Executive MBA Fireside Chat Helsinki | High Performance as a Symptom of Great Leadership

Written by Henley Business School | Dec 10, 2025 2:04:10 PM

High performance isn’t the cause of a great workplace. It’s the consequence of one—it is the observable outcome of thoughtfully designed organisational conditions. In this Executive MBA Fireside Chat, Stop Chasing Performance, Professor Benjamin Laker will lead the discussion into how leaders can move beyond traditional metrics and targets to focus on the human, psychological, and relational factors that drive sustainable results.

Lead the experience, and performance becomes impossible to stop.

Who is this event for?

The event is a great opportunity for Executive MBA candidates and EMBA alumni in Finland to learn and exchange ideas on the topic. In addition, it offers Executive MBA candidates the opportunity to experience Henley's Nordic top Executive MBA and engage directly with the themes shaping tomorrow’s leadership agenda.

Agenda

17:30-19:00, Henley Nordic Campus, Helsinki

Keynote: "High Performance as a Symptom of Great Leadership" with Professor Benjamin Laker
Discussion & Q&A with Professor Benjamin Laker & Matti Katara
Networking & Refreshments
Event ends 19:00

Professor Benjamin Laker

Professor Benjamin Laker is a Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School. He is also a Senior Contributor at Forbes and a LinkedIn Top Voice. Benjamin teaches the Leadership and Change module of Henley's Executive MBA Global programme.

His research investigates how organisational actors mobilise identity, legitimacy and meaning-making to navigate contemporary work under conditions of institutional precarity and socio-normative contestation. Resultant studies have been published in the Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Human Resource Management, the Journal of Vocational Behavior, the Human Resource Management Journal, Organizational Research Methods, the British Journal of Management, Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review.

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