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CAL Conference 2024 - Leadership and Mission Command

The CAL Conference 2024 took place on 28 November 2024. 

Focused on understanding of the role of Leadership in the successful application of mission command on operations.

In the morning, speakers discussed how intent-based leadership can enhance operational effectiveness and achieve operational success as well as how leaders can foster trust, disciplined initiative, shared understanding, freedom, and speed of action.

In the afternoon, the conference looked at the role of leadership in applying mission command on different kinds of operations (kinetic, crisis-management, disaster relief, peacekeeping, close protection, etc).

The conference and the Q&A discussions will contribute to the Centre for Army Leadership’s work on the new Doctrine Note on Mission Command (to be published in 2025).

Official Conference Sponsors 

VINCI Facilities

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BAE Systems 

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CAL Conference 24 Programme

CAL Conference 2023

The Centre for Army Leadership annual online conference took take place on 28 November 2023. The speakers included:

  • Director Leadership, Major General Zac Stenning OBE
  • Ira Chaleff, author, speaker and authority on ethical followership and intelligent disobedience
  • Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, former Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England
  • Professor Olga Onuch, Professor of Comparative and Ukrainian Politics, University of Manchester
  • Professor Sam Greene, Professor of Russian Politics, Kings College London