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Fast Cycles, Hard Lessons: Building, Iterating and Scaling Leadership Development

Here's a challenge every growing organisation hits at some point: the people who were brilliant individual contributors are now managing teams, and nobody gave them a real playbook. Meanwhile, the leadership development programs that do exist were built for a different pace, a different size or a completely different company. In startups, the problem is speed: you need leaders who can grow into the role in real time, not in six months after a training program. In larger organisations, the problem is scale and drift: how do you build leadership capability consistently across geographies, cultures and business units, without turning it into a checkbox exercise nobody takes seriously? Artem Ivanenko has lived both sides of this. As Head of Global Learning at inDrive and with two decades building L&D functions at Microsoft, Apple, Uber, Farfetch and Revolut, he's seen what works, what gets cut in the first budget review and what actually sticks when the business is moving fast and the pressure is real. This is a session about what leadership development looks like when it's built for the world you're actually operating in, not the one the textbook describes.

Live Via ZoomMay 132:00 PM CETFor Free

Fast Cycles, Hard Lessons: Building, Iterating and Scaling Leadership Development

What We'll Cover

Why most leadership development fails before it starts

The design mistakes that doom programs from day one, and why the usual culprits (budget, buy-in, time) are rarely the real reason. This hits differently depending on your stage, but it hits everyone.

Building for speed vs. building for scale

If you're a startup: what minimal, high-impact leadership development looks like when you're growing faster than your org chart. If you're an established company: how to stop leadership programs from becoming theatre and start making them move the needle at scale.

The iteration mindset - how to build L&D like a product team

Artem brings a rare perspective: treat leadership development like a product. Ship fast, get feedback, iterate hard. Learn what this looks like in practice at companies where the pace of change is relentless.

Cross-cultural and cross-geography leadership development

Building leaders across regions, cultures and time zones is a different challenge entirely. Artem has done it across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas and he'll share what actually transfers and what needs to be built locally.

What "good" looks like at each stage

From a 50-person scale-up to a global operation, what should leadership development actually look like? Concrete benchmarks, not aspirational frameworks.

Live Q&A

Bring your real challenges. This is a conversation, not a lecture.

Meet Your Speakers

Artem Ivanenko

Head of Global Learning · inDrive

Artem Ivanenko has spent 20 years doing the thing most companies only talk about: making people the actual engine of organisational success. He's built and scaled learning and development functions at some of the most demanding companies on the planet, Microsoft, Apple, Uber, Farfetch and Revolut, before taking on the challenge of leading a global learning function at inDrive. What makes Artem's perspective rare is range: across industries (fintech, e-commerce, logistics, consumer electronics, software), across geographies (Asia, Europe, MENA, Africa, the Americas), and across company stages, from hypergrowth startups to global enterprises. He's seen leadership development succeed spectacularly and fail expensively, often at the same company in the same year. He doesn't come with one-size-fits-all answers. He comes with pattern recognition built across two decades of real environments and the honesty to say what actually worked.