2025 Residential Programme Curriculum
Please note that the course content and schedule is subject to change.
The residential programme includes a mix of immersive workshops, lectures, panel discussions, provocations, reflection sessions and keynote speeches, delivered by cultural sector leaders, business school experts and industry authorities. Social events form an integral part of the programme such as visits to cultural attractions, college dinners and networking events.
Module 1: Introduction to OCL
Welcome and introduction
Keynote: Stepping into the week
Reflection session
Module 2: Looking in the Mirror
Keynote: Building a courageous organisation
Workshop: Beyond Doubt
Active Learning: Relational Leadership: self
Reflection session
Module 3: Contextualising the challenges
Keynote: The Importance of Knowledge
Panel discussion: Leadership challenges within the current context
Keynote and panel: What do we mean by brave leadership?
Active Learning: Reframing purpose through socially
Reflection session
Module 4: Organisational Change and Transformational Leadership
Keynote: Creating an organisational culture of risk
Workshop: Balancing the challenges of leading in the present and the future - Part 1
Active Learning: Relational Leadership: team
Reflection session
Module 5: Organisational Change and the Entrepreneurial Mind-set
Panel discussion: Entrepreneurial Leadership
Workshop: Balancing the challenges of leading in the present and the future - Part 2
Active learning: Innovation Sprint
Reflection session
Module 6: Leading Against the Grain
Keynote: The Architecture of Leadership
Active learning: Innovation Sprint - final panel and discussion
Life Beyond OCL
Reflection session
Module 7: Themed discussion groups and networking
Module 8: Looking outward and facing the world
Active learning: Inspirational Leadership
Closing Keynote: Embracing the challenge of leadership in uncompromising times
Wrap up - closing thoughts
