CAL Conference 2024 - Leadership and Mission Command
The CAL Conference 2024 will take place on 28 November 2024.
It will lead to a better understanding of the role of Leadership in the successful application of mission command on operations, in barracks, and at staff.
In the morning, speakers will discuss 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, we will look at the role of leadership in the application of 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).
Event Outline - 28 November 2024
Location: Online
Timings:
- 0900-0930 - Dial in window
- 0930-1230 - Opening address & AM session
- 1230-1330 - Lunch
- 1330-1630 - PM Session & closing address
Registration Deadline: 25 November 2024. Any later and we will not be able to process your application and send you the up to date joining instructions.
Structure for the day
The conference will be based around AM and PM sessions. Each Session will consist of two keynote speakers, followed by a break, then joined by further 2 panel members to discuss questions raised by either speaker or the audience.
- The AM session will focus on ‘Leadership and Mission Command: The Theory’
- The PM session will focus on ‘Leadership and Mission Command: The Practice’
Speakers will include
- General Sir Rupert Anthony Smith KCB DSO OBE QGM - Ex NATO Deputy Supreme Commander Allied Powers Europe
- Major General Zac Stenning OBE - Director Leadership
- Major General Peter Rowell
- Professor John Nagl
- Dr Alisa Miller
- Professor Matthias Strohn
- Colonel Grant Davies
- Lieutenant Colonel (Retd) Langley Sharp
- Warrant Officer Class One Paul Carney - Army Sergeant Major
- Warrant Officer Class One Paul Barnes - Staff Officer at the Land Warfare
Previous CAL Conferences
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