SEPTEMBER 2025 - The Hero’s Intrapreneur Journey

The Hero’s Intrapreneur Journey

The most frequently expressed concern of CEOs of large enterprises is lack of innovation capability. They say they want to create institutions full of individuals thinking and behaving like entrepreneurs rather than rule-following Taylor-optimised drones. The reality is that for the most part that’s not what they actually want. This leaves the prospective intrapreneur with a host of contradictions to deal with, the biggest of which being the need to break rules in environments where rule-breaking is essentially prohibited. At the same time, there are no meaningful places where intrapreneurs can acquire the skills and traits needed to successfully navigate the anthrocomplex never-stepping-in-the-same-river-twice riptides of changing enterprises. Enterprises built on a century of stability-seeking goals and ‘continuous improvement’ efficiency memes. The Hero’s Intrapreneur Journey is our latest book, the result of over forty years working as and working with successful (and not so successful) intrapreneurs. The book builds around six core principles of successful intrapreneurship – Compass, Complexity, Contradiction, Calibration, Community and Charisma – and the belief that the world’s most AI-proof role is set to be the politically astute intrapreneur.

This 8-hour workshop will explore the 6Cs in the context of a series of real-world intrapreneurship case studies through a pair of half-day online sessions.

Taught in the usual SI style through a combination of short, sharp injections of theory and hands-on breakout exercises, delegates are invited to bring along their own intrapreneurial challenges and dilemmas to explore during the workshop.

Dates: 10 and 17 September, precise timing will depend on time-zones of participants, but likely to be around the middle of the day GMT.

The workshop will be facilitated by Darrell Mann

Price: £125 per person including VAT (including a copy of the HIJ ebook)

(15% discount for the second and subsequent delegates arriving from the same organisation)

Delegates will receive an electronic copy of the workshop slides and exercise templates.