HIGH PRESSURE
LEADERSHIP:
LESSONS LEARNED FROM
POLAR EXPEDITIONS &
SPECIAL OPERATIONS
7PM
28th February 2024
The Sky Pavilion,
Rothschild & Co
Legion and Shackleton are delighted to invite you to an evening of leadership inspiration at the stunning Sky Pavilion, located in the London HQ of Rothschild & Co. Our key speakers are SAS veteran and polar explorer, Louis Rudd MBE, and Ed Bussey, serial tech entrepreneur with former active service in national security operations.
Building a business is tough.
In particular, the start-up ecosystem is a particularly competitive and high pressure environment. Leaders need to develop serious personal resilience to deal with the relentless series of challenges along the way – and they need to learn how to make the best decisions in highly stressful situations. What useful insights can today’s business leaders take from the approaches and training in today’s military sector?
Ed and Louis have successfully incorporated their training and experience from highly challenging circumstances – ‘high consequence’ situations like combat, covert operations and polar expeditions - into their corporate roles. The evening promises fascinating and practical insights for leading business teams through tough times.
SPEAKERS
ED BUSSEY
Ed Bussey is a serial entrepreneur, having launched, scaled and exited three venturebacked,disruptive technology businesses: one of the UK’s first ecommerce businesses figleaves.com (acquired by N Brown Group), mobile app pioneer ZYB (acquired by Vodafone) and award-winning multi-language content platform Quill (acquired by global agency Jellyfish). Ed has been awarded ‘Heropreneur of the Year’ recognising the most successful military veteran entrepreneurs, Disruptor Founder of the Year, and ‘UK Entrepreneur of the Year’.
Ed is now CEO of Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE), an independent, billion-pound investment company, that founds, funds and builds transformational businesses. Via its unique partnership with the University of Oxford, OSE is turning the world’s most advanced science and technologies into companies tackling the world’s toughest challenges. Focusing on high-impact sectors, OSE’s portfolio spans fusion power, human longevity, vaccine development, therapeutics, AI, quantum computing, space and climate technology.
He began his career serving in counterterrorism operations with the UK military and national security agencies. His passions are mountains, marathons and meditation. He completed an unsupported walk to the North Pole in 2010.
LOUIS RUDD MBE
Louis Rudd MBE is a record-breaking polar adventurer, former Royal Marine Commando and SAS soldier. He is the first and only person to have traversed Antarctica twice using human power alone and has reached the South Pole five times from different coastal starting points. Louis has covered more than 3000 polar miles on skis, with multiple extreme cold-weather tours in Northern Norway with the special forces. He has guided expeditions on a 1100-mile crossing of Antarctica and a 350-mile crossing of Greenland. He is also a military Arctic warfare instructor, a military ski instructor, a qualified army patrol medic, and a military snowmobile instructor, with additional training in crevasse and avalanche rescue. A member of the Explorers Club and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Louis has written of his journeys to date in his autobiography ‘Endurance’.
As Shackleton’s Director of Expeditions, Louis leads the Shackleton Challenges division. This unique programme offers expedition experiences to the world’s extremes. This year he will guide clients to the South Pole, across the glaciers of Norway, the mountains of the Alps and the deserts of Oman, amongst other challenging environments.