The first Sooner Safer Happier LIVE conference is designed as an intimate gathering of leaders across roles, industries, and levels, driving better outcomes through better ways of working.​ A day designed to build useful connections that last and practical, peer-to-peer collaboration supported by global thought leaders. One of our key results is to maximise learnings per minute! You belong in this room! Sooner Safer Happier LIVE is built around three core principles: Powerful

Tuesday, Mar 24 · 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM GMT Online event Registration link: https://www.meetup.com/bvssh-pacific/events/312076083/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events In this upcoming session, Olivia Musca will share how P&N Group has been evolving its ways of working, from a bold Technology transformation to designing and embedding a Value Management function for the organisation. We’ll explore: Introducing Value Management with squads and traditional models co-existing Design

Learn how to bridge business strategy, software design and architecture, and team organisation by combining Wardley Mapping, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and Team Topologies.

Tuesday, Mar 10th 2026 · 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM GMT Online event Register here : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1983612436194?aff=oddtdtcreator Many organisations claim to be user-centric, yet alignment remains difficult. Teams optimise locally, trade-offs escalate, and coordination becomes a constant overhead. Despite mature practices, alignment often relies on effort rather than clarity. DORA’s research shows that genuinely user-centric teams consistently outperform others, wh

We’re excited to start our 2026 community program with three of our global SSH leaders.Join us as they share and explore: Learnings from 2025 - challenges, changes and ninja moves What’s on the horizon for 2026? Community, connection, achieving better outcomes for all and a more humane world of work Bring your questions and insights as we share global perspectives and welcome 2026! Jonathan Smart Jon is CEO and Co-Founder of Sooner Safer Happier. Jon is a business agility pra

In this upcoming BVSSH Community meetup, we explore what it really takes to build organisations that can respond to uncertainty without losing clarity, ownership, or humanity. Phil Le Brun will share practical insights drawn from his experience working with global organisations at scale, including AWS and McDonald’s, alongside stories from unexpected places such as extreme mountaineering and professional poker. The session brings together real-world experience, hard-won lesso

AI is moving fast. The organisations that thrive won’t be the ones with the flashiest AI tech - but those that intentionally shape their operating model and culture to unlock the power of AI. This is why we have created a report to help organisations to evolve their operating model to unlock the power of AI. The report covers the foundations that you need to build your AI strategy and shares practical patterns/anti-patterns learnings from across sector. It covers a set of hy

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Tuesday, June 11, 2024 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM BST Join us for a journey through the world of change with Nigel Mahoney, an experienced coach...

For a 40 year old goal-setting framework, OKRs are having quite an impact on the business world. There are increasingly more books on the to

September 2015 was the last time that seven of the top ten firms by market value were not information technology firms. Fast forward less than two years, to June 2017 and seven of the top ten firms are IT firms. By June 2018, General Electric, the last remaining original constituent of the Dow Jones index, created in 1896, was removed from the index, a sign of the moving tectonic plates. Only two years later, by mid 2020, accelerated by a global pandemic, it’s not seven fir

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