?
Practice Leadership:
Fit for the future? NHS case study
The liminal moment: Making the most of the ‘betwixt and between’
Learning to manage knowledge in times of organizational change
Research Insights: Introduction to the 2018 Henley Forum projects:
Building change-ready, change-capable teams
The Listening Project: Sharing conversation for learning
Knowledgeable practice: The Henley Forum 2020 awards
Thought Leadership:
Naked consulting
The Knowledge Management Cookbook: Appetising stories from knowledge masterchefs
18th Henley Forum Conference 2018, 7-8 March 2018, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: Building dynamic capabilities: knowledge, learning and change-ability
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Workshops:
Empathetic learning as a dynamic capability (interactive session)
Knowledge sharing in practice [1-4] – Activating your learning
Keynotes:
Thought leader’s guide to uncertainty
Embracing complexity: A mindset for a dynamic world
Presentations:
A chameleon without borders: becoming a learning organisation
Tackling wicked problems in the health service
Change-readiness as a dynamic capability
Report on 2017 Forum projects:
Engaging with complexity – a practical approach
Embracing difference
Energising knowledge sharing
Thought Leadership:
Organization design: pro-action and re-action
The primary colours of leadership
17th Henley Forum Conference 2017, 1-2 March 2017, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: Activating organisational dynamics: Power up your knowledge, learning and change work
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Workshops:
Coaching for engagement and wellbeing
Navigating the maze – partnering for change
Keynotes:
Activating organizational change dynamics: Towards post-dialogic OD approaches
Finding balance between content and process
Presentations:
Vertical leadership development
Leading change: A contact sport
Changing culture with storytelling and cartoons
The future of knowledge management (KM) is organisational development (OD)
Henley Forum research:
Embedding change effectively and Technostress
16th Henley Forum Conference 2016, 24-25 February 2016, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: Making a difference through knowledge and learning
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Workshops:
Joining the dots – making more of a difference together
Making a difference: Warming up the conversations
Keynotes:
Using behavioural insights to make a difference
The 6Ds driving the future of work
Presentations:
Creating an inspiring creative culture where employees can develop
Learning and performance – how to keep up with today’s knowledge worker
Using Open Innovation to boost your learning capability
Adding value by inspiring a passion for learning and sharing
How to think like an expert: Using masterclasses for knowledge transfer
Freedom within a framework: an unconventional IT perspective
Reflections and projections – Knowledge Management over the past 15 years and the next 15 years
Reports on 2015 Forum projects:
Energising the squeezed middle
Managing the change process
Building internal partnerships for change
15th Henley Forum Conference 2015, 25-26 February 2015, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: Lead a smarter organisation: Getting more from collective intelligence
(in partnership with Henley Centre for Engaging Leadership)
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Keynotes:
Working out loud: leading the collective intelligently
Presentations:
When push comes to shove with a nudge: where are the limits of organisational influence?
New economics, new enterprise: where are the new leaders?
The Reputation Economy: rethinking leadership and conceptions of value in the digital society
The resiliently agile organisation: reframing mindsets, skillsets, relationships and routines
Navigating complexity: the knowledge connections that defined the hunt for the Higgs Boson
‘Go where the energy is’; building collective momentum for change from the middle out
‘Knowing it all? Can there be wisdom in hubris and the addiction to power’
Harnessing collective intelligence inside and outside the business: a practical approach to creating shared value
What does it take to lead in today’s complex context?
Relating the story and imagining the impact
Start with a buzz
Reports on 2014 Forum projects:
Engaging with social business
Improving the uptake of lessons learned
Embedding evaluation: using learning cycles to improve communities of practice
14th Henley Forum Conference 2014, 26-27 February 2014, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: Minding your Knowledge: Learning to Enhance Performance and Change
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Conference Day Themes: Organisational approaches for taking care of knowledge resources; Improving individual and group knowledge development and use
Workshops:
Communicating with comics: knowledge management goes graphic
The art of powerful questioning: knowing how to elicit useful responses?
Keynotes:
The sweet spot for performance excellence: innovation & knowledge management
Presentations:
Think UN, act smart: leveraging the knowledge and experience of a truly global workforce
How big is the knowing doing gap? What can we do to reduce it?
