CBS Leadership Think Tank
Beyond familiar answers. Exploring leadership frontiers.
Researchers and experienced leaders from across disciplines, industries and sectors explore the dilemmas and open questions shaping leadership – and share where the thinking stands.
Hosted by CBS Executive Fonden. In partnership with Copenhagen Business School.
Why this Think Tank?
Where familiar answers run out
Some of the most interesting work begins at the limits of what we know.
CBS Leadership Think Tank brings research and leadership experience into sustained dialogue – to revisit familiar ideas, stay with unresolved questions and explore what may become possible.
“We need new perspectives, new formats and new ways of strengthening leadership. That is what becomes possible when research and practice meet.”
Our starting point
Sharper perspectives.
Not simpler answers.
The 2024 Think Tank identified four leadership capabilities and five organizational drivers for leadership for the future. The next chapter asks what still holds, what is under pressure and what we now see differently.
Leadership capabilities
- Orchestrating speed and rhythm
- Sustaining a moral compass
- Bridging diversities
- Enabling the organization
Organizational drivers
- Continuity
- Courage
- Creativity
- Coherence
- Collaboration
CBS Leadership Think Tank Report 2024
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Beyond familiar answers
Exploring leadership frontiers
The November inquiry
Outlook 2027
What do the 2024 insights mean for leaders now?
In November 2026, the Think Tank revisits the 2024 insights in light of what has changed and what has been learned since.
What still holds – and why?
What has changed around us?
What do we see differently now?
What do we still not know?
The people in the room
The people behind the thinking
Researchers and experienced leaders from across disciplines, industries and sectors bring what they know – and what they are still working out.
“The interesting thing is that we have so much in common in our challenges and opportunities as leaders. Many of the challenges are shared.”
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