Sense and sustainability
Preventing collateral damage: surfacing potential sources of unanticipated consequences for a European Revenue Service
Rediscovering lost values
Improving learning and memory through time travel
Close the mental distance created by virtuality – lessons learned by working with over 300 virtual teams
Engaging knowledge workers in collective sensemaking: the benefits of oscillation
Relating the story and imagining the impact
Start with a buzz
Minding your knowledge in an unpredictable world. What have we learned?
Reframing mindsets: what can we do to translate communication into commitment?
Report on Forum projects:
Evaluating for learning
Closing the knowing doing gap through community connections
13th Henley KM Forum and Leadership@Henley Conference 2013, 27-28 February 2013, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
(Joint conference in partnership with Leadership@Henley)
Conference Theme: Knowledge Leadership During Change: Leading the learning organisation to improve performance
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Conference Day Themes: Programme created and chaired by the Henley KM Forum team; Programme created and chaired by the Leadership@Henley team
Workshops:
Leading constructive conversations to leverage behavioural diversity
Engaging leaders in knowledge management
The pros and cons of fuelling the need to know
Exploring and applying the KM Forum project findings: crucial attributes of knowledge leadership
Presentations:
Leadership of knowledge sharing and innovation at Tata
Leadership to stimulate creative environments for knowledge flow
Radical change driven by innovation – the issue of temporary incompetence. A case from the financial industry
Collaborative leadership: delivering results across boundaries
Knowledge leadership in combat: understanding the art of communication, the power of networks (personal and cyber), and the humility to learn
New directions for leadership and implications for knowledge management
21st century police leadership
KM Forum project reports:
Crucial attributes of knowledge leadership: managerial relationships that affect the climate for knowledge sharing and learning
Panels:
Knowledge leadership and change (interactive panel)
12th Henley KM Forum Conference 2012, 29 February – 1 March 2012, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: Achieving Knowledge Excellence: Putting learning at the heart of the organisation (was: …: An Exploration of the Current Influences on Organisational Learning)
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Conference Day Themes:
Influences on Organisational Learning; Leadership and Organisational Learning
Workshops:
Demonstrating the impact of knowledge management on performance
Creating and sustaining communities of influence
Behavioural literacy and fast organisational learning
The challenge of building community in organisations
The surprising role that emotions play in learning and change
Lessons earned?
Adapt: Why success always starts with failure (Special guest speech)
Emotional ambivalence and organisational learning: riding the rollercoaster
Innovation, knowledge and the power of learning organisations
Leadership and organisational learning in the new world of work
Positive Deviance (Conference dinner speech)
Case Studies:
Knowledge communities as the basis of organisational learning at MWH
Learning journeys as a route to knowledge excellence at RBS
KM Forum Research Reports:
Everyone can lead change, but how do they know what’s required? Building flexible leadership capability
Snowball debates:
Becoming a learning organisation: priorities and next steps for leaders
11th Henley KM Forum Conference 2011, 16-17 February 2011, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: Knowledge Works! Inspiring people to achieve better results
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Workshops:
Eliciting tacit knowledge
KM and human capital (KM Forum project)
Personal values as critical knowledge: How leaders create a climate for productive knowledge work
Unpacking relationship capital to accelerate innovation through knowledge
Keynotes:
Employees first: customers second: Creating a high engagement organisation when technology has been leveraged to the hilt
Creative connections and collaborative learning
Presentations:
Creating an effective ‘dance floor’ for the business: How workspace influences people and organisational performance
Unlocking the value of you
knowledge to enable major change
Designing globally distributed, highly integrated knowledge organisations
Making sense out of non-sense: Problems, paradigms and strategic sensemaking in a dynamic business environment
The science of yes. The ability to influence others not just to say ‘Yes’ to your requests but to persuade them to change
The future of collective intelligence
Action Learning Groups:
Success stories and learning about how to improve collaboration
Success stories and learning how to identify and develop valuable knowledge
KM Forum Research Project reports:
The human capital agenda for effective knowledge work
The Knowledge 2.0 agenda Web 2.0 and knowledge work inside the organisation
10th Henley KM Forum Conference 2010, 24-25 February 2010, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: Celebrating Connections: evocations and provocations for the future
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Conference Day Themes:
Evoking capability from individual knowledge and expertise; Provoking future improvements through collective potential
Workshops:
Inspiration from a learning hospital
Advocacy, inquiry and refl ection – a three legged stool?
Back to the future: your experiences of 10 years of Knowledge Management
Liberating management
Activating networks to bring innovations to market
Keynotes:
Treading lightly – alternative paths to knowledge leadership
Knowledge and relationships: connecting across interorganisational and multicultural boundaries
Presentations:
Making sense together. Real time insights from fragmented narratives
Improving knowledge flows: practical steps of knowledgeable leaders around the world
Advancing the cause of knowledge for business success
Lessons for future knowledge leadership
Expert input with Q & A:
A modest heresy: The myth and potential of Knowledge Management
When experts aren’t allowed to succeed: how relationship capital works in sticky organisations
Managing knowledge creation through open innovation – not worth the cost for most firms!
Emerging cases and trends in Asian intellectual capital and Knowledge Management
The unconscious at work: how hidden patterns in organisations may hamper knowledge management
Co-creating innovation: from research to business. How the construction industry is being transformed
KM Forum project reports:
Knowledge enabled decision making
Knowledge enabled project management
Social networking and knowledge sharing (SNAKS)
Networking break with ‘fringe’ events
9th Henley KMt Forum Conference 2009, 28-29 January 2009, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: Knowledge Management for Action through Collaboration and Learning
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Conference Subjects:
Communities of next practice
Deriving value From learning collaborations
Learning and innovation in a social world
Mapping value networks to improve knowledge flows
Understanding the potential of SNA
Conference Program n.a.
8th Henley KM Forum Conference 2008, 6-7 February 2008, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: Knowledge Management in a changing world
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Conference Subjects:
Retaining Expertise
The metaphors of knowledge management
The Future of knowledge
Collaborative networks and the new enterprise
Social software and knowledge management
Knowledge navigation
Conference Program n.a.
7th Henley KM Forum Conference 2007, 12-13 June 2007, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme:
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Conference Day Themes:
Knowledge Management and Organisational Performance; Knowledge Management, Innovation and Change
Conference Subjects:
How to retain the real knowledge of retiring staff
KM in the nuclear industry
Visualising a knowledgeable future
Knowledge enabled innovation
Collaboration, knowledge and social software
Strategic Performance Management
Conference Program n.a.
6th Henley KM Forum Conference 2006, 13-14 June 2006, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: n.a.
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Conference Subjects:
The importance of intellectual capital reporting
Executing effective innovation
Organisational innovation
Narrative is not about telling stories
Evolving KM through organisational learning
From hard sell to compelling buy for KM
Masterclasses:
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Keynotes:
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Presentations:
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KM Forum project reports:
From hard sell to compelling buy: increasing the uptake of Knowledge Management through NLP
Integrating the organisation’s knowledge management strategy and learning agenda
Delivering knowledge value through document management systems
5th Henley KM Forum Conference 2005, 15-16 June 2005, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: n.a.
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Conference Subjects:
Knowledge management: the next generation
The current state of communities of practice
Techniques derived From Aboriginal storytelling
Making KM real for front line operations
Knowledge sharing in collaborative partnerships
Skills of effective knowledge managers
4th Henley KM Forum Conference 2004, 16-17 June 2004, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: The Knowledge Management Journey
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Conference Subjects:
Building a cross-team approach to learning
Building a Knowledge-Driven Organization
KM: Where from? Where to?
Thoughts from the Leading Edge
Cooking up your own KM Recipe
Mind Crafting of Emerging Perspectives
Identifying Valuable Knowledge
Conference Program n.a.
3rd Henley KM Forum Conference 2003, 3-4 June 2003, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: Knowledge Management strategy and implementation
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Conference Subjects:
5 Elements of Trust Across Time & Space
Reporting on Intangible Assets
Collaborative Climate in Global Organizations
KMin Project Based Organizations
Opening Minds to the Value of KM
Culture Change Initiatives to Support KM
Knowledge Sharing Behaviour
Conference Program n.a.
2nd Henley KM Forum Conference 2002, 11-12 June 2002, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme:
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Conference Subjects:
Developing the Knowledge Worker
Emotional Knowledge
Knowledge Based Strategy
Knowledge Ergonomics
The Enabling Conditions for Virtual Tacit Knowledge Exchange
Building Effective Communities
Conference Program n.a.
1st Henley KM Forum Conference 2001, June 2001, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Conference Theme:
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Conference Subjects:
Managing information overload
A framework for Assessing Success in KM
Winning commitment For KM
A Review of KM Technologies
E-collaboration
KM Strategy
Knowledge Networking
Conference Program n.a